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Paulo Drinot

@paulodrinot.bsky.social
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Historiador. Profesor de historia latinoamericana. Marxista-Lennonista.

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Grateful to Marc Becker for his review of La revolución que no fue. It captures very well what Martín and I were trying to do with the book: show that we now have a solid corpus of work on APRA, beyond hagiography and demonology, and argue that so much more remains to be done.
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
¡Mañana!
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🌐NEW BLOG tinyurl.com/562pjpce What happens when an archaeological site, increasingly regarded as national heritage, occupies the same land as one of the most powerful US corporations in Central America?
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Two mistakes by City players, two goals by Spain. Karma’s a bitch.
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, we know what’s on Guehi’s mind…
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The irony…
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wrote a short blog post about the conference we held on 16 September to celebrate UCL’s bicentennary and its wide-ranging Americas expertise.
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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🌐NEW BLOG 🔗https://tinyurl.com/37apt7z2 📌The idea for the conference stemmed from a simple realisation: while UCL boasts an extraordinarily rich array of expertise on the Americas across diverse fields and disciplines, its scholars remain widely dispersed.
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Supporting Man United will sap your confidence at the best of times. Imagine owning it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🌐NEW BLOG 🔗https://tinyurl.com/mr3n2heu 📌In this post, Par Engstrom considers the human rights dimensions of externalised migration control in the Americas and what role the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) can play in addressing accountability in the new migration regime.
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is nuts
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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Registration for both in-person and virtual attendees is now open for the 2026 Bromsen Lecture! More details at jcblibrary.org. In-person: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Virtual: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The image reads: The Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture / The Tupac Amaru Rebellion (1780-1783): Atlantic Revolution? Delivered by Charles Walker, Professor of History, University of California, Davis./ Friday, October 9, 2026 at 5 p.m. / 94 George Street, Providence, Rhode Island.
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The holder of the professorship to be based in Athens for tax purposes
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Off you go then. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/09/2026
Applications now invited for the Society's next round of research funding: for Postgraduates, studying for a PhD, and Early Career Historians, within 5 years of completing a doctorate: bit.ly/4ywZi0S Grants of £500-£1000 to pursue research. Closing date 4 December 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
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Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: December 2026 deadlines - RHS
The Society invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates from 4 December 2026. Postgraduate Research Support Grants, 2026-...
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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Finally out as part of a published issue (no longer online first). Available open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🔥We’re pleased to publish our annual report for the academic year 2025-26! The report provides an overview of all our activities, including events, publications, and reports by staff and PhD students. The report can be read in full at the link below. tinyurl.com/muwk5cz7
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Corruption
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Normans did come on small boats
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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's out in the world! This is my first attempt to write through research for my second book project! 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Economies of Ransom | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge Core
Economies of Ransom - Volume 81 Issue 2
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Suspect we need to frame this as ‘education exports down 32 percent’ to get the government to take action. Even then…
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So, AI can cure cancer and/or kill us all. Sounds like it could benefit from therapy.
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There must be a better concept than polarisation when it’s just one of the poles that is going batshit crazy.
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
4* REF impact case study, surely
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Neville’s hatred of Arsenal is so transparent it’s a bit pathetic
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Corruption
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Goaaaaaal!!!!
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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Toys are never just toys. Cold War Toys examines how everyday objects carried political, cultural, and social meanings across the Southern Cone during the Cold War. 👉 Read the open access book: bit.ly/4dyVuTN
Cover of the book "Cold War Toys: Building Blocks, Miniatures and Models in the Latin American Southern Cone" by Jordana Blejmar. It features a display of various toy models and miniatures in glass cabinets.
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Christine R. Johnson uses two early sixteenth-century texts by German men about travel to Venezuela to show how conquest colonialism was connected to, but insufficient for, the achievement of honorable masculinity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #Skyhistorians #LatinAmericanHistory
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There's No Place Like Home: Masculine Honor and the Conquest of Venezuela
The association between masculinity and European imperialism is well established. Two texts by German men about travel to Venezuela in the early sixteenth century show how conquest colonialism was co...
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Jessica @jessharada.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dear friends and colleagues: I am seeking colleagues interested in joining a #LASA2027 Panel on *1940s Wartime Mexico* that I am organising. I am also happy to participate as a discussant or chair. Just send me a brief abstract by email by next Monday 7th September. Thanks!
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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🌐NEW BLOG 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2p5adnu9 In this blog post, Mercedes Crisóstomo, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at UCL History and a former PhD student at the Institute of the Americas, discusses her research on radical women in the Peruvian Andes in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our wonderful small grants scheme is open again offering up to £10k to humanities and social sciences researchers. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 mont...
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
That is the most nonsensical handball rule. Whoever came up with it should live forever in shame
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New research position: bringing arts and culture to the centre of the economy. Research Fellow at UCL IIPP, working with me and the team, and partners in the UK and Brazil on how cultural value is measured, governed and funded. Closes 11 September ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reminded of Lauren Derby’s analysis of the politics of denunciation and panegyrics in the DR under Trujillo.
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Appease the racists, tank the economy.
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We recently provided a research bursary to Yasmin Getirana (LSE) for her doctoral research on domestic workers' activism and Catholic internationalism in Cold War Latin America. Find out more about her research here: sslh.org.uk/2026/08/26/y...
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Yasmin Getirana (LSE) on domestic workers’ activism and Catholic internationalism in Cold War Latin America
The Young Christian Workers (Juventude Operária Católica/Juventud Obrera Católica, JOC) was founded by Belgian priest Joseph Cardijn in the 1920s, as a response to the perceived de-Christianisation…
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The introduction to Modern Peru: A New History, in which Alberto Vergara and I consider the Sysyphean character of Peru’s ‘curse of freedom’ with the help of Albert Camus, is available free to read here: assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Conference: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026 in Lucerne, Switzerland, 8-10 October 2026. There will be a hybrid possibilty to attend, please register. #skystorians #earlymodern
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ahlvaro. Not Alvahro. Please Sky Sports!!!
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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🌎 Imperfect Labour Markets and Persistently High Inequality - The Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review 🌐NEW BLOG 🔗https://tinyurl.com/c7t3aktm 👉The fourth post in the LACIR Series discusses how market imperfections exacerbate economic inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Brie Gettleson @briemarina.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just put out my latest newsletter of Latin American collections at Penn Libraries! Featuring Peruvian magazines, South American LGBTQ+ photobooks, and more mailchi.mp/63e121c1bc39...
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Welcome back! New Latin American collections at Penn Libraries
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Congratulations to Anke Kaulard on the publication of her book ‘Sustainable Cocoa in the Peruvian Amazon: Agricultural Transformations’! www.routledge.com/Sustainable-...
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Sustainable Cocoa in the Peruvian Amazon: Agricultural Transformations in an Extractivist Landscape
Set against a backdrop of national extractivist policies, this book explores the sustainable production of cocoa in the Peruvian Amazon to investigate the role of local communities and the impact of s...
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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