Benjamin Thomas White

@btwhite.bsky.social

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Researching and teaching refugee history. No DMs, I'm afraid, please email me (easy to find).

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Front cover image of History Workshop Journal issue 100, with a hand-drawn illustration of a Wollemi pine.
Screenshot of text: Indeed, most modern states’ militaries would have no difficulty carrying out similar airstrikes on a place like Lebanon, which lacks air defenses, and almost any state could impose an aid blockade and shoot starving people in an occupied enclave such as Gaza. What ultimately prevents other states from doing these things in plain sight, or for such prolonged periods of time and with such intensity, is not a lack of technological prowess, but of weapons, funding, and political will. Looking at matters this way, it becomes clear that Israel’s true “innovation” in this moment is political: the feat of securing unique access to an endless supply of Western weapons, intelligence, and most of all, political backing, all of which have given it a destructive capacity that may truly be unprecedented in modern history.
Screenshot of original news story headlined 'Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Literature Prize', with a photo of a mature man quite closely resembling 'Hide the pain Harold' (who is actually a Hungarian man named András Arató), in roughly the same position to the right of the picture.
Screenshot of news story headlined 'Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Literature Prize accompanied by an image (closely resembling that on the original story) of 'Hide the pain Harold', an internet personality – a widely circulated stock photo showing a mature man sitting at a laptop, holding a mug, and giving a rather pained smile.
Title page of La Trace de Rome dans le désert de Syrie, illustrated by a woodcut showing a biplane soaring over a hilly landscape.
Black-and-white photograph of a biplane flying high over a landscape of fields and hills.
Three men stand in front of a biplane, two in the uniforms of aviators (with helmets and goggles) and one in the uniform of ground crew. The middle figure, an aviator, is an older man with white beard and a walking stick.
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Screenshot of a paragraph of text, reading as follows: In​ 1915, faced with mass resistance to rent hikes, profiteering landlords in Glasgow attempted to deduct tenants’ debts directly from their pay packets by making claims in the small debt court. When legal summonses were issued, a march led by local women brought the streets to a standstill. ‘Glasgow witnessed a demonstration the like of which had never been seen before,’ the trade unionist and future Communist Party MP Willie Gallacher remembered. ‘From far away Dalmuir in the west, from Parkhead in the east, from Cathcart in the south and Hyde Park in the north, the dungareed army of the proletariat invaded the centre of the city.’ Panicked by the growing militancy, figures at every level of government – from David Lloyd George, the chancellor, to George V – insisted that the landlords back down, lest civil unrest spread. A week later the government introduced a Rent Restrictions Bill.
Screenshot of short excerpt from a poem, reading (with line breaks preserved) as follows: the sad historians are trying to make sense of things through the convolutions of their brains.