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Thomas J. Sojka

Thomas J. Sojka (@tomsojka) is a PhD candidate in history at Boston University, where he researches elite sociability, party going, and gossip in 1920s and 1930s Britain.

Human Interest: On Deborah Cohen’s “Last Call at the Hotel Imperial”

Thomas J. Sojka considers Deborah Cohen’s study of five US journalists immediately before World War II....

THOMAS J. SOJKA

HISTORY

Ordinary People’s History: On Laura Carter’s “Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918–1979”

Carter’s book is a reminder that the quotidian can be both exciting and also key to understanding the lived reality of the past....

THOMAS J. SOJKA

HISTORY

Explicit and Confounding Books: On Christopher Hilliard’s “A Matter of Obscenity”

A lucid and engaging cultural history of censorship debates in Britain from 1857 to 1979....

THOMAS J. SOJKA

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