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Photograph of Habermas (bust), wearing brown jacket, tie, white shirt and white hair, with a glass of water in front of him.

Jürgen Habermas (18 June 1929 – 14 March 2026).

Hodgson is fascinating to me. Few books mention him. Because they rarely mention the fact that we forgot it was Hadrian's Wall at all. Because it's so OBVIOUS now. But we need to remember people like him. The quiet ones who do the leg work and test received wisdom 19/22

The hack of the British Library, from which it has still not fully recovered, should have been a warning that we cannot rely on digital books alone, but that would require the people making decisions on these topics to be even mildly informed on the subject.

re: daleks or war?

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

FUCKING HELL GET IN www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Whoooohooooo! The fabulous @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social coming to a bookshelf near you!

Financially and militarily support Iraqi irredentism

Truly incredible how the US has gone from being well, the US, to an imploding former SSR in the span of 16 months

The London publishing industry is still consumed with concerns about forthcoming apocalypse, with two new pamphlets today:

'A prognosticall Judgemente of the greate Coniunction which shall happen the xxviijth of Aprill, by Roberte Tanner'

and

'An introduccon to the Judgemente of the Starre'. 4/

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

Cover image for edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic'. Depicts detail of a gilt bronze statue of a Roman woman. Pergola, Italy. c. 70-30 BCE.

Book description: In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case studies of individual women, such as Licinia, wife of C. Gracchus, Mucia Tertia, Fulvia and Octavia Minor, with broader surveys of the institutional frameworks and social conventions that constrained and enabled women's wealth and its consequences. The book contributes to the recent upsurge of interest in re-evaluating the role of women in Republican Rome and will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.

Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
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It's...not a typo?

D'autant plus que, selon ma lecture, le conservatisme du texte se résume à une mise-en-garde contre l'argent qu'on pourrait retrouver chez Péguy.

Hunt for Red October is the best Trek film send skeet

Bodin's looking healthy

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France Culture - "Discours de la servitude volontaire" de Étienne de la Boétie

Belle surprise sur l'appli Radio France

UK, Austria, Romania Join Growing Boycott of 2026 Paralympics Opening Ceremony Ukraine FM says Austria, Britain and Romania will not attend 2026 Paralympics opening due to Russia, Belarus presence

⚡️ The UK, Austria, and Romania are boycotting the 2026 Paralympics opening ceremony to protest the inclusion of Russia and Belarus.

🇦🇿 Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry

Azerbaijan was attacked by two drones. One crashed on the Nakhchivan airport terminal building, the other near a school.

There are injuries.

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Things...*can* only get better?

Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June?

Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March!

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The Genie brought Shadow Keir into being after he asked for more wishes

Shameful. Utterly shameful.

Cartoon by Tommy Siegel

Image of a book jacket for Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth.

Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Per the below, if it’s ‘prejudice’ to believe that academic work should be written by the academic and not generative AI then fine call me prejudiced. If people think AI can produce social science or humanities work better than that they could create themselves then they should quit or be sacked.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

you're telling me you people haven't been talking about The Clone Wars this whole time