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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on October 4, 2025October 2, 2025 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on April 5, 2025April 4, 2025 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on March 21, 2025 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on March 8, 2025 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on February 21, 2025 by CIGH Exeter

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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

Published on February 1, 2025January 29, 2025 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on January 20, 2025 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on November 23, 2024November 22, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

‘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

Published on November 16, 2024November 15, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on November 10, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

A Russian flag near a U.S. flag at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on Wednesday. (Yuri Kochetkov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

How Trump’s re-election could upend the world. 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

Published on October 26, 2024October 25, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

Enslaved people cutting sugarcane on the Caribbean island of Antigua, aquatint from Ten Views of the Island of Antigua, William Clark, 1832.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the Nobel Prize for Econsplaining to why North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia really matters, 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

Published on October 20, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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World Trade Organization, Geneva, September 2021, Denis Balibouse / Reuters

From abandoning the WTO to a return of 1930s-style totalitarian politics, 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

Published on October 12, 2024October 9, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

‘A permanent feature of our domestic life’ … Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition screenshot. Photograph: Microsoft

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From abandoning the delusions of empire to decolonizing sanctions, 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

Published on September 28, 2024September 27, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From a new critical report about the Windrush scandal to Black women comrades in the struggle for liberation, 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

Published on September 21, 2024September 19, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

Kamala Harris with Ben Crump, Doug Emhoff and Al Sharpton in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 3. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the female freedom fighters of the Haitian Revolution to the Civil Rights Movement and Kamala Harris’s foreign policy, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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

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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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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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A US presidential inauguration special, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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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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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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How Trump’s re-election could upend the world. Here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From the Nobel Prize for Econsplaining to why North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia really matters, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From abandoning the WTO to a return of 1930s-style totalitarian politics, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From abandoning the delusions of empire to decolonizing sanctions, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From a new critical report about the Windrush scandal to Black women comrades in the struggle for liberation, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From the female freedom fighters of the Haitian Revolution to the Civil Rights Movement and Kamala Harris’s foreign policy, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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