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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 3h

For #UKBHM amplify Black voices with our curated collection of essential stories from across the globe. https://bit.ly/4poaSHJ

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel name is widely associated with Alfred Nobel. In this blog, author Bengt Jangfeldt introduces the lesser-known #history of the other Nobels.

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 2d

As the 2025 #NobelPrize announcements begin, learn more about the family behind the Nobel name.

On the academic blog, Bengt Jangfeldt, author of The Nobel Family, introduces us to the lesser-known but equally fascinating history of the other Nobels. https://bit.ly/4n19MzC

Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 2d

“Catharine Coleborne’s excellent new book will appeal to a wide readership; her writing segues between academic theory and personal narratives seamlessly.” JACANZS

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Harry Richards @drharryrichards.bsky.social · 7d

‘British Spy Fever in the First World War: Fearing the Enemy Within’ has finally been released. And it looks great @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · 7d

October is Black History Month in the UK. Amplify Black voices with our curated collection of essential stories from across the globe.

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 6d

Discover the untold story of Ottoman Baghdad during WWI in Baghdad Dispatches by Jameel Haque.

From refugees to foreign nationals, U.S. consul Charles Brissel’s humanitarian efforts come to life in this gripping historical account.

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 6d

Elizabeth White joins Polina Popova on the New Books Network to discuss A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Elizabeth White, "A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union" (Bloomsbury, 2020) - New Books Network

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 8d

In Portuguese Colonialism, Food, and Society in Goa, Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa examines the food history of colonial Goa from 1900 to 1961, highlighting the centrality of food in the region’s sociocultural, economic, and political life.

Out now: https://bit.ly/3UwN4U6

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 8d

"this book represents a very welcome addition to existing scholarship". EHQ https://bit.ly/4muboSM

Find out more about Informing Interwar Internationalism: The Information Strategies of the League of Nations by Emil Eiby Seidenfaden https://bit.ly/45R8ccJ

Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 11d

🚂 Celebrate 200 years of rail travel with The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880–2023!

David Welsh explores how railway workers built new and enduring organisations, such as trade unions, that became engines of hope.

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 12d

New Approaches to International History publishes award winning books, across subject matters and from an international perspective.

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 13d

After the declaration of war in 1914, German spies were sighted across Britain as ‘spy fever’ supposedly gripped the nation. In British ‘Spy Fever’ in the First World War, Harry Richards questions if British society was truly terrified of spies.

Out now: https://bit.ly/4647Yzp

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 13d

New release: https://bit.ly/4oJCR4i

Coal in Modern Britain is the first book to examine the social and cultural significance of coal in Britain. Charles-François Mathis explores the coal industry from the early 19th century through to the ‘coal-minded’ society of the 1940s.

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 14d

Throughout the 20th Century, unmarried mothers endured shame and institutionalisation. In Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain, @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social examines the journeys made by hundreds of pregnant Irish women to Britain.

Out now: https://bit.ly/4lAg9cf

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 14d

I'm not able to attend #theGSA2025 this year, but the fine people from @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social will be there promoting the German History in Focus series including my new book "The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State" bsky.app/profile/bloo...

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 14d

⏰ Tomorrow!

Nicholas Ensley Mitchell talks about his new book, On Bigotry: Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It.

Sep 25th, 11am EDT/4pm BST

Register here:
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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 15d

Never miss a new release! Sign up to our #Historynewsletter and stay up-to-date on new books, special offers, award winners, events and more!

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 15d

This volume, edited by Seth Jacobowitz and Aaron William Moore, assembles a wide array of writings by Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke, one of 20th-century Japan’s foremost intellectuals, translated for the first time into English.

Out now: https://bit.ly/4fJwBp9

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 16d

Is bigotry a lack of education, or is it a moral code that people live by? How does it spread, & how does it teach people to act politically?

Explore these questions & more with Nicholas Ensley Mitchell during the next Bloomsbury Lecture.

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Join Nicholas Ensley Mitchell on Sep 25th, 11am EDT/4pm BST, as he talks about bigotry as identity politics.

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 16d

Now in paperback!

Food stood at the centre of Mussolini’s attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa. In Gastrofascism and Empire, Simone Cinotto breaks new ground in our understanding of the workings of empire.

Learn more: bit.ly/3VgkS85

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 16d

'There was no formal farewell. Joe Jr would never return to the Kennedy’s beloved home in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod. His remains were scattered far from home, never to be recovered.'

One summer changed the Kennedy family forever. Read an extract on the blog https://bit.ly/40SvHRi

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · 18d

Suzanne Loebl and Abigail Wilentz’s “Plunder and Survival” is an autobiographical account of a Holocaust survivor whose family collected art during World War II.

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 19d

'Romano invites us not to stop at the covers of medical records, not to trust prima facie diagnoses, to read between the lines with extreme care and attention, and to continue digging...in search of lost stories.' Journal of the History of Sexuality

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 19d

“Beautifully written...This book is a fascinating, absorbing read using luscious detail and historical information to great effect.” @writing.ie

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The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944 by Leigh Straw

The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944: The Summer That Changed Everything captures the Kennedy family at a pivotal point in their lives.

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