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Steve Sarson

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Historian. Latest book--The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States--coming in November 2025 with @uvapress.bsky.social. Cat gentleman. Occasional blogger: https://sonofsar.blogspot.com

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Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States. Available for pre-order and out in November 2025.

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/

The Course of Human Events

How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning Thomas Jefferson chose his words c

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 1d

Chapeau to @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social for his wonderful new book which has just arrived, an amazingly global and ecumenical volume, in all senses! Beautifully produced by OUP (and before publication day!?).

A spur to others!

Front cover of Charles West's Europe in the Eleventh Century

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Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 2d

Kimi Badenoch vows to cut "rip-off" degrees such as ... English.

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 2d

The foreseeable and indeed often foreseen outcome of the "employability agenda."

www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...

MSN

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Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 7d

Ed Thomas is Alan Partridge played by Harry Enfield.

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 10d

Not exactly the Newburgh Address, then.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10d

Trump opens with a threat to the generals:

"I've never walked into a room so silent … Have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud ... If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose."

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations--can't wait to read it!

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 11d

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

a.co/d/29c7EIP

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Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks, Sara!

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 12d

Fog-related scenes in St Cyr this morning.

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks, Jim!

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks, Rob!

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you, Annette!

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 14d

Delighted to say that The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States has won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for the best manuscript in eighteenth-century studies submitted to @uvapress.bsky.social

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/

The Course of Human Events

How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning Thomas Jefferson chose his words c

www.upress.virginia.edu

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 17d

The BBC: "many experts disagree".

Ffs

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 19d

This is not OK

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins

Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.

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Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 19d

The Douglas-Turner version or the Cumberbatch-Colman one?

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Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 21d

This morning's light over St Cyr au Mont d'Or.

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 23d

Vos photos quotidiennes du ciel du soir de Saint-Cyr-au-Mont d'Or.

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 24d

Ciel, St Cyr, ce soir.

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 24d

Uncanny.

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Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 25d

Clouds over St Cyr tonight.

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 26d

A friend on Facebook has improved the image.

Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 26d

I can't help noticing that this lump of spam not only looks like Keir Starmer but also has the same general kind of vibe.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · May 8

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

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Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social · 29d

One must have a heart of stone to read the news of Peter Mandelson without laughing.

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