Sam Wetherell
@samwetherell.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
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Sam Wetherell
@samwetherell.bsky.social
· Jan 28
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell | Waterstones
Buy Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
What a time to be in Boston for 36 hours.
January 24, 2026 at 1:08 PM
What a time to be in Boston for 36 hours.
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I see we’ve moved from “Only hateful extremist lunatics say Britain is cravenly obedient to the White House” to “Of course we have been cravenly obedient to the White House, now we must focus on the future and not ask questions about whose fault this was”, somehow without anyone having been wrong.
January 21, 2026 at 8:24 AM
I see we’ve moved from “Only hateful extremist lunatics say Britain is cravenly obedient to the White House” to “Of course we have been cravenly obedient to the White House, now we must focus on the future and not ask questions about whose fault this was”, somehow without anyone having been wrong.
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📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:
ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/20/2026 · 59m
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January 20, 2026 at 8:32 AM
📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:
Liverpool friends - if anyone is at a loose end I'm going to be speaking about the history of Race and the management of surplus populations in modern Britain at the 120th anniversary conference Liverpool University's Sociology Department on Thursday at 1.30pm. www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event...
Pasts-Presents-Futures of Social Science: Marking 120 Years
Social Science Pasts-Presents-Futures: Marking 120 Years of The Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
Hybrid Event
What responsibilities does social science carry in a world of dee...
www.liverpool.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Liverpool friends - if anyone is at a loose end I'm going to be speaking about the history of Race and the management of surplus populations in modern Britain at the 120th anniversary conference Liverpool University's Sociology Department on Thursday at 1.30pm. www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event...
Me: laughing derisively at a student email asking whether the words "word count" count for the word count.
Me: A little later, looking my draft journal article that is 10,002 words long and pausing for a moment on my hubris.
Me: A little later, looking my draft journal article that is 10,002 words long and pausing for a moment on my hubris.
January 13, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Me: laughing derisively at a student email asking whether the words "word count" count for the word count.
Me: A little later, looking my draft journal article that is 10,002 words long and pausing for a moment on my hubris.
Me: A little later, looking my draft journal article that is 10,002 words long and pausing for a moment on my hubris.
Fucking monsters.
After border patrol agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, agents showed up to a high school and released chemical weapons during dismissal, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Their live reporting here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Live updates: Minneapolis confirms name of woman shot by ICE agent
Renee Good, 37, was identified as the woman shot and killed Wednesday morning by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said Good was shot while trying to run over agents with her car. Mayor Jacob Fre...
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Fucking monsters.
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Lovely to see the Liverpool and the unmaking of Britain was the best selling non fiction at the wonderful News From Nowhere bookshop in Liverpool!
January 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Lovely to see the Liverpool and the unmaking of Britain was the best selling non fiction at the wonderful News From Nowhere bookshop in Liverpool!
Lovely to see the Liverpool and the unmaking of Britain was the best selling non fiction at the wonderful News From Nowhere bookshop in Liverpool!
January 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Lovely to see the Liverpool and the unmaking of Britain was the best selling non fiction at the wonderful News From Nowhere bookshop in Liverpool!
Happy new year
🚨 NEW | Keir Starmer is less popular in Britain than Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
🟡 Maduro -31
⚫ Trump -56
🔴 Starmer -56
🟩 Hamas -58
Net favourability ratings via @YouGov, 4-5 Jan
🟡 Maduro -31
⚫ Trump -56
🔴 Starmer -56
🟩 Hamas -58
Net favourability ratings via @YouGov, 4-5 Jan
January 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Happy new year
Also who wants to hang out with me and Charlie in New York next week?
Tips for navigating the NY subway solo with a three year old in a pram?
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Also who wants to hang out with me and Charlie in New York next week?
Tips for navigating the NY subway solo with a three year old in a pram?
December 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Tips for navigating the NY subway solo with a three year old in a pram?
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Breaking my winter break hiatus to say that absolutely everyone should this extraordinary wide-ranging article on psychoanalysis, TERFs, Palestine and our present moment by Amia Srinivasan www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
December 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Breaking my winter break hiatus to say that absolutely everyone should this extraordinary wide-ranging article on psychoanalysis, TERFs, Palestine and our present moment by Amia Srinivasan www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Breaking my winter break hiatus to say that absolutely everyone should this extraordinary wide-ranging article on psychoanalysis, TERFs, Palestine and our present moment by Amia Srinivasan www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
December 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Breaking my winter break hiatus to say that absolutely everyone should this extraordinary wide-ranging article on psychoanalysis, TERFs, Palestine and our present moment by Amia Srinivasan www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The man who accelerated his car into a crowd of people in Liverpool admits simply to having “lost his temper.” The most recent example of what the Zetkin Collective called the “great driving right show” - the political, social and environmental debasement of the car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The man who accelerated his car into a crowd of people in Liverpool admits simply to having “lost his temper.” The most recent example of what the Zetkin Collective called the “great driving right show” - the political, social and environmental debasement of the car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Truly wonderful and provocative interview this - stay to the end for an argument about the ways that ecological disasters in the twenty-first century may play the same role that proletarianisation played in the nineteenth - allowing us to "organise across difference" in conditions of emergency.
New @thedigradio.bsky.social, the left communist-democratic socialist synthesis you’ve been waiting for: it’s my ecumenical and anti-sectarian interview with Malcolm Harris on his lovely book What’s Left. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/what...
What’s Left w/ Malcolm Harris
Featuring Malcolm Harris on What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. An open-minded and anti-sectarian discussion about an ecumenical book that plots out three paths forward for the left...
www.thedigradio.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Truly wonderful and provocative interview this - stay to the end for an argument about the ways that ecological disasters in the twenty-first century may play the same role that proletarianisation played in the nineteenth - allowing us to "organise across difference" in conditions of emergency.
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Not just for Scousers. For anyone interested in 20C Britain - and in a great city. #Liverpool
For anyone looking for a Christmas present for Scouse friends or family or anyone interested in understanding modern Britain, may I humbly and unsurprisingly suggest that my book might make a good fit! Below is a thread with some extraordinary facts from the book about Liverpool's twentieth-century.
On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
December 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Not just for Scousers. For anyone interested in 20C Britain - and in a great city. #Liverpool
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For anyone looking for a Christmas present for Scouse friends or family or anyone interested in understanding modern Britain, may I humbly and unsurprisingly suggest that my book might make a good fit! Below is a thread with some extraordinary facts from the book about Liverpool's twentieth-century.
On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell | Waterstones
Buy Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
For anyone looking for a Christmas present for Scouse friends or family or anyone interested in understanding modern Britain, may I humbly and unsurprisingly suggest that my book might make a good fit! Below is a thread with some extraordinary facts from the book about Liverpool's twentieth-century.
For anyone looking for a Christmas present for Scouse friends or family or anyone interested in understanding modern Britain, may I humbly and unsurprisingly suggest that my book might make a good fit! Below is a thread with some extraordinary facts from the book about Liverpool's twentieth-century.
On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell | Waterstones
Buy Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
For anyone looking for a Christmas present for Scouse friends or family or anyone interested in understanding modern Britain, may I humbly and unsurprisingly suggest that my book might make a good fit! Below is a thread with some extraordinary facts from the book about Liverpool's twentieth-century.
So cool that the absolute ascendancy of banal reactionary historical platitudes is coterminous with the extinction level event unfolding in history departments on both sides of the Atlantic. www.newstatesman.com/culture/radi...
Let's hear it for The Rest is History
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are defining our national story
www.newstatesman.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
So cool that the absolute ascendancy of banal reactionary historical platitudes is coterminous with the extinction level event unfolding in history departments on both sides of the Atlantic. www.newstatesman.com/culture/radi...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
As more time passes, the thing that becomes historically interesting about the Rivers of Blood speech is not that it was said, but that it engendered such opprobrium. If Powell was alive today that speech would be delivered on Question Time to millions and be greeted with silent tacit approval.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
As more time passes, the thing that becomes historically interesting about the Rivers of Blood speech is not that it was said, but that it engendered such opprobrium. If Powell was alive today that speech would be delivered on Question Time to millions and be greeted with silent tacit approval.
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#4 on my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast’s look back at the year is an outstanding history book (& one of the great books about Liverpool) @samwetherell.bsky.social discussing Liverpool and the unmaking of Britain newbooksnetwork.com/liverpool-an...
Sam Wetherell, "Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network
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December 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#4 on my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast’s look back at the year is an outstanding history book (& one of the great books about Liverpool) @samwetherell.bsky.social discussing Liverpool and the unmaking of Britain newbooksnetwork.com/liverpool-an...
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Today’s news reminds me of @samwetherell.bsky.social’s excellent chapter on Hillsborough in his history of Liverpool (an excellent book, but I ripped the Band-Aid off and read about the football first)
www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell | Waterstones
Buy Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today’s news reminds me of @samwetherell.bsky.social’s excellent chapter on Hillsborough in his history of Liverpool (an excellent book, but I ripped the Band-Aid off and read about the football first)
www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
Wonderful, urgent essay by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @bostonreview.bsky.social on the recognition and politicisation of care work in the long shadow of Wages for Housework. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Wonderful, urgent essay by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @bostonreview.bsky.social on the recognition and politicisation of care work in the long shadow of Wages for Housework. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...