Simeon Koole

Very exciting news! "Intimate Subjects" has been shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Historical Society First Book Prize!! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/05/28/roy… Now to wait on tenterhooks! @UChicagoPress @dylanmontanari

Thrilled to see a thoughtful, sparky review of "Intimate Subjects" in the London Review of Books (8 May)! lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/… Thanks @hannahrosewoods for engaging with the book so carefully! @LRB @LRBbookshop @UChicagoPress @dylanmontanari

Thanks @tomsojka for a great conversation about Intimate Subjects for @NewBooksBritish @NewBooksNetwork podcast. Check it out here! newbooksnetwork.com/intimate-subje…

she’s got a cover, and she’s up for preorder! Queer Correctives is out summer 2025: bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-corre…

It’s arrived! So excited to receive this in the post. Thank you @dylanmontanari for being an extraordinary editor and everyone at @UChicagoPress for all your work! #sensoryhistory #sensorystudies.

Please join us on 27 July! I will talk about the history of drugs and its colonial legacy.

Check out @PaulRDeslandes1's wonderful book 'The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain'! My review for @VicStudies is available here: muse.jhu.edu/article/928582

Important new exhibition @TPGallery Ernest Cole: House of Bondage  thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/ernes…

Introducing...the cover for Intimate Subjects! Coming to a bookstore near you and online from 26 July. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

..."In packed tube trains people learn how to maintain their personal space; [...] in anthropogenic fog, familiar cityscapes become queer and mysterious. How, Koole asks with D.H. Lawrence, should we be tender in this bruising life?" Thanks @PeterMandler1!

Hot off the press! The first review of Intimate Subjects is in from @PeterMandler1 : "In this sophisticated cultural history, Koole guides us through the crowded, anonymous city to reveal new worlds of human proximity"... press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Thrilled that the film I and @benmechen collaborated on with @GeorgeandClark is opening Open City Documentary Festival! It's a layered imagining of precarity in London's docks with beautiful shooting, performance art, and an original score @OpenCityDocs. opencitylondon.com/events/opening…

Go see the new Tropical Modernism exhibition at the V&A: a fascinating exploration of how modernist architecture was applied to colonial Ghana and India and then adapted for a new postcolonial era @william_whyte @OSaumarezSmith. vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/tr…

Having collaborated with George Clark on our opening night film, SUNLESS HAVEN, join historian @SimeonKoole on 28 Apr, 10:30 for a guided walk through London's docklands, revealing the traces of its past global connections which the film explores. opencitylondon.com/events/within-…

Excited to hear @James11Vernon at the Bristol-Exeter Modern British History group tonight. Discussing the brilliant academic.oup.com/past/advance-a…

Street vendor's stand displaying gourd-shaped glass trumpets called bu bu deng at New Year's, Beijing, c. 1933-1946 Morrison, Hedda Collection Photograph by Hedda Morrison President and Fellows of Harvard College hv24-163 zpr.io/H6vqJ #beijing #streetmarket #chin

Mashers, 'ooligans, toffs, coppers, vicars, jolly-jack-tars, mooks, mushers, dockers, schnorrers: we've got them all, and more, on my 1-day lecture/seminar course 'The East End in Fiction and Fact' @BishopsgateInst on Sat 1 Feb Deets here: bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activ…

Very cool to see Archaeologies of Touch reviewed in Senses & Society--a journal very influential for my work. Thanks a ton @SimeonKoole for the write-up & engagement. (cc @SensoryStudies) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Announcing MBS2019! Three days of Modern British Studies (and more?). University of Birmingham, 3-5 July 2019. Save the dates and stay tuned for more details.