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Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn and Nicholas Draper, Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access) This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic … Continue reading →

Thanks to Neil Stewart for this – Penelope Corfield interviews Christopher Hill Institute of Historical Research – Interviews with Historians – Christopher Hill

Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025 I’ve shared the book before, but there is now a New Books discussion with Lucas Tse – thanks to dmf for this link A luminous biography … Continue reading →

Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha eds. Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking – Routledge, January 2026 Just a very expensive hardback listed at the moment. This volume offers a fresh and timely contribution to current discussions of ornamentation, repetition, … Continue reading →

Ana Maria Albulescu, Third-Party Mediation and Peace Processes in the Post-Soviet Space: Norms, Interests and Power – Routledge, December 2025 This book examines the success of third-party mediation in conflicts in the post-Soviet space. Third-party mediation is the subject of … Continue reading →

Philip Janzen, An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging Between Africa and the Caribbean – Duke University Press, June 2025 New Books discussion with Elisa Prosperetti – thanks to dmf for the link In An Unformed Map, Philip Janzen traces the intellectual trajectories of … Continue reading →

Theresa Delgadillo, Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas – University of Michigan Press, September 2024 New Books discussion with Shodona Kettle – thanks to dmf for the link Geographies of Relation offers a new lens for examining diaspora … Continue reading →