JRHentschke, see also @jrhentschke.bsky.social
@jrhentschke
Chair of Latin American History and Politics🇧🇷🇺🇾🇦🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴 Newcastle Univ.; SLAS President 2015-17; Chair of the Standing Conference 2017-19. Views my own
Pleased to see my article ‘#School Reforms, #Culture Wars, and National Consolidation: #Uruguay and #Belgium, 1860s-1915’ published in Diamond OA by journal "Historia" in Santiago de Chile: revistahistoria.uc.cl/index.php/rhis…. An extract was presented in my public lecture at @IAI_Bibliothek.
Indeed, classics that we can read time and again.
Moore, Tilly and Mann as exemplars You can argue in various ways for a historical social science. But, as Kuhn said, exemplars that serve as models for how to do research are very influential. And these three books are exemplars that continue to inspire me.
That's really funny😉
Holy shit! Jerome Powell just showed more courage than the entire White House press corps combined. Trump, who NEVER gets any pushback from the press when he lies, just got publicly spanked by someone who is not taking any of his bullshit — Jerome Powell.
📕 This looks really interesting: Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. @CambridgeUP coming out August 2025. cambridge.org/gb/universityp…
Can't wait to read Freedom's Horizon: Black Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by dear Isadora Moura Mota #slaveryarchive
El historiador francés Marc Bloch fue un miembro destacado de la Escuela de los Annales sobre historia social. Su obra más conocida es La sociedad feudal. Descarga de La sociedad feudal: significanteotro.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl… Descarga de Apologia para la historia: jcguanche.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…
La escuela de los Annales Estos libros de Burke y Burguiére ofrecen una discusión detallada de los autores e ideas clave de esta escuela. Descarga libre de La Revolución historiográfica: academia.edu/6144272/BURKE_… Descarga libre La escuela de los Annales: ia601500.us.archive.org/17/items/burgu…
Oh, yee, especially if this jewel is just around the corner.
There are few things on Earth more impressive than medieval castles. Bamburgh Castle, England (1095)
Counting down to the publication of 2 fantastic new books this summer: Nautical Rutters & New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600 - out 6/8/25 Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy - out 22/9/25 Pre-order them now! aup.nl/en/series/mari…
Very interesting: Iberian Pacific/Asia? tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆 This set of volumes by @CambridgeUP is a wonderful resource to learn about the history of philosophy.
The book edited by @HeidiTworek and me with @RoutledgeHist is two years old, and to celebrate its attainment of toddler status, is now available in paperback! Great for classes in HIST/IR with 50+ contributors in 40 globally-framed, thematic chapters!
Me too.
I will use this chart for teaching
May we present: Matthew Wilson, First-Class graduate and winner of the prize of 'Best Student of #Portuguese' at @UniofNewcastle @SML_Newcastle in 2025. Matthew already won a prize by the Portuguese embassy before. And he is also a fan of History. His teachers are proud of him.
Today Humans in Shackles is hanging out with African Dominion by Michael Gomez among the 9 first best sellers in Slavery and Emancipation history. Still 46% off amazon.com/Humans-Shackle…
One of my favourite events of the academic year! Never miss it, if not on fieldwork. So nice to see students in that proud moment, meet their parents, celebrate their success, ask about their plans!
And that's a wrap on week 1 of Summer Congregations 🎊 It's been so nice to see everyone celebrating their hard work and getting their shining moment in King's Hall Congratulations to our grads. And to next week's graduands we'll see you soon ☺️ #nclgrad #weareNCL
Any change of the ISA allowance or cap, and wait what will happen!
Reeves puts reform of UK cash ISAs on hold following backlash on.ft.com/4eT1wz1
One fifth of SPLAS and half of the Portuguese team at Newcastle - 100% celebrating student successes🤣
