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Associate professor @historyatsoton.bsky.social BASEES Research and Development, co-editor at The SEER journal, co-director of CEEES at Southampton. Dept profile: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xfq6m/doctor-george-gilbert#research

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George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 18

I've made a start pack on imperial Russia, which anyone interested in the subject is welcome to join go.bsky.app/5BYjY1u

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · Jul 22

We're at #ICCEES2025! Stop by our booth in the exhibition hall and browse our books and speak to our editor. 📚🎉

Bloomsbury Academic history booth at ICCEES 2025

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George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Jul 22

Alison Rowley at ICCEES 2025 on Zinovii Peshkov #iccees2025

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Konstantin Tarasov @ktarasov.bsky.social · Jul 22

@georgegilbert.bsky.social talks about the research he is finishing: about the cult of left and right political martyrs in the late Russian Empire.
@benphillips1989.bsky.social

#iccees2025

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thanks @georgegilbert.bsky.social for the invitation to speak at Southampton today. It was good to have the chance to talk Armenia and histories of displacement, and to share some of the images I’ve found during the years I’ve been researching this topic.

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George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Jan 24

Does anyone have access to this article? John D. Klier, “‘Traditional
Russian Religious Antisemitism’: A Useful Concept or a Barrier to Understanding?,” Jewish
Quarterly 46, 2 (1999), pp. 29–34

No payment offered, sadly, apart from my undying love and respect, cheers.

George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Jan 22

'Political Martyrdom in Late Imperial Russia',
Edited by George Gilbert and Ben Phillips www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

www.mhra.org.uk

George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Jan 10

A frosty morning in Winchester!

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · Jan 7

En direct, mort de Jean-Marie Le Pen : suivez les réactions

Jean-Marie Le Pen, cofondateur du Front national et figure de l’extrême droite en France, est mort mardi 7 janvier.

www.lemonde.fr

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George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Jan 6

Study Group on the Russian Revolution at 50. A lot of interesting papers. Thanks for inviting me!

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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · Dec 26

🕯️🕯️On the second night of Hanukkah, we're delighted to introduce you to @georgegilbert.bsky.social's Katya.
She likes sleeping & reading about Lenin between naps.
#PetsofParkes

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George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 30

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George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 27

Done!

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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · Nov 26

I created a thing! It is definitely missing people - if you are a person who should be on it, pls let me know! go.bsky.app/8HazBeR

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George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hey Katia, I'd like to be on it, thank you.

George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 27

A very good morning to my 1,100 followers.

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George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 24

Patterns of Prejudice ‪@pop-jrnl.bsky.social‬ is an excellent publication and now has a Bluesky presence.

Patterns of Prejudice @pop-jrnl.bsky.social · Nov 24

Patterns of Prejudice is available both online and in print. We've been analysing #racism and #xenophobia for nearly 60 years. We are now published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Check out our back catalogue online: tandfonline.com/loi/rpop20

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of E.P. Thompson's death.

An excuse to read about his life and refusal to compromise with 'the civilisation of death'.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/hist...

"history is not just a record of action but a means of exchange"

It was all he needed. For all Thompson’s professed materialism, he never wavered in his conviction that history is not just a record of action but a means of exchange, a place of meeting: deep underneath the earth we walk on, in places the powerful never consider and the cynics can never reach, course underground rivers of struggle, friendship, justice, love. And that there are times in history when “the stored energies of the dead flow back into the living”, when those forgotten rivers burst to earth. Thompson didn’t know if he was living in such time. But the hour was late. For four decades he’d fought and lost. The treaties had been abrogated; the powers were gearing for war – a war, many analysts thought, that would come quickly, and leave nothing behind. He had to try.

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George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 20

Love it. The only reason I write books at all

George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 20

Pleasure!

George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 20

Welcome to my new followers. All suggestions for the below s/p welcome.

George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 18

I've made a start pack on imperial Russia, which anyone interested in the subject is welcome to join go.bsky.app/5BYjY1u

George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 19

A lot in here I found very interesting - shows understanding far beyond most of what we are presented with in typical journalism. Thanks for writing.

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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · Nov 17

Today's "Anti-War March" in Berlin, led by Navalnaya, Kara-Murza & Yashin seems an appropiate day to re-publish my essay on why the West and in particular Germany should take a closer look at the self-proclaimed leaders of the Russian opposition in English:

Anti-Putin does not mean anti-imperial. Why the romanticisation of Russian dissidents is misleading

In the German debate on the Russian anti-Putin camp, the problematic aspects of this milieu are often ignored. The Russian perspective continues to be prioritized other those of the colonized.

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George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 19

I'd be glad to be added, thanks

George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 19

Will do

George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social · Nov 18

Seems apt