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Douglas Peers
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historian, has-dean, and senior staff officer to an alpha-beagle.
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · 20h
Balfour to Blair www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Anne Irfan | Balfour to Blair
By endorsing the Trump plan, Keir Starmer continues the long-standing British position of denying the Palestinian people...
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 12d
"Warrior ethos." What bullshit. We don't have, nor do we want warriors. We have & want soldiers, members of disciplined teams, not individuals who do their own thing. I have a five paragraph vivisection of this in the forthcoming OUP Handbook of American Military History.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23d
Obviously we all know Bluesky is a retirement home for elder millennials but, if you happen to know any 18-30 people who might like to take a shot at this, do pass it on!
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23d
Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

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Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation
The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · Sep 4
Great piece by an old friend and colleague.
Donald Trump’s penchant for bullshit explains MAGA anger about the Epstein files theconversation.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump’s penchant for bullshit explains MAGA anger about the Epstein files
Donald Trump’s supporters perceive, perhaps for the first time, that they are now targets of his political bullshit about Jeffrey Epstein rather than amused witnesses to it. And they don’t like it
theconversation.com
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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · Aug 30
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · Aug 29
Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone.

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Full-time Academic positions
Inspired by a strong tradition of social responsibility and an enduring commitment to the advancement of women, Mount Saint Vincent University promotes academic excellence and the pursuit of knowledge...
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · Aug 27
History is the Front Line in the Struggle for Democracy www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
History is the Front Line in the Struggle for Democracy | Common Dreams
As the accumulation of executive orders since Trump’s inauguration manifestly shows, the fate of history in America is a bellwether for the future of democracy itself.
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · Aug 19
It is only Monday and already I am identifying with this great blue heron having a bad hair day surrounded by turkey vultures
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · Aug 10
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
Footballer Suleiman al-Obeid was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza last week, according to Palestine Football Association
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · Aug 9
Mo Salah is asking the right questions
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · Aug 6
This is not good and, sadly, resonates with my experiences as a non-white person attending at the past too. I don't do large beer festivals and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon

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It’s a nice day for a beer festival (if you’re a man)
Yesterday, I attended The Great British Beer Festival for the first time in a few years. Mainly because it was in Birmingham and I wanted to show up and support my community – it’s the first …
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Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · Aug 6
JOB: Associate or Full Professor, Palestinian Literature & Culture, University of Toronto
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · Jul 31
Kicked off our annual #Stratfest season with Macbeth. Absolutely amazing performance - original, visually stunning, and powerfully acted. Ranks among my favourites over the past 15 years. Looking forward to what other treats lie ahead
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · Jul 25
Observed a Spotted sandpiper, an Eastern Kingbird, and a Red-Eyed Vireo on our evening walks this week
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · Jul 25
Our resident ospreys look like they have two juveniles under wing
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · Jul 14
People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · Jul 2
I wonder whether Biggar, Ferguson and Co can fully appreciate the irony of what has become of this one-time symbol of empire
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · Jun 23
The Pentagon ordered a diversionary flight of B-2 bombers as misdirection, per NYT, because they were afraid Trump was giving the attack away to Iran via his social media posts
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · Jun 19
Misogyny has become a political strategy — here’s how the pandemic helped make it happen
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Misogyny has become a political strategy — here’s how the pandemic helped make it happen
Online misogyny isn’t just fringe — it’s baked into the architecture of the internet itself and, increasingly, serves as a powerful political tool.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Jun 16
Almost none of my primary sources are even digitised, and if they are it’s because I took the photographs, turned them into PDFs, and donated them back to the archives in which they’re housed.

AI cannot do what I do.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · Jun 16
This is some bleak shit. Historians literally outsourcing the creative and research process to a thieving algorithm ripping off the IP of their own fellow-historians.

Says everything that they’re doing it from a Google office.

Hacks. They should be ashamed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · Jun 13
My second piece for the Guardian in a month! As promised, I wrote about Bill C-2 the border bill and how it’s MAGA-inspired
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Canadians said no to Trump – so why is Mark Carney pushing a Maga-inspired border bill? | Erica Ifill
If it goes ahead we will see the construction of a surveillance state that is in some ways worse than the US, writes political columnist Erica Ifill
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The Sashbear Foundation @sashbearorg.bsky.social · Jun 13
At The Sashbear Foundation, we support families and youth, including those who identify as 2SLGBTQI+, through free, inclusive mental health programs. Our peer-led approach helps loved ones communicate, understand, and heal together. 🏳️‍🌈

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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · Jun 10
Hot off the press! See our recent article 'Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings' by Robert Travers: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
Corruption scandals have long been viewed as crucial to the making of the British Empire in India in the late eighteenth century. But histories of these scandals have mainly focused on metropolitan...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Jun 3
We are very sorry to learn of the death of the military historian, Professor Brian Bond. As a leading figure in the development of war studies, and closely associated with King's College London, Professor Bond was also a Fellow @royalhistsoc.org from 1977. #skystorians
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Gary Sheffield @profgsheffield.bsky.social · Jun 3
Sad news: I have heard that Professor Brian Bond died yesterday. He was 89. I last saw him three weeks ago. Brian was an immensely significant figure in British military history. He supervised my PhD (and 50 others) and I owe him a great deal. RIP.
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