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Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Writing a book about Liverpool.

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Joined January 2011

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Sam Wetherell

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I am delighted to announce that after many years and with the help and support of so many people, my book 'Foundations' will be released in the Fall with @PrincetonUPress . There's no cover art yet, but here's a thread with some of the images in the book:

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An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politics

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The old Terry’s factory in York has a sculpture of a chocolate orange outside.

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Seen this is the wild and the last sentence is even better than I could imagine.

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Friend of mine has just arrived in Britain.

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Looks like we've got a negative nelly in sector two!

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So glad this library e-reader periodically logs me out in case someone breaks into my house, clubs me to death, and then proceeds to learn about history for free.

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Eric Hobsbawm: "The history of the frame-breaking in the East Midlands hosiery trade is too well-known to need re-telling." Me: *nodding* yes, of course.

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Britain is culturally, politically and architecturally in denial about the fact that it has become a hot country and that it’s gong to get much hotter.

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Thinking about so many British academics of my generation who will only have a tiny window between paying off their New Labour student loans and retiring on a minuscule pension, and how we have been fucked from start to finish by the marketisation and denigration of universities.

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Very sad to hear about the passing of David Graeber. Today is a good day to read his beautiful essay on why we are not living in the future we expected to be living in:

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Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit

A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like. I am referring not to the standard false…

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Terrible news for Abingdon and Basingstoke.

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BREAKING: the new Chicago Manual of style will no longer require publisher city in citations. We won you all!

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Get an urban bird feeder they said. It will attract all sorts of interesting birds they said.

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Learning that CLR James wrote a bizarre book-long Marxist exposition of Moby Dick then tried to argue in court when threatened with deportation that his analysis of Melville was so astute he should immediately be granted US citizenship. Magnificent energy.

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British milennial friends - what was the name for the subculture at your school that combined skateboarding, baggy clothes, disaffection, and consumption of the 1999-2004 wave of rap metal? In Milton Keynes it was "greebo", a word that has been totally annihilated from history.

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Liverpool did it first.

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Living in York you quickly realise how Britain is a tiny, tiny country, rendered artificially enormous by extortionate train prices.

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RIP Maradona. Here is the extraordinary English transcript of the Argentinian commentary for *that goal* in 1986.

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Britain in 1955: We will burn millions of documents relating to imperial atrocities to keep them secret from postcolonial leaders. Britain in 2024: We regret to inform you that due to a cyber attack, no one will ever be able to read the papers of the East India Company again.

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On picket lines, in teach outs and the discussions in between I have seen, the first time ever, a vision emerge of the kind of public, democratic university I'd like to work at. Tuition fees, alienated teaching practices, casualization and REF should now all be on the table.

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Until yesterday my most financially devastating afternoon was when I lost a train ticket at the station in York and had to pay full fare to London. Then a parliament of millionaire Vice-Chancellors stole tens of thousands of pounds from myself and all my colleagues...

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Benjamin Zephaniah on declining an Order of the British Empire in 2003. RIP.

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In 1971 the Post Office deemed that post-war university buildings were architecturally and culturally significant enough that they should appear on stamps. Four were issued: Aberystwyth, Southampton, Leicester and Essex.

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Idea for a TV series in which a historian forms a detective agency to prove that eight specific people are dead so that he can legally photograph a bundle of papers in the National Library of Wales.

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Just learned about a great great uncle of mine who vomited so forcefully of a boat in 1912 that he fell into the sea and drowned. Truly a Wetherell death for the ages.

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5 years

This is a good week to remember that the Wall Street Journal endorsed Jair Bolsonaro.

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We are overwhelmed with joy to announce that our remarkable daughter Charlie Wetherell Jewell was born yesterday morning. @hcjewell is well and morale is high. Midwives should be the highest paid members of our society.

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What do people think Britain was doing in terms of border control during the interwar period? This entire debate is taking place as if Britain doesn't have its own history of twentieth century racialised border violence. Some readings on the border in the early 20th century:

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When I moved back to Britain it felt like academics had lost a war long ago and were completely and utterly defeated. The way that the REF, low pay, constant admin and a denigration of meaningful pedagogy is seen as a fact of nature is stunning.

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As Battersea power station reopens this weekend as a securitized complex of luxury flats and restaurants amidst a massive energy and housing crisis, let’s remember when its surplus heat was recycled to warm Churchill Gardens, a council estate across the river.

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Imagining the kind of guy who watches the World Cup final on ITV.

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“Popped up” is it? How interesting.

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4 years

The UK government now has an official line on Foucault and it is as completely insane as you might imagine it to be.

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citation, and I cannot stress this enough, needed

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My main concern for 2020: will I write a book proposal? My main concern for 2021: Will the mutation of the deadly airborne tropical bat virus into a more contagious strain cancel indoor teaching or will they still claim that the rooms are 100% secure because the window is open?

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All eyes on that Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford. 👀

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Solidarity with the thousands of Berkeley students who have had their university offer rescinded because of the ridiculous whims of millionaire homeowners.

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UC Berkeley prepares to slash enrollment after California Supreme Court ruling

The court's decision to reject UC Berkeley’s application for a stay in the case means the school will likely need to shrink its student population before the fall semester begins.

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No matter how powerful the right are or how complete their control over every branch of government, "the state" will so often be construed as a set of cultural norms held by a scattered, disorganised and completely powerless left opposition.

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Regardless of everything else, the fact that the Tories can be directly responsible for one of the worst covid responses of any developed country on earth and massively increase their electoral support should sound real alarm bells for the current state of British democracy.

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This anecdote about Joe Biden changing the subject from Ukraine by producing volume after volume of his late mother's anti-English poetry has made my day.

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In the space of 13 months, the small, damp 2 bedroom terrace house with mould, no dishwasher no drier and a broken bathtub that we have been renting (and are now leaving) in York has increased from £800 to £1800.

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I wrote a piece about British food and the history of the climate crisis for @tribunemagazine reviewing Chris Otter's fabulously strange book Diet for a Large Planet.

How the British Empire Built the Food System that Is Destroying the Planet

The British Empire created the first global capitalist market for food, thereby transforming huge swathes of the world – and leaving behind a legacy of environmental destruction that haunts a rapidly...

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Little known fact, in 1978, before the great environmental historian William Cronon wrote Nature's Metropolis (and Changes in the Land) he did a PhD at Oxford, where he wrote a wildly ahead-of-its-time environmental history of Coventry (never published). 1/6

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I wrote an extremely strange piece about football, automation and liberal political theory.

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The fight to make soccer less fun

The Video Assisted Referee is transforming soccer. It is also revealing some of the deepest contradictions about the ways we think about law, power, and politics.

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Like all academics in Britain I am forced as part of my job to record the precise movements of overseas students on certain visas in paperwork that can be accessed by the Home Office. Is that a chilling instance of campus unfreedom too?

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Our key objective is to stop the chilling effect which is leading students, academics and visiting speakers to self censor.

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Hugely excited that York are offering six fully funded PhD places reserved for students from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. Come work with us! Share widely! And if you're interested in applying in the history dept. then I'd happy to chat.

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Looking forward to Britain distributing the vaccine in the most stupid, culturally specific, in-jokey way possible, like by nectar points or Duke of Edinburgh awards or via Mumsnet. Or it will be denied to people who don't take their bins out properly.

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I'm giving a public lecture in DC next week which gives me an excuse show a picture of probably my favourite ever figure from a monograph. "The Crisis of the British Face" from Chris Otter's Magnificent 'Diet for a Large Planet' on the consequences of industrialised food.

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Nothing like being back at the National Archives to remind yourself that 40% of the archival content of Britain's modern imperial history is just little slips of paper thanking people for their letters or memos.

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Great morning to re-read Andre Gorz on the Social Ideology of the Motor Car.

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🚨 | NEW: Angela Rayner pins the blame on Sadiq Khan for Labour narrowly missing out on Uxbridge “The decision in Uxbridge was related to Ulez. The Uxbridge result shows that when you don’t listen to the voters, you don’t win elections.”

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It’s almost as if Britain’s largely unchallenged cross-party consensus on fiscal restraint in the face of a massive public sector crisis is a parochial and mostly false set of talking points.

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Labour could borrow more without UK bond market backlash, say investors

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Face to face teaching in Britain needs to be cancelled immediately, right now, today, before students start moving across the country. This is a disaster that is only heading in one direction and we have the time, right now, to stop it.

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Coronavirus: UK epidemic growing as R number goes above 1

There are now worrying signs of infections in older as well as younger people, officials say.

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Impossible to believe this actually happened! Thanks so much to everyone who helped along the way. The plan is to have a launch in the spring if and when it's safe to do so. In the meantime here, is a thread with some of my favourite images from the book:

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Happy Pub Day to Foundations, the first comprehensive and academic history of Britain's modern built environment. Pick up a copy here and learn how the built environment shaped the nation’s politics. @samwetherell

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"Popped up"? In the West Indies?? Is there any nation on earth that has a more bizarre, delusional relationship with its past than Britain?

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To believe that this is the case you have to wilfully, *strenuously* repress almost everything about Labour's postwar history. It is an absurd claim for a Labour politician to make, and its *wild* that it goes unchallenged by a senior political journalist.

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Interesting to hear Jonathan Reynolds on @TimesRadio talking honestly about how there have previously been “no go areas” for Labour which the party has been working to change. Focus on immigration this week is the start

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I wrote an article about my settler colonial family in Australia and New Zealand and their bizarre history of strange accidents and darkly comic deaths.

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What is happening how, however abhorrent, is not an exceptional thing that stands outside of British and certainly not British imperial history. It may well be "fascist", but its a homegrown fascism which deep historical roots.

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A nice article here in the FT which reviews my book along with a handful of others. (Also, I apologise for a few weeks of book tweets coming down the line... Nice things come rarely in academia!)

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The enduring attraction of cities

The pandemic once again has us questioning the wisdom of urban living. But four new books help explain its appeal

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2022: Moving back to Britain won’t change the way I eat too much. 2023: My lunch:

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5 years

Sadly I did not pass my drivers test in time to be allowed to take the wheel at my own drive-through wedding.

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some personal news: went to Vegas and made @samwetherell a wife guy ☺️

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Absolutely over the moon that Foundations has won the Historians of British Art book award for scholarship on a contemporary period - and to be in such wonderful company!

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Does anyone else currently still use the same signature that they perfected one afternoon when bored in primary school?

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Finally got hold of my own paperback copy of Foundations! And the great news is that it’s also delicious! Order from @PrincetonUPress here. If you want a copy but can’t afford it drop me a line.

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This is such a classically British view of politics - that any viewpoint or argument is only meaningful and valid if it is in step with what is imagined to be the view of a “majority of the public.”

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If my phone in on @lbc yesterday is a good measure, the majority of the public are either not really arsed about these ads or cautiously supportive of them. The condemnation across media/here on Twitter (which I totally understand, btw) appears to be out of step….

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At the moment the Guardian Football Weekly Podcast is like that radio station that kept playing the metronome during the siege of Leningrad in 1943. Please don't stop @maxrushden and @bglendenning - even if there is no football for a while...

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From York to Charleston! Lecturers in the UK stand in solidarity with striking teachers in West Virginia and now Oklahoma. #USSstrike #WVteachers #WVTeachersStrike #55strong #WVTeachersUnited

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This footage of dozens of armed police in riot gear raiding an academic office in Columbia piled high with books is going to be playing as b-roll in my mind for weeks.

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And here you can see officers entering an academic building with their weapons drawn, in response to college students protesting their tax & tuition dollars contributing to a plausible genocide

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Scenes at York! #ucustrike

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The Spotify economy is wild.

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This review of Britain's transphobic pseudo-philosophers by the amazing @graceelavery is essential because it is devastating and funny but also because it exposes the terrifying shallowness and vapidity of Britain's political and intellectual culture.

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Today, after years of trying and failing to learn how to drive, set back by the pandemic, I finally passed my test (albeit in the US where it is really quite shamefully easy). For closure's sake, here is a thread of all of my miserable tweets about learning how to drive:

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Looking forward to entering tired dad mode.

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Hannah Jewell

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this weekend, in the name of maximum drama, I got to upstage my own wedding by announcing that I’m pregnant 🌝

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My latest Jacobin article is a critique of Richard Florida, urban regeneration and the idea of a "creative economy"

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The tragedy of having to cite something from page 30 of a preface of a book, means that people will forever see a reference to page "xxx" and assume that I forgot to write in the page.

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Labour re-introducing Section 28 to placate the whims of eight terminally online broadsheet columnists is it?

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🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he opposes the teaching of "gender ideology" in schools [ @Telegraph ]

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Why is the Prime Minister, that I hate, not at this football game feels like very specifically British sentiment.

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I wish British newspapers reported on Britain the way the New York Times does, and that the New York Times reported on the US the same way it reports on Britain.

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Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, which will involve elaborate processions, vigils and rituals, will be paid for by British taxpayers as they deal with soaring energy prices and high inflation. The British government has not yet said how much it will cost.

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There's a 50% sale at @PrincetonUPress , which means that for just £11 you can buy my book Foundations and learn how British cities were dramatically modernised then ruthlessly privatised in the twentieth century. An image from each chapter below:

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My new article, “Sowing Seeds" is has now been published with @JBritishStudies ! It's about how spectacular "garden festivals" initiated a new environmental, economic and social order in neoliberal British cities. Here's a thread about what this means:

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Sowing Seeds: Garden Festivals and the Remaking of British Cities after Deindustrialization |...

Sowing Seeds: Garden Festivals and the Remaking of British Cities after Deindustrialization - Volume 61 Issue 1

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New data from Piketty et al The key takeaway is this extraordinary chart which I want as a tattoo. h/t @adam_tooze

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Solidarity with York's archeology department who were targeted last week by the Daily Mail over a pointless, confected article about content warnings. I urge everyone to read this excellent response by my fantastic colleague Colleen Morgan:

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The Outrage Machine

Over the last few weeks Archaeology departments have been getting Freedom of Information requests from news outlets asking about trigger warnings. On 7 June, the Daily Mail published an outrage-bai…

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Wonderful to see that a day of sustained pressure has forced Sheffield Uni to back down from its absurd, revolting policy of docking pay for striking lecturers who don't reschedule classes. Makes me continue to believe that bigger victories are possible!

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01/03 - Latest update from our President and Vice-Chancellor regarding USS valuation and industrial action

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The British Library is just a sea of people starting at the Guardian live blog, next to little piles of unread books.

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Great news everyone, the structure of the academic labor market has reached such insane levels of inequity that it now resembles that of a drug gang!

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What a treat and an honour to wake up to such a lovely and thoughtful review of my book by the wonderful @owenhatherley in Tribune!

The Making and Unmaking of the Council Estate

The 1970s saw seismic changes in Britain's cities, as new ideas about class, crime and public space reshaped the built environment – and bred both resignation and resistance in its council estates.

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There may be no one there to see due to the pandemic, but seeing my book in the LRB bookshop satisfies a certain specific kind of dream!

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Citing something from page 1 of a book, regardless of how essential it might be to do, always feels like a terrible defeat.

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In 1910, the directors of the Royal Liver Assurance Company in Liverpool ate lunch off of a vast face of a clock that would be installed the Liver Building, their new headquarters.

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Imagine you are esteemed intellectual historian Jonathan Israel and you’ve just finished your life’s work, a 1400 page biography of Spinoza and instead of a blurb OUP make you have a bulletpoint list of interventions. All I’m saying is no one is safe from UK academia vibes.

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No one has failed a driving test quite like what I managed to do today. I have great faith in the British state for not allowing me a licence.

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This is the kind of shit that happens if you didn't have a revolution in the nineteenth century.

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Hoping that a journalist with a remaining scrap of dignity asks Starmer what "gender ideology" means at some point before the election but not really holding out hope.

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Labour re-introducing Section 28 to placate the whims of eight terminally online broadsheet columnists is it?

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4 years

I wrote an essay for @RENEWALjournal about the racial segregation of housing in postwar Britain and about how "redlining" might be a useful term for thinking about Britain as well as the United States.

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Sam Wetherell

7 years

Trump is plagarizing from that time I had to lecture hung over.

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Sam Wetherell

2 years

I feel like one of the things that allowed the Queen to have such a powerful/weird emotional hold was that the office was feminised and thus made more safe. There is a whole different affective landscape to "King" - a blunt and uncomfortable feeling of authority.

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Sam Wetherell

11 months

Excited to say that I'm now the book review editor for @UrbanHistoryCUP . If you have something want to review, either something new or a fresh take on something old or an idea you want to pitch then get in touch!

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Sam Wetherell

5 years

Nothing says romance like a massive New Deal federal infrastructure project.

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Sam Wetherell

5 months

A lot of EP Thompson tweets for his 100th birthday. My contribution is this extraordinary moment of lucidity and honest in the conclusion to Whigs and Hunters.

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Sam Wetherell

4 years

My book is apparently prominent in the "Christmas gifts" section in various London Waterstones, which is an enormous surprise. Maybe it's an ideal present for an emotionally distant parent?

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Sam Wetherell

1 year

I taught Andreas Malm yesterday and encouraged my students in groups to play 1830s mill owners deciding whether to build a factory in a city or by a river. Within 3 minutes I heard a student muttering “well if they unionize we break their legs with hammers.”

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Sam Wetherell

2 years

Some days archival research is a magical, vertiginous encounter with alternative worlds and ways of being. Some days, however, you have to read 3,000 pages of minutes of the Liverpool branch of the National Dock Labour Board and its not that at all.

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