Christopher Dillon
@drcrdillon.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Germany at KCL
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
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Episode 4 of 'Glimpses of German History' is now LIVE!
In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India.
Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA
In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India.
Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Episode 4 of 'Glimpses of German History' is now LIVE!
In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India.
Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA
In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India.
Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA
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We very much look forward to this year's seminar papers! Please join us @ihr.bsky.social for the Modern German History research seminar 2025-26.
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For this year's programme, please see below
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For this year's programme, please see below
October 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
We very much look forward to this year's seminar papers! Please join us @ihr.bsky.social for the Modern German History research seminar 2025-26.
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For this year's programme, please see below
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For this year's programme, please see below
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📣 Launching next week!
This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 euthanasia programme, featuring previously unseen materials from Schloss Hartheim memorial and The Wiener Holocaust Library
This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 euthanasia programme, featuring previously unseen materials from Schloss Hartheim memorial and The Wiener Holocaust Library
Travelling exhibition - Finding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life - The Wiener Holocaust Library
This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of disabled British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 ‘euthanasia’ programme. It features previous unseen…
buff.ly
October 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
📣 Launching next week!
This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 euthanasia programme, featuring previously unseen materials from Schloss Hartheim memorial and The Wiener Holocaust Library
This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 euthanasia programme, featuring previously unseen materials from Schloss Hartheim memorial and The Wiener Holocaust Library
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If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe
cst.org.uk/donate-now
cst.org.uk/donate-now
Donate Online Now – CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community
cst.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe
cst.org.uk/donate-now
cst.org.uk/donate-now
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Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...
Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner
Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.
www.the-berliner.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...
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Welcome to the Bluesky page for the Sport in History journal, the official journal of @bssh.bsky.social that covers all eras & contexts of sports history.
If you want to find out more about the journal or submit a piece, please check our website:
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsi...
If you want to find out more about the journal or submit a piece, please check our website:
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsi...
Learn about Sport in History
Learn about Sport in History aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
www.tandfonline.com
August 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Welcome to the Bluesky page for the Sport in History journal, the official journal of @bssh.bsky.social that covers all eras & contexts of sports history.
If you want to find out more about the journal or submit a piece, please check our website:
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsi...
If you want to find out more about the journal or submit a piece, please check our website:
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsi...
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We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Lecture Series! 📣
We're kicking off our lecture programme on 21 October with a lecture by Benno Gammerl (European University Institute) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?'! 📅
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We're kicking off our lecture programme on 21 October with a lecture by Benno Gammerl (European University Institute) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?'! 📅
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September 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Lecture Series! 📣
We're kicking off our lecture programme on 21 October with a lecture by Benno Gammerl (European University Institute) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?'! 📅
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We're kicking off our lecture programme on 21 October with a lecture by Benno Gammerl (European University Institute) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?'! 📅
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UBC Queer and Trans German Studies is hosting Andrea Rottmann (FU Berlin) as the next Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies! The event will take place in person at UBC as well as online. We would be grateful if you could pass the announcement on to your networks.
August 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
UBC Queer and Trans German Studies is hosting Andrea Rottmann (FU Berlin) as the next Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies! The event will take place in person at UBC as well as online. We would be grateful if you could pass the announcement on to your networks.
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Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
August 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!
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There's just over two weeks left to register for #GermanHistSoc2025 !!
On our website you'll also find accommodation and dinner registration links so check it out soon!
www.germanhistorysoc...
On our website you'll also find accommodation and dinner registration links so check it out soon!
www.germanhistorysoc...
August 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
There's just over two weeks left to register for #GermanHistSoc2025 !!
On our website you'll also find accommodation and dinner registration links so check it out soon!
www.germanhistorysoc...
On our website you'll also find accommodation and dinner registration links so check it out soon!
www.germanhistorysoc...
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🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.
Read more👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.
Read more👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
July 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.
Read more👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.
Read more👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
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It is out! @jonahgarde.bsky.social's magnificent and field-defining book. A good way to support this fab project and amazing scholar is to acquire the book for your personal or institutional library. You'll notice it is also available open access.
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
June 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
It is out! @jonahgarde.bsky.social's magnificent and field-defining book. A good way to support this fab project and amazing scholar is to acquire the book for your personal or institutional library. You'll notice it is also available open access.
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
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We're hiring for two 12-month lecturing jobs at King's History ---
History of political thought, especially focusing on Indian & anticolonial perspectives: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
& early American history: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
History of political thought, especially focusing on Indian & anticolonial perspectives: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
& early American history: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
my.corehr.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We're hiring for two 12-month lecturing jobs at King's History ---
History of political thought, especially focusing on Indian & anticolonial perspectives: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
& early American history: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
History of political thought, especially focusing on Indian & anticolonial perspectives: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
& early American history: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
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CfP: Queer Lives & Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures, an online conference that I have co-organized with Cedar Lensing-Sharp! Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2025! Keynotes from @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @jonahgarde.bsky.social & Camilla Smith!
June 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
CfP: Queer Lives & Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures, an online conference that I have co-organized with Cedar Lensing-Sharp! Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2025! Keynotes from @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @jonahgarde.bsky.social & Camilla Smith!
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Did the GREAT CRASH of 1929 really propel HITLER into power??
Historian of the Third Reich, Dr. @drcrdillon.bsky.social from King's College London clarifies once and for all🎙️ 👇🏻
YT:
youtu.be/W9zlZjtrWM8
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/3vwsz3S...
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
#ww2
Historian of the Third Reich, Dr. @drcrdillon.bsky.social from King's College London clarifies once and for all🎙️ 👇🏻
YT:
youtu.be/W9zlZjtrWM8
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/3vwsz3S...
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
#ww2
May 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Did the GREAT CRASH of 1929 really propel HITLER into power??
Historian of the Third Reich, Dr. @drcrdillon.bsky.social from King's College London clarifies once and for all🎙️ 👇🏻
YT:
youtu.be/W9zlZjtrWM8
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/3vwsz3S...
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
#ww2
Historian of the Third Reich, Dr. @drcrdillon.bsky.social from King's College London clarifies once and for all🎙️ 👇🏻
YT:
youtu.be/W9zlZjtrWM8
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/3vwsz3S...
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
#ww2
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So happy that our piece with @ankahajkova.bsky.social—"Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation on Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice"—is finally out in @historyworkshop.org.uk
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
May 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
So happy that our piece with @ankahajkova.bsky.social—"Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation on Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice"—is finally out in @historyworkshop.org.uk
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
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The Wandering Jew is going up north! The travelling exhibition will be on display at HCN 12th May - 30th June, launched with a conversation on the Holocaust context of the legend and origins of 'Der ewige Jude'
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social
Join us at Holocaust Centre North for the launch of The Wandering Jew, a travelling exhibition. At once a vessel for antisemitism and a vehicle for tolerance, this exhibition explores how the legend has been reimagined over time and for different purposes.
Reserve your place here: bit.ly/4iuEM8M
Reserve your place here: bit.ly/4iuEM8M
April 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The Wandering Jew is going up north! The travelling exhibition will be on display at HCN 12th May - 30th June, launched with a conversation on the Holocaust context of the legend and origins of 'Der ewige Jude'
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social
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Check out our website now for the CFP and details of how to send us your abstract!
We're excited to be heading to @lborouniversity.bsky.social, and welcome papers on ALL periods and topics relating to the history of the German speaking world
www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/04/18/g...
We're excited to be heading to @lborouniversity.bsky.social, and welcome papers on ALL periods and topics relating to the history of the German speaking world
www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/04/18/g...
April 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Check out our website now for the CFP and details of how to send us your abstract!
We're excited to be heading to @lborouniversity.bsky.social, and welcome papers on ALL periods and topics relating to the history of the German speaking world
www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/04/18/g...
We're excited to be heading to @lborouniversity.bsky.social, and welcome papers on ALL periods and topics relating to the history of the German speaking world
www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/04/18/g...
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Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Palestinian Scholarship
www.gold.ac.uk
April 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
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Join us for IHR@Sheffield!
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.
Save the date, more details to follow
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.
Save the date, more details to follow
April 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Join us for IHR@Sheffield!
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.
Save the date, more details to follow
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"
The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.
Save the date, more details to follow
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The GHS has numerous funding opportunities and awards available throughout the year for PGRs and ECRs. The deadline for some of them is fast approaching!
Check out the following 🧵 for more details:
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Check out the following 🧵 for more details:
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April 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The GHS has numerous funding opportunities and awards available throughout the year for PGRs and ECRs. The deadline for some of them is fast approaching!
Check out the following 🧵 for more details:
1/6
Check out the following 🧵 for more details:
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We have two events coming up next week!
Isabella Löhr's lecture "The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s" (25 Mar, GHI London, 5:30pm)
and
Tim Grady's talk on "Travelling as a Culture of Reconciliation: Britain, Germany and the Enemy War Dead" (26 Mar, IHR London, 5:30pm)
Sign-up below
Isabella Löhr's lecture "The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s" (25 Mar, GHI London, 5:30pm)
and
Tim Grady's talk on "Travelling as a Culture of Reconciliation: Britain, Germany and the Enemy War Dead" (26 Mar, IHR London, 5:30pm)
Sign-up below
March 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We have two events coming up next week!
Isabella Löhr's lecture "The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s" (25 Mar, GHI London, 5:30pm)
and
Tim Grady's talk on "Travelling as a Culture of Reconciliation: Britain, Germany and the Enemy War Dead" (26 Mar, IHR London, 5:30pm)
Sign-up below
Isabella Löhr's lecture "The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s" (25 Mar, GHI London, 5:30pm)
and
Tim Grady's talk on "Travelling as a Culture of Reconciliation: Britain, Germany and the Enemy War Dead" (26 Mar, IHR London, 5:30pm)
Sign-up below
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Heute Abend eröffnen wir im Historischen Museum Bayreuth die von Studierenden aus Bayreuth und Wuppertal erarbeitete Ausstellung "Leben im Umbruch" zu den Anfangsjahren der Weimarer Republik! www.historisches-museum-bayreuth.de
March 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Heute Abend eröffnen wir im Historischen Museum Bayreuth die von Studierenden aus Bayreuth und Wuppertal erarbeitete Ausstellung "Leben im Umbruch" zu den Anfangsjahren der Weimarer Republik! www.historisches-museum-bayreuth.de
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My cartoon from the current edition of Private Eye Magazine.
March 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My cartoon from the current edition of Private Eye Magazine.