On Mathew Arnold, and his liberal Target (John Bright)
with shout outs to @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @jcherniss.bsky.social
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On George Sabine on Montesquieu
With a footnote to @duncanbell.bsky.social
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On Popper as the Useful Idiot of Anti-History.
Responding to @samuelmoyn.bsky.social
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Shout out to @jcherniss.bsky.social
OUT NOW!
The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells is now available online
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47 chapters on Wells and his worlds
Hardcopy to follow in June
🚀 35 years ago Helen Sharman became the first Brit in space 🚀
It's a great privilege of mine to be able to work with Helen at @sciencemuseum.org.uk: her spacesuit is on display in our Space Gallery, and she narrates the new and improved Space-on-a-Sphere projection.
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The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO
This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to build the new website & the technology underpinning our OJC Journals Catalogue. Great to see it out in the world! 🔥
NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
new from alum Emma Planinc, MA '12, now Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and Political Science, University of Notre Dame, and recent RGCS Lecturer:
"Wells and Human Rights," in Duncan Bell & Sarah Cole, eds, The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells, OUP 2026
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Princeton University Press has a 50% off sale, lasting until the 9th of June. It covers most of their catalogue.
If anyone is interested, it includes a few of my own books: