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Clive Webb

@clivewebb.bsky.social

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Historian and author, University of Sussex. Regular contributor to Shindig! magazine.

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Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social · 2d

I am one of the speakers at this literary event on Saturday: shorehamwordfest.com/events/susse...

Shoreham Wordfest

Shoreham Wordfest - Celebrating literature, arts, and culture in Shoreham-by-Sea

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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · Sep 7

I was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's 'The World this Weekend' show today about this week's coming political crisis in France

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

BBC Radio 4 - The World This Weekend

Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social · Aug 31

Still feels like summer in the garden

Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social · Aug 3

Walking in West Sussex

Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social · May 23

I discuss what would have happened had the USA not entered the First World War and also the Allied offensive in North Africa during the Second World War in the new issue of History of War magazine.

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Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social · May 17

Thank you very much, Matthew. Hope the coffee was good!

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Sam Edwards @runninghistorian.bsky.social · Apr 1

My latest here for Britain at War Magazine on 250 years of US-UK relations. Read it here (behind a paywall) or get a copy of the magazine at your local newsagent: www.keymilitary.com/article/swor...

SWORN ENEMIES TO SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP

REVOLUTION 250 Dr Sam Edwards’ timeline explores the ups and...

www.keymilitary.com

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TRE - Talk Radio Europe @tre.radio · Feb 26

On Giles Brown's Let's Talk - from 10.00CET - Stephen Jakobi with 'The Baby Farm Murderer: The Story of Amelia Dyer, the Victorian Serial Killer', and @clivewebb.bsky.social on 'Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial'

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Sam Edwards @runninghistorian.bsky.social · Feb 17

Picked myself up a copy of this today by @clivewebb.bsky.social Can't wait to get stuck in!

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Sam Edwards @runninghistorian.bsky.social · Feb 17

My new Substack is out. A run through a bit of American history in the English countryside: runninghistorian.substack.com/p/the-kenned...

The Kennedy Curse

A Wartime Tragedy in the Skies of Suffolk

runninghistorian.substack.com

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · Feb 12

Our speaker for next week's @long18thsem.bsky.social has had to withdraw. Instead, I will be speaking about 'Mapping Criminal Justice at London's Old Bailey, 1720-1820' - on behalf ofBob Shoemaker and myself. The same arrangements apply. www.history.ac.uk/events/mappi... @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

Mapping Criminal Justice at London's Old Bailey, 1720-1820: From the Night Watch to Proactive Policing

www.history.ac.uk

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Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social · Feb 7

I am and you’re welcome. So sorry but hope it’s a smooth journey home.

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Camilla Aisa @camillaaisa.bsky.social · Feb 7

The new issue of Shindig is out now!

I pen a long piece on Hauntology, trying to define the undefinable with help from William Burns (whose brilliant book Ghost of an Idea is published next month), Jonny Trunk, João Branco Kyron and Alan Gubby.

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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · Feb 6

Where I talk about ‘everything you wanted to know’ about British television history.

(Even though it’s probably not everything you know)

On @historyextra.bsky.social

British TV history: everything you wanted to know

Podcast Episode · History Extra podcast · 26/01/2025 · 52m

podcasts.apple.com

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Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social · Feb 6

My book, Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial, is in shops from today:
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...

Vietdamned - Profile Books

profilebooks.com

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Sam Edwards @runninghistorian.bsky.social · Jan 27

Excited to say that the details for this year's Transatlantic Studies Association conference are now confirmed. We're meeting in the beautiful city of Lisbon, over 14-16 July. Full details (inc. the cfp) available here: www.transatlanticstudies.com/tsa-2025

TSA 2025 — Transatlantic Studies Association

TSA 2025

www.transatlanticstudies.com

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Colin Grant @colincraiggrant.bsky.social · Jan 21

At last! Marcus Garvey is pardoned. My take in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on removing the stigma from Marcus Garvey's name. I hoped Obama would have done so but he bottled it. This week Joe Biden did the right thing!

www.spectator.co.uk/article/joe-...

Joe Biden was right to pardon Marcus Garvey

In the 1920s, Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. The Jamaican-born black nationalist led the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a mass movement of working-c...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Sam Edwards @runninghistorian.bsky.social · Jan 17

My latest Substack is now out. All about one of my favourite hill runs up near the Lancashire/Cumbria border. You can read it (free!) here: #running open.substack.com/pub/runningh...

The Knott

A Run with a View

open.substack.com

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Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social · Jan 9

The new issue of Military History Matters is out today including a feature by me on William Robinson Clarke, Britain’s first Black combat pilot.

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Rachel Pistol @drpistol.bsky.social · Jan 8

Exciting times for scholars of #WW2 #internment British Internment & the Internment of Britons is now out in paperback! @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Get yourself a copy at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/british-i...
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @gillycarr.bsky.social

British Internment and the Internment of Britons

This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian 'enemy alien' internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the c…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social · Jan 6

I have a new book out on 6th February with Profile Books that tells the story of how Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre and other intellectuals tried to hold the US government to account for war crimes in Vietnam.
profilebooks.com/work/vietdam...

Vietdamned - Profile Books

profilebooks.com

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Colin Grant @colincraiggrant.bsky.social · Jan 5

Latest from me on @carylphillips.bsky.social powerful new novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips review – Windrush struggles

This elegaic novel tracks a West Indian man’s life in London over decades, exploring the emotional cost of leaving home and being met by hatred and rejection

www.theguardian.com

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Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social · Jan 3

I am one of the guests discussing American socialist leader Eugene Debs on Radio 4 at 3:00 p.m. on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs

Five time socialist presidential candidate Eugene Victor Debs picked by Reginald D Hunter.

www.bbc.co.uk

Clive Webb @clivewebb.bsky.social · Dec 10

New article co-written with Tom Davies in this month’s History Today.
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist....

Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights

www.historytoday.com

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John A. Kirk @johnakirk.bsky.social · Dec 7

Pick up a multi-award-winning book if you are out Christmas shopping this weekend.

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · Nov 26

... racially minoritised people targeted by their politics as I explored briefly in a piece for the Political Quarterly. I'm also currently investigating the relationship between "extreme" & institutional racism in the context of the UK prison system c.1970s.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History

This article addresses the field of British political history's blind spot when it comes to race. Where modern British political historians are comfortable approaching politics in ‘high’ and ‘popular...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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