Mathis J Gronau
@mjgronau.bsky.social
Historian of European History, 19-20th Century, Migration History. My book "Deutsche Minderheiten in Frankreich und Großbritannien: Im Niemandsland der Identität 1914-1924" will come out in April 2025 with DeGruyter
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Mathis J Gronau
@mjgronau.bsky.social
· Jan 9
My book will come out sooner than anticipated! The new date is 27. Januar 2025. That means it's less than 3 weeks away! A big thanks goes out to #DeGruyter for the wonderful collaboration on this project. I hope you find it an interesting and informative read once it comes out! #history
Happy holidays to all my followers! May these holidays be calm and meeting/e-mail-free
December 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy holidays to all my followers! May these holidays be calm and meeting/e-mail-free
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Proud former PhD supervisor moment: I've just read the first review of @mjgronau.bsky.social's book 'Deutsche Minderheiten in Frankreich und Großbritannien: Im Niemandsland der Identität zwischen 1914 und 1924'!
Found here: B.Braber (2025). Immigrants & Minorities 43(3): 568–570. (Link not working)
Found here: B.Braber (2025). Immigrants & Minorities 43(3): 568–570. (Link not working)
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Proud former PhD supervisor moment: I've just read the first review of @mjgronau.bsky.social's book 'Deutsche Minderheiten in Frankreich und Großbritannien: Im Niemandsland der Identität zwischen 1914 und 1924'!
Found here: B.Braber (2025). Immigrants & Minorities 43(3): 568–570. (Link not working)
Found here: B.Braber (2025). Immigrants & Minorities 43(3): 568–570. (Link not working)
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Thanks to Stefan Berger for writing for our blog! Please take a look 😊
In our latest guest blog post, Stefan Berger points out that Germany's Ruhr area has a thriving industrial heritage sector, but one which reveals little about how the region's workers have fought to improve their conditions. A new initiative seeks to change this. Well worth a read! 👩🏭⛏️ bit.ly/3Y4NYZC
Commemorating Economic and Social Rights in the Ruhr Area of Germany
Stefan Berger sheds light on a new project to inform tourists about local workers’ struggles in a key region of Europe’s industrial past.
medium.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Thanks to Stefan Berger for writing for our blog! Please take a look 😊
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If you'd like to see an amateur comedy routine vaguely on the subject of peer review involving lots of puns and me forgetting a line, look no further! Credit and thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social for the video and, as always, being a very funny, supportive compere!
youtube.com/watch?v=D4ll...
youtube.com/watch?v=D4ll...
James Connolly - peer review - LOLs in Translation
YouTube video by JEPC123
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November 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If you'd like to see an amateur comedy routine vaguely on the subject of peer review involving lots of puns and me forgetting a line, look no further! Credit and thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social for the video and, as always, being a very funny, supportive compere!
youtube.com/watch?v=D4ll...
youtube.com/watch?v=D4ll...
One thing I learned from studying history: No matter how horrible something is or was, there will always be people that defend it as necessary or tradition
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
One thing I learned from studying history: No matter how horrible something is or was, there will always be people that defend it as necessary or tradition
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I'll be performing at this - really looking forward to it! It'll be my sixth time doing stand-up, almost a year exactly since I first tried it. Also my fifth different set, which is admittedly a slightly abnormal way of approaching things.
NEXT TUESDAY London's funniest Arts and Humanities researchers will make you laugh your ass off at LOLs In Translation. Tickets selling fast so get one now!
wegottickets.com/event/679150
wegottickets.com/event/679150
LOLs in Translation - standup comedy from Arts and Humanities researchers
A new night of research-based comedy from the team behind Science Showoff, but this time we've shown science the door to find out about HUMANS.
Join Steve Cross and a team of philosophers, linguists...
wegottickets.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I'll be performing at this - really looking forward to it! It'll be my sixth time doing stand-up, almost a year exactly since I first tried it. Also my fifth different set, which is admittedly a slightly abnormal way of approaching things.
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Der Bericht von @mjgronau.bsky.social zur rechtsgeschichtlichen Sektion auf dem @historikertag.bsky.social in Bonn mit @dinalog.bsky.social @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social und unserer Direktorin Kim Wünschmann ist erschienen 👇
t1p.de/eroa7
t1p.de/eroa7
Tagber: HT 2025: Demokratie zwischen Recht und Unrecht: Dynamiken der Rechtsentwicklung im Zweiten Weltkrieg und im Kalten Krieg
https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-158378
Bonn, 18.09.2025, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-158378
Bonn, 18.09.2025, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
www.hsozkult.de
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Der Bericht von @mjgronau.bsky.social zur rechtsgeschichtlichen Sektion auf dem @historikertag.bsky.social in Bonn mit @dinalog.bsky.social @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social und unserer Direktorin Kim Wünschmann ist erschienen 👇
t1p.de/eroa7
t1p.de/eroa7
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On Monday we launched our latest special issue. Thanks to @wienerlibrary.bsky.social, Barbara Warnock, and to our panel contributors Professor Heather Jones, Dr Andre Keil, and Dr Rachel Pistol.
October 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
On Monday we launched our latest special issue. Thanks to @wienerlibrary.bsky.social, Barbara Warnock, and to our panel contributors Professor Heather Jones, Dr Andre Keil, and Dr Rachel Pistol.
#writing problems: When Word marks your first name as an error, but then turns a blind eye on this (I even checked and I did not add it to my custom word list either).
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
#writing problems: When Word marks your first name as an error, but then turns a blind eye on this (I even checked and I did not add it to my custom word list either).
I received a newsletter from thesciencematters(.org) asking me to submit a shortened version of one of my articles. I hadn't heard of them before and could not find much about them outside of their own website. Does anyone in this bubble have more information about them?
October 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I received a newsletter from thesciencematters(.org) asking me to submit a shortened version of one of my articles. I hadn't heard of them before and could not find much about them outside of their own website. Does anyone in this bubble have more information about them?
I was just scolded for standing on a freshly mopped floor. Said floor? The pavement outside of a pub. I don't think that has happened to me before.
October 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I was just scolded for standing on a freshly mopped floor. Said floor? The pavement outside of a pub. I don't think that has happened to me before.
My colleague Raphaël Pernoud just published a report of two wonderful conferences (one of which I was lucky enough to attend) about #deindustrialisation. If you were there, enjoy the nostalgia. If you weren't there, get a glimpse into the events!
dessine.hypotheses.org/500
dessine.hypotheses.org/500
Des membres de DesinEE aux conférences des projets jumeaux DePOT et CONDE
Au mois de juin 2025, deux conférences sur l’histoire de la désindustrialisation ont été organisées par nos confrères des projets de recherche DePOT (Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time) ...
dessine.hypotheses.org
August 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
My colleague Raphaël Pernoud just published a report of two wonderful conferences (one of which I was lucky enough to attend) about #deindustrialisation. If you were there, enjoy the nostalgia. If you weren't there, get a glimpse into the events!
dessine.hypotheses.org/500
dessine.hypotheses.org/500
Currently reading up on Joseph Goebbels' for a small project:
"Oh, he was really active in a fraternity? I wonder if that still...yes, it exists. I wonder if they...no, they don't mention him on their website at all."
"Oh, he was really active in a fraternity? I wonder if that still...yes, it exists. I wonder if they...no, they don't mention him on their website at all."
August 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Currently reading up on Joseph Goebbels' for a small project:
"Oh, he was really active in a fraternity? I wonder if that still...yes, it exists. I wonder if they...no, they don't mention him on their website at all."
"Oh, he was really active in a fraternity? I wonder if that still...yes, it exists. I wonder if they...no, they don't mention him on their website at all."
Having the same last name as a city is usually just a novelty. When you research the area, however, you suddenly start to see you last name in most interesting contexts:
"Gronau shows strength"
"Gronau takes responsibility"
Is it about me? No. Do I still feel addressed? Weirdly, yes.
"Gronau shows strength"
"Gronau takes responsibility"
Is it about me? No. Do I still feel addressed? Weirdly, yes.
August 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Having the same last name as a city is usually just a novelty. When you research the area, however, you suddenly start to see you last name in most interesting contexts:
"Gronau shows strength"
"Gronau takes responsibility"
Is it about me? No. Do I still feel addressed? Weirdly, yes.
"Gronau shows strength"
"Gronau takes responsibility"
Is it about me? No. Do I still feel addressed? Weirdly, yes.
"We are living in a time of deeprooted changes in which a lot—in some cases too much—is expected from us." This quote from 1961 could be a statement about today. I think it can bring solace to know how people in the past also felt overwhelmed by the changes of their times.
August 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"We are living in a time of deeprooted changes in which a lot—in some cases too much—is expected from us." This quote from 1961 could be a statement about today. I think it can bring solace to know how people in the past also felt overwhelmed by the changes of their times.
Three articles from #DerSpiegel I came across in my research:
1. German military ships to help with the defense of #Taiwan
2. #Franco-German calls for a joint #European army
3. Local German politicians mobilize against refugee centres
All taken from #DerSpiegel issue 43, 1991.
1. German military ships to help with the defense of #Taiwan
2. #Franco-German calls for a joint #European army
3. Local German politicians mobilize against refugee centres
All taken from #DerSpiegel issue 43, 1991.
July 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Three articles from #DerSpiegel I came across in my research:
1. German military ships to help with the defense of #Taiwan
2. #Franco-German calls for a joint #European army
3. Local German politicians mobilize against refugee centres
All taken from #DerSpiegel issue 43, 1991.
1. German military ships to help with the defense of #Taiwan
2. #Franco-German calls for a joint #European army
3. Local German politicians mobilize against refugee centres
All taken from #DerSpiegel issue 43, 1991.
One of the best things about working with #history is the connectedness of everything. I'm researching #deindustrialisation, and a text I am reading talks about witch trials in 17th century Germany. Yet, the text still fits my research somehow
July 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
One of the best things about working with #history is the connectedness of everything. I'm researching #deindustrialisation, and a text I am reading talks about witch trials in 17th century Germany. Yet, the text still fits my research somehow
That's what I love about academia: I am currently reading Andreas Reckwitz' book on loss ("Verlust") and the connections he makes between loss in its current form and modernity are so simple yet so genius. #mindblowfriday
a man with glasses is surrounded by a glowing circle and the website pmitf.com is displayed below him
ALT: a man with glasses is surrounded by a glowing circle and the website pmitf.com is displayed below him
media.tenor.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
That's what I love about academia: I am currently reading Andreas Reckwitz' book on loss ("Verlust") and the connections he makes between loss in its current form and modernity are so simple yet so genius. #mindblowfriday
The fact that the #Ruhr valley deals with "eternal costs" of mining will always be fascinating. One of the most populated regions in Europe needs pumps running FOR ETERNITY lest most of the Ruhr valley becomes a PCB-contaminated salt lake district. That's what I call a "Watt willse machen" scenario.
June 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
The fact that the #Ruhr valley deals with "eternal costs" of mining will always be fascinating. One of the most populated regions in Europe needs pumps running FOR ETERNITY lest most of the Ruhr valley becomes a PCB-contaminated salt lake district. That's what I call a "Watt willse machen" scenario.
Is it just me or does this #google result make it look like the NRW State Institute for Schools #qualisnrw is arguing that "a woman is honourable when she is chaste, abstinent until marriage and her sexuality is confined to the marriage"?
June 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Is it just me or does this #google result make it look like the NRW State Institute for Schools #qualisnrw is arguing that "a woman is honourable when she is chaste, abstinent until marriage and her sexuality is confined to the marriage"?
That feeling when there is a domesday book to read and scrolls available, but doomscrolling hasn't been invented yet.
(Source: Ute Frevert, Emotions in History - Lost and Found, 2011, p. 31)
(Source: Ute Frevert, Emotions in History - Lost and Found, 2011, p. 31)
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
That feeling when there is a domesday book to read and scrolls available, but doomscrolling hasn't been invented yet.
(Source: Ute Frevert, Emotions in History - Lost and Found, 2011, p. 31)
(Source: Ute Frevert, Emotions in History - Lost and Found, 2011, p. 31)
I came across this absolutely gorgeous illustration of "Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse De Segur" painted by Virginia Frances Sterrett in 1920. An image both timeless and still very 20s. You can find this and other images on the Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org/images/f330d...)
June 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I came across this absolutely gorgeous illustration of "Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse De Segur" painted by Virginia Frances Sterrett in 1920. An image both timeless and still very 20s. You can find this and other images on the Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org/images/f330d...)
Talked to a friend of mine, who excitedly told me about an online platform her teacher told her about. It's about uploading personal documents to make them accessible to researchers: "So normal people can become part of history too!" Data privacy in mind, this is indeed important!
May 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Talked to a friend of mine, who excitedly told me about an online platform her teacher told her about. It's about uploading personal documents to make them accessible to researchers: "So normal people can become part of history too!" Data privacy in mind, this is indeed important!
As a former international student (UK), I feel for all those students affected. I can only imagine the stress, uncertainty, fear, and frustration they must be dealing with right now.
Breaking news: The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students, saying it allowed anti-American agitators.
Existing foreign students must transfer or risk losing their legal status, DHS said.
Existing foreign students must transfer or risk losing their legal status, DHS said.
Live updates: Trump administration revokes Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the Republican-led Congress.
wapo.st
May 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As a former international student (UK), I feel for all those students affected. I can only imagine the stress, uncertainty, fear, and frustration they must be dealing with right now.
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Hi new followers. Don't forget to HYDRATE and REST so you can continue to EXPERIENCE existential DREAD
November 10, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Hi new followers. Don't forget to HYDRATE and REST so you can continue to EXPERIENCE existential DREAD