Stuart Carroll

Hayden White…only a hundred years out on the historiography of the French Revolution.

The attraction of #Epstein for male academics apparently 👇🏽

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Duels, violence and conflict

This podcast provides further statistical evidence and explains why, contrary to what we’re all told, elite violence reached its peak in England in the period, 1660-1720. #earlymodern #skystorians

It’s unfair on those who do engage. I think some places award marks for attendance. We’re not allowed to do that.

It’s a new problem for me. I find it demoralising. The University is complicit because they only care about the cash. But your kind words have picked me up!

Comforted by Ranke after half my Special Subject failed to turn up yesterday. #earlymodern #skystorians

‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check

Reform’s Carl Schmitt.

Plebeian feuding in the #earlymodern Prince-bishopric of Würzburg was a male affair. Of the over 150 pardons for declaring or conducting a feud from the 1520s-70s, only one was issued to a woman, while three men were also pardoned for issuing defiances over claims of their kinswomen. (1/11) 🧵

Samurai review: Japan’s lethal warrior class are shown in all their sexy, demonic glory Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch

This major Samurai exhibition curated by my friend and colleague, Oleg Benesch, is a must see.

Never thought my kids might get conscripted to fight a war vs the yanks.

Donald Trump says eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland – Europe live Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland will face tariffs from 1 February

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This is definitely the end of #Brexit

Who funds the Free Speech Union? Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.

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Sorry I couldn’t be there. I’ll be in touch soon.

This is pure fascism. Nazi propaganda claimed that Operation Barbarossa was launched to defend Western civilisation.

‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU? The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its name

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Needs to happen…

Just read Fukuyama’s brilliant Origins of Political Order. Guess what, cultural relativists, #earlymodern European states are historically unusual, and that matters today.

Your Party conference thrown into chaos as Zarah Sultana boycotts first day Sultana skips Saturday’s proceeding in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties

The sectarian left is, after all, sectarian.

How to get the UK out of its economic hole Reeves’ challenge is to remedy the disaster that Brexit has been for the country

👇🏽Martin Wolf’s answer is to rejoin the single market #Brexit

Set piece boredom…

Graph showing the number of remissions (pardons) for feuding in the Prince-bishopric of Wurzburg in the 1500s.

The Würzburg data provides the thus far richest proof that plebeian feuds (Fehden) and their mediation by the state continued well after the practice was banned in the Holy Roman Empire in 1495, as is demonstrated by princely remissions (Landshuldung) or ‘pardons’ for feuding. (1/3)

The decline of violence UK since the 1990s is unheralded social progress. More evidence that overall rates of violence have little to do either with policing or inequality. #skystorians

Zoran Mamdani’s a gooner

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

A reminder on your next trip to #China that slavery is not a historical problem.

Death toll rises to 119 in Rio de Janeiro drug cartel bust More than 100 suspects arrested in police operation against Comando Vermelho narcotics gang

This is astonishing. More great reporting from the #ft

Joel Mokyr's economy of ideas His explanation of the origins of the Industrial Revolution makes Joel Mokyr a worthy recipient of the Nobel Prize for economics.

Bravo. Doubt it’s possible to get economic history back into the curriculum though.

Rachel Reeves says tax rises and spending cuts on budget agenda, citing Brexit impact Chancellor also blames austerity and ‘ongoing impact of Liz Truss mini-budget’ for growing shortfall in public finances

Dump it on Farage. Put rejoining the Customs Union in the next manifesto.

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel - it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Rejoining the customs union is the best way to call out Farage and isolate Reform.

New on FirstView:

Thomas Pert reviews @civsoc.bsky.social's recent book on Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe.
Read about Carroll's important work online now and in print in our 2026 Austrian History Yearbook!
#History #EarlyModern #AcademicSky #Germany #Austria
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Here's Timothy Snyder on why Trump tells so many lies.

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