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Carrie Gibson

@carriegibson.bsky.social

Writer. Historian. Wanderer. My third book – The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas – is out now in the US and 12 Feb in the UK. More info here: linktr.ee/carriegibson76

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Carrie Gibson@carriegibson.bsky.social · 2w ago

This fortnight's offering: 'The last thing any writer needs is to have their speech policed by this strange new fever-dream reality where a piece of all-seeing software trained on millions of books has the audacity to tell writers what they can and cannot write.’ carriegibson.co.uk/2026/09/30/c...

Carrie Gibson’s Offcuts: The bully in the machine – Carrie Gibson

Listen here! The AI accusations have been coming like sniper’s fire, with unseen character assassins spraying bullets and taking people’s livelihoods. Nigerian writer Jerry Falade managed to escape wi...

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Carrie Gibson@carriegibson.bsky.social · last mo.

This fortnight’s offering: George Sand's Winter in Majorca and Frédéric Chopin's Preludes might not be with us had they been able to drink mojitos by the pool. carriegibson.co.uk/2026/09/02/c...

Carrie Gibson’s Offcuts: Island Strife – Carrie Gibson

Click above to listen! The writer George Sand was having a terrible time the winter of 1838 on the Spanish island of Mallorca. She had arrived in November, finding the island heat ‘comparable to that ...

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Carrie Gibson@carriegibson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This fortnight's offering: 'Certainly, I can reproduce it here. I can make it my screen saver! I can print it on a tote bag! I can have him on the back of a phone case! What I can’t do is replicate the wonder of seeing that painting for the first time.' carriegibson.co.uk/2026/08/05/c...

Carrie Gibson’s Offcuts: Art and artifice – Carrie Gibson

Listen here! I suppose I should have read the fine print. Except that it was in Korean and I was too lazy to find the English version (it was here). I saw the word Goya (rendered in Korean as 고야 ) and...

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Carrie Gibson@carriegibson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This fortnight's newsletter offering: ‘Colston looks like a sort of colonial specimen dredged out of the waters of the past and put on display.’ And special news about an upcoming C-SPAN Book TV appearance! Sign up at my website carriegibson.co.uk/newsletter/ carriegibson.co.uk/2026/07/22/c...

Carrie Gibson’s Offcuts: How the Mighty Are Fallen – Carrie Gibson

Click on the above if you would rather have a listen! Given that my work intersects with a range of colonial actors, it’s not really a surprise that I’m sometimes asked my opinion about monuments bein...

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Carrie Gibson@carriegibson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This fortnight's offering: 'Forgetting. Remembering. Imaging. It always comes back around to the stories we tell ourselves, how we tell them, and what we leave out.' carriegibson.co.uk/2026/07/08/c...

Carrie Gibson’s Offcuts: Bicentennial, baby – Carrie Gibson

Listen to this essay! This year marks my 50th birthday, as it also does for the 3 million or so of my fellow Americans born in 1976. It is also — in case you missed the recent, erm, extravaganza on Ju...

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Carrie Gibson@carriegibson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now less than a week to go! 🎉 Arizona friends hope to see you there for some great books and amazing conversations ❤️

Carrie Gibson@carriegibson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Less than a month to go until the Tucson Festival of Books ❤️So excited for conversations with @renatakeller.bsky.social @tomzoellner.bsky.social and @calebgayle.bsky.social Also looking forward to hearing @mkn.bsky.social Check out the schedule here: tinyurl.com/nhkj2xmp

A flyer for the Tucson Festival of books, March 14-15, University of Arizona Campus, with me Carrie Gibson
Alan Lester@alanlester.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In Munich Marco Rubio praised the ‘Western’ tradition of rule of law. Two lessons that he & Trump’s administration could learn about that today. From S. Korea: imprison presidents who flout the constitution. From UK: no one is above the law.

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Carrie Gibson@carriegibson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I go a little into the historiographical deep weeds here, but why not? My latest newsletter: carriegibson.co.uk/2026/02/18/c...

Carrie Gibson’s Offcuts: Bad Bunny, Herbert Bolton, and the dream of a greater América  – Carrie Gibson

Seven years after the publication of my book El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America, I did not expect to see parts of it come to life on the set of the extraordinary halftime...

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Michael Deibert@michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If you would like to learn more about the long and complex history of Puerto Rico and the United States in the context of Bad Bunny's wonderful Halftime show, please consider a read of my 2019 book, When the Sky Fell: Hurricane Maria and the United States in Puerto Rico.

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