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Peter Mitchell

(He/Him)
Newcastle upon Tyne
As seen in: The Guardian, Yahoo Sports Canada, BioRxiv, Red Pepper (UK), The Chad
Covers:  Politics, history, nostalgia, culture, arts, books, fiction, nonfiction, books in translation, former Soviet sphere, Northern England
ruinous folly covered in moss | 'Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves' (MUP 2021)
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Our finest forever: Britain’s World War Two nostalgia

Our finest forever: Britain’s World War Two nostalgia

Red Pepper (UK) — Peter Mitchell on the great national myth of World War Two
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It Goes on Forever

It Goes on Forever

Review 31 — Peter Mitchell: I Wanna Be Yours - John Cooper Clarke reviewed by Peter Mitchell | Review 31: an online literary review.
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The National Trust is under attack because it cares about history, not fantasy | Peter Mitchell

The National Trust is under attack because it cares about history, not fantasy | Peter Mitchell

The Guardian — Whereas the Trust wants to explore its historic links to slavery, the right wants to preserve an unreal version of the past, says historian Peter Mitchell
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To the far right, attacks on protesters as enemies of 'western culture' are a gift

To the far right, attacks on protesters as enemies of 'western culture' are a gift

The Guardian — Some reaction to the statue-toppling in Bristol reveals the influence of the 'great replacement' conspiracy theory, says historian Peter Mitchell
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Culture Wars and Decolonizing the University

Culture Wars and Decolonizing the University

newsocialist.org.uk — Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nişancoğlu (Eds) Decolonising the University Pluto Press, 2018 Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure Penguin, 2018 On the day I finished this article, three things caught my attention.
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The Great Northern Morlock Hunt

The Great Northern Morlock Hunt

Review 31 — Peter Mitchell | Review 31: an online literary review.
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Peter Mitchell reviews Malacqua: Four Days of Rain in the City of Naples, Waiting for the Occurre...

Peter Mitchell reviews Malacqua: Four Days of Rain in the City of Naples, Waiting for the Occurre...

Asymptote — Times of political violence and foreboding generate portents: think of Shakespeare, living in a culture obsessed with comets and visitations, writing plays in which no downward adjustment in the political world isn't heralded by disorders of the air, meteors, or the dead gibbering in the stree
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Mythography - TLS

Mythography - TLS

The Times Literary Supplement — On Empire of Sentiment by Joanna Lewis
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Peter Mitchell reviews Kingdom Cons, The Transmigration of Bodies, and Signs Preceding the End of...

Peter Mitchell reviews Kingdom Cons, The Transmigration of Bodies, and Signs Preceding the End of...

Asymptote — Narcocorridos are the folk music of the Latin American drug wars, and they're massive in Mexico. They take a traditional form honed in the Mexican revolutionary wars-the corrido, or narrative ballad in praise of the hero and his exploits-and update it for a world
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Sixty Billion Chickens a Year

Sixty Billion Chickens a Year

Review 31 — Peter Mitchell: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet - Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore reviewed by Peter Mitchell | Review 31: an online literary review.
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Waiting for Sargon

Waiting for Sargon

Review 31 — Peter Mitchell | Review 31: an online literary review.
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Peter Mitchell reviews Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić - Asymptote

Peter Mitchell reviews Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić - Asymptote

Asymptote — All the descriptions of Dubravka Ugrešić's Fox, either from the publisher Open Letter or elsewhere, suggest it's a smorgasbord of literary trivia, anecdote, and musings about The Magic Of Stories. The font on the cover-which features a big, blocky picture of a fo
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Mythography - TLS

Mythography - TLS

The Times Literary Supplement — On Empire of Sentiment by Joanna Lewis
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Colonialism - TLS

Colonialism - TLS

The Times Literary Supplement — Malcolm Jack's new book is a broad survey of European and colonial literature detailing the encounter with South Africa's Khoisan peoples and its natural environment up to the mid-nineteenth century. Beginning with Bartolomeu Dias rounding the Cape in 1488 and finishing on the eve of the Boers' "Great Trek" into the interior in 1836, To ...
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That Lunatic Risk

That Lunatic Risk

Review 31 — Peter Mitchell | Review 31: an online literary review.
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Off the rails - TLS

Off the rails - TLS

The Times Literary Supplement — The effects of transport policy on a nation
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This Is Normal

This Is Normal

Review 31 — Peter Mitchell: Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today - Anna Feigenbaum reviewed by Peter Mitchell | Review 31: an online literary review.
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Anthologies - TLS

Anthologies - TLS

The Times Literary Supplement — Dalkey Archive has built a reputation on a pursuit of otherwise untranslated work, a contempt for commercial viability, and a commitment to a broadly modernist aesthetics. B est European Fiction,...
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The Quietus | Features | Tome On The Range | Immigration As Erasal: On 'Signs Preceding The End O...

The Quietus | Features | Tome On The Range | Immigration As Erasal: On 'Signs Preceding The End O...

The Quietus — Pete Mitchell considers Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World - the author's only full-length work currently translated in to English - in the light and shadow of its macho, othering, counterparts in Anglophone border fiction, as well as its translated contemporaries, and the spectre of that last great imaginary line in the sand
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