Matt Fitzpatrick
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
A little archival doodle for you from the back of a 100 + year old file.
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
A little archival doodle for you from the back of a 100 + year old file.
A better world is possible.
October 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
A better world is possible.
Look at this pitiful reporting in Der Spiegel. Claiming wriggle room where the UN presents none.
September 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Look at this pitiful reporting in Der Spiegel. Claiming wriggle room where the UN presents none.
Today I spent my lunch hour trying to figure out what naval sttion could possibly be meant by this sentence from the 1909 Jaluit Gesellschaft annual report. Surely it can only mean China?
September 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Today I spent my lunch hour trying to figure out what naval sttion could possibly be meant by this sentence from the 1909 Jaluit Gesellschaft annual report. Surely it can only mean China?
Reading Greg Lockwood's new translation of Clamor Schürmann's diaries. Amongst other things it neatly outlines just how contested settler colonialism was in the 1830s - even among settlers who were en route to Australia.
August 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Reading Greg Lockwood's new translation of Clamor Schürmann's diaries. Amongst other things it neatly outlines just how contested settler colonialism was in the 1830s - even among settlers who were en route to Australia.
Adding my own couple of these to this, still sitting in my old Lonely Planet from the 90s.
August 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Adding my own couple of these to this, still sitting in my old Lonely Planet from the 90s.
For those of you unable to attend my talk today, here is a sense of part of the argument.
August 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
For those of you unable to attend my talk today, here is a sense of part of the argument.
Can I make sense of this fleeting moment in the Simpsons? Probably not.
August 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Can I make sense of this fleeting moment in the Simpsons? Probably not.
If you're looking for an online seminar about the British, Germans and French in Siam before WWI, and you'd like to see me try and use microhistory to speak to transimperial history, then send me a DM or email and I'll give you the password to my seminar next Friday here at Flinders.
August 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
If you're looking for an online seminar about the British, Germans and French in Siam before WWI, and you'd like to see me try and use microhistory to speak to transimperial history, then send me a DM or email and I'll give you the password to my seminar next Friday here at Flinders.
I am bewildered by this Triple J countdown. What is happening?
July 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I am bewildered by this Triple J countdown. What is happening?
Taking out the AAEH best book prize for 2025 was @edelemark.bsky.social
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
July 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Taking out the AAEH best book prize for 2025 was @edelemark.bsky.social
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
This list is more a gesture towards its own impossibility than definitive.
June 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This list is more a gesture towards its own impossibility than definitive.
Had a great afternoon yesterday announcing the @historycouncilsa.bsky.social 'Historian of the Year' awards. Massive congratulations!
June 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Had a great afternoon yesterday announcing the @historycouncilsa.bsky.social 'Historian of the Year' awards. Massive congratulations!
The latest book in our series has just dropped. If you have an idea for a book in our Modern German History series, let me know!
May 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The latest book in our series has just dropped. If you have an idea for a book in our Modern German History series, let me know!
For anyone in or near Amsterdam, I'll be hosted this coming Tuesday by @susieprotschky.bsky.social speaking about my new work on the German Empire in the Pacific.
May 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
For anyone in or near Amsterdam, I'll be hosted this coming Tuesday by @susieprotschky.bsky.social speaking about my new work on the German Empire in the Pacific.
For me Antony Green announcing Dutton is set to lose his seat will be the image of the night.
May 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
For me Antony Green announcing Dutton is set to lose his seat will be the image of the night.
Week 2 Staatsarchiv Hamburg.
April 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Week 2 Staatsarchiv Hamburg.
Looking forward to Australia defending the international system in the Asia-Pacific region against its erosion by (checks notes) .... the US .... in.... Antarctica.
February 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Looking forward to Australia defending the international system in the Asia-Pacific region against its erosion by (checks notes) .... the US .... in.... Antarctica.
Tell me your age without telling me your age.
December 5, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Tell me your age without telling me your age.
Really great workshop in Melbourne today.
December 5, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Really great workshop in Melbourne today.
Utterly predictable from me.
November 20, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Utterly predictable from me.
Bismarck hat's damals auch versucht.
November 19, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Bismarck hat's damals auch versucht.