Robert Bickers
@bickers.bsky.social
Writer & historian. European. Professor of History, University of Bristol. Rewriting British and other history is my job. Find out more via my staff profile: http://tinyurl.com/rbickers, & blog: http://robertbickers.net I also run http://hpcbristol.net
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And here’s my response to an attempt to infiltrate this historical propaganda into a serious scholarly journal (albeit a Russian Empire - focused one): alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...
Accusation in the Mirror? Distinguishing Scholarship From Propaganda
Alan Lester The Truth About Empire, a collection of essays for a public readership by fourteen leading historians of British colonialism that I edited and introduced, was the subject of Alexander M…
alanlester.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
And here’s my response to an attempt to infiltrate this historical propaganda into a serious scholarly journal (albeit a Russian Empire - focused one): alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...
I've added some links in this brief blog-post to other appreciations of Andy's work and interests.
robertbickers.net/2025/10/13/a...
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Andy West (1960-2025)
I have written briefly in the Guardian recently about the life and work of my former classmate Andy West who died in the summer, or at least some of it. Andy has left a large archive of his work, a…
robertbickers.net
October 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I've added some links in this brief blog-post to other appreciations of Andy's work and interests.
robertbickers.net/2025/10/13/a...
robertbickers.net/2025/10/13/a...
The student union at SSEES in London held an Andropov Pop Off Party to mark his passing.
October 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The student union at SSEES in London held an Andropov Pop Off Party to mark his passing.
And then there was this
September 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
And then there was this