@DavidMotadel

Historian at LSE

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Joined September 2011
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I am delighted to share my article, THE GLOBAL AUTHORITARIAN MOMENT AND THE REVOLT AGAINST EMPIRE, forthcoming in the next issue of the AHR. Already available online (advanced access): academic.oup.com/ahr/advance… via @ahr_editor @AHAhistorians @IntlWorldHist @LSEhistory
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Gregory Brew
@gbrew24Oct 19
Rubio, last week: we are in a civilizational war against Iran. Rubio, today: wow this city in Central Asia with a bunch of Persian architecture sure seems pretty cool, wonder who built it
Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubioOct 19
Few places on Earth have historically played such an important role in global trade and commerce as Samarkand. It’s an honor to be here today — not just to remember the history, but the opportunities for the future.
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Imagine thinking that the way to avoid the Balkanisation of Britain is by inciting ethnic and religious hatred and carrying out ethnic cleansing. These people are incredibly stupid.
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@SurLiott9Oct 18
Replying to @markoah
A Balkan historian who doesn’t want avoid the Balkanisation of Britain. Novel.
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Rupert Lowe is quite open about the fact that, if his party ever took power, it would provoke chaos and rioting and the result would be 'incredibly painful'. He wants to be an English Radovan Karadzic. You'd have to really hate Britain and England to vote for this maniac.
Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10Oct 18
A Restore Britain Government will do what needs to be done - civil unrest and rioting will inevitably follow. We must be ready for that, and the public must be prepared too. What needs to happen will be incredibly painful. But it is all absolutely necessary to save our home.
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'Visegrád 24' advocating massive ethnic cleansing in Britain. Time to unfollow this fascist account.
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24Oct 18
Replying to @RupertLowe10
Millions must go
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Tanjil Rashid@tanjil_rashid_Oct 16
Am late to post my @NewStatesman column but here it is. I ask why stories from ancient Greece--from Anne Carson to Marco Rubio to Christopher Nolan--are trickling back into public consciousness. In my opinion, it's because they illuminate our savage world. newstatesman.com/politics/20…
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Dirk Moses@dirkmosesOct 16
With @Sasha_Etkind, we have established a book series on the Politics of the Anthropocene. Send us your proposals. aup.nl/en/series/politics-of…
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Nicholas Mulder
@njtmulderOct 15
For @TheIdeasLetter I wrote about Marc Bloch and the challenge of writing synthetic and structural history. Featuring the Annales, Pirenne, Keynes, fin de siècle social science, and the generalizing ambitions of Carlo Ginzburg and the micro-historians. theideasletter.org/essay/tot…

Total Historian

Reviewing Peter Schöttler’s new intellectual biography of Marc Bloch, co-founder of the Annales school, Mulder revisits Bloch’s ambitious vision for the study of history. Bloch rejected the discipl...

theideasletter.org
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Tom Menger@menger_tomOct 15
As unexpected as joyous news: I am delighted that my book The Colonial Way of War has been awarded the Paul Birdsall Prize of the American Historical Association! historians.org/perspectives-…

American Historical Association Announces 2026 Prize Winners – AHA

The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2026 prizes.

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The new issue of @TheTLS, out tomorrow
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Toby Green@toby00greenOct 12
Just a note that this is starting at 530pm and not as the IHR website says 730am! Looking forward!
David Motadel
@DavidMotadelOct 12
Join us tonight for our conversazione, GLOBAL HISTORY: WHAT NEXT?, at the Imperial and World History Seminar at the IHR, with Erika Melek Delgado, Richard Drayton, Toby Green, Chloe Ireton, and me - 5:30 pm, Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London.
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David Motadel
@DavidMotadelOct 12
Join us tonight for our conversazione, GLOBAL HISTORY: WHAT NEXT?, at the Imperial and World History Seminar at the IHR, with Erika Melek Delgado, Richard Drayton, Toby Green, Chloe Ireton, and me - 5:30 pm, Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London.
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Join us tonight for our conversazione, GLOBAL HISTORY: WHAT NEXT?, at the Imperial and World History Seminar at the IHR, with Erika Melek Delgado, Richard Drayton, Toby Green, Chloe Ireton, and me - 5:30 pm, Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London.
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ayatrollah@ayatr0llahOct 9
this is my ideology
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Gerardo L. Munck
@GerardoMunckOct 10
Chris Wickham has passed away Chris Wickham, a productive and highly regarded British historian of the Middle Ages, has passed away today. These are some of his key works.
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Peter Frankopan
@peterfrankopanOct 10
So very sorry to hear about the death of Chris Wickham - one of the great medieval historians of our times and a good friend. He was a brilliant, ground-breaking and deeply insightful man from whom I (and many others) learned a great deal. And a terrific writer too... #RIP
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Literary headline of the Day Lord Roberts of Belgravia: 'I was offered Napoleon's penis.' thetimes.com/life-style/prop…
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Peter Frankopan
@peterfrankopanOct 8
Well. Here it is: a new book that has been keeping me busy for a while. The Seventh Continent: Antarctica and the Southern Oceans. Past, Present and Future 1/5
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Peter Frankopan
@peterfrankopanOct 6
I’ve been working on a new book for the last few years. It's (finally) done. On Thursday, I'll announce it here A very quick 🧵
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Max Skjönsberg
@MaxSkjonsbergOct 6
Publication Day! "The Spirit of the British Constitution: Parliamentary Reform from the Civil War to the Great Reform Act" (@PrincetonUPress) has now been released in the US. The idea for the book started with an article I drafted on the Tories and the Septennial Act in 2016 (published in HPT in 2019), so one could say that it has been a decade in the making. But I completed this book as a proud faculty member of @ufhamilton since 2023. I would like to thank all my friends and colleagues at Hamilton, and around the world. press.princeton.edu/books/ha…

The Spirit of the British Constitution

How ideas of parliamentary reform aiming to restore the spirit of the constitution defined political debate at a pivotal moment in British history

press.princeton.edu
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Join us on Thursday 22 October for the Gholam Reza Nikpay Annual Lecture. This year we welcome Prof Abbas Amanat who delivers his talk “Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran and European Imperial Expansion (1797-1812)”. Register here: lse.ac.uk/international-hist… #iran #history #lse #event
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