How strong are the connections between democracy and what Joan Scott once called “a complicated idea with limited application” -- i.e. academic freedom?

Fascinating comparative graphic here: shows the UK's emphasis on early modern history especially. (no, I am not clear on the methodology)

Miloš Broćić and Galen Watts introduce a new special issue of IJPCS which debates how far "culture war" theories can describe new cultural conflicts. They wrestle with similar theoretical questions to my HWJ piece but in a very contemporary and empirical direction. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A candid sentence that contains a history of 2020s European politics: "When it comes to people who want to come to Sweden who are not here yet, we have fairly similar policies [to the Right], but the difference is how we view people who are in Sweden." (Magdalena Andersson, Social Democrat, in Aug.)

'What an incredible photograph to illustrate Erika's lecture!', I thought, 'I wonder who it's by?' Of course I scroll down to: 'Image credit: Dr Erika Hanna'. Some people really can do it all. Friends and colleagues should get to her talk in Coventry.

My colleague Markus Daechsel wrote an enjoyably mind-bending article on magic books in Urdu in the early twentieth century, which is about capitalism, phenomenology, and many other things. And it is now in print. doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...

One week later, I remember I told Anthony I planned to call him "the enfant terrible of the année terrible", and so I would like to correct the record with a repost.

The explicit plan of many intellectuals on the German far right is not to attack the constitution head on, but to culturally redefine key concepts of democracy, pluralism and rights so that its ethno-nationalist agenda is viewed as common sense.

The writers of this show getting increasingly desperate in finding new ways to reset the status quo to “there is a Tory government”.

“Guys, what if Farage just started saying and doing mad things, like ‘let’s dig up Napoleon III’?”

The social milieu here is very 1820s: wealthy City-ish people going evangelical and experimenting with country house sectarianism, tho a late Hanoverian Orr would have had different obsessions (the Bible's Antichrist, not Peter Thiel's; child labour; the restoration of the Jews to Palestine).

It's me; hi, I'm the problem, it's me.

Anthony Chapman-Joy has a new article in German History on reactions in visual culture to the deployment of African troops during the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1. Even among European historians, I find many are unaware of such histories before the 20th-cy World Wars.
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