This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From African reports on conflict, justice, and climate change to the first-ever Syrian presidential visit to the White House, 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

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Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From the passing of Dick Cheney to neoliberalism’s racial dimensions, 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

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Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From the opening of historical archives in Europe to Argentina’s bailout and Tony Blair’s potential role in Gaza, 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

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Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From recent observations and reports in Asia and Africa to the centenary of the Locarno Treaties, 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

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From the dark past of the medical sector to concerns about further conflicts in the Middle East, 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

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From post-colonial African accounts to further developments in minority communities in America, 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

The Java man skull cap. Photo: Paul Morris via Wikimedia Commons

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From questioning when World War II ended to Trump’s ‘invasion from within’, 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

Protestors denouncing the cuts to USAID, Feb. 2025. Image © Philip Yabut via Shutterstock

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From life in Cuba under sanctions to liberal internationalism after USAID, 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

U.S. Marines raising the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945. (Joe Rosenthal/AP)

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From Trump’s confusing quest to conquer Canada to the Pentagon’s purging of a Native American Iwo Jima flag-raiser, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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CIGH Celebrates International Women’s Day

Poster for Women’s Day, 8 March 1914. By Karl Maria Stadler.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

In celebration of International Women’s Day, here are our top picks from the Imperial & Global Forum archives.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the reality of settler colonialism to the end of the postwar order, 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

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From global Guyana to turning points in world history, 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

Demonstrators protesting a treaty to return control of the Panama Canal to Panama, U.S. Capitol building, Washington, D.C, Sept. 7, 1977. Warren K Leffler—US News & World Report Magazine Collection/PhotoQuest/Getty Images

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

A US presidential inauguration special, 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

‘Warrants a whole other documentary’: Patrice Lumumba’s adviser and speechwriter,Andrée Blouin, centre, from Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. Photograph: Modern Films

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat to how China joined the global capitalist economy, 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

Grounding Presence. Alexandre Desane [left] in the lead role. Photograph: Atlas Film Production © Photograph: Atlas Film Production

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From a complicated history of slavery and resistance to the True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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