People it seems no longer have the experience of picking and storing apples, otherwise they would understand this expression... 🍎🍏🌳

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And what shines through these essays is the commitment to history as hope for a better world, as well as historical practice as also about friendship, shared intellectual endeavour and solidarity.

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Apologies for the pessimism, I am deeply miserable right now. But it goes without saying that it is exactly the kind of scholarship that Hall is doing & has inspired us to do that we need right now. The essays in this book map her intervention as part of the wider field of critical colonial studies.

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Two new (spot on) phrases to add to my vocabulary: “sad, grey slop,” and “ocean of sameness.

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18 October 1583: In Russia, Elizabeth's ambassador Jerome Bowes begins negotiations with Ivan the Terrible. According to the ODNB, he had 'the impossible task of procuring the most advantageous trading privileges for the English without giving the tsar anything in return ... #earlymodern

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