Josh Mcloughlin

Hello, I've been quietly working on this and now I'm made up to share that I've signed a contract with @Palgrave to publish my first book: UNPOSSIBLE HISTORY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND. As a working-class wool from Merseyside, this is a big deal for me & I'm dead chuffed – cheers!

Me brother asking for a lift from Liverpool Lime Street and our mum drops this absolute bombshell

Taking any pitches for Issue No.2 of Sir!, by the way. The loose theme is WORK. Want some funny, interesting, and usual bits and bobs. [email protected]

Bloodsuckers of the Commonwealth is available to pre-order now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189080/

I am being inaugurated at UCL in 28th May be great to see fellow early modernists so do sign up: eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-frames-…

My investigation in today’s @liverpoolpost reveals how the city’s biggest cultural institution ignored allegations of sexual and domestic violence against its resident historian, Laurence Westgaph 🧵 livpost.co.uk/p/laurence-wes…

I really loved writing this for @EngelsbergIdeas, on chorography, feat. Ptolemy, Ranulf Higden, William Camden, Spenser, Shakespeare, John Stow, William Blake, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nicolas Bouvier, Paul Devereux, Iain Sinclair, Mark Cocker & more engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-los…

The public's appetite for intellectual stimulation is now being met by podcasts. The risks to the written word may prove existential. My latest for @EngelsbergIdeas: engelsbergideas.com/notebook/podca…

This is how you get someone to open an email, 10/10 newslettering from @The_Fence_Mag

Do you hate January? If so, you are wrong, for January is the best of all months. See my 'Apology for January' in @The_Fence_Mag to learn why Jan is king and my beef with each of the other months

For centuries, ars moriendi depicted death, suicide—and what comes after. As MPs consider legalising assisted dying, they would be wise to look back at a long tradition, writes @JoshMcloughlin. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good-d…

For @prospect_uk's Good Death series, I wrote about ars moriendi, the art of death & assisted dying debates, feat. Plato, Henry Suso, the Black Death, Hamlet, Keats, Burke, Hume, Tagore, Derrida, physician associates, a privatised NHS & for-profit dying prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good-d…

'Once again, reading kept me going this year. I started the year recovering from an operation and seeking somewhere new to live.' Our creative editor James McLoughlin is back once again with another instalment of The Year in Books: newcritique.co.uk/2024/12/30/rev…