Clive Webb (@CliveWebb14) profile picture

Historian at University of Sussex and freelance writer

Joined November 2020
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I have taught my final class. Now it's time to clear 30 years of work from my office.
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Inside issue 164: JFK in the Pacific with @CliveWebb14. Long before he became the 30th US President, Kennedy, commanded PT boats in the Pacific theatre. Kennedy became a famous war hero after surviving PT-109's sinking. ➡️ Buy Today: history-of-war.visitlink.me/…
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Inside issue 164: The Battle of Crete with @TuckerJones1944. ➕ JFK's WWII survival with @CliveWebb14 ➕ Operators' Handbook for the largest aircraft carrier. ➕ Great Battles: Mantinea - @murray_dahm. Spartan and Athenian hoplites clash. ➡️ Buy Today: history-of-war.visitlink.me/…
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Inside issue 163: Frontline features: ➤ Midget submarines at Pearl Harbor. ➤ @brendanpsimms on if Russia is headed for a collapse. ➤ Propaganda in the American Revolution. ➤ Recruiting in the OSS. ➤ Warsaw's turbulent history. ➡️ Buy Today: history-of-war.visitlink.me/…
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Three fakes invitations to literary festivals in one day. Clearly my books are more popular in the land of make believe.
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One dinner just isn’t enough.
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Clive Webb retweeted
I am retiring from the University of Sussex on 30th November. The time has come to move on.
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3 September 1783 - On this day, Great Britain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris to officially end the War of American Independence and recognise the Thirteen Colonies. Meanwhile, the Peace of Paris normalised relations between Great Britain and the US’ supporters.
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I am retiring from the University of Sussex on 30th November. The time has come to move on.
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Inside issue 162: Richard Nixon on the frontline with @CliveWebb14. Discover his rise to Lieutenant Commander during the Pacific War. “I felt that if I didn’t get where the action was I would not have done my duty," Nixon later said. ➡️ Buy Today: history-of-war.visitlink.me/…
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Nineteenth-century name of the day, someone who donated to the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society in 1835: Noble Lovely. @ActualNames1
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Inside issue 162: Okinawa, the bloodiest battle of the Pacific. ➕ The Japanese Americans who went from internment to the frontline. ➕ What if Able Archer 83 had led to war? ➕ Richard Nixon's Second World War service. ➡️ Buy Today: history-of-war.visitlink.me/…
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Clive Webb retweeted
Vietdamned has won the Bertrand Russell Society's book award for 2025-26.
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Vietdamned has won the Bertrand Russell Society's book award for 2025-26.
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The Cambridge Handbook of the League of Nations and International Law is out!
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Inside issue 158 - Star-Spangled Fascism. University of Sussex historian @CliveWebb14 explores the rise and fall of Fritz Kuhn, and how Nazism found a foothold in 1930s America through the German American Bund, pictured on a parade. ➡️ Buy Today: history-of-war.visitlink.me/…
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Clive Webb retweeted
I’m beyond excited to share that my debut book is on the way! 'Long Distance Runners: Black Women Radicals and the Struggle for Liberation' will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in early 2027.
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It’s 60 years since Bertrand Russell announced a tribunal to assess US war crimes in Vietnam. I tell an abbreviated version of my book Vietdamned in the latest issue of Tribune magazine.
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Very pleased to learn that Rachel Pistol and Dawn-Marie Gibson's excellent collection on the Obama presidency - in which I have an essay on US-UK relations - has been recognised as a Choice outstanding academic title.
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It’s 60 years since Bertrand Russell announced a tribunal to assess US war crimes in Vietnam. I tell an abbreviated version of my book Vietdamned in the latest issue of Tribune magazine.
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