💥 WOAHHH! Floored to have won a Philip Leverhulme Prize @leverhulme.ac.uk Reminded again of Raph Sam - ‘history is a social form of knowledge; the work in any given instance of a thousand different hands’ & feeling wildly lucky to have such wonderful & generous friends, mentors, & colleagues ❤️‍🔥

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Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism. It explores how and why “equality” became, rather suddenly, a basis on which ordinary men and women could make political demands in early modern England. Please, check it out!

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My local LGBTQ bookshop (run by two white non-binary people) recently had windows smashed. There are now constantly middle-aged British Asian men dropping by to check they are doing okay. And the youth club with loadsa queer/neurodivergent kids just got rehoused in the Roma Centre. I love it here.

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I think there is genuine confusion between the generation that fought the Second World War and the generation that grew up watching Second World War films.

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