This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Haqqi al-Azm (centre, dressed in white) was an influential Ottoman bureaucrat before serving as prime minister of Syria in the 1930s [Creative Commons/Wikipedia]

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Putin’s history lessons to the perils of forgetting the Ottoman past, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Port of London Authority Cold Store, Smithfield Market. Wikimedia Commons.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen

From Chile’s coup at 50 to the imperial history behind the London meat industry, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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MA Humanities Funding for BAME Scholars

British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Taught Scholarship (September 2023 Entry)

About the award

In order to increase opportunities for access to postgraduate study and promote diversity within the cohorts of these programmes, the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies is delighted to offer one bursary, worth £25,000, to one BAME1 student enrolling on a postgraduate taught programme within English, History or Modern Languages and Cultures in 2023/24.

This scholarship is open to BAME applicants for the MA programmes in either English, History or Modern Languages and Cultures whose study interests connect chronologically and thematically with those of the Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Portrait of Rosa Luxemburg at a demonstration against the Vietnam War, Berlin. (Rogge and ullstein bild / Getty Images)

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen

From the long death of slavery to how Rosa Luxemburg anticipated the end of capitalist globalization, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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