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Miles Ogborn

@milesogborn.bsky.social
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Historical geographer at Queen Mary University of London | writes books | reads books | working on working on the 1831-2 Uprising in Jamaica | picture from Keith Piper (2007) Lost Vitrines.

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
New review: @milesogborn.bsky.social on 'Tropical Leviathan: Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770–1840', by Aaron Graham. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.003
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I will hear nothing further against ChatGPT. The case is closed.
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Felicitas Kuebler @feli-k.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan... 👉 registration now open
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A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination
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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. ‬Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...
27 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[online only via Zoom]

A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (2025), by Chris Philo (University of Glasgow), involving:

Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)
Felicitas Kübler (Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt)
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Opening the book: in memory of Jane Ogborn - Lawrence Wishart
Teachers have teachers among the living and the dead. Mentors, models, exemplars, they inhabit our thoughts, memories and even dreams, offering guidance and inspiration or, it may be, a warning. Absen...
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
17.15 on 28 January 2025: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), ‘In Search of Francis Williams’ Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building Room 1.01.1. *IN-PERSON ONLY* Please read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... or view (www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZEA... before the seminar.
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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/in-memo...
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In Memory of Jane Ogborn
Tributes to Jane Ogborn by former colleagues
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
17.15 on 28 January 2025: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), ‘In Search of Francis Williams’ Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building Room 1.01.1. *IN-PERSON ONLY* Please read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... or view (www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZEA... before the seminar.
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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Was Keith Haring an 11th century Welsh stone carver?
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Sooty RIP
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The Edward Long Reading Group has been writing.
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Edward Long and Other Animals: The Orangutan and Race-Making in the Late Eighteenth Century | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Edward Long and Other Animals: The Orangutan and Race-Making in the Late Eighteenth Century
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
You know it!
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
New review article! 'Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism': A roundtable with @milesogborn.bsky.social, Herman L. Bennett, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Bill Schwarz and Catherine Hall. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh... @lghgseminar.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New old coffee cup #recycling
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
IYKYK
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Welcome to Blue Sky to Queen Mary's Centre for Modern British Studies. First conference coming in May next year... @qmcbs.bsky.social
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Very pleased to have been part of this roundtable on Catherine Hall’s Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (CUP, 2024) With Herman L. Bennett, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Bill Schwarz and Catherine Hall herself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Lucky Valley: A roundtable
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
This place is warming up!
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Day of the Dead
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
How the Swedish deal with it
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Got to love A Level Sociology. Althusserian ‘Odd one out’, and Ideological State Apparatus is so familiar it’s an abbreviation.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Very pleased that this is now published open access: “Fire in Jamaica, 1831-32” in Journal of British Studies doi.org/10.1017/jbr.... The politics of fire and habitation in the largest uprising in the British Caribbean colonies.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
Now that’s a juke box.
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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
We are delighted to share details of our summer seminar programme; please save the date(s): mailchi.mp/588bf032e477...
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Happy ALCS Distribution Day to all who celebrate. 🎉 www.alcs.co.uk/about-alcs/
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Tessa Murphy @murphyte.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Looking for some history the Tuesday before American Thanksgiving? (Who wouldn’t be?) Register to attend; registration is free but closes 24 hours before the talk! www.history.ac.uk/events/slave...
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Going to see Calexico tonight. Thank you to @ericlaurier.bsky.social for introducing us to Feast of Wire twenty years ago! #alt-mariachi
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
On Zoom too: QMCECS Seminar 1 November 17.15 Ryan Hanley (Exeter) Aged Mother, "Obeah Witch", Higgler Woman, Smuggler's Agent: Talkee Amy and her Grandson at the Margins of Eighteenth-Century Kingston, QMUL Mile End Campus Graduate Centre GC222 Zoom at qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies 5.15pm Wed 1st Nov 2023, GC222 Graduate Centre, Mile End @qmcecs Ryan Hanley (Exeter): 'Aged Mother, “Obeah Witch”, Higgler Woman, Smuggler’s Agent: Talkee Amy and her Grandson at the Margins of Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica'
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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Remember to register for next week's seminar: J.T. Roane on "The practical prophet: on June Jordan’s intellectual thought and political vision" www.history.ac.uk/events/pract...
June Jordan (1936–2002).
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Great to have Vincent Brown at Queen Mary this week. Excellent lecture this evening on ‘Black History’s warning to the world’.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Lovely late summer sailing: Whitstable to Sheppey return.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Ok. That’s changed since I was last on London Wall.
Picture of half a bridge on London Wall.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Dropped into the V&A to see Francis Williams. Good to see him getting some attention again.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
It’s Tube time. Always loved this clock.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
A question for seasoned Blueskyers: does the feed have to refresh to the newest post, meaning you have to scroll back? Or can it be set to refresh and let you scroll forward?
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
"Wars within Wars: Black History's Warning to the World", Prof. Vincent Brown at QMUL, 6PM, 17 October 2023: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec...
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
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Innes M. Keighren @inneskeighren.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
With apologies for cross-posting, the autumn seminar programme for the London Group of Historical Geographers, “Possession and Dispossession,” is now live: t.co/HtbSweDWEg
"Bluefields, Jamaica" (1793), by George Tobin. State Library of New South Wales, SAFE/PXA 563.
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