Is it just me or is Outlook’s automatic language detection facility completely useless?

Redressing the crimes of Pinochet’s regime has been a hard-fought and often contested process. Chile’s current presidency has revealed how easily progress can be reversed. 🔓 Katia Chornik’s new Behind the Times is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...

General Pinochet’s Return

Redressing the crimes of Pinochet’s regime has been a hard-fought and often contested process. Chile’s current presidency has revealed how easily progress can be reversed.

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CFP - por favor RT

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PDRA: Muslim Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean at The University of Edinburgh

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📢 We're hiring! Lecturer (teaching) in US History. See job posting for more details: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/5fek9j4j Deadline: 5th August 2026 Salary: £54,931-£64,644 Fixed-term position

Also the feeling, currently being lived painfully and angrily by hundreds of academic and academic units across the UK including at Exeter, when you've worked sedulously and very effectively for years to attain research and/or teaching excellence, only to be at risk of sweeping redundancy.

University of Exeter Special Collections@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · last wk.

The feeling when you've been looking at a handwritten document for an hour and you still can't read THAT word...! This illustration of a sea monster can be found in our sixteenth-century atlas of the counties of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton. 📷 Rare books B 1590/SAX/XX

Es curioso pensar en la dimensión dinástica y de género de la toma de mando hoy en Perú. No es la primera presidencia dinástica, claro (Pardo, Prado). Y hay varios ejemplos en la región, en la actualidad y en el pasado: Arévalo (Guatemala), López y Pastrana (Colombia), Somoza

Applications for the MA in Latin American Studies at UCL are still open (if you don’t need a visa to study in the UK). Come join us! Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Latin American Studies: History, Politics and Society MA

This multidisciplinary MA provides in-depth coverage of current debates in the field of Latin American Studies, developing knowledge of the region's diverse societies and forces that have shaped them.

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Se acaban de cumplir cuatro años de la publicación de La condena de la libertad - un intento de repensar la historia del Perú republicano desde (y para) el bicentenario. www.planetadelibros.com/libro-la-con...

Fancy Peruvian restaurant in London’s exclusive Mayfair. “Reimagines the flavours of Peru”. First dish on the menu? Guacamole. Second dish. Tacos. 🤦

My two-cents in this piece on what may await higher education in Peru under Keiko Fujimori

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Keiko Fujimori expected to pursue culture war agenda and deregulation at delicate time for country’s universities. Georgia Louise Luckhurst reports https://ow.ly/l9ke50ZsgEk

Haven’t seen the Nolan film yet, but is there a better homeric adaptation than Chico’s? open.spotify.com/track/6VIgGc...

Mulheres De Atenas

Chico Buarque · Meus Caros Amigos · Song · 1976

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Lecturer (Teaching) in US History at UCL

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Whatever. Cap train fares at £10.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Burnham announces bus fares across England to be capped at £2

Bueno, ahora ya en frío, podemos pasar a discutir cosas serias como qué tipo de protestantismo explica la derrota argentina.

Wonder what Edward Gibbon would have made of that halftime show.

Thought the US national anthem was an all time low for the World Cup, but Robbie Williams is now on

There is nothing radical in the banal ‘politics of the unsullied’ that pits ‘good’ and ‘bad’ countries in choosing whom to support. Marxists should know better. jacobin.com/2026/07/worl...

Against Geopolitical Football Moralizing

Anglo-American commentary has lost its mind, blending “VAR-gentina” complaints with outrage over Milei’s cozy relationship with Trump and Netanyahu. Don’t buy the moralizing: Argentina is still worth ...

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Hoy se publica mi reseña del magnífico libro de Carlos Aguirre y William Fisher en Hispanic American Historical Review.

🌐NEW BLOG 👉 Beyond Compliance: Why Precautionary Measures Still Matter in Nicaragua by Clara Burbano-Herrera 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2eu2ecap "What is the value of an international protection mechanism when a government systematically refuses to comply with, or simply ignores, its decisions?"

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I found this very interesting - need to fold in Machado in my teaching www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In Our Time - Machado de Assis - BBC Sounds

The great Brazilian novelist, whose satires of slave owners transcend time and place.

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Creo que seguimos sin procesar del todo lo que nos dice sobre nuestro sistema político el hecho de que cuando salieron los resultados de la primera vuelta en el 2021, CNN en Español, y de hecho varios medios, no tenían siquiera una foto de Pedro Castillo.

Egypt playing six at the back, or the Aswan Dam formation

🌐 New blog post! 📌The Brazilian Gender Quotas after 30 years 🔗Read now: tinyurl.com/39khccyz 🎞️Watch Malu's speech at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies: www.youtube.com/live/-Sm5d18...

As football pundit Carl Schmitt might say: Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

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Breaking News: President Trump called the head of FIFA days before the suspension of Folarin Balogun, the U.S.’s top goal scorer in the World Cup, was reversed. trib.al/x9mGfAs

I look forward to reading Chabal’s biography. But Traverso’s take is off. Hobsbawm eurocentric? Yes, of course, he was primarily a historian of Europe and that was his historical measuring stick. But compared to his contemporaries? No, not all. www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ce...

The Century of Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm’s enduring power lay in his ability to synthesize vast historical processes into compelling narratives that made the modern world legible. Yet, argues Traverso, the celebrated Marxist hi...

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First they came for the languages. In the hope that no one would have the words to say what was happening. 1/9🧵

University of Aberdeen's plans to cut modern language degrees were 'rushed' - review

The University of Aberdeen says it accepts there were "missteps" in its process in 2023.

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There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️

Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) at The University of Manchester

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