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The 鈥榯ransnational鈥� is an old theme in British imperial history, though continually reinventing itself in new interventions and guises. The two-day workshop Between and Beyond: Transnational Networks and the British Empire engaged with a number of important conceptual and historiographical questions in the field of British imperial history. What role does the British empire play in the facilitation of networks within, without and beyond its boundaries? Do we need to think of the networks of the British Empire following Tony Ballantyne鈥檚 metaphor of a 鈥渨eb鈥�? Is the web of networks in the British Empire made of only main arteries or of 鈥渕ultiple filaments鈥�? And what does 鈥榯ransnational鈥� bring to the field of imperial studies, particularly when posited with the ever-expanding category of the 鈥榞lobal鈥�? By Somak Biswas and Dr Guillemette Crouzet.

When Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University) published his internet essay  in March 2017, it featured the ominous subtitle 鈥業s global history still possible or has it had its moment?鈥�. Yet unlike what some commentators assumed, Adelman's intention had never been to announce The End of Global History. Quite the opposite. On 1 November 2017, Professor Adelman joined 糖心TV's Global History Reading Group for a discussion of his thought piece. In this first blog post on the new Global History and Culture Centre Blog, Dr Guillemette Crouzet and Dr Guido van Meersbergen reflect on Adelman鈥檚 timely intervention.