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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 22d

Edited by @meltorrent.bsky.social & Lauriane Simony, this collection of articles is key reading for anyone interested in British foreign policy in the second half of the Twentieth Century: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcbh20/3...

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 22d

Pleased to see my review of the Contemporary British History special issue “Diplomatic Departures: Negotiating Britain’s International Outreach in the Contemporary World'' has been published by @h-diplo.bsky.social (Available at: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...)

H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Article Review 183: Feather on "Diplomatic Departures" | H-Net

The Jervis ForumH-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Article Review 183

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 29d

'Historians of Cultural Diplomacy' going from strength to strength as we follow up our inaugural in person @britishacademy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk funded event in Liverpool with an online event hosted by @lgmar.bsky.social at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 29d

Spending the afternoon going through the excellent abstracts we have received for this event in advance of a planning meeting later

Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Aug 22

A new Research Network - Historians of Cultural Diplomacy - has emerged from the @britishacademy.bsky.social/ @leverhulme.ac.uk sponsored workshop I organised in February. Thanks to the brilliant work of @lgmar.bsky.social we now have our own website: sites.google.com/ucm.es/hcd

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 29d

Review now out on @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Sep 30

Whatever your views on Owen Jones, this is pretty disgraceful. I remember he went the Tory Party conference a couple of years ago, and while I think party grandees just ignored him and left to speak to teenage members, he was allowed to be there for the duration

Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Sep 25

I think Burnham would make a much better PM than Starmer, but the joke allegedly doing the rounds amongst some Labour MPs sums him up: A Blairite, Brownite, a Starmerite and a Corbynite walk into a pub, the barman says 'what do you want Andy'

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Sep 13

Thrilled to see the first review of my book published in the American Historical Review academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Daniel J. Feather. British Cultural Diplomacy in South Africa, 1960–1994

The election of the National Party in 1948 and the subsequent implementation of its apartheid policy of racial discrimination saw South Africa gradually dr

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Sep 12

Have a vague hope that the 'Mandelson Affair' might bring Starmer down. But the likelihood is he'll just be replaced by Wes Streeting. Theresa May replaced by BoJo vibes

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Sep 9

Crisp early morning walk before the first big meeting of the new academic year

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 7

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Sep 7

The UK is a country with a rapidly ageing population that needs vast numbers of jobs filling. For it to crash all migration downwards because the public are enraged about small boats is the definition of national madness. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/nans-not-b...

Nan’s Not Bankrupting Britain (But Politicians Might Be)

Pensions, productivity, and the myth of the migrant “drain.”

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Sep 4

Last but certainly not least for this plenary @lindsayaqui.bsky.social discussing Geoffrey Howe

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Sep 4

Followed by Rachel Utley discussing Francis Pym

Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great talk by FCDO historian Richard Smith on Lord Carington’s time as Foreign Secretary at #BIHG25

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Sep 3

Reading for the long train journey down to Norwich for the British International History Group conference at the University of East Anglia

Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm passed the point of saying I'll never vote for this lot again, to the point I will actively canvas against them. You can't really argue they are better than the alternative when they pander to everything the alternative wants anyway

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Labour government’s capitulation to the far right continues

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Sep 1

BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she is suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Aug 29

UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences are invited to our informative ERC Synergy Grants 2025 webinar on 8 September.

Draft B1 proposals may be submitted by 1 September at 12:00 for feedback during the session.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4lTTx6x

ERC Grants Webinars

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Aug 28

I knew this Labour government would be bad, but I didn’t think it would be this bad. Reform tribute act now seems to be the approach.

Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Aug 27

Took a brief interlude from annual leave to deliver an invited talk to lawyers and civil servants in the UK Cabinet Office's Union & Devolution Directorate as part of their 'Constitution School' series

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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · Aug 24

‘… social historian David Kynaston, told The Observer he suspects “a serious scandal is unfolding”

John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Aug 22

We will be running our next event on 23/24 October. This will take place online hosted by Universidad Complutense de Madrid (see CFP below). If you are interested in cultural diplomacy (broadly defined) please consider submitting a proposal.

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · Aug 22

A new Research Network - Historians of Cultural Diplomacy - has emerged from the @britishacademy.bsky.social/ @leverhulme.ac.uk sponsored workshop I organised in February. Thanks to the brilliant work of @lgmar.bsky.social we now have our own website: sites.google.com/ucm.es/hcd

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