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The audiobook of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is $0.99 on Amazon.com / 99p on Amazon.co.uk. Links in thread, plus links for 30% off from @[email protected] (valid for all books!).
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I spoke with @[email protected] from GEO Magazin about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. Gesa’s interview essay is out in the print edition of the May issue! Online version to come but the print mag is GORGEOUS. 💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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ICYMI: I chatted with screenwriter @[email protected] about the links between politics and pop culture, and the entangled history of humans and monsters. 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH #monsters
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The video of my book talk on Humans: A Monstrous History at @[email protected] is now available online! 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG9N...
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UK folks: now that the paperback is out, the gorgeous hardback of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is on sale at Waterstones for 10 GBP - down from 25 GBP! Spinoff essays and excerpts are linked in the thread. 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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Ten-day countdown to paperback #PubDay for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, @[email protected]! Here's a thread of book excerpts. Get 30% off by ordering from the press w/code discount code UCPSAVE30. 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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The PAPERBACK of Humans: A Monstrous History from @[email protected], a history *through* monsters from antiquity to the present, is available to preorder! Here's a 🧵 of excerpts from the book. 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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Humans: A Monstrous History is a year old today! Here’s a 🧵 of some spinoff writings and interviews. 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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Newsletter (link in bio) subscriber gift: an essay on the story *behind* my Smithsonian Magazine essay. Existing subscribers: check your inboxes! Not yet a subscriber? Subscribe for free to receive the essay. 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #HAMH www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this...
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Can an archive make a monster of a historian? But of course! I wrote about this for @[email protected], and the essay is now both free to read online and available as an audio read by me! The audio version: 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #maps #cartography 1/2
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CORRECTION: My lecture in London is on the evening of Thursday 5th March! Sorry, folks. 'Twas my first day doing any work after the break. 😭 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
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London book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! I'll be speaking on Thursday 5th May, 6pm, at @[email protected] More info and registration below. A free exhibition, "Wonder" is now on and ends the next day. 1/2 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
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Happy #PubDay for the Complex/Traditional Chinese translation of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from Gusa Publishing House, Taiwan! Available: World excluding Mainland China. More translations coming! 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #worldhistory #politics 1/
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I wrote in @[email protected] about how a chance encounter with monsters in the archives led to my two books on monsters, science, exploration, maps, and culture. 1/🧵 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #archives #libraries #arthistory
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My book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is now available on the Linda Hall Library's YouTube channel. Come take a tour through monsters and monster-making, from earth to outer space! 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #politics www.youtube.com/watch?v=81KT...
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Gift-shopping for a nerd with a conscience? HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY (@[email protected]) blends centuries of history, science, literature, pop culture & social justice, from earth to outer space. 1/ 🧵 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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Today! Free book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, hosted by the Linda Hall Library: 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST) Register to get the Zoom link. 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #renaissance #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #politics
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Thrilled that HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is one of @[email protected]'s best books of 2025 in @[email protected]! 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #politics 1/
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Free book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, hosted by the Linda Hall Library: Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST) Register at link below. 1/ 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH events.lindahall.org/humansamonst...
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I talked with @bethbarany.bsky.social about how curating an exhibition got me into monsters; on what makes a good #SFF monster; #StarTrek’s Borg Collective; and lessons from Monsters, Inc. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! 1/ 💙📚 🗃 #histsci #politics #HAMH writersfunzone.com/blog/2025/11...
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Happy Halloween! Here's a thread of some of my monstery essays, and a link to register for my next book talk, hosted by the Linda Hall Library: Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST) 1/ 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH events.lindahall.org/humansamonst...
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Delighted that HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY was featured in @neilmackay.bsky.social's Long Read column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to chat with Neil. 1/2 #monsters #politics #sociology #psychology #folklore 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
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Natalie Lawrence (ENCHANTED CREATURES) and I (HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY) were interviewed by @kensycoop.bsky.social on the @manymindspod.bsky.social #podcast! Some monster-making egs we explored: 1/ 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #psychology #HAMH 🧵
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I spoke with screenwriter and novelist @colehaddon.bsky.social about the links between politics and pop culture, the entangled history of humans and monsters, and (in a second episode) an iconic double episode of #StarTrek #TNG. 1/ 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH 🧵
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"It's up to us whether to worry about whether we're monsters or to celebrate uniqueness. And in the monster there is beauty." I got to chat with host Alexis Pedrick in the studio for the Distillations podcast at @sciencehistory.org. Listen now: 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #HAMH
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ICYMI: Book talks from @histfest.bsky.social at @britishlibrary.bsky.social are on the British Library's YouTube channel! Here's the link to my conversation with @k8lister.bsky.social about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #politics #HAMH
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