Sam Wetherell
@samwetherell
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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Unsurprising intervention on Gaza from Zadie Smith given her fiction, even at its best, has been insistent on a naive universalism that denies/disparages political conflict. A point made in this wonderful essay by wife of the mind vulture.com/article/zadie-…
This is 'safety' and 'free speech' at Dartmouth 🌲: former director of Jewish studies and history professor Annelise Orleck thrown to the ground by cops while engaged in nonviolent protest. Her 'crime'--emphatic speech. Shame.
Finally reading Michael Romyn's extraordinary article about Black identity and the history of British basketball which I'm teaching this week, and struck by this incredible image of Michael Jordan at the Brixton Recreation Centre in 1985. academic.oup.com/hwj/article/93…
Now on FirstView: Sean Irving Sean Irving analyzes British conservative thought by engaging with the work of Kenneth Minogue on free-market economics, global “competitiveness,” and the concept of the Anglosphere as a distinct civilization bit.ly/4dbvT2B
As always, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is the person to read on the history of modern Iran and the present regional crisis. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
At Urban History (Urban History Group) we are hiring an early modern book reviews editor! If you would like join a fantastic team, earn an annual stipend and shape the present and future of urban history then you can apply here: cambridge.org/core/services/…