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Tom Sojka

@tomsojka.bsky.social
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mad, bad, mostly martinis historian of 20th century britain writing a book about elite culture, space, and gossip in interwar britain

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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
dropped out of Ulysses book club before the first meeting
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
daytime temps in the 60s next week
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just read an essay I wrote the first semester of grad school and I really should have been expelled.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Children leaving the theater crying after “The John Keats Multiverse”
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
predictably excellent from hollingshead, every word "Against the forces of antiintellectual fascists+AI tech lords, self-flagellating academics+immediacy fetishists alike, we need to champion the difficulties+pleasures of humanities scholarship with our whole chests." defector.com/humanists-ha...
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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
tarts for dinner season
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
unfortunately I am here
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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Such a wide array of London-y goodness… if I do say so myself 😉
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
classes start in three weeks
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Have like three writing deadlines, so obviously decided to make jam today.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
they’re calling it the summer we’re all reading to the lighthouse
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m ready for the pills from My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It was a queer sultry summer, the summer I was finishing my book, and I didn't know why I kept buying vintage Wedgwood china on eBay.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Every restaurant should legally required to serve hot dogs on the Fourth of July.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
might finally be hot enough to watch
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Finished my annual re-read of To the Lighthouse and found a new passage to be quietly devastated by.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Mitch McConnell in the Bardo
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Nice to see myself represented in my own work.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
At that weird point of editing my book manuscript and finding it to be actually pretty good—a strange feeling.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
how your email finds me
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
rip to a real one (photo from a 2017 grad school seminar i took very seriously)
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
another glorious early summer day
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
sorry busy watching a perfect film
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Diving back into my book manuscript.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
how your email finds me
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
before spending two hours in the sun
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Some personal news. 🙃
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Had the pleasure of chatting with Benjamin Siegel on his new book, Markets of Pain for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
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Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I'm glad we're all being normal about ramps this spring.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
You can have three margaritas after submitting grades, it's not illegal.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
i love the end of the semester
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Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
On protecting what matters. @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histassoc.bsky.social History UK www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Protecting What Matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR
Protecting what matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
same
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
How it feels to get positive reader reports.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Had the pleasure of chairing this wonderful panel this morning at @batw.bsky.social — who didn’t love some beer, liquor, opium, and narcotics first thing in the morning?
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Happy to report I’ve joined the Editorial Board of @thelondonjournal.bsky.social and will be serving as the Book Reviews Editor (post-1800), so please reach out with pitches!
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
finally some news i can use
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haunted girlfriend @sliceofwife.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
you either die quirked up and goated with the sauce or you live long enough to become a chopped unc
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Sometimes Amtrak will be delayed because the weather is too nice.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
As a lover of unique outerwear, I don’t think I would have behaved differently than Joseph’s brothers did.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just finished reading Remains of the Day (first time!) and it really was so, so excellent.
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Wasn't going to drink today but just hearing the news about Habermas.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Elizabeth Gaskell: the story centers on a hotheaded worker killing an abusive capitalist Editor: ok, and what about the romantic part of the story? Gaskell: this *is* the romantic part
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Fancy a holiday? My latest in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social, featuring two delightful books on Britons abroad.
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Going Places: Histories of Britons Abroad - Michael John Law. A World Away: The British Package Holiday Boom, 1950–1974. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022. Pp. 232. $130.00 (cloth). - Lu...
Going Places: Histories of Britons Abroad - Michael John Law. A World Away: The British Package Holiday Boom, 1950–1974. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022. Pp. 232. 31.72 (cloth). - Volu...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.
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populuxe 🍃 @populuxe.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
the agency needs to return to its original mission — funding the arts
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
They lost their way when they stopped publishing my reviews tbh, pretty sad
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Feeling like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the netherworld whom he has called up by his spells. 👉👈
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Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Crazy I’ve been working in New Haven for like six months and still haven’t had lunch at IKEA.
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