Contemporary European History
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Published by Cambridge University Press. Edited by Emile Chabal, Siobhán Hearne, Michelle Lynn Kahn, and Nikolaos Papadogiannis.
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Managing Editor – Call for Applications
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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🚨 Job Alert!
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
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We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
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📖 New article online!
'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
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'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
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Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter
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November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
📖 New article online!
'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
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'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
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Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30.
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Managing Editor – Call for Applications
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30.
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
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We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
🚨 Job Alert!
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
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We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Managing Editor – Call for Applications
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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November 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🚨 Job Alert!
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📖 New article online!
'Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91', by Alessandro Favilli
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'Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91', by Alessandro Favilli
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Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91
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October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📖 New article online!
'Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91', by Alessandro Favilli
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'Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91', by Alessandro Favilli
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📣 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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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
📣 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.
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Rosie's blog explores superphosphate manufacturing by the British and French empires, charting the impact of fertiliser production on imperial expansion and agricultural practices.
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
📖 New article online!
'Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67' by Bartosz Matyja
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'Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67' by Bartosz Matyja
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Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67
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October 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📖 New article online!
'Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67' by Bartosz Matyja
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'Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67' by Bartosz Matyja
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Congrats to Jean-Michel Johnston + Anna Ross for their @conteurohistory.bsky.social special issue "Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions after the First World War." I just read the intro: what an amazing resource! I forsee it becomes required reading for the field! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions after the First World War: Introduction | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions after the First World War: Introduction
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October 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Congrats to Jean-Michel Johnston + Anna Ross for their @conteurohistory.bsky.social special issue "Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions after the First World War." I just read the intro: what an amazing resource! I forsee it becomes required reading for the field! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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What can a commercial venture tell us about fascist Italy's colonial diplomacy in Latin America in the #1920s ?
Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article @conteurohistory.bsky.social by our #PhD researcher @jgomezreig.bsky.social on the journey of the Regia Nave Italia 👉 loom.ly/Pt7OpH8
📚 #FridayReads
Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article @conteurohistory.bsky.social by our #PhD researcher @jgomezreig.bsky.social on the journey of the Regia Nave Italia 👉 loom.ly/Pt7OpH8
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October 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
What can a commercial venture tell us about fascist Italy's colonial diplomacy in Latin America in the #1920s ?
Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article @conteurohistory.bsky.social by our #PhD researcher @jgomezreig.bsky.social on the journey of the Regia Nave Italia 👉 loom.ly/Pt7OpH8
📚 #FridayReads
Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article @conteurohistory.bsky.social by our #PhD researcher @jgomezreig.bsky.social on the journey of the Regia Nave Italia 👉 loom.ly/Pt7OpH8
📚 #FridayReads
📖 New article online!
'Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War', by Stephen Rainbird | @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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'Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War', by Stephen Rainbird | @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War
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October 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
📖 New article online!
'Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War', by Stephen Rainbird | @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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'Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War', by Stephen Rainbird | @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social
See the full vacancy text here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD position - Benign Blockades? Blockades and sanctions, 1919-1939
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, wh...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social
🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field.
Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free!
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Peripheral Histories? has just published a new author interview with Beatrice Penati about her excellent book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' @peripheralhist.bsky.social www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...
Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan
Beatrice Penati’s new book Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan (published with Brill, 2025) provides a comprehensive account of early S...
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September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Peripheral Histories? has just published a new author interview with Beatrice Penati about her excellent book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' @peripheralhist.bsky.social www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...
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New Voices continues with a blog from Benjamin Pfannes, @unipotsdam.bsky.social.
Benjamin's blog explores the historical context and contemporary challenges of the Franco-German Brigade, a unique experiment in military co-operation and integration.
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New Voices continues with a blog from Benjamin Pfannes, @unipotsdam.bsky.social.
Benjamin's blog explores the historical context and contemporary challenges of the Franco-German Brigade, a unique experiment in military co-operation and integration.
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The Franco-German Brigade: A Mirror of Integration—and Its Limits « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
When the Franco-German Brigade (FGB) was established in 1989, it was hailed as a unique experiment in postwar Europe. Never before had soldiers from two former enemies served permanently under a share...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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New Voices continues with a blog from Benjamin Pfannes, @unipotsdam.bsky.social.
Benjamin's blog explores the historical context and contemporary challenges of the Franco-German Brigade, a unique experiment in military co-operation and integration.
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
New Voices continues with a blog from Benjamin Pfannes, @unipotsdam.bsky.social.
Benjamin's blog explores the historical context and contemporary challenges of the Franco-German Brigade, a unique experiment in military co-operation and integration.
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
🧵 In CEH's first digest (tinyurl.com/38p3yxky), our six editors each highlighted a recent article they have particularly enjoyed working on.
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
September 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🧵 In CEH's first digest (tinyurl.com/38p3yxky), our six editors each highlighted a recent article they have particularly enjoyed working on.
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
📖 Read our two latest special issues online:
The first, 'Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949', connects civil conflict across Europe to the evolution of humanitarian practices.
(eds. @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwath)
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The first, 'Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949', connects civil conflict across Europe to the evolution of humanitarian practices.
(eds. @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwath)
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Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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September 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📖 Read our two latest special issues online:
The first, 'Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949', connects civil conflict across Europe to the evolution of humanitarian practices.
(eds. @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwath)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The first, 'Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949', connects civil conflict across Europe to the evolution of humanitarian practices.
(eds. @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwath)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Delighted to have an article on the Irish Save the Children Fund and the Volga famine campaign as part of this special issue of
@conteurohistory.bsky.social Available open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@conteurohistory.bsky.social Available open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Delighted to have an article on the Irish Save the Children Fund and the Volga famine campaign as part of this special issue of
@conteurohistory.bsky.social Available open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@conteurohistory.bsky.social Available open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction
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September 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The deadline for the CEH Prize is tomorrow⌛
Polish those abstracts and get uploading!
Polish those abstracts and get uploading!
🚨 The Contemporary European History Prize 2025 is now open for submissions!
PhD students/ECRs working on post-1914 European history are eligible. Entries are max 8,000 words. Winner receives publication and £400 of CUP books!
Deadline 12 Sept 2025. More details ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
PhD students/ECRs working on post-1914 European history are eligible. Entries are max 8,000 words. Winner receives publication and £400 of CUP books!
Deadline 12 Sept 2025. More details ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Contemporary European History Prize
A prize aimed at encouraging, recognizing and promoting high-quality research among postgraduate and early career historians.
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September 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The deadline for the CEH Prize is tomorrow⌛
Polish those abstracts and get uploading!
Polish those abstracts and get uploading!
📖 New article online!
'Health Crusaders: Childhood and Public Health in the First World War', by Sara Elizabeth Black
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'Health Crusaders: Childhood and Public Health in the First World War', by Sara Elizabeth Black
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Health Crusaders: Childhood and Public Health in the First World War | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Health Crusaders: Childhood and Public Health in the First World War
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September 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
📖 New article online!
'Health Crusaders: Childhood and Public Health in the First World War', by Sara Elizabeth Black
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'Health Crusaders: Childhood and Public Health in the First World War', by Sara Elizabeth Black
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I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!
Just three weeks left until the deadline for the CEH Prize. We can't wait to read all the submissions!
🚨 The Contemporary European History Prize 2025 is now open for submissions!
PhD students/ECRs working on post-1914 European history are eligible. Entries are max 8,000 words. Winner receives publication and £400 of CUP books!
Deadline 12 Sept 2025. More details ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
PhD students/ECRs working on post-1914 European history are eligible. Entries are max 8,000 words. Winner receives publication and £400 of CUP books!
Deadline 12 Sept 2025. More details ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Contemporary European History Prize
A prize aimed at encouraging, recognizing and promoting high-quality research among postgraduate and early career historians.
www.cambridge.org
August 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Just three weeks left until the deadline for the CEH Prize. We can't wait to read all the submissions!
📖 New review article online!
'Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century', by Anaïs Faurt
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'Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century', by Anaïs Faurt
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Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century
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August 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
📖 New review article online!
'Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century', by Anaïs Faurt
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'Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century', by Anaïs Faurt
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📖 New article online!
'Under Vernacular Bushels: Language as Science Policy in the Reorganisation of Nordic Scientific Publication, 1960–1980', by Jenny Beckman
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'Under Vernacular Bushels: Language as Science Policy in the Reorganisation of Nordic Scientific Publication, 1960–1980', by Jenny Beckman
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Under Vernacular Bushels: Language as Science Policy in the Reorganisation of Nordic Scientific Publication, 1960–1980 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Under Vernacular Bushels: Language as Science Policy in the Reorganisation of Nordic Scientific Publication, 1960–1980
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August 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📖 New article online!
'Under Vernacular Bushels: Language as Science Policy in the Reorganisation of Nordic Scientific Publication, 1960–1980', by Jenny Beckman
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'Under Vernacular Bushels: Language as Science Policy in the Reorganisation of Nordic Scientific Publication, 1960–1980', by Jenny Beckman
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Since 1980s, uprooting vines has been a difficult story in the Languedoc, as I wrote about it in @conteurohistory.bsky.social.
One of the unexpected impacts, highlighted by winegrowers' unions, has been the role of vines as fire breaks & changing context of climate change
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
One of the unexpected impacts, highlighted by winegrowers' unions, has been the role of vines as fire breaks & changing context of climate change
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
August 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Since 1980s, uprooting vines has been a difficult story in the Languedoc, as I wrote about it in @conteurohistory.bsky.social.
One of the unexpected impacts, highlighted by winegrowers' unions, has been the role of vines as fire breaks & changing context of climate change
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
One of the unexpected impacts, highlighted by winegrowers' unions, has been the role of vines as fire breaks & changing context of climate change
doi.org/10.1017/S096...