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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We’re delighted to see Dan Edelstein's The Revolution to Come reviewed in the latest issue of @litreview.bsky.social! Learn more about the "impressive range and subtlety" of this book here, plus save 30% with code PUP30:

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Richard Bourke - Passage to a Better World

Richard Bourke: Passage to a Better World - The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein; Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon

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Hugo Drochon @hdrochon.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Publication day today in the US for Elites and Democracy!🎉 For once the @princetonupress.bsky.social marketing team had a good idea😜 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Elites and Democracy

Why elites always rule democracies—and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy today

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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford! We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History. This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance” Deadline: 17 Dec 2025 Please share widely!

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milo edwards @miloedwards.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Hey folks: For those who asked about the conversation sponsored by the Library of America on the importance of Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" in the present day, here you go: youtu.be/Anuh_fWV4hQ?...

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Reading Democracy in America Now

YouTube video by Library of America

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

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Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time

After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Just finished: “Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Hoard Power and Wealth - and What to Do About It,” coming early June 2026 [And you thought I was unpopular on this site before…]

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Apparently Victor Hugo had back problems and so for the fifteen years he lived in Guernsey he wrote at this little standing desk, changing the slant from time to time to bring him relief from pain.

A built in small desk hinged to wall with blue and white tiles and furnishings around and a beautiful sea view.

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s bad idea is one that started out as satire and ended as a political slogan. David talks to historian of ideas Ben Jackson about meritocracy and its origins in Michael Young’s book The Rise of the Meritocracy published in 1958. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Richard Whatmore & Lasse Andersen, "John Pocock and the Jealousy of Trade" (2025) A fascinating essay on the impact of Istvan Hont on J. G. A. Pocock's work. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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John Pocock and the Jealousy of Trade

At the end of The Machiavellian Moment, J. G. A. Pocock was unclear about what happened to the classical republican/civic humanist tradition. Significantly, he did not make the anticipated point, f...

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Heron posing for a photo (iPhone shot)

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Vafa Ghazavi @vafaghazavi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

If you’re interested in inequality and the future of democracy, @drodrik.bsky.social on @ppfideas.bsky.social with David Runciman is essential listening.

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Noam Maggor @maggor.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

📣 #BeyondNeoliberalism — updated site now live 📣 Check out the full schedule, speaker bios, and more. Join our mailing list for updates — and get on the waitlist for the plenary with Rana Foroohar @jayatighosh.bsky.social @hboushey.bsky.social and @drodrik.bsky.social. beyond-neoliberalism.org

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Likewise, if someone brings a loudspeaker to a beauty spot they're essentially claiming control over the whole area. They're decreeing that no one else is allowed to enjoy it in peace. We might accept that now & then, but there's a point at which liberals can intervene to roll back power over others

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Not necessarily. In essential shared public spaces - like buses or the tube - playing loud music is an exercise of power over others. It compels them to listen to it & means they're no longer free to sleep, relax or work. Liberal societies often limit one person's freedom to protect that of others.

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

100 years before Piketty, the aptly named economist and Liberal MP Leo Chiozza Money used newly available death duty data to map wealth inequality in the UK. Thought this visualisation was pretty striking Money, Riches and Poverty (1905)

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Arbroath, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Pt. 2

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Please join us on Tues 8 April @ 12pm EDT (at Harvard or via Zoom) when Maya Jasanoff (@europeatharvard.bsky.social) will speak about 'The Birth of the Family Tree'. Lunch will be served following the seminar! Click for further info, abstract and Zoom link: histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/jas...

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MAYA JASANOFF

The Birth of the Family Tree

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Arbroath, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Robert Lighthizer, then USTR, is a good read for a Trump admin perspective on the talks. the tone of humouring an old friend with limited expectation of success

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Bus stop outside St. Thomas' Hospital in London….Know your parasites!

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Introducing the new fragrance: Peasants’ Revolt, 1381

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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It may be time to panic in the UK … perhaps !?

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A fantastic opportunity to work with Dr Niamh Gallagher, one of my colleagues at St Catharine's College

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Very much enjoyed talking to @polphilpod.bsky.social about Plato’s figure of the tyrant in the Republic. Plato like all ancient Athenians worried endlessly about how democracy slides into tyranny & his psychological account of tyranny is deeply insightful.

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Welfare Vs Warfare? Rubbish! How Keynes can help us avoid a poisonous choice. (And this is NOT the free-spending Keynes you think you know) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...

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Rearmament doesn’t have to be on the backs of the poor

The PM and chancellor should ignore right-wing pundits and look back to Keynes in 1940 to see how to fund defence fairly

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

People on benefits are already in deep poverty. The Labour Party should exist to help them to have better lives. Instead it’s determined to make their suffering worse.

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The New Liberal political theorist L. T. Hobhouse predicted the early 20th c. rise of suburbia and hostility of its middle class inhabitants towards substantive tax or social reform would become politically ‘a greater burden than the slum.’ Democracy and Reaction (1904)

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

#academicsky #philsci British Academy looking for clever stuff

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Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Our short-term fellowship applications are due by this Sat., 1 Mar. Apply today to compete for fellowships that support research in a variety of fields. Most fellowships carry a stipend of $3,000 for 4-weeks of research at the MHS. Learn more: www.masshist.org/research/fel...

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

in 8-10 years someone from Silicon Valley is going to invent the university, genuinely unaware that it's been done before

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

John Maynard Keynes at work - from the Radical Modernity exhibition in London (paintings by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell)

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Keynes on the corrosive effects of the hereditary principle upon society, whether aristocratic or capitalist

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Check out my partner’s sculptural installation, made with ‘found materials’ as she rushed to work this morning: ‘Untitled,’ mixed media (2025)

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

‘Those politicians lamenting falling birth rates might worry less about the erosion of Judeo-Christian ethics and more about why young couples are struggling to buy a home or afford to have children.‘ 👏 www.ft.com/content/344e...

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The Maga-fied right is missing Britain’s real crisis

It’s not a terminal moral malaise that’s blighting the country, it’s an economic one

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Important intervention by Piketty on Trump and Europe - and a much needed alternative to the doom loop of the European press

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

They’re currently accepting abstract submissions for this excellent ‘Multidisciplinary Mill(s)’ conference at Somerville College, Oxford on 20th May, abstract deadline is 28th Feb. library.some.ox.ac.uk/multidiscipl...

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Multidisciplinary Mill(s) – Somerville College Library

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

State of British housing update: Rogue greedy landlords are building a dodgy construction next to our garden for an extra few pounds of passive / unearned income and now there are rats kicking about outside our door m.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgN...

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Return Of The Rat (Outtake)

YouTube video by Nirvana - Topic

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Multidisciplinary Mill(s) – Somerville College Library

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Alright everyone, it’s been a very tough decision to make, but I’ve decided I won’t be buying that Tesla Cybertruck as a selfless gesture of solidarity with our friends over the pond

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Egret in the mist (and up a tree for some reason)

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Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

‘Asset price inflation continues to destroy the social fabric of this country.’ There, I fixed the headline for you FT.

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Political theory/philosophy job! Here is the third postdoc (36 months) on our Gerda Henkel Foundation project on anti-oligarchy. This one will be based at TU München, and supervised by my co-PI Manon Westphal. www.hfp.tum.de/hfp/aktuelle...

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Postdoc Fellowship (36 months, starting 1 April 2025)

The Research Project “Contours of a Non-Oligarchic Democratic Future”, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, invites applications for a Postdoc Fellowship (36 months, starting 1 April 2025)

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 27/01/2025

We're hiring! The Bodleian are looking for a Public Engagement Officer. This is an exciting role based in the Weston Library, with the opportunity to make a real impact on visitors and the community, working with the Bodleian’s historic collections. For more information: tinyurl.com/48uuw625.

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Applications for our 2025-27 ECR Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social close on 31 Jan 2025 For full details and how to apply see below: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

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Past & Present Fellowships

Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.

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Antoine Paccoud @douccap.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

New job alert! 2-year post-doc on the history of property inequalities (renewable up to 4 years) at LISER, Luxembourg. HIST_PROP, funded by @csllux.bsky.social, will analyse land and property ownership data in Luxembourg (1824-1938). Happy to answer questions! jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...

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Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in the history of property inequalities - Ref: 25-01

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