George Gilbert

Bloomsbury Academic history booth at ICCEES 2025

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

Alison Rowley at ICCEES 2025 on Zinovii Peshkov #iccees2025

@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

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.

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.

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

A frosty morning in Winchester!

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.

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

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

🕯️🕯️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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Done!

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

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

A very good morning to my 1,100 followers.

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

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.

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"

Love it. The only reason I write books at all

Pleasure!

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

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.

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.

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:

I'd be glad to be added, thanks

Will do

Seems apt

The Centre for Political Thought at Cambridge has agreed that BlueSky will be its main focus for social-media-related activity for the foreseeable future, and that we're winding down our activities on the network formerly known as Twitter.

Thank you, much appreciated!

Please add as many people as you like

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

Coffee table reading Pav.