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Release day! First sighting of Orwell’s Ghosts in the wild (really at the Rockville Barnes & Noble) - and they had me sign it! @wwnorton
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Laura Beers
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Laura Beers
@Fiery_Particle
Historian of modern Britain. New book, Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twentieth Century, out now: https://t.co/8PS2ma2PRP
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Really proud to be included on this list! I'm not on X much at all anymore, but you can follow me on bluesky @fieryparticle.bsky.social
LA Times Festival of Books@latimesfob
And the finalists for this year's @latimes Book Prize for Biography are... Laura Beers (@Fiery_Particle) Cynthia Carr Jessica Goudeau (@jessica_goudeau) Alexis Pauline Gumbs Pamela D. Toler Congratulations, authors!! 🎉 latimes.com/bookprizes25
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She was also, more pertinently, personal private sec to the Min of Health during the 1929 Labour govt and Min of Edu from ‘45-47 — two posts that taught her the art of balancing compassion and a commitment to social justice with tough fiscal constraints. @RachelReevesMP
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves has swapped out a portrait of Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor, Nigel Lawson, for one of Ellen Wilkinson, a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain
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She was the first female Minister of Education, fought for justice, equality, women's rights, workers rights, international relations, and was one of the leading political voices against the rise of Fascism in 1930s Europe.
Great choice, @RachelReevesMP.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves has swapped out a portrait of Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor, Nigel Lawson, for one of Ellen Wilkinson, a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain
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@MichelleEgan14 @IanDunt I’m making a rare foray onto X during the VP debate and saw this. Ian, feel free to shoot me an email beers@american.edu
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@IanDunt @Fiery_Particle Laura Beers will know as she wrote book on Red Ellen and teaches British history and reform efforts
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Interested in some life-long learning? It's still not too late to register for my three-class course on George Orwell and the modern world. The first Zoom class begins tomorrow (9/5) at 1pm eastern.
Roundtable@Roundtable_92NY
What does it really mean to call something Orwellian? Discuss this and more starting on 9/5 with Laura Beers author of Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdoms and Warnings for the Twentieth-Century. bit.ly/4cNzZwn #Orwellian #georgeOrwell
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75 years after Nineteen Eighty-Four, this course reexamines Orwell's writing and its relevance today. Explore censorship, free speech, inequality, and more. What does "Orwellian" really mean? Find out with @Fiery_Particle. Register: hubs.la/Q02N2vqw0 #Orwell #Literature
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I'm doing a book event at Elaine's bookstore in Alexandria on Sunday, Sept. 8. Come join if you're in town!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/orwells-ghos… @Eventbrite
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Guess who hasn’t read your book @Fiery_Particle?
Elon Musk@elonmusk
“Operation Orwell” more like it
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Free tonight? Come see me discuss Orwell and contemporary politics with @SmithInAmerica at Politics and Prose
Politics and Prose@PoliticsProse
Friday, join @Fiery_Particle to discuss ORWELL'S GHOSTS - exploring George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today - 7PM @ Conn Ave - bit.ly/4dsrubi
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On the podcast | Laura Beers (@Fiery_Particle) explores the life and times of the writer responsible for conjuring up 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four': spr.ly/6019Y0XjT
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@UnwinPaul Oops, sorry! 🫣 couldn’t resist capturing Clare doing Ellen’s accusatory finger point
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@Fiery_Particle is the author of Red Ellen - Ellen Wilkinson’s definitive biography so this is praise indeed (the photo is entirely illicit but we’ll ignore that)🌹
Laura Beers@Fiery_Particle
Really enjoyed #thepromise @ChichesterFT. #clareburt did an amazing job bringing Ellen to life
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@UnwinPaul I should have done! I wrote a bit on Ellen for the programme and they arranged tickets for me and my husband while we were down south. Excited to see it!
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Confused about what Orwellian actually means and how his work is relevant in our current political moment? Read Orwell’s Ghosts
Elon Musk@elonmusk
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I laughed so hard I nearly spit out my coffee reading when I got to this line of the article this morning 😂
Natasha Korecki@natashakorecki
“This sudden outpouring of sympathy for a man he recently called ‘a broken-down old pile of crap’ was somewhat surprising.” nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/…
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@citizen_sanders The biggest pain for me is updating the assignment submission bit— so extremely fiddly and annoying!
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Putting together my fall course pages is easily my least favorite part of the summer. My 🧠 invariable manages to forget every non-intuitive Canvas feature between May and August 🤯 🤯 🤯
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I had a great time talking Orwell with @phil_tinline last week. If you are around Leeds this Wednesday 7/8, come hear me and @AndrewThorpe4 talk about the book at @WstonesLeeds. Tickets available at waterstones.com/events/an-even…
David Higham Books@DHAbooks
A wonderful discussion of all things Orwell @WaterstonesTraf last night: Laura Beers (@Fiery_Particle, author of #OrwellsGhosts) in conversation with @phil_tinline (#TheDeathOfConsensus)
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