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Miles Ogborn

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Historical geographer at Queen Mary University of London | writes books | reads books | working on working on the 1831-2 Uprising in Jamaica | picture from Keith Piper (2007) Lost Vitrines.

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New review:

@milesogborn.bsky.social on 'Tropical Leviathan: Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770โ€“1840', by Aaron Graham.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.003

01.10.2025 13:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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09.08.2025 11:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

N: Yllรคs, Finland ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ
E: Mawlamyine, Maynmar ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒ
S: Oistins, Barbados ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ง
W: San Francisco ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

07.08.2025 17:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I will hear nothing further against ChatGPT. The case is closed.

13.07.2025 06:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination

www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan... ๐Ÿ‘‰ registration now open

26.03.2025 08:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
27 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[online only via Zoom]

A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (2025), by Chris Philo (University of Glasgow), involving:

Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)
Felicitas Kรผbler (Alpen-Adria-Universitรคt, Klagenfurt)

27 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST [online only via Zoom] A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (2025), by Chris Philo (University of Glasgow), involving: Stuart Elden (University of Warwick) Felicitas Kรผbler (Alpen-Adria-Universitรคt, Klagenfurt)

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. โ€ฌDetails here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...

20.05.2025 09:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Fawlty Latours

01.02.2025 06:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Opening the book: in memory of Jane Ogborn - Lawrence Wishart Teachers have teachers among the living and the dead. Mentors, models, exemplars, they inhabit our thoughts, memories and even dreams, offering guidance and inspiration or, it may be, a warning. Absen...

lwbooks.co.uk/opening-the-...

24.01.2025 20:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fara Dabhoiwala ยท A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

17.15 on 28 January 2025: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), โ€˜In Search of Francis Williamsโ€™

Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building Room 1.01.1.

*IN-PERSON ONLY*

Please read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... or view (www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZEA... before the seminar.

07.01.2025 08:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 28 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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In Memory of Jane Ogborn Tributes to Jane Ogborn by former colleagues

www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/in-memo...

21.01.2025 12:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fara Dabhoiwala ยท A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

17.15 on 28 January 2025: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), โ€˜In Search of Francis Williamsโ€™

Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building Room 1.01.1.

*IN-PERSON ONLY*

Please read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... or view (www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZEA... before the seminar.

07.01.2025 08:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 28 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Was Keith Haring an 11th century Welsh stone carver?

02.01.2025 23:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 55 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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01.01.2025 16:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sooty RIP

31.12.2024 21:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you. It is looking good so far. Enjoy the walk back down.

30.12.2024 14:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Coffee at a Welsh castle (coffee not shown).

30.12.2024 13:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ll email!

26.12.2024 12:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you want tips (esp for south and east Iceland) let me know. We go horse riding there every summer.

25.12.2024 08:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Edward Long and Other Animals: The Orangutan and Race-Making in the Late Eighteenth Century | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core Edward Long and Other Animals: The Orangutan and Race-Making in the Late Eighteenth Century

The Edward Long Reading Group has been writing.

16.12.2024 11:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Fire in Jamaica, 1831โ€“32 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core Fire in Jamaica, 1831โ€“32

Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article:

โ€œThese versions of emancipation from above offered nothing to address the demands for land and location that animated emancipation from below and had stoked the fires of 1831-2.โ€

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

11.12.2024 07:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I continue the silent resistance: have never said it and never will.

08.12.2024 09:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi Nick. A brilliant book! Really enjoyed reading it.

05.12.2024 11:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Very interesting. Would love to hear more sometime. Will you be able to come in person on the 28th Jan?

02.12.2024 18:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Research Seminar - English and DramaFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok

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02.12.2024 12:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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School of English and Drama - English and DramaFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London is a world-class home for study and research.

And heโ€™s talking about the broader project at our next QMCECS seminar on 28th January 2025 www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...

02.12.2024 12:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
School of English and Drama - English and DramaFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London is a world-class home for study and research.

And heโ€™s talking about the broader project at our next QMCECS seminar on 28th January 2025 www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...

01.12.2024 08:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
School of English and Drama - English and DramaFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London is a world-class home for study and research.

And heโ€™s talking about the broader project at our next QMCECS seminar on 28th January 2025 www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...

30.11.2024 16:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0