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Christian Damm Pedersen
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Historian | Teacher | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
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Fantastic to see the special issue Repentance & Reappraisal: Historicising the Defenders of Slavery in the Netherlands out in BMGN! Insightful & urgent contributions that resonate well beyond the Netherlands #skystoriansbmgn-lchr.nl/issue/view/1...

Cover for the BMGN Low Countries Historical Review, special issue: Repentance and Reappraisal: Historicising the Defenders of Slavery in the Netherlands
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QMUL will be the place to be for British History Today! 1-2 May 2025 20-minute papers of 90-minute panels by 24 January JOIN US! This will be fun! projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/#skystorians#britishhistory#HistoryToday

British History Today
Queen Mary University of London
1-2 May 2025
What might a history of Britain and the world which speaks to the problems of our current world look like? What new histories need writing? Which explanations of the past require reworking, and which assume a renewed urgency for historians today? Which actors, sites, institutions or structures command our attention? Which are the key moments of transformation or periods of endurance? What are our chronologies and temporalities? What, indeed, are the new forms that our histories might assume? What are the conceptual categories that they might mobilise?

In the midst of our multiplying crises, disputes over the interpretation of Britain’s pasts have become increasingly prominent. The authority of the academic historian competes with many others. Museums, statues, schools and national institutions from the Church of England to the National Trust have become the terrain on which competing political visions of the past compe
How can we understand and explain the pasts that have shaped or have use for our present? In addressing these themes, and connecting our disparate answers together, this event is predicated on the possibility for a renewed history of modern Britain. We will take stock of the field and consider what an agenda shaped by the demands of our present might be. If we are to value the practice of historical imagination and understanding, it requires not that we simplify the past to meet the stark battle lines of the present, but that we insist on the complexity of the past, and its otherness. There can be no guarantees about which sites, actors, or times require or demand our attention as we press the questions of our present to the past; rather, it is the very loss of guarantees in the present that holds the possibility of opening the past up to us anew.

The above questions describe the challenges of historical imagination, interpretation and understanding that confront us, but we also hope
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Many thanks 😊@emilyjhogg.bsky.social

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I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to be a visiting scholar at the University of Exeter, Centre for Imperial and Global History, for the remainder of the year. Many thanks to the Carlsberg Foundation for awarding me a grant www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-h...

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💥Congrats to Christian Damm Pedersen! He has received a Carlsberg Foundation grant for a visiting scholar position at Centre for Imperial and Global History, Department of Archaeology and History, University of Exeter ✨ 📲https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-have-funded/cf24-0704/

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Yes, what do foreign academics know about British democracy! Always the same bloody “Britain going to the dogs” tune. Probably paid by Brussels or that Russian guy - what’s his name, Putemkin? - to besmirch Britain’s reputation. How sickening 😂 Don’t read this foreign nonsense 🤣

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👏Tak til Seniorhøjskolen i Odense for muligheden for at diskutere den nye Labourregerings mange udfordringer, julivalgets udfald og demokratiske krisetegn i Storbritannien siden Brexit🇬🇧

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Robin Kelley’s “Africa speaks, America answers” would be good, I think

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Christian Damm Pedersen
@christiandp.bsky.social
Historian | Teacher | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
252 followers419 following26 posts