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Alex Levine
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PhD student at UCLA studying 20th-century European internationalisms
https://history.ucla.edu/person/alex-levine/
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Out now: brill.com/view/journal...
August 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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András Nagy - Diplomacy and Disregard

The Hungarian Revolution and the United Nations 1956–1963

À paraître en janvier aux Indiana UP
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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uclssees.bsky.social
Tomorrow! Join us for this seminar with Anders Blomqvist to find out how #Sweden responded to the evolving 'Transylvanian Question' from the post–WWI settlement through the late communist period in #Romania.

🗓️ 11 November at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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Event poster for 'Transylvania and Sweden: Contested Borders and Human Rights (1918–1995)' with a photo of a Man Riding Horse Sculpture in Romania.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Unser Sammelband "Hamburg: Tor zur kolonialen Welt. Erinnerungsorte der (post-)kolonialen Globalisierung" ist jetzt als open access Version vollständig frei verfügbar: www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...

@juergenzimmerer.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
Hamburg. Tor zur kolonialen Welt | Wallstein Open Library
Als wichtigster Hafen Deutschlands war Hamburg auch zentrale Kolonialmetropole. Das »Tor zur Welt« war über Jahrhunderte ein Tor zur kolonialen Welt. Man hatte Handelsbeziehungen zu Kolonialmächten un...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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brionyneilson.bsky.social
Thrilled to see this introduction by me and Charlotte Ann Legg to our special issue on "Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific" is now out and in open access. The rest of our special issue – with a fantastic array of articles – will be out soon! @journalpacifichist.bsky.social
Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain, and the Pacific
This special issue explores the connected histories of France, Britain, and the Pacific in the 19th and early 20th centuries at the level of states, colonial administrations, people, practices, and...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Brilliant seeing @lscholz.bsky.social commended by @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar's 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History for his article:

"The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" in our next issue

ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...
2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp) for their a...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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japvie81.bsky.social
Mit @hcpetersen.bsky.social haben wir herausgegeben: "Antiosteuropäischer Rassismus. Vermessungen eines Forschungsfeldes", ein zweisprachiger Band des Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (JKGE). Alle Beiträge sind Open Access!

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Antiosteuropäischer Rassismus. Vermessungen eines Forschungsfeldes / Anti-East European Racism. Surveying a Field of Research
Is there racism against people from Eastern Europe in Germany, Western Europe or North America? Despite the global anti-racist mobilisation of recent years, this question has not usually been asked. T...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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florianlouis.bsky.social
Miloš Jovanović - Cities of Dust and Mud

Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920

À paraître en juin aux Stanford UP
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I am happy to share my Past & Present (@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) article (available in Open Access). It examines what happened to the "abandoned land" of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in 1878 and finds much post-Ottoman legal continuity. (1)
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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It's #MosseWednesday! 🎉 Congratulations to Catherine Tatiana Dunlop for winning @historians.org's George L. Mosse Prize in European Intellectual and Cultural History for her new book, The Mistral: A Windswept History Of Modern France. 🎉

#europeanstudiesatuwmadison #UWHistdept
#AHA26
October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Did you know that the first international antifascist news bulletin was called "Chronik des Faschismus", published in Berlin - below the cover from the very first issue, August 1923. For the full background story, see: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...
Chronik des Faschismus, anti-fascist newsletter published in Berlin in August 1923
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Happy to have contributed a review of Liliane Stadler's excellent book on Swiss diplomacy during the Soviet-Afghan War to the latest H-Diplo Roundtable. Other great contributions by Timothy Nunan, Sandra Bott, Vassily Klimentov and Robert Nichols.

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October 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
From the current issue: “Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879”

by Adam Mestyan (‪@harvard.edu‬)

doi.org/10.1093/past...
October 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Surviving Rome by Kim Bowes presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today’s laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world.

Out Nov 4 (6 Jan UK pub). Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#AncientRome
Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent by Kim Bowes. A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy.
October 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Thrilled to share that my book The Interpreters is out!
It explores how Britain engaged with the politics of Southeastern Europe—national questions, federations, and minority rights—and how those debates echoed from the Balkans to Ireland.
🔗 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526160133/
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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conteurohistory.bsky.social
📣 New Voices continues with a blog from Rosie Charles, @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social.

Rosie's blog explores superphosphate manufacturing by the British and French empires, charting the impact of fertiliser production on imperial expansion and agricultural practices.

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Empire in the Soil: Superphosphate and the British and French Imperial Manufacture, 1914-1937 « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
The history of European imperial agriculture has often been told through the lens of technological innovation, such as the development of the agricultural automotive industry or the application of adv...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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ghiwashington.bsky.social
Titles available in #OpenAccess from our "Transatlantische historische Studien" series (Steiner Verlag) include "Unbequeme Erinnerer" (Corsten, 2023) and "Encountering Empire" (Engel, 2015) biblioscout.net/series/THS
Cover of "Unbequeme Erinnerer: Emigrierte Historiker in der westdeutschen und US-amerikanischen NS- und Holocaust-Forschung, 1945–1998," by Anna Corsten Cover of "Encountering Empire: African American Missionaries in Colonial Africa, 1900–1939," by Elisabeth Engel
October 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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📣Out now on #firstview!

Nathaniel Andrews, Kate Ferris & Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (all @standrewshist.bsky.social) on 'Writing Histories of Everyday Life in Authoritarian Regimes, from Europe to the Global South'

#Everyday #History #Geography #Politics

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This article – arising from an ERC-funded project on the lived experiences of dictatorship – explores the development of and approaches to the history of everyday life under repressive political systems, presenting the historiographical, conceptual, and contextual points of contact, synergy, and divergence between historians working in and on Europe, Southern Africa, and Latin America. As a historiographical review article, this piece provides both a critical assessment of and novel intervention in these respective literatures, making the case for ‘decentring’ European histories and historiographies, to encourage greater engagement and collaboration between those working on different historical and geographical contexts.
October 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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“Matching and Mismatching Times in the Fisheries of South Brittany. Crises in Marine Ecosystems as Seen Through the Lens of Architecture, 1887–1927” by André Tavares & Alice Nouvet is the second article featured in Issue 39.5, a special issue on “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”
This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Matching and Mismatching Times in the Fisheries of South Brittany. Crises in Marine Ecosystems as Seen Through the Lens of Architecture, 1887–1927.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author, issue, and access information: “André Tavares and Alice Nouvet,” “Volume 39, Issue 5 (2025),” and “Open Access Article.”
October 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s by Thant Myint-U captures the optimism and ambition of Burma’s bridge between worlds.

✍️ John Sidel reviews the recent #history book

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‘Peacemaker’ by Thant Myint-U review
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October 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
" @miriamudel.bsky.social's abun­dant gifts as an author, her exhaus­tive research, and ele­gant writ­ing ele­vate her book above its sub­ject matter.” Read the full review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking for @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/modern-...
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature
Children’s literature is never a peripheral segment of culture.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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ghiwashington.bsky.social
Next week we look forward to hosting Prof. Dorothee Brantz (TU Berlin) for the 2025 Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour. She will be giving her talk "Urban Seasonalities: Time, Culture, and the Environment in Summer Resorts and Winter Cities around 1900 and Today" at 4 universities in Canada
October 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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In Legacies of British Rule, Matthew Lange explores the relationship between colonial pluralism and nationalist civil war in former British colonies.

Now available, explore a free sample of this insightful book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Legacies of British Rule: Colonialism, Statehood, and Nationalist Civil War by Matthew Lange
October 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM