NB that you can get 40% off the new Oxford Illustrated History if you come to tomorrow morning's session or, more efficiently, you just visit the OUP stall in this year's book fair, where the lights are weirdly low and the vibe is crepuscular
flyer for the new Oxford Illustrated History of the United States
If you're in Philadelphia for the OAH conference, come see the contributors to the new Oxford Illustrated History of the United States talking about the book tomorrow morning in the *coveted* 8.45am slot in the storied Salon K of the Marriott!
crying with laughter but then just crying
MANDELSON FACES £300 FINE FOR URINATING IN STREET
Maybe the most British news headline I've ever seen
thanks for tips! but I'm flying in and out of EWR, America's Favorite Airport®️
Job advert including details on how to apply and duties of the editor
@branchuk.bsky.social announces a search for new co-editors of its journal, American 19th C History @anchistjournal.bsky.social. Apps to include c.v. and a 1-2 page cover letter, sent to ANCH co-editor, and incoming BrANCH Chair, David Doddington (doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk) by 01.05.26. Pls share!
The fact that staff have to be *told* not to do this is really incredible www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
we managed to get it into the new Illustrated History of the US we're bringing out with Oxford this summer - depressing but fitting as the final photo in the book...
Have spent too long away from Bluesky but am hoping to catch up with many of you guys in Philadelphia for the OAH next week, assuming (a) I can get into the US and (b) there is any jet fuel left here in the UK
I think a job search is stressful enough without that added ordeal but thanks anyway
We can do comparative/connective if it has a US/North American angle, we can do borderlands, and we can do #VastEarlyAmerica (recent holder worked on early 19th century Hawai'i) but alas it's not a Latin American postdoc (though we do have a Centre of Latin American Studies which hosts them)
Just to clarify this postdoc was advertised last year and limited to 20th century historians, but we actually just gave a permanent job to the incumbent (congratulations, Caroline!) and this time there's *no period or field restriction* - vast early Americanists (and everyone else) welcome!
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
For Americans struggling to understand how Keir Starmer is on the brink of resigning, this piece by @owenjones.bsky.social offers a concise and bleak summary of how we got here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
it's honestly sickening to see Starmer and his supporters performing their concern for the victims when they ALL knew Mandelson's friendship with Epstein had endured past Epstein's conviction; whatever lies Mandelson may have told them, that simple fact was established by the FT in June 2023
The Times belatedly covers the huge Mandelson-Starmer scandal in the UK, but omits the crucial fact that 18 months before Starmer made Mandelson US ambassador the FT reported that he'd stayed in Epstein's NYC mansion *while Epstein was in prison for child sex abuse* www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/w...
Frost making the point that the entire cabinet backed Mandelsons appointment as ambassador
Starmer is going to be the fall guy for this (& lots more), but everyone at the top of Labour is implicated, including people who might have resigned in the meantime!
i couldn't find a peep about it from, say, the Times - weirdly they went with the (formerly known as) Prince Andrew angle, which seems small fry given the national meltdown here these past couple of days over Mandelson/Starmer
Always seemed likely that eventually the media and/or the public would wake up to the sheer madness/recklessness of this; the latest Epstein document release has finally brought the house crashing down on Starmer, who has shown wretched judgement (or a lack of it) throughout bsky.app/profile/nich...
Ever since the Financial Times reported in 2023 that Peter Mandelson had stayed in Epstein's mansion while Epstein was serving time for child sex crimes, many of us over here have watched with horror as Starmer first made Mandelson his election guru and then his US ambassador x.com/NicholasGuya...
front page on starmer's likely demise as UK PM
Probably no bandwidth in the US media right now for international news, even before we factor in the mass firing of journalists, but the latest Epstein document dump really might bring down the UK prime minister before the week is out
can't see that happening at this point alas
it's a photo of a groundhog that can tell the future
"Keir Starmer's government will last for six more weeks!"
From last night's 'emergency' podcast, genuinely don't know which of them is supposed to be speaking
Given Epstein's sordid relationship with Trump, it seems incredible to think that this scandal may bring down the UK government before the US government www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Even in the 'unipolar' years of the 1990s, US presidents were exasperated by their inability to control the United Nations; the idea of replacing the unruly Security Council with a pliant 'Board of Peace' is really a sign of US decline in the world, not of Trump's strength
A really excellent analysis of imperialism, gangsterism and regionalism under Trump 47 - and some sobering thoughts about the connections between violence abroad and the white nationalist agenda at home thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
I think the 'reverse discrimination' line is not a good look, for sure
