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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 · 09/08/2025
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
N: Ylläs, Finland 🇫🇮 E: Mawlamyine, Maynmar 🇲🇲 S: Oistins, Barbados 🇧🇧 W: San Francisco 🇺🇸
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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 · 01/02/2025
Fawlty Latours
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
lwbooks.co.uk/opening-the-...
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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.
lrb.co.uk
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 · 01/01/2025
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Sooty RIP
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Thank you. It is looking good so far. Enjoy the walk back down.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Coffee at a Welsh castle (coffee not shown).
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I’ll email!
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
If you want tips (esp for south and east Iceland) let me know. We go horse riding there every summer.
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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 · 11/12/2024
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article: “These versions of emancipation from above offered nothing to address the demands for land and location that animated emancipation from below and had stoked the fires of 1831-2.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Fire in Jamaica, 1831–32 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Fire in Jamaica, 1831–32
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I continue the silent resistance: have never said it and never will.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hi Nick. A brilliant book! Really enjoyed reading it.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Very interesting. Would love to hear more sometime. Will you be able to come in person on the 28th Jan?
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Better link www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...
qmul.ac.uk
Research Seminar - English and DramaFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Better link www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...
qmul.ac.uk
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Better link www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...
qmul.ac.uk
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Better link www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...
qmul.ac.uk
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
And he’s talking about the broader project at our next QMCECS seminar on 28th January 2025 www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...
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School of English and Drama - English and DramaFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok
School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London is a world-class home for study and research.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
And he’s talking about the broader project at our next QMCECS seminar on 28th January 2025 www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...
qmul.ac.uk
School of English and Drama - English and DramaFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok
School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London is a world-class home for study and research.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
And he’s talking about the broader project at our next QMCECS seminar on 28th January 2025 www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...
qmul.ac.uk
School of English and Drama - English and DramaFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok
School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London is a world-class home for study and research.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
And he’s talking about the broader project at our next QMCECS seminar on 28th January 2025 www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...
qmul.ac.uk
Research Seminar - English and DramaFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok
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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
Plus the critique of structural Marxism for ignoring gender …
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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 · 16/05/2024
I found out from this that my great-great-great grandmother’s life might be the basis for the wife-selling story in The Mayor of Casterbridge. How’s your day going?
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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
It was fabulous. Imagine those trumpets sounding out.
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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
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