So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The Big Smoke Variety Show: The Season of Fear Welcome to The Big Smoke Variety Show!This week, we walk through the fog of fear, meet courage on the street corners of London, and follow the rivers that carry us home.First up, Kevin sits down wi...

Delighted to have spoken to Kevin Bennett about FEAR on The Big Smoke podcast.

That would be brilliant, many thanks. Can’t seem to DM you, though…

Thank you for this. Norman was my great-grandfather’s first cousin — and I was touched by Fanny Bateson’s efforts to locate him (his parents both died early).

Excellent book, Michael, which should be more widely circulated!

Michael Bresalier. Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890–1950. xxviii + 458 pp., illus., bibl., index. London: Palgrave Macmillan London, 2023. €139.99 (cloth); I...

Enjoyed reading ‘Modern Flu’ by @mcbresalier.bsky.social Review out in @isisjournal.bsky.social

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Krótkie dzieje strachu. Lęk to wielogłowa hydra, narzędzie władzy, potężna siła Ludźmi od wieków rządzono przez strach, Kościół miał ich wyzwolić od lęku, a zaczął go podtrzymywać – mówi Robert Peckham, autor książki „Strach. Inna historia świata”.

Grateful to Tomasz Targański for the conversation about fear, published in the Polish magazine Polityka.

Cover of Gone Gone by Todd Meyers. Cover has an image of a variety of fruits, flowers, and cigarettes. The title in written in a large font in all capital letters, sideways across the cover. The author's name is written to the right of the title, sideways in all capital letters.

Among the great new books we have coming out this month is "Gone Gone" by Todd Meyers @totomcgee.bsky.social . #Anthropology #MedicalHumanities
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The Polish edition of Fear is now out and circulating. Many thanks again to the translator Aleksandra Ożarowska and to the team at Znak.

Propaganda: 100 years of fear, manipulation and persuasion – in pictures Drugs, war, apartheid and the environment are some of the themes covered in the book Propagandopolis, which charts a century of efforts to influence and control

#Propagandopolis featured in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Just came across this photograph of Lisandro Otero, James Baldwin and Arthur Miller in my grandfather’s archive, from a meeting on world peace held in the Soviet Union in October 1986, convened by the Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov. #JamesBaldwin #WorldPeace

Delighted to have contributed an introduction (‘Fear, Truth and the Spectacular History of Propaganda’) to #Propagandopolis by Bradley Davies, published by the always-innovative FUEL and out 10 October. #propaganda #history #art

Paperback copies of Spectacles of Waste @politybooks.bsky.social have at last wended their way to far-off Sydney. Tempted as I was to send a picture from the beach, this will have to do. The 'excremental turn' in history of science and medicine and STS, gradually seeping out
#STS #histsci #histstm

This month’s best paperbacks: Stephen King, Anne Michaels and more Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some exciting new paperbacks, from a Booker-longlisted novel to a history of the Oxford English Dictionary

This timely and erudite study by Robert Peckham explores how fear has been used to both assert & challenge authority during the last 700 years: “fear becomes a lens for reconsidering what power is & how it works”.
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...