Antoni Porayski-Pomsta
@aporayskipomsta.bsky.social
Historian and postdoc at UCD. I have worked on (sub)urban history, violence and spaces of belonging. Currently contributing to an environmental history of the Russian empire.
https://people.ucd.ie/antoni.porayski-pomsta/about
https://people.ucd.ie/antoni.porayski-pomsta/about
Pinned
Through Violence to Eternal Kingdom: Revolutionary Avengers, Suburban Violence, and the Crisis of Imperial Governance in post-1905 Russian Poland
Abstract. This article studies the case of a notorious criminal group, the Revolutionary Avengers (Rewolucjoniści Mściciele), to explore the “theatre of vi
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My article on Revolutionary Avengers is out in OA. Please read!
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Calling all EC researchers working on environmental law. Come and tell us about your work in London on the 21st of April 2026!
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Calling all EC researchers working on environmental law. Come and tell us about your work in London on the 21st of April 2026!
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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
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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)
New on advance access: "Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans"
by @vhtroyansky.bsky.social (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @vhtroyansky.bsky.social (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans*
Abstract. This article examines what happened to the ‘abandoned land’ of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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)
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📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5
#envhist #energysky
#envhist #energysky
September 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5
#envhist #energysky
#envhist #energysky
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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
www.cambridge.org
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...
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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!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#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!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#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!
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Hi everyone!
I am beginning my search for prospective PhD supervisors for a September 2026 start. If you specialise in Caribbean slavery and/or the East India Company, and are interested in supervising my doctoral research, I would be delighted to hear from you! #Skystorians #AcademicSky
I am beginning my search for prospective PhD supervisors for a September 2026 start. If you specialise in Caribbean slavery and/or the East India Company, and are interested in supervising my doctoral research, I would be delighted to hear from you! #Skystorians #AcademicSky
August 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Hi everyone!
I am beginning my search for prospective PhD supervisors for a September 2026 start. If you specialise in Caribbean slavery and/or the East India Company, and are interested in supervising my doctoral research, I would be delighted to hear from you! #Skystorians #AcademicSky
I am beginning my search for prospective PhD supervisors for a September 2026 start. If you specialise in Caribbean slavery and/or the East India Company, and are interested in supervising my doctoral research, I would be delighted to hear from you! #Skystorians #AcademicSky
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1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.
2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
1/n
2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
1/n
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.
2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
1/n
2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
1/n
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This year I will have the pleasure of presenting my research at the #iccees2025 congress at
@uclssees.bsky.social, in our panel "Ukraine as a humanitarian front: actors, practices and challenges, 1914-1923". It's on Thursday 24 July. Don't hesitate to join us! www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...
@uclssees.bsky.social, in our panel "Ukraine as a humanitarian front: actors, practices and challenges, 1914-1923". It's on Thursday 24 July. Don't hesitate to join us! www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...
July 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This year I will have the pleasure of presenting my research at the #iccees2025 congress at
@uclssees.bsky.social, in our panel "Ukraine as a humanitarian front: actors, practices and challenges, 1914-1923". It's on Thursday 24 July. Don't hesitate to join us! www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...
@uclssees.bsky.social, in our panel "Ukraine as a humanitarian front: actors, practices and challenges, 1914-1923". It's on Thursday 24 July. Don't hesitate to join us! www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...
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The latest virtual issue of the journal on: "Immobility"
by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social , Malika Zehni, Lamin Manneh
Is now out in full and free to access
academic.oup.com/past/pages/i...
by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social , Malika Zehni, Lamin Manneh
Is now out in full and free to access
academic.oup.com/past/pages/i...
Immobility
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June 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The latest virtual issue of the journal on: "Immobility"
by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social , Malika Zehni, Lamin Manneh
Is now out in full and free to access
academic.oup.com/past/pages/i...
by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social , Malika Zehni, Lamin Manneh
Is now out in full and free to access
academic.oup.com/past/pages/i...
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A few words on the article about historiography that everyone is annoyed about. There are obvious technical problems with the suggestion that historians may soon let LLMs sift through the sources, suggest a book structure, select examples from the sources etc. 1/x
June 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM
A few words on the article about historiography that everyone is annoyed about. There are obvious technical problems with the suggestion that historians may soon let LLMs sift through the sources, suggest a book structure, select examples from the sources etc. 1/x
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From the current issue: "AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union"
by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union*
Abstract. In the mid-1980s, HIV and AIDS were initially dismissed in the Soviet press as infections that could only be contracted by individuals engaged in
doi.org
June 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
From the current issue: "AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union"
by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Looking forward to seeing the publication of “State-making in an age of Revolution, 1830-80” in August after receiving a preprint of my chapter today. Full details and contents page here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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‘A Dead Letter in the Hands of Local
Authorities’? Implementing Public Health
Legislation in French Provincial Cities,
1850– 60
WILL CLEMENT
On 13 April 1850, the French Second Republic’s National Assembly passed a law
on logements insalubres (unhealthy housing).1 This law enabled municipal councils
to create housing commissions to enter and inspect poor- quality dwellings, instruct
landlords to make structural improvements, and prohibit the rental of particularly
egregious premises. These commissions would be staffed both by experts – includ-
ing a doctor and an architect – as well as active local politicians, including up
to four municipal councillors and the mayor or his deputy. Fundamentally, this
law represented a shift in the relationship between the state and the question of
improving housing conditions, which had to this point been the domain of iso-
lated private charity or industrial philanthropy. It was also a law which, as Parisian
ministers quickly noted, lived and died by the hands of the local politicians and
experts charged with implementing it. In August 1850, Jean- Baptiste Dumas wrote
as minister for agriculture and commerce to the prefects who administered all 86
French departments, impressing on them the need to ensure that the law saw good
application. If they failed in their duty, the innovative legislation risked being sim-
ply ‘a dead letter in the hands of local authorities if they do not understand the
importance of it’.2
1
A[rchives]N[ationales] (Paris) F 8 210, Dépot des lois et actes du gouvernement: B. 252, No. 2068,
Loi relative à l’assainissement des Logements insalubres des 19 janvier, 7 mars et 13 avril 1850 (prom-
ulgée le 22 avril 1850), 1850.
2
A[rchives]D[épartementales du]H[aut- ]R[hin] (Colmar) 5 M 39, Ministre de l’Agriculture et du
Commerce, Circulaire no. 41, 11 August 1850.
Proceedings of the British Academy, 271, 90–114, © Authors 2025](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sjklm7waiw6mohglf346cdub/bafkreia2zwxn2376nzgf3qrquzv5ee27y6z4ve4sro6w3adblr6ia63uk4@jpeg)
May 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Looking forward to seeing the publication of “State-making in an age of Revolution, 1830-80” in August after receiving a preprint of my chapter today. Full details and contents page here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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I refused to sign an AI addendum to my contract with CUP. Officially started my career as a Luddite, I suppose.
June 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I refused to sign an AI addendum to my contract with CUP. Officially started my career as a Luddite, I suppose.
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Book talk tomorrow (29 May) hosted by UCL‘s Institute for Jewish Studies
Glenn Dynner on “The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland in the Eve of the Holocaust”
6 PM UK (10 AM PT, 12 PM CT, 1 PM ET, 7 PM CET, 8 PM IT)
@uclhjs.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social
www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin...
Glenn Dynner on “The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland in the Eve of the Holocaust”
6 PM UK (10 AM PT, 12 PM CT, 1 PM ET, 7 PM CET, 8 PM IT)
@uclhjs.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social
www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin...
Select tickets – The Light of Learning. Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust
Talk by Glenn Dynner on his recent book.
The Light of Learning tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland on t...
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May 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Book talk tomorrow (29 May) hosted by UCL‘s Institute for Jewish Studies
Glenn Dynner on “The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland in the Eve of the Holocaust”
6 PM UK (10 AM PT, 12 PM CT, 1 PM ET, 7 PM CET, 8 PM IT)
@uclhjs.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social
www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin...
Glenn Dynner on “The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland in the Eve of the Holocaust”
6 PM UK (10 AM PT, 12 PM CT, 1 PM ET, 7 PM CET, 8 PM IT)
@uclhjs.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social
www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin...
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For this long & commemorative holiday weekend, my super-sized 226th #ScholarSunday thread is full of thoughtful public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
#ScholarSunday Thread 226
Published on May 25, 2025
americanstudier.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
For this long & commemorative holiday weekend, my super-sized 226th #ScholarSunday thread is full of thoughtful public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
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How did the definition of the 'urban' and the 'suburban' affect the lives of residents?
Antoni Porayski-Pomsta (@camhistory.bsky.social) addresses this important question through his research on early twentieth century Warsaw
Antoni Porayski-Pomsta (@camhistory.bsky.social) addresses this important question through his research on early twentieth century Warsaw
Urban history from the peripheries
In 1908, the Warsaw Politseimeister General Meier got into an argument with the city’s president, Alexander Miller. The proverbial bone of contention was the responsibility for the sanita…
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May 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
How did the definition of the 'urban' and the 'suburban' affect the lives of residents?
Antoni Porayski-Pomsta (@camhistory.bsky.social) addresses this important question through his research on early twentieth century Warsaw
Antoni Porayski-Pomsta (@camhistory.bsky.social) addresses this important question through his research on early twentieth century Warsaw
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We're hiring!
Two tenure-track openings for Assistant Professors in Political Science or International Relations.
Sharing = 🙏❤️
www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
Two tenure-track openings for Assistant Professors in Political Science or International Relations.
Sharing = 🙏❤️
www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Assistant Professor of Political ScienceThe Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leiden University is currently looking for at least two (2) assistant professors in Poli...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
May 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're hiring!
Two tenure-track openings for Assistant Professors in Political Science or International Relations.
Sharing = 🙏❤️
www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
Two tenure-track openings for Assistant Professors in Political Science or International Relations.
Sharing = 🙏❤️
www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
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Geht jemand der*die mir folgt die Tage ins Berliner Landesarchiv und könnte für mich gegen Bezahlung oder/und Orangenmarmelade eine sehr kurze Akte bestellen und kopieren?
Danke!
Danke!
May 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Geht jemand der*die mir folgt die Tage ins Berliner Landesarchiv und könnte für mich gegen Bezahlung oder/und Orangenmarmelade eine sehr kurze Akte bestellen und kopieren?
Danke!
Danke!
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Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales
'Pluraliser la #modernité politique. Actualité de l’histoire #transimpériale russo-ottomane (note critique)'
par Masha Cerovic (@mcerovic.bsky.social)
Une note critique à propos de trois ouvrages récents
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
'Pluraliser la #modernité politique. Actualité de l’histoire #transimpériale russo-ottomane (note critique)'
par Masha Cerovic (@mcerovic.bsky.social)
Une note critique à propos de trois ouvrages récents
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
May 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales
'Pluraliser la #modernité politique. Actualité de l’histoire #transimpériale russo-ottomane (note critique)'
par Masha Cerovic (@mcerovic.bsky.social)
Une note critique à propos de trois ouvrages récents
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
'Pluraliser la #modernité politique. Actualité de l’histoire #transimpériale russo-ottomane (note critique)'
par Masha Cerovic (@mcerovic.bsky.social)
Une note critique à propos de trois ouvrages récents
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
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🎮 Four months ago, as part of the Game Jam of @rdvhistoire.bsky.social, we developed in 48 hours a video game based on my doctoral thesis on fin-de-siècle historical reconstructions, with a team of programmers, game designers and graphic designers.
My wonderful colleague @elisa-chazal.bsky.social has turned parts of her doctoral research into a video game 🎮
Find out more about anachronisms in the 19th-century reconstruction of 'Vieux Paris' and the team behind the game 👇
dawnfj.itch.io/les-chroniqu...
Find out more about anachronisms in the 19th-century reconstruction of 'Vieux Paris' and the team behind the game 👇
dawnfj.itch.io/les-chroniqu...
Les Chroniques d'Ana by Florent, Kounine, Vincent BONNET 3d, ogadaki, Leuha, Solenn.R
Une journaliste explore une reconstitution historique du XVe siècle lors de l'exposition universelle de Paris 1900.
dawnfj.itch.io
January 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🎮 Four months ago, as part of the Game Jam of @rdvhistoire.bsky.social, we developed in 48 hours a video game based on my doctoral thesis on fin-de-siècle historical reconstructions, with a team of programmers, game designers and graphic designers.
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Hot off the presses! My article about Friedrich Schiller’s East European Jewish reception, available in Polin 37 (in excellent company). With appearances by Fradel Shtok, Karl Emil Franzos, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Pauline Wengeroff, and more. Thanks to the editors for their diligent support.
Introducing Polin Volume 37 ‘Jews in Polish and German Lands’. Available in journal format for the first time, watch a video introduction with the editors @guesnet.bsky.social, Antony Polonksy & @katrinsteffen.bsky.social.
🎞️👉 bit.ly/Polin-Vol-37-vlog
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social
🎞️👉 bit.ly/Polin-Vol-37-vlog
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hot off the presses! My article about Friedrich Schiller’s East European Jewish reception, available in Polin 37 (in excellent company). With appearances by Fradel Shtok, Karl Emil Franzos, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Pauline Wengeroff, and more. Thanks to the editors for their diligent support.
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Hey everyone!
My contract is about to end so I would appreciate you all keeping an eye out for roles/funding schemes that may suit me.
I am a "geriatric ECR" too far from PhD viva (5 years) for most postdocs yet unable to get permanence with the job market being the way it is.
My contract is about to end so I would appreciate you all keeping an eye out for roles/funding schemes that may suit me.
I am a "geriatric ECR" too far from PhD viva (5 years) for most postdocs yet unable to get permanence with the job market being the way it is.
January 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hey everyone!
My contract is about to end so I would appreciate you all keeping an eye out for roles/funding schemes that may suit me.
I am a "geriatric ECR" too far from PhD viva (5 years) for most postdocs yet unable to get permanence with the job market being the way it is.
My contract is about to end so I would appreciate you all keeping an eye out for roles/funding schemes that may suit me.
I am a "geriatric ECR" too far from PhD viva (5 years) for most postdocs yet unable to get permanence with the job market being the way it is.
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As this site is coming alive, I tried to help my own orientation by creating a starter pack for global urban history. Suggestions welcome go.bsky.app/3FUgYoE
November 14, 2024 at 2:07 PM
As this site is coming alive, I tried to help my own orientation by creating a starter pack for global urban history. Suggestions welcome go.bsky.app/3FUgYoE
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Catch me and Kasia Tomasiewicz in @vittles.bsky.social today:
A cultural history of the polski sklep
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural...
A cultural history of the polski sklep
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural...
A cultural history of the polski sklep
How the polski sklep changed British food culture, by Kasia Tomasiewicz and Marta Zboralska
www.vittlesmagazine.com
December 16, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Catch me and Kasia Tomasiewicz in @vittles.bsky.social today:
A cultural history of the polski sklep
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural...
A cultural history of the polski sklep
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural...