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Neil Gregor
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Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton. The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany (University of Chicago Press, May 2025). Things German, musical, historical, political, with some bicycles and mountains https://bit.ly/3ZwwJlM .. more

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · May 2
Well look what the postie brought!

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 12d
Beyond the call of duty if you don’t have German!

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 13d
Who said work and cat photos don’t mix

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 13d
Dear all,

if you ever wondered what an Englishman with acute laryngitis sounded like trying to give a public lecture in German you can now find out - grateful thanks to @topographie.de for their solicitous hospitality, and to Friedrich Geiger for the generous introduction.
youtu.be/3TCDNDyxBlg
Das Sinfoniekonzert im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland
YouTube video by Topographie des Terrors
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 25d
The perfect gift for that awkward aunt or uncle to buy for this holiday season is available on a 30% discount til 31 December - details in flyer.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 25d
It isn’t.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 26d
I think I would seek to preserve moral valence (as always, however complex, layered etc.)

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 26d
sounds a little euphemistic to me.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 26d
'Initial incursions' is one way of describing what happened on Oct 7.....

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 26d
My sentiments, perfectly distilled, with the exception that I would use less parliamentary language.

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Leave me alone, AI
If I wanted your tedious advice on how to do the simplest thing online, I would have asked for it
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 27d
This is so problematic. Creating big-money grants (7m EUR!) is such a travesty. Instead of funding 1 researcher, why not fund 25 with smaller grants? It would create more ideas, secure more careers, and create so much more innovative knowledge. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
ERC’s new €7m Plus Grants open to researchers at any career stage - Research Professional News
European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 27d
1900.

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Das Sinfoniekonzert im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland
www.topographie.de

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 27d
Are you in Berlin? Speaking at the Topographie on 10.12.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 27d
Nicely done.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 29d
C4 news usually does so much better with its guests - this was just Reform bigotry and ignorance dressed up as expertise.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Nov 25
Good luck to everyone who applies! Great opportunities in a great institution.

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Two Research Fellow Positions in Modern and Contemporary History – GHI Washington
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StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social · Nov 25
📣Join us on 2 Dec, 5.30pm for our hybrid SBC lecture and reception with Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall' - Please register for in-person or online attendance. Eventbrite links below

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Nov 17
More publication news: "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by @drhelenroche.bsky.social and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social, is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social.
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Cover of Abusing Antiquity? volume showing Athena (?) portrayed in the style of Attic red-figure painting holding a sign that says "you will not replace our Classics" and a shield with Pepe the frog on it.

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StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social · Nov 17
📣 Join us on Tues, 2 Dec, at 5.30pm for a hybrid lecture by Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall', followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public. For details and registration see Eventbrite links👇

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Nov 14
Once upon a time a chancellor would have had to resign for that. Oh for the days of Purdah.

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Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social · Nov 10
Die Historikerin Gisela Bock ist gestorben. In der FAZ ein Nachruf von Daniel Schönpflug
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Nov 6
It's a great honour to have been invited to speak about my book in Berlin again, this time in German, and this time at the @topographie.de - Topographie des Terrors - on 10 December. Details here - do come along if you are in Berlin!
www.topographie.de/veranstaltun...
Das Sinfoniekonzert im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland
www.topographie.de

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Waveybobson (95,7% links) @bobbybaerchen.bsky.social · Nov 5
Honig wach auf die @zeit.de hat einen politischen Kompass fallengelassen auf dem die Grünen links der Linken sind und die Nazipartei Mitte-rechts
Politischer Kompass aus der Mitte-Umfrage der ZEIT Die Abstimmungen ergeben eine Pyramide, die meisten haben mittig abgestimmt. Die Mitte befindet sich, oh Wunder, laut Zeit zwischen Union und SPD. Mitte links finden sich die Linke und links davon die Grünen. Ja, richtig gelesen, die ZEIT ordnet die Grünen linker als die Linke ein. Mitte rechts dann die gesichert rechtsextreme Nazipartei. Mein Ergebnis besagt komischerweise, dass 99% rechter als ich abgestimmt haben.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Nov 4
This is quite worrying.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Nov 4
Well - if you out yourself as having an intimate knowledge of Bay City Rollers lyrics then you are obviously open to accusations that you are drunk as a lord in the middle of the afternoon. But I did mean that your talents deserve greater recognition!

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Nov 4
Hugh you are clearly wasted here.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Nov 2
Karl Lueger dividing the spirits as ever….

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Ann D.P. 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @anadiplosis.bsky.social · Oct 31
Hörenswertes Interview

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Das Sinfoniekonzert in Nazi-Deutschland - Historiker Neil Gregor mit neuem Buch
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Oct 31
Remind me to give another lecture in Vienna sometime.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Oct 30
Huge pleasure to talk at the Uni. f. Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna this evening - thanks to the audience for stomaching my German and for their really penetrating questions.