From fashion photographer to surrealism and then war photographer documenting Dachau: Lee Miller in this ⁦The Rest Is History⁩ pod. I want to see the film with Kate Winslett now! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Following a short trip to Berlin I listened to this great counter-factual podcast. Could German reunification have been handled differently - perhaps less as a 'fall' and more as a process of harmonisation? Did it happen the way it did because of a bureaucratic error?

I have only now seen that Fredric Jameson has just died. One of the rare thinkers with whom I have often felt that I was having an ongoing conversation. Always historicise! Vale Jameson.

Oh no, so sad - one of the living legends of British acting. bbc.co.uk/news/live/clyw…

On inheritocracy. A podcast. Something to think about as I pay my sons their monthly allowance for university study… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/int…

Ever wondered why the Scots played such an important part in the British empire? This is much clearer to me after listening to these two great Empire Podcast podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/190…

Why did no one tell me about Viking sorceresses when I was a child? My whole career trajectory might have been different. Great podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gon…

Interesting podcast on charisma, and how it’s easier to have it if you’re tall, male and aristocratic. Just in case we needed reminding. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-…

Delighted to have published this article on Flaubert and kitsch in New Literary History and I can warmly recommend their publication process and editorial team!

#Frenchpodcast on the chevalier/e d’Éon, brilliant 18thC spy, diplomat, military officer and sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, according to the unambiguous clothing of the times. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/au-…

My article on Flaubert and kitsch has come out in New Literary History newliteraryhistory.org/current-issue/ so I'm allowing myself a moment of nostalgia for the maddest (but also tastiest) research project of my career: Making Madame Bovary's Wedding Cake. With thanks to TORCH Oxford.

Larry for Chancellor of the University of Oxford?

Hello ⁦Badly Parked Oxford⁩ this van isn’t actually parked - it drove rather fast the wrong way along Little Clarendon street and then got stuck temporarily. 🙄

Views from my office windows.

Black History Month dinner in hall

In the early 19thC ragpickers collected discarded cloth (to make paper) and bones (to filter and whiten sugar) from the abandoned refuse of Paris. #frenchpodcast with Antoine Compagnon radiofrance.fr/franceculture/…

A podcast giving an overview of the Scramble for Africa, leading up to and following the 1884-5 meeting of European 'great powers' to divvy up the continent between them, with no Africans present or consulted. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0j…

The first Franco-Algerian war, starting in 1830, with its razzias and enfumades, and the resistance of the extraordinary Abd el Kader: #frenchpodcast with Alain Ruscio. radiofrance.fr/franceculture/…

Happy Diwali! 🪔🌼🌸✨

#Xodus. See you where the sky is blue. 🦋