@marcmulholland.bsky.social
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I note that Shama Tatler has been nominated for a peerage. you may remember her as the Labour right winger handed Faiza Shaheen's PPC position in Chingford and Wood Green in a factional attack, where she was then rejected by the electorate.
December 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I note that Shama Tatler has been nominated for a peerage. you may remember her as the Labour right winger handed Faiza Shaheen's PPC position in Chingford and Wood Green in a factional attack, where she was then rejected by the electorate.
It you're looking for some Christmas murder mystery (and revolution, barricade street-fighting, the last duel in England, and Marx), here's my book about the amazing life of Emmanuel Barthélemy. shorturl.at/XUbXk
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December 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
It you're looking for some Christmas murder mystery (and revolution, barricade street-fighting, the last duel in England, and Marx), here's my book about the amazing life of Emmanuel Barthélemy. shorturl.at/XUbXk
The Orange Order has just elected its 21st Grand Master. Here's a book I've edited and introduced on and from its early history.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
December 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The Orange Order has just elected its 21st Grand Master. Here's a book I've edited and introduced on and from its early history.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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On Friday 16 January we will be hosting a one-day conference on LABOUR POLITICS IN WEST BELFAST, 1918-83. Free event - all welcome (in-person and online). www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
December 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
On Friday 16 January we will be hosting a one-day conference on LABOUR POLITICS IN WEST BELFAST, 1918-83. Free event - all welcome (in-person and online). www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
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After her diagnosis, she wrote a novella, “What Does It Feel Like,” about a woman with five children who has brain cancer.
“I thought people might be curious to know what it’s like to go through this,” Kinsella told Roberts. “I hope it’s full of optimism and love most of all.”
She had 5 children.
“I thought people might be curious to know what it’s like to go through this,” Kinsella told Roberts. “I hope it’s full of optimism and love most of all.”
She had 5 children.
Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom-com “Confessions of a Shopaholic” sparked a millions-selling series, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer. https://to.pbs.org/4rUfabq
Sophie Kinsella, author of the millions-selling ‘Shopaholic’ novels, dies at 55
Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom-com “Confessions of a Shopaholic” sparked a millions-selling series, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
After her diagnosis, she wrote a novella, “What Does It Feel Like,” about a woman with five children who has brain cancer.
“I thought people might be curious to know what it’s like to go through this,” Kinsella told Roberts. “I hope it’s full of optimism and love most of all.”
She had 5 children.
“I thought people might be curious to know what it’s like to go through this,” Kinsella told Roberts. “I hope it’s full of optimism and love most of all.”
She had 5 children.
On the curious economics of modern capitalism: shipping to the UK is cheapest from the US, most expensive within the UK.
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
On the curious economics of modern capitalism: shipping to the UK is cheapest from the US, most expensive within the UK.
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Yes, again, none of “democracy or freedom and equality” are compatible with systematically destroying a subject populace of non-people who have no rights, that you have conquered and now rule over and murder with total impunity.
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Yes, again, none of “democracy or freedom and equality” are compatible with systematically destroying a subject populace of non-people who have no rights, that you have conquered and now rule over and murder with total impunity.
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I'd be more than usually grateful to those who share this because of the personal importance to me of the event commemorated
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December 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I'd be more than usually grateful to those who share this because of the personal importance to me of the event commemorated
macdonnchada.substack.com/p/raul-alfon...
macdonnchada.substack.com/p/raul-alfon...
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Our last seminar for this year, on 15 Dec. will be Patrick Walsh (TCD) speaking on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state' (joint event with CECS). All welcome in-person and online. www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Our last seminar for this year, on 15 Dec. will be Patrick Walsh (TCD) speaking on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state' (joint event with CECS). All welcome in-person and online. www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
"The report accuses MI5 of trying to "restrict the investigation, run down the clock, avoid any prosecutions relating to Stakeknife and conceal the truth."
The latest chapter of the dirty war has been written, with a state-sponsored serial killer as its main character, writes Vincent Kearney.
State-sponsored killer main character in dirty war
The latest chapter of the dirty war has been written, with a state-sponsored serial killer as its main character.
www.rte.ie
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"The report accuses MI5 of trying to "restrict the investigation, run down the clock, avoid any prosecutions relating to Stakeknife and conceal the truth."
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A great example here of how it simply does not matter what happens, and how the public come to be so disastrously misinformed on more or less everything. When all our media outlets feed the public much the same shit day in, day out, then it’s no wonder Yer Da has developed Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
Sandie Peggie's agony...
BBC News - Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
A review of the front page stories from the daily newspapers in Scotland.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
A great example here of how it simply does not matter what happens, and how the public come to be so disastrously misinformed on more or less everything. When all our media outlets feed the public much the same shit day in, day out, then it’s no wonder Yer Da has developed Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
The 'social origins of the Land War' has notoriously been seen as the disappearing labourer and rising strong farmer ('mean-faced mean who did well out of the Famine'). I think this is a denigratory myth. Actually, the basic social structure of the peasantry changed very little.
December 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The 'social origins of the Land War' has notoriously been seen as the disappearing labourer and rising strong farmer ('mean-faced mean who did well out of the Famine'). I think this is a denigratory myth. Actually, the basic social structure of the peasantry changed very little.
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We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!
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Finally getting the chance to begin reading @marcmulholland.bsky.social's Rising of the moon
December 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Finally getting the chance to begin reading @marcmulholland.bsky.social's Rising of the moon
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Apropos of the CFP announcement for the 2026 @ssnci.bsky.social conference, I have been making my way (slowly) through @marcmulholland.bsky.social new book and it is excellent and very thought provoking. Will be great to hear from him, @leannecalvert.bsky.social & Fionnuala Dillane. 🗃️
December 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Apropos of the CFP announcement for the 2026 @ssnci.bsky.social conference, I have been making my way (slowly) through @marcmulholland.bsky.social new book and it is excellent and very thought provoking. Will be great to hear from him, @leannecalvert.bsky.social & Fionnuala Dillane. 🗃️
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Tomorrow! For any interested #skystorians #earlymodern
For any interested #earlymodern #skystorians:
I've the pleasure of speaking at the Moved Apart Project's seminar series this coming Monday at 9am GMT/10am CET!
The talk (ca. 30 mins) will be 'Time Apart in the early English East India Company', and it's entirely online!
All welcome!
I've the pleasure of speaking at the Moved Apart Project's seminar series this coming Monday at 9am GMT/10am CET!
The talk (ca. 30 mins) will be 'Time Apart in the early English East India Company', and it's entirely online!
All welcome!
The Moved Apart team are happy to present Dr Mark Williams of Cardiff University, who is invited to hold a presentation called "Time Apart in the early English East India Company". The prese...
The Moved Apart team are happy to present Dr Mark Williams of Cardiff University, who is invited to hold a presentation called "Time Apart in the early English East India Company". The presentation is...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Tomorrow! For any interested #skystorians #earlymodern
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Absolutely insane here, like lecturing people for not recognising the decency and liberalism of Milosevic’s Serbia, yet somehow much, much worse, dumber and more insulting. You cannot big up a record of inclusion if you are destroying your subject underclass of people who have no rights.
December 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Absolutely insane here, like lecturing people for not recognising the decency and liberalism of Milosevic’s Serbia, yet somehow much, much worse, dumber and more insulting. You cannot big up a record of inclusion if you are destroying your subject underclass of people who have no rights.
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In The Observer, I’ve reviewed Songs Of Seven Dials: @tricksterprince.bsky.social’s fascinating, detailed history of the changing streets of Covent Garden through the early c20th. From race to jingoistic media to gentrification, a book full of resonances today
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Lament for a lost London | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
In The Observer, I’ve reviewed Songs Of Seven Dials: @tricksterprince.bsky.social’s fascinating, detailed history of the changing streets of Covent Garden through the early c20th. From race to jingoistic media to gentrification, a book full of resonances today
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
It's the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. In his history of England, A J P Taylor raised a disconcerting counterfactual: What if Hitler had taken the opportunity to declare war on Japan in the spirit of white supremicist solidarity with racist American? What then?
December 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It's the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. In his history of England, A J P Taylor raised a disconcerting counterfactual: What if Hitler had taken the opportunity to declare war on Japan in the spirit of white supremicist solidarity with racist American? What then?
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Cloyne's cleaned up round tower is being revealed.
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Cloyne's cleaned up round tower is being revealed.
As this very fine review makes clear, the *origin* of capitalism now tends to be thought of in very global terms indeed. In contrast, I'm inclined to link capitalism (not capital) very narrowly the the midlands of England and its almost unique climatic meridian.k
For the New Statesman, I wrote about this thing we call capitalism. By way of Borges and Braudel, I review the mappings and musings in Sven Beckert’s and Branko Milanovic’s brilliant new books.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
How not to talk about capitalism
The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”
www.newstatesman.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
As this very fine review makes clear, the *origin* of capitalism now tends to be thought of in very global terms indeed. In contrast, I'm inclined to link capitalism (not capital) very narrowly the the midlands of England and its almost unique climatic meridian.k
I hadn't realised that the modern sense of 'revolution' was recorded quite so early (from Donald Sassoon's 'Revolutions: A New History').
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I hadn't realised that the modern sense of 'revolution' was recorded quite so early (from Donald Sassoon's 'Revolutions: A New History').
I'm enjoying Gary Brecher's militant book on the American slaveowners rebellion, 'They Should Have Been Hanged'. It includes a fine essay on arson as a weapon of war wielded by slaves behind enemy lines. It has this excellent aside on the Irish buachaillí. www.amazon.co.uk/They-Should-...
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I'm enjoying Gary Brecher's militant book on the American slaveowners rebellion, 'They Should Have Been Hanged'. It includes a fine essay on arson as a weapon of war wielded by slaves behind enemy lines. It has this excellent aside on the Irish buachaillí. www.amazon.co.uk/They-Should-...
Some tweets on peasant society in Ireland (focus on pre-Famine, but quite a lot relevant afterwards).
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Some tweets on peasant society in Ireland (focus on pre-Famine, but quite a lot relevant afterwards).
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I wouldn’t say you could’ve predicted that the War On Terror would rapidly metastasise into the mad emperor’s imbecile henchmen just killing whoever they want for a laugh, to make them feel tough. But you can 100% see the through lines from that, via the Obama, Trump and Biden admins, to this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wouldn’t say you could’ve predicted that the War On Terror would rapidly metastasise into the mad emperor’s imbecile henchmen just killing whoever they want for a laugh, to make them feel tough. But you can 100% see the through lines from that, via the Obama, Trump and Biden admins, to this.