Very cool to see Archaeologies of Touch reviewed in Senses & Society--a journal very influential for my work. Thanks a ton Simeon Koole for the write-up & engagement. (cc Sensory Studies) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Mashers, 'ooligans, toffs, coppers, vicars, jolly-jack-tars, mooks, mushers, dockers, schnorrers: we've got them all, and more, on my 1-day lecture/seminar course 'The East End in Fiction and Fact' Bishopsgate Institute on Sat 1 Feb Deets here: bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activ…

Street vendor's stand displaying gourd-shaped glass trumpets called bu bu deng at New Year's, Beijing, c. 1933-1946 Morrison, Hedda Collection Photograph by Hedda Morrison President and Fellows of Harvard College hv24-163 zpr.io/H6vqJ #beijing #streetmarket #chin

Excited to hear @James11Vernon at the Bristol-Exeter Modern British History group tonight. Discussing the brilliant academic.oup.com/past/advance-a…

Having collaborated with George Clark on our opening night film, SUNLESS HAVEN, join historian Simeon Koole on 28 Apr, 10:30 for a guided walk through London's docklands, revealing the traces of its past global connections which the film explores. opencitylondon.com/events/within-…

Go see the new Tropical Modernism exhibition at the V&A: a fascinating exploration of how modernist architecture was applied to colonial Ghana and India and then adapted for a new postcolonial era William Whyte Otto Saumarez Smith. vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/tr…

Thrilled that the film I and @benmechen collaborated on with George Clark is opening Open City Documentary Festival! It's a layered imagining of precarity in London's docks with beautiful shooting, performance art, and an original score Open City Documentary Festival. opencitylondon.com/events/opening…

Hot off the press! The first review of Intimate Subjects is in from Peter Mandler : "In this sophisticated cultural history, Koole guides us through the crowded, anonymous city to reveal new worlds of human proximity"... press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

..."In packed tube trains people learn how to maintain their personal space; [...] in anthropogenic fog, familiar cityscapes become queer and mysterious. How, Koole asks with D.H. Lawrence, should we be tender in this bruising life?" Thanks Peter Mandler!

Introducing...the cover for Intimate Subjects! Coming to a bookstore near you and online from 26 July. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Please join us on 27 July! I will talk about the history of drugs and its colonial legacy.

Important new exhibition The Photographers' Gallery Ernest Cole: House of Bondage  thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/ernes…

Check out @PaulRDeslandes1's wonderful book 'The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain'! My review for @VicStudies is available here: muse.jhu.edu/article/928582

It’s arrived! So excited to receive this in the post. Thank you Dylan Montanari for being an extraordinary editor and everyone at UChicagoPress for all your work! #sensoryhistory #sensorystudies.

she’s got a cover, and she’s up for preorder! Queer Correctives is out summer 2025: bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-corre…

Thanks Tom Sojka for a great conversation about Intimate Subjects for NB British Studies New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) podcast. Check it out here! newbooksnetwork.com/intimate-subje…

Thrilled to see a thoughtful, sparky review of "Intimate Subjects" in the London Review of Books (8 May)! lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/… Thanks Hannah Rose Woods for engaging with the book so carefully! London Review of Books London Review Bookshop UChicagoPress Dylan Montanari

Very exciting news! "Intimate Subjects" has been shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Historical Society First Book Prize!! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/05/28/roy… Now to wait on tenterhooks! UChicagoPress Dylan Montanari

Hot off the press! My new article, 'Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London's Docks, 1860-1928', co-authored with Ben Mechen, is now out with Past & Present. academic.oup.com/past/advance-a…