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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 1d

Thankyou!

Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 1d

How the World Made the West: A 4000-year History is a Kindle Daily Deal today - only! - for £2.99. Mixed feelings obvs, but that's less than 10p a century... www.amazon.co.uk/How-World-Ma...

How the World Made the West eBook : Quinn, Josephine: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 1d

So glad to see this x

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

The administration is aware of black bloc tactics, was vaguely aware of clown bloc tactics, but was completely unprepared for the advent of Animal Crossing bloc tactics.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 3d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 6d

At the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies we are offering 10 fellowships for scholars at any stage in their careers to stay with us for up to 6 months (PhD candidates and senior academics) or 12 months (postdocs) to complete a research project:

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 2d

Habsburgs in space!

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 3d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 4d

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’

This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Charlotte Canning @cmcanning.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to @empirepoduk.bsky.social for introducing me to How the World Made the West (2024) by @josephinequinn.bsky.social. It’s the perfect book for this moment.

It’s easy to dismiss the idea of Greek and Roman roots to the modern west as old-fashioned, and you certainly won’t find it in serious modern scholarship, or even in standard textbooks. But it’s still around, it’s getting more popular, and it’s part of a bigger problem. Civilizational thinking in beds, an assumption of enduring and meaningful difference between human societies that does real damage. People die at the hands of zealots for a white West, while different attitudes expressed in some European countries to refugees fleeing wars in Syria, and Ukraine demonstrate the power of civilizational exceptionalism to erase human suffering.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 6d

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’

This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

www.lrb.co.uk

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 8d

‘This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much killing?’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’

This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 9d

No problem at all - it's not obvious! Thanks for taking such time and care over the review.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to @jpnudell.bsky.social for this thoughtful and perceptive review @frontiere-s.bsky.social. Just one tiny amendment: I am an Irish historian...

Frontière·s @frontiere-s.bsky.social · 9d

J. P. Nudell propose une recension comparative des livres de Naoíse Mac Sweeney, "The West. A New History in Fourteen Lives", et de Josephine C. Quinn, "How the World Made the West. A 4,000 Year History" dans notre section Comptes-rendus, en accès libre :
doi.org/10.4000/12uv7
@jpnudell.bsky.social

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 9d

Also in this issue:

@jamesmeek.bsky.social on what AI wants
Neal Ascherson on Asa Briggs
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde
David Todd on Jean-Luc Mélenchon
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on Gazan antiquities
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor
Yun Sheng on Chinese youth culture...

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Les Rendez-vous de l'histoire @rdvhistoire.bsky.social · 9d

📖 Et le monde créa l’Occident. Une nouvelle histoire des mondes anciens, de Josephine Quinn @editionsduseuil.bsky.social
📌 Retrouvez @josephinequinn.bsky.social à Blois à l’occasion des 28e Rendez-vous de l’histoire, le 11 octobre à 18h
#rvh #rvh2025 #lecture #festivals #blois #salondulivre

📖 Et le monde créa l’Occident. Une nouvelle histoire des mondes anciens, de Josephine Quinn (Éditions du Seuil)

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social · 13d

I've been podcasting again! This time I spoke about how 'Plato: a civic life' provides the historical background to Plato's thought and helps to explain how his ideas developed - with Morteza Hajizadeh from New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/plato

Carol Atack, "Plato: A Civic Life" (Reaktion, 2025) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 13d

Since they are suddenly back in the spotlight, here's a link to an old essay that Josephine & I wrote for the New Left Project (back when that was a thing) that touches on the unlikely combo of the 1880s Fabians and gay sex.

New Left Project | Articles | Oscar Wilde, Edward Carpenter and the Socialist Eros

web.archive.org

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 14d

New from @EmpirePodUK
The History of Gaza Episode Three
Byzantine Gaza: The Rise of Christianity

@anitaanand.bsky.social &I are joined by the great Professor Peter Sarris to discuss Byzantine Gaza

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 14d

Hello! 👋🌍
You can now listen worldwide to our very funny episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about Hannibal of Carthage

My guests are the fantastic comedian Darren Harriott and the brilliant ancient historian Professor @josephinequinn.bsky.social — listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 15d

Delighted to find myself in the superb Pasts Imperfect newsletter, along with @willdalrymple.bsky.social and monstrous births. Thanks @sarahebond.bsky.social!

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 15d

The latest Pasts Imperfect has @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social taking on ancient & medieval monsters 🐉. Then, a new book on art from ancient India & the Greco-Roman world, Barnard profs defend free speech, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & Joy Connolly eulogizes Michael Putnam.

Pasts Imperfect (9.25.25)

This week, historian of science, art, information, and monsters Surekha Davies discusses monster-making in the past and the present.

pasts-imperfect.ghost.io

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 16d

It was a thing in Ancient Rome to write rude things or uh ‚humourous’ messages on slingshots, eg www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

sling-shot | British Museum

Lead sling bullet; almond shape; a winged thunderbolt on one side and on the other, in high relief, the inscription DEXAI "Catch!"

www.britishmuseum.org

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Empire Podcast @empirepoduk.bsky.social · 16d

Our Gaza series continues...

ANCIENT GAZA: FROM THE ASSYRIANS TO THE ROMANS

@willdalrymple.bsky.social and
@anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by @josephinequinn.bsky.social to discuss the 5 ancient empires that conquered Gaza...

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 17d

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

292. Ancient Gaza: From The Assyrians to The Romans (Part 2)

Podcast Episode · Empire · 22/09/2025 · 39m

podcasts.apple.com

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 17d

It was such an honour to be part of this

William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 17d

New from @EmpirePodUK

LIKE A WOLF ON THE FOLD-
THE ASSYRIAN WAR MACHINE COMES TO GAZA
With Professor Jo Quinn

Our 12-hour-long deep dive into History of Gaza is already our most popular series ever- people are super hungry to understand all the nuances of this contested past

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 17d

Aw, thankyou!

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Jose Duindam @josie73.bsky.social · 20d

Geweldig interview met @josephinequinn.bsky.social, hoogleraar Oude Geschiedenis aan Cambridge. Naar aanleiding van haar boek over 4000 jaar geschiedenis van het Westen. Over broederschap, beschavingsdenken en Brexit. Nu wil ik die pil op mijn nachtkastje… www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/de-we...

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