James Fisher

[James Fisher @JamDanFish]

My book 'The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power & Agrarian Capitalism in Britain 1660-1800' is now out in PAPERBACK at a more affordable price📚

You can get 20% discount using code HIST2124 from https://t.co/GZdhDz4jkt

[James Fisher @JamDanFish]

You can read my review of Steve Hindle's 'Social Topography of a Rural Community' (2022), which reconstructs a late C17th village in unprecedented detail.

Free eprint here:
https://t.co/qzPrv4SfmG

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

1/5 A groundbreaking @amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. https://t.co/oTnTGVsYna

[James Fisher @JamDanFish]

I will actually start posting on bsky soon, which is genuinely looking promising

[Leanne Mohamad @LeanneMohamad]

Palestinian lives are an inconvenient truth for this miserable government. We don’t matter. Only Israeli security matters and only Israel has the right to self-defence - such is the inequality built into the current world order.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

“Israel says” is not journalism.

[Gabriel Elizondo @elizondogabriel]

About an hour after delivering speech at UN that started with “Israel seeks peace, it yearns for peace…” Israel launches one of largest attacks on southern Beirut suburb

[James Fisher @JamDanFish]

I'm now old enough to have lived in a period subject to fascistic nostalgia and it's more absurd than I could have imagined

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

The Oasis tour isn’t just about their music.

It’s about the height of Britain.

It’s about the nostalgia of remembering how amazing Britain was.

If you didn’t live it you’ll never understand it and it can’t be explained.

A time when you could go down the pub, interact with people you knew and didn’t know and have the best night of your life on 15 quid.

A time when there was always something happening, in every city, 7 nights a week.

No fear of being stabbed.
No fear of being robbed.

A time when everyone watched the same TV shows and discussed them the next day.

You weren’t desperate to go on holiday like the British are now, there was no need.

You didn’t see Dubai or Maldives on Instagram all day, you literally didn’t even know those places existed. You would hang around on a council estate, completely content and want nothing else than to laugh with your friends.

Random skin heads would say “you alrite mate?” And you’d either be best friends or in a scrap 2mins later.

Nobody got stabbed. Nobody died.

It’s just how it was.

The pub on Christmas Day.
The bus was 30p.

You loved everyone you met, didn’t matter the race.

The country was united.

There was a feeling in the air.

Constant electricity.

And it’s all gone now. It’s died.

All we have are the songs from those times.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Why Keir Starmer has got it wrong and will not stop the boats 🙄
Smugglers are not the cause of immigration.

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

Jeff Buckley's Grace turns 30 today

If all he ever gave us was “Hallelujah,” Buckley would still be hailed as tremendously influential—but there’s so much more to Grace. See where it falls on our list of the best albums of the 1990s. 🔗: https://t.co/ymcvmNKeCb

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Allegations of widespread torture and sexual abuse have been reported by Palestinian detainees - held by Israeli forces.

The Israeli army and prison service deny abuse systematic and say wrongdoing is being investigated.

Watch part one of two.

1/3

[Melissa Reynolds @melkatrey]

It’s release day for READING PRACTICE! I’m so proud of this book & so grateful to all who helped along the way to its publication. FWIW, the paperback price is very reasonable—just one of many reasons I’m so glad to have published with @UChicagoPress.

https://t.co/P53F2IGkQx

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Remember those words scrawled on the wall – "FUCK PAKIS" – whenever a pundit or a journalist tries to make out that this is all a misguided expression of legitimate concerns about immigration.

[Professor Karen Harvey @KHarveyHistory]

Postdoc opportunities at Bham (but a tight deadline of 23 August). Feel free to contact me or my History colleagues ...

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

What do History students think of GenAI? During 2023-24 @NevilleMorley has surveyed students @exeterclio on their understanding and attitudes to AI for reading and research.

His finding are now available on the RHS blog https://t.co/hjEBPuwybx #twitterstorians 1/2

[Salahcialism @Salahcialist]

Some of us rage about this happening day after day for 9 months because we see people who look like this, sound like this, dress like this as human. It’s an inescapable realization that others around us, simply do not.

Every day a brutal lesson about race.

[James Fisher @JamDanFish]

https://t.co/5grIpZDXTk

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗖. 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 passed away on July 19. He was a political scientist and specialist in Southeast Asia. He was a dissident within Political Science. Yet his books opened up lines of research on central issues, such as the exercise of power and resistance to power.👇

[James Fisher @JamDanFish]

Last week I talked to @NewBooksNetwork about how the rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain C16-18th was based on the appropriation of the customary knowledge possessed by common farmers and farm workers

Available to listen on your fave podcast app etc

[James Fisher @JamDanFish]

My book 'The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power & Agrarian Capitalism in Britain 1660-1800' is now out in PAPERBACK at a more affordable price📚

You can get 20% discount using code HIST2124 from https://t.co/GZdhDz4jkt