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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Never Again! East German National Front election poster 1958.
Never Again! East German National Front election poster 1958.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Krushchev’s 1956 charm offensive to democracy in East Germany, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Senegal festival 1966

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From 21st-century death merchants to the Cold War’s ‘black world’, here are this weeks top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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The cover art for Sue in Tibet shows a smiling girl, poised for adventure
The cover art for Sue in Tibet shows a smiling girl, poised for adventure, William Arthur Smith.

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From rediscovering Tibetan children’s novels to Stalin’s growing popularity, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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The Ibrahim Rauza complex, built by Ibrahim Adil Shah II (1580-1627). Photograph: Mukul Banerjee.

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History Department, University of Exeter
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From what is global history to uncovering illegal documents of the slave trade, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Street scene, Lisbon 1975. Photo: Mieremet, Rob / Anefo, National Archives of the Netherlands / Anefo, licence CC-BY

Marc-William Palen
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From 1970s colonialism in Lisbon to saving digital archives, 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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From the New York Public Library's digital posters. Via Open Culture.
From the New York Public Library’s digital posters. Via Open Culture.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From being black in the USSR to the Revenant‘s justification of settler colonialism, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Activists meet in the Nam Can forest, wearing masks to hide their identities from one another in case of capture and interrogation. IMAGE: VO ANH KHANH/ANOTHER VIETNAM/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOKS
Activists meet in the Nam Can forest, wearing masks to hide their identities from one another in case of capture and interrogation.
IMAGE: VO ANH KHANH/ANOTHER VIETNAM/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOKS

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Gandhi the imperialist to writing global intellectual history, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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150 surviving prints of the anti-Vietnam war artworks made at University of California, Berkeley, are to be shown in a new exhibition at Shapero Modern, London, as featured on the Guardian
One of 150 surviving prints of the anti-Vietnam war artworks made at University of California, Berkeley, are to be shown in a new exhibition at Shapero Modern, London, as featured on the Guardian.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From militant Third World liberation to the fallacy of collective memory, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Soviet poster from 1948. The captions read ‘Under capitalism’ and ‘Under socialism’. Photograph: Wayland Rudd Archive/Yevgeniy Fiks/Flint
Soviet poster from 1948. The captions read ‘Under capitalism’ and ‘Under socialism’. Photograph: Wayland Rudd Archive/Yevgeniy Fiks/Flint

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From how the Soviet Union capitalised on US discrimination to throwing out the balance sheet of the British Empire, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Album cover shoot for Aladdin Sane, 1973. Photography by Brian Duffy.

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History Department, University of Exeter
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From how the Cold War shaped David Bowie to lessons from Japanese Canadian internment, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Poster of First-World-War French colonial troops. Courtesy of Asia-Pacific Journal.
Poster of First-World-War French colonial troops. Courtesy of Asia-Pacific Journal.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From 3-D printers undoing the destruction of ISIS to the endangered archives of Freetown, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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A bustling Galata Bridge in late-nineteenth-century Istanbul. Image courtesy of the Global Urban History Blog.

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From rush hour in Ottoman Istanbul to the opening of new Vichy French archives, 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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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Europe’s 1989 in reverse to how neoliberalism came to be, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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An Asafo flag made by the Fante artists of Africa’s Gold Coast.
An Asafo flag made by the Fante artists of Africa’s Gold Coast.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From imperial mass murder to globalizing Garveyism, 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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The Melbourne Athenaeum, Melbourne’s first Mechanics Institute, in 1855. (State Library of NSW: ST Gill)

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the colonial context of the Paris attacks to radical Scotland in Australia, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →