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Mike Braddick

@mikebraddick.bsky.social

Historian, occasional political reflections. Most recent book Christopher Hill: the life of a radical historian (Verso).

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

would it be very bad to say I found the eclipse a little anticlimactic?

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New post on substack. Can't work out how to stop it putting the picture of that old fellah above the link. Will consult daughters in future jlefsghost.substack.com/p/lets-make-...

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Let's make it harder to buy government

The party could be over for First Past the Post if we take our chance

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Paperback out today! “reminds us why Hill … still matters.… Hill’s determination to understand the past as a means to shape a better future remains profoundly relevant” Ryan Breeden, Bullet “[Braddick] writes with rare lucidity and grace” Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Literary Supplement

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Out in paperback today! www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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Christopher Hill

Born in 1912, Christopher Hill was one of the foremost historians of his generation. Abandoning the respectable provincial Methodism of his youth, Hill embraced Marxism and pursued a celebrated intell...

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If Farage is putting his honesty to a public test shouldn’t he lay all the information before them? Or is the test ‘Nigel’s financial affairs are not my business?’

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A different perspective. Always helpful.

Christopher Penn wrote:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I posted some thoughts about Trump's current enthusiasm for self-memorialisation here substack.com/@mikebraddic...

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Some thoughts on Trump, memorials and posterity open.substack.com/pub/jlefsgho...

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Memorialising Trump

Making Donald Great Hereafter

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My guest post on Ian Dunt's substack: iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

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Guest Post: Trump thinks he's Don Corleone but he's now discovering the limit of his power

Beating everyone at arm wrestling one by one - through tariffs or military threats - does not make you the boss of them all.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Here is something else I wrote about how Britain can act in the world, tied to my book A useful history of Britain (Oxford University Press). historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive...

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History Matters - Our Island Story

Michael Braddick | 7 June 2021 ◇ British History | Politics | Sheffield Books

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My friend Ian Dunt posted something I had written today, and it led people to look at this page, so I am trying to up my game.

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