Edd Mair

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together ‘The dry and the wet burn together’ is a Persian expression invoked when a fire spreads without discrimination. Once...

My most recent piece on the @lrb.co.uk blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Good morning!

Thanks to @jamescrossland.bsky.social for having me on to discuss this grifter. Particularly enjoyed our discussion of the most bonkers confederate statue ever erected and what it tells us about southern memory. Give it a watch!

Maintaining my principle that I will only go on podcasts hosted by members of the LJMU History Department.

📢 New episode of HISTORY'S DEVILS drops this Thursday - Nathan Bedford Forrest and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan.

Spoiler: they were a shitshow.

Links to podcast in bio 🎧
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CONFERENCE - 'Sociability & Political Life', University of York, 3rd/4th July 2026

Get your abstracts in by 14th Feb!

Any UK secondary school History teachers who may follow me on here: I will be organising the annual KCL History Teachers' Network conference that will take place this Summer. Get in touch if you want to be looped in! #EduSky

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Always thought there was an interesting American studies PhD in analysing the long shadow of Watergate through representations of Nixon (and other presidents) in The Simpsons.

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

This. This is what it means to close ‘regional’ universities.

When we already knew about Mandelson's links to Epstein, he was given: a cushy Times Radio show, influence over Starmer's Labour Party, the ambassadorship to the US - to name a few things.

People who pointed out his links to Epsten were labelled as 'cranks', until it became inconvenient.

Sky News V @SkyNews X.com "I would claim the friend's privilege to tell Peter that he has been, at best, naïve and foolish, at worst, greedy and duplicitous." @TrevorPTweets reflects on his friendship with Lord Mandelson amid controversy over the former ambassador's association with Epstein.

Hello and welcome to the Sky News Shit-Hot Political Accountability Hour with me, literally Peter Mandelson’s best friend. Sadly there was nobody less obviously compromised who could host a current affairs show

Lecturer in Early Medieval History at King's College London Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Early Medieval History on jobs.ac.uk!

Our department seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Early Medieval History. You will be expected to undertake teaching and research in early medieval history (600–1150 CE) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH751/l...

This is an example of the intellectual decline in York’s history department since I left!

Is this because Ali wouldn’t give you a straight answer about the pizzas?

I’m organising a graduate conference in July on Early America! Please see the CfP and circulate wherever you can 🥳

Perhaps the only thing that can save UK universities: protect jobs or risk more weirdo academics running in by-elections.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History, 1775–1919 This four-volume collection brings together a diverse array of primary sources that help contextualise the impacts of American imperialism across the long nineteenth century. These fascinating volumes...

Sounds like a wonderful four-volume collection of documents and commentary that will be of great interest to the BrANCH community and beyond!

Cheers to @alysbeverton.bsky.social, @edwardmair.bsky.social, @Adam Burns & @alex-bryne.bsky.social

A book entitled ‘American Imperialism in the long nineteenth century, volume II’.

All four volumes of ‘American Imperialism in the long nineteenth century’.

Three years of work is all worth it for the excitement of getting your book in the post.

A sign for ‘Oh, Mary!’ at the Trafalgar Theatre in London.

I can say with absolute certainty* that this was the best play on American history I’ve ever seen.

*I’ve still not seen Hamilton.

I remember seeing some self-described progressives amplifying this MP as an important voice. You'll be surprised to hear that all of them are silent on this.

My review of Kathleen Brown's 'Undoing Slavery' is available in the latest issue of Early American Literature (Spoiler: it's good)!

muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

‘I Felt All This’ Cambridge Core - American Studies - ‘I Felt All This’

Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

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Never thought I’d live to see a winning candidate in a major election open their victory speech with a shout out to this guy.

1) At last! Having submitted last April, the gears of academic publishing have finally ground round and my article on Twilight: 2000 in the Journal of American Studies is now available! And it's open access, so anyone can engage with it!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Now with a cover!

“Their place in history is settled.” These dipshits have absolutely no idea how history works.

(And the vast majority of ‘history’, as @karl-jacoby.bsky.social explains here, has been pretty clear-eyes that Wounded Knee was a massacre anyway.)

Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!

We have two jobs at KCL History!

16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...

And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

(both to start in January 2026)

Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 at University of Cambridge Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

A *permanent* US history job! Goes without saying that this will be highly competitive, but the US history faculty at Cambridge are some of the most supportive colleagues you can ask for. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT902/a...