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3 years

Want to know “the right way” to make pancakes? John Locke’s got you covered (Bodleian MS Locke c. 25, f. 85).

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It is with deep sorrow that I share news of the death of Bernard Bailyn (1922-2020) earlier today. Truly a giant: a fine friend, inspirational colleague and unmatched historian of early America and the Atlantic world. His like will not come again. Vale, Bud.

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Not claiming any virtue or courage here but, like other colleagues, I deleted *that* letter when asked to sign. There was a choice--to me, a clear and simple one.

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All the Cambridge "Blue Books" tagged as text books Hobbes, Nietzsche, Rousseau, etc.) are now available #openaccess until 31 May: THANK YOU, @CambridgeUP !

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Deeply sad to learn that John Pocock passed away yesterday at the extraordinary age of 99. The greatest historian of political thought of his generation, he was perhaps the greatest historian of historiography we'll ever see. Il miglior fabbro.

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Your reminder that Joe Biden is now the first President-elect to have corresponded with Hannah Arendt:

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Invited to a history event next year where every speaker will be male and white, as all were this year. I protest. The organisers’ response? “But there’ll also be a play with female actors.” #umno #thatsnothowitworks

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Mad King Donald is weak, confused, easily led--keep your eye on his evil counsellors not the maladroit monarch #earlymoderninsights

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@MichelleSPhelps [After a lazy talk by an eminent visitor:] Colleague 1: What was he ON when he wrote that? Colleague 2: A 747 most likely ...

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King Leopold's toast

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Leopold II voorgoed van zijn sokkel #atvnieuws #LeopoldII #Ekeren

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Your reminder that Joe Biden will be the only Presidential candidate this year to have corresponded with Hannah Arendt:

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5 years

Happy 100th birthday to Max Weber's Politik als Beruf (delivered on this day in 1919)!

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Wombat fan Theodor Adorno "wrote to the director of Frankfurt Zoo in 1965: ‘Would it not be nice if the Zoo could acquire a pair of wombats? … From my childhood I remember great feelings of identification with these friendly rotund animals":

Katherine Rundell · Consider the Wombat

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PETITION: Allow F-1 and M-1 students to remain in the US with online only classes via @Change

Sign the Petition

Allow F-1 and M-1 students to remain in the US with online-only classes

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My brief tribute to the late, great John Pocock (1924-2023)

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2 years

Can there be a better birthday present for a hardened academic than hearing one of your brilliant students just got tenure? So proud, as of all my students. 🎉🎉🎉

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Colin Kidd succinctly sums up the manifold achievements of the late, great John Pocock (1924-2023):

John Greville Agard Pocock (1924-2023) — Institute of Intellectual History

John Pocock, who has died at the age of ninety-nine only a little short of his hundredth birthday, was a giant of the historical profession. Obituary by Colin Kidd

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Il n'y pas d'ours-texte

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Les Deux Magots is open .... but only to giant teddy bears discussing philosophy

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Back in ⁦ @britishlibrary ⁩: nature is healing, etc. (And thanks to the staff for making an odd experience so painless.)

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This is unconscionable political interference with scholarly research, damaging both to early-career and established scholars, and to Australia’s reputation more broadly: firmly agree with @HumanitiesAU ’s protest here

Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Over $4M stripped from #humanities researchers as former Minister @Birmo rejected 11 grants after rigorous peer review process. Political interference is a fundamental attack on the integrity of our research funding system. @uniaus @arc_gov_au @SenKimCarr

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Cataloguers triumph yet again: unpublished Machiavelli MSS discovered in the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze:

Machiavelli, scoperte carte inedite alla Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze

Un manoscritto cinquecentesco restituisce i Frammenti, finora sconosciuti, che evidenze paleografiche, filologiche e stilistiche attribuiscono all’autore del «Principe»

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And intellectual-historical! ⁦ @PikettyLeMonde ⁩ breaks new ground by examining justifications for inequality in a longue-durée history of both ideas and data. Thrilling and robust, destined to be even more important than Capital in the 21st Century. ⁦ @Harvard_Press ⁩

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RIP the great Charles Mills, who passed away tonight. The Racial Contract will endure but he had much more to give: a great, sad loss to many fields, so soon after the book deservedly won @APSAtweets 's Lippincott Award:

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Phenomenal: another great move by @Harvard_Press ! The Loeb Library will now be freely accessible online to schools and universities.

Harvard University Press International

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Thank you for this great suggestion. We've taken it on board, and can now announce that access to the digital Loeb Classical Library will be free to schools and universities impacted by COVID-19 until June 30th. Librarians: email loebclassics_sales @harvard .edu for access

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Truly delighted to have been appointed the 2019-20 Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King's College London: greatly looking forward to working with colleagues and friends at @KingsCollegeLon , @GPP_Geo_III and beyond next year!

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My latest, "Home and the World: The Legal Imagination of Martti Koskenniemi," on MK's To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth, now out on early view in @IntRelationsJ :

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Your annual reminder that the Declaration of Independence was a declaration of independence, under the law of nations, addressed to a global audience, soliciting recognition of new states, and that the US was born international:

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That sound you can hear is the long-heralded arrival of Martti Koskenniemi's prequel to the Gentle Civilizer of Nations, "To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth": Legal Imagination and International Power 1300-1870, coming in March 2021 from @CambridgeUP :

To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth

Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth

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Yes--that is Andrew Jackson, presiding over the Madness of King Donald

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4 years

Giving thanks for enduring inspiration from Quentin Skinner, 80 years young today: via @YouTube #zum80Geburtstag

Talking to Thinkers with Quentin Skinner 2 Nov 2020

In the episode of Talking to Thinkers Johnny Lyons talks to the eminent historian Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, Uni...

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By engaging presentism not dismissing it: Notable that anti-presentism is mostly anglophone, often ideological and palpably presentist in motivation. "Would one study history at all without the impulse of the present?" (Ranke--yes, that Ranke).

In Defense of Presentism

Armitage, David. 2023. “In Defense of Presentism”. In History and Human Flourishing, ed. Darrin M. McMahon. Oxford: Oxford University Press , p. 44-69.

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How do historians undertake their chosen profession with integrity in an era of unrelenting presentism? asks AHA president James H. Sweet in #AHAPerspectives .

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Sorted: How I Will Spend the Next Few Days. Congrats to @samuelmoyn and @adam_tooze , and thanks to @HarvardBooks for supplying!

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Australia leads the world in humanities and social sciences. @ausgov 's planned fee changes are short-sighted, self-defeating and likely to reduce social mobility, undermining essential skills and damaging the research base with consequences that could take generations to reverse.

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The Australian Academy of the Humanities today expressed deep concern about the Government’s changes to university fee structures, which disproportionally affect the #humanities and call into question the very role of the 21st century university.

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OCEANIC HISTORIES--Indian, Pacific, Atlantic, polar oceans; Baltic, Black, Japan, Med'n, Red, S. China seas. Coming soon from @CambridgeUP !

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OCEANIC HISTORIES has landed! Thanks to @CambridgeUP for producing such a beautiful book so swiftly:

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RIP George Orwell, died on this day, 21 January 1950, aged 46

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Honoured and excited to join the Harvard Academy as a Senior Scholar, to work with brilliant postdocs in social sciences/law working on regions beyond N. America. Details of the Academy Scholars Program for 2022-24 here (1 October deadline): @HarvardWCFIA

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My mother, sister and brother-in-law have all been vaccinated now--a huge relief. #blesstheNHS

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RIP Richard Pipes (1923-2018). @Harvard_History

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« In the memory of those who have lived through them, the dreadful days of the plague do not seem like vast flames, cruel and magnificent, but rather like an endless trampling that flattened everything in its path » (Camus, La Peste).

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6 years

My ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ debut, on family separation and the (undemocratic) pardon power

Opinion | Trump and the Return of Divine Right (Published 2018)

In deploying his pardon power freely and using the Bible to justify family separation, the president is exactly the sort of ruler that Enlightenment thinkers feared.

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My latest, on monarchy and race, in this week's festive @TheTLS --the young George III as earliest royal critic of the "inhuman Custom" of slavery: @GeorgianPapers @RCT @kingshistory @OIEAHC

What the young George III thought of slavery | David Armitage

“Of Laws relative to the Nature of Climates” can be read at the end of this essay. The racial reckoning of the past two years has spared few pillars of

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@manojkdora Source? (Never seen or heard of such a classroom in all my time here.) My @Harvard classroom all year is one end of a dining-table.

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In defence of presentism, with thanks to @RoyalHistSoc for generously hosting

Royal Historical Society

@RoyalHistSoc

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New on the blog: 'The Impulse of the Present' - @DavidRArmitage considers historians' views on, and the value of, presentism: David's is the third and final post in our series on 'History and Human Flourishing' #twitterstorians

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Found it--the exact spot in Munich where Max Weber delivered the Vocation lectures (Science 1917, Politics 1919), the site of the Steinicke-Saal, Adalbertstr. 15!

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Tremendous resource for global historians: Asian state letters to George III and George IV from the Royal Archives at Windsor now online

Georgian Papers Programme

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Asian state letters now available on GPP online, including the Macartney mission. Read all about it in Julie Crocker's Blog post:

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3 years

Greatly looking forward to joining friends at @LSEHistory on 18 March: come one, come all!

LSE International History

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3 years

We are pleased to announce this year’s @lsehistory Annual Lecture on 18 March! We’ve invited Prof. @DavidRArmitage ( @Harvard ) to examine how treaties have been thought about/argued over & what cultural traces they have left. 🪑: Prof. Piers Ludlow ℹ️:

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It's real, people! Coming to all good bookstores in Feb 2017 from @AAKnopf and @YaleBooks #CivilWars

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Impeachment ticket for the trial of Warren Hastings, from @HoughtonLib

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@Harvard extends clock for tenure-track faculty by a year: crucial move

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Miraculously, @CambridgeUP is making some key teaching texts available free and #openaccess at least until 31 May; here's More's Utopia: Tell everyone if you find others!

More: Utopia | Higher Education from Cambridge University Press

Discover More: Utopia, 3rd Edition, Thomas More, HB ISBN: 9781107128491 on Higher Education from Cambridge

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Break the History Addiction: my latest, from @NYDailyNews

New York Daily News

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OPINION | How are we supposed to extrapolate from the late 1700s to what should or shouldn’t be permissible in a contemporary America with AR-15s, Internet gun buys and medical abortion? History's hold over the present should be limited. @DavidRArmitage

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One down, one to go ...

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Charles III is our first head of state with a university degree (MA, Cantab.)

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Stunning resource: around half of George III's map collection now available online from @BLMaps , with more to come -- vital complement to the rich materials in @GeorgianPapers

Map Library

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We’re pleased to announce that we’ve released 18,000 digitised early maps and views from the Topographical Collection of George III (the ‘KTop’). The images are available to view, download and study on

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@Joanne_Paul_ Told them I’ll only come if they diversify; if not, not. #itsthe21stcenturypeople

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Here

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Are you a recent or imminent PhD in the social sciences interested in teaching social theory and/or seminars in your field at Harvard? Apply now for postdoctoral lectureships in Social Studies for 1 + 3 years, deadline January 7, 2024:

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Calm before the storm, at Windsor Castle, as the Crown will imminently face the greatest constitutional crisis since the 17th century

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Now out from @OUPAcademic , C. H. Alexandrowicz, THE LAW OF NATIONS IN GLOBAL HISTORY:

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Delighted and honoured to be elected a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea: especially meaningful for affirming Euro-British scholarly solidarity in divided times @acad_euro @Harvard_History @wiko_berlin

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Long national nightmare: over

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It's all too real! Greatly looking forward to launching a new opus with a stellar cast of performers and commentators at @NotreDame next week. Come for the Mozart, stay for the Wagner, Smyth, Britten, @HellTweet , Verdi, Menotti, Weinberg and @dovecomposer !

Eileen Margaret Hunt

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It's getting real! The 2024 Niemeyer Lectures in Political Philosophy are to be delivered April 10-12 @NotreDame by @DavidRArmitage , with commentaries by @Jennife31863712 , Pierpaolo Polzonetti, @CChowrimootoo , Eric Nelson, @MiraSiegelberg & Martha C. Nussbaum!

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Transformative initiative from @CambridgeUP : all HTML textbooks available #openaccess until 31 May, including (but not limited to) the Blue Book series in the history of political thought. Kudos, CUP! Other presses should follow suit.

Cambridge University Press

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We are committed to supporting our global community of teachers, researchers and learners during the coronavirus pandemic. From free textbooks and research, to advice, guidance, blogs and more, visit our website: #COVID2019

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Cfp, "OCEANS DISCONNECT," Munich, 21-22 November: ECRs/PhD students especially encouraged to apply; all costs covered. Please circulate! @LMU_Muenchen @global_discnct @MCGlobalHistory #twitterstorians

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Both vaccinations booked at @TheCrick ! #relief

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Just out in Global Intellectual History, my new piece, "Fighting Words? A Reply to my Critics" (of Civil Wars: A History in Ideas). Free e-print here:

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“The Tories in England long imagined they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent” (Marx, 1852)

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"When Companies Were Kings": yours truly in @TheTLS on Phillips and Sharman, Outsourcing Empire and Waves Across the South by Sujit Sivasundaram

New perspectives on imperial history | The TLS

If you were book-browsing around 1790 and picked up a recent “view of modern times”, you might hope to learn something about revolution. And so you would

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Here’s Johnny! The first new image of John Locke to emerge in decades on spectacular display at #LondonArtWeek , thanks to Miles Wynn Cato:

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It is now officially mezcal Negroni o'clock

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Congratulations to @CamHistory 's David Abulafia on winning this year's @WolfsonHistory Prize. My @TheTLS review is here:

The modern world from a maritime perspective | The TLS

“Tell me about your sea”, asks Ayaana, the charismatic heroine of Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s dazzling recent novel, The Dragonfly Sea (2019). She is in the

www.the-tls.co.uk

Wolfson History Prize

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The winner of the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2020 is The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia ( @AllenLaneBooks ). Congratulations!

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Wondering how to rethink the history of political thought through the lens of race? This dazzling @FolgerResearch conversation among Charles W. Mills, @ProfJLMorgan and Robert Bernasconi is indispensable: @cambridge_cpt @qmHPT @StAndrewsIIH

Critical Race Conversations: Race, Philosophy, and Political Thought

Sharon Achinstein (Johns Hopkins University) moderates a discussion with Charles W. Mills (City University of New York), Jennifer L. Morgan (New York Univers...

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Happy Isaac Newton’s birthday to all who celebrate! 🍎🎁🎄

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Favourite telegram of all time: "MONOTREMES OVIPAROUS, OVUM MEROBLASTIC" (WH Caldwell, 1884, announcing discovery that platypuses lay eggs).

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Spring has sprung #magnificentmagnolia

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"We’ve entered a world where, instead of having an endowment to support a university, the university serves as a tax shelter for the endowment": François Furstenberg right on the money.

Kirsten Weld

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Yes, yes, and yes.

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@DavidRArmitage

4 years

Three postdocs in the history of 20th-century international economic thinking at the @EUI_History with @IntHist , deadline 5 July:

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

3 years

Just a year ago, in a far-distant world, I visited the sublime Katsura Imperial Villa outside Kyoto.

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

11 months

CFP, "Historicising Jurisprudence: Person, Community, Form" (Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London, 26-27 May 2024):

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

5 years

Very proud of @Harvard_History PhD graduate (and fellow Northerner) Fiona Hill's devastating, steely testimony at the impeachment hearings today.

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

3 years

Indispensable: out now! Watch this space for the accompanying, truly fieldmaking anthology!

Women and the History of International Thought

@leverhulmewhit

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

2 years

Ah, Covent Garden, how I’ve missed thee! (First full-dress opera in two long years …)

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

2 years

A hugely enjoyable conversation: many thanks to the sharp students of @GculHistory for your questions!

IGHS History

@GculHistory

2 years

Join us for an exciting conversation with Prof @DavidRArmitage , @Harvard_History , on Civil Wars, organized by @GculHistory Sunday, 13 February 2022, at 5:00 pm PST #CivilWars #Harvard #GCUL #MiddleEast

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

8 years

First time voting!

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

3 years

Honoured to be involved with this exciting new initiative in global political thought!

Association for Global Political Thought

@gpolthought

3 years

The Association for Global Political Thought are excited to announce our Fall Seminar Series! For our inaugural event (Oct 4), Prof @shrutikapila will present her new book, Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age. 🧵 for more details:

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

6 years

500 copies of CIVIL WARS don't just sign themselves, alas ... @citicpress

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

5 years

As the executive plans to usurp the legislative, quite a day to be reading George III’s copy of Blackstone’s Commentaries in the Royal Library at Windsor ⁦ @RCT ⁩ ⁦ @GeorgianPapers ⁩ ⁦ @NSSAR1889 ⁩

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

3 years

Uncivil war!!

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

2 years

Greatly looking forward to returning to @Catz_Cambridge next month to honour the memory of the late, great Chris Bayly.

St Catharine's College

@Catz_Cambridge

2 years

Registration is now open to all for the Bayly Memorial Lecture at Catz next month at . Alumnus Prof. @DavidRArmitage (1983, English; Honorary Fellow 2016) is the Lloyd C Blankfein Professor of #History & former Chair of @Harvard_History . @CamHistory

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

4 years

"If America ever experiences great revolutions, they will be instigated by the presence of blacks on American soil: that is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which will give rise to them" (Tocqueville, 1840).

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

3 years

@DavidAvromBell The Beer Belly Putsch, as @gary_bass just definitively named it.

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

2 years

What can I do with an undergraduate degree in History, you ask?

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

6 years

BOS-KEF-TXL. Hugely looking forward to the next ten months at @wiko_berlin !

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

1 year

My latest, in @TheTLS , on American ancestor worship, the cults of Locke and Smith, and thinking for ourselves:

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

2 years

Vale, JHE--greatest historian of Spain and its empire of the last century, most lucid historical prose writer of our time, and kindest of scholars. His scholarship and generosity alike were crucial for me. My heart goes out to Oonah and the generations of his students.

Rothermere American Institute

@RAIOxford

2 years

We're terribly sad to hear of the death today of Sir John Elliott. He was the visionary behind the creation of the RAI, a gracious participant in our event, and one of the greatest historians of the postwar era.

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

7 years

Punctuationally-challenged tinpot despot goes all caps in impotent rage against assertion of constitutional democracy #MadKingDonald

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

4 years

How to mark the UK-EU split? Maybe a wreath at the Eurostar terminal? So sad, so unnecessary and so destructive. We shall return (though probably not in my lifetime)!

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

3 years

... temptamenta civilium bellorum ("trial runs for civil wars"): Tacitus, Histories, 2:38.

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David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social

@DavidRArmitage

7 years

RIP Donald Winch (1935-2017), towering figure in intellectual history/history of economic thought

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