A new book, The Truth About Empire, makes the case for the expertise of historians in debates about Britain’s imperial past. In the new issue of BBC History Magazine we speak to Sathnam Sanghera, bronwen everill and Alan Lester about the gap between academic and popular views of empire.

🥳🎉 Congrats to Kieran Connell whose #MulticulturalBritain is out today! Vividly told, immediately resonant, yet fresh and unexpected, it unveils #British multiculturalism not as a problematic idea, but as a rich and complex lived reality. hurstpublishers.com/book/multicult…

Everybody should follow Auschwitz Memorial and look every day at the faces of the individual lives that were extinguished by the Nazis and make up their millions of victims. The individuals behind the monstrous numbers.

Congratulations to Maximilian Hess Maximilian Hess from all Hurst Publishers His book 'Economic War' is part of Ben Noble's series sites.tufts.edu/fletcherrussia…

Fantastic to see so many people at this year’s Annual Conference! King's India Institute

Our #BacktoUni #sale has been extended until 15th September 📚 Don’t miss out on the chance to get 40% off ALL books! Check out our full list ➡️ hurstpublishers.com

Join social scientist and inequality expert Danny Dorling News this Thursday at Charing Cross Road as he discusses his latest work, #SevenChildren, an immersive and highly original study of child inequality, in a conversation with Polly Toynbee 🎫bit.ly/4eaDgHf

My thoughts on the going/not going to China these days question (I’m not going but glad friends and colleagues are) insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

Congratulations to @Zakavkaza, #EconomicWar has been awarded the Fletcher Russia & Eurasia Program US-Russia Relations Book Prize! ow.ly/ru1w50TkfqQ

'Saving humans is not enough. #Humanitarian purpose needs to change.' Hugo Slim on climate humanitarianism and beyond. Hurst Publishers thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2024/0… (The New Humanitarian)

Great John Lechner on Mali foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/10/mal…

Hard to believe I submitted today - finally, after more than 11 years! - the first draft of the Hobsbawm book. Such a journey, such emotions, all wrapped up in this one manuscript. And, yes, despite my most aggressive editing, the word "Hobsbawm" does appear 2,459 times...

1/3 Peter Mitchell reviewsThe Truth About Empire: Right wing culture warriors are not out to "make historical interventions but to cultivate a structure of feeling based around a defence of white innocence ..."

Interesting piece as always by Hugo Slim while I still wonder about the tension of re-limiting an overstretched humanitarian system back to its core mandate & to broaden it in ecological terms at the same time - see also my podcast episode with Hugo: chaberlin.org/en/news/chatro…

"we inherit the tragedy of losing a just fight. we want to reverse that loss, to give our parents back what is theirs and reclaim what is ours. this is how we learn to love." an outstanding essay by Tareq Baconi about the intimate legacies of the Nakba: nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

My latest book just arrived from publisher in London. It was an honour to write The Retreat from Strategy with my friend General Lord Richards. However many books I write opening the box with my new book therein is always a special moment. My thanks to Hurst Publishers

‘Returning to her #homeland, Jiryis saw the facts of her dispossession everywhere.' Read the review of Fida Jiryis' #StrangerInMyOwnLand in The New York Review of Books — 'Living the #Nakba'. Available in our flash sale at a special 40% discount until midnight Sunday 📚nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Sandwiched between Prussia and Austria, Saxony’s sovereign history was one of perpetual failure. But countless movements that defined German history - provincialism, nationalism, socialism, antisemitism - fermented in its borders. Perhaps they still do👇 engelsbergideas.com/essays/saxony-…