That's very sad. I only spoke to Juliet Gardiner once, when she was looking for this photo from my exhibition about the Liverpool Blitz for her book jacket. She generously said she was blown away by the exhibition. I was able to say how much I'd enjoyed an exhibition of hers at the Hayward Gallery.

Jonathan Calder@lordbonkers.bsky.social · 3w ago

The book tackled full on the place of the blitz in British national mythology, concluding – surely rightly – that while the image of the chirpy, ever-cheerful Cockney had been badly overdone, there was still ample evidence of real fortitude in adversity and even real community spirit.

newbooksnetwork.com/survival-at-... It was such a pleasure speaking with @chadgibbs101.bsky.social about his incredible work on Treblinka. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🗃️

Im neuen #GG Heft setzen sich - neben dem Herausgeber Friedrich Lenger - Jürgen Osterhammel, Wolfgang Knöbl, Kaveh Yazdani, Samuël Coghe, Alexander Engel und unser Mitherausgeber Kiran Klaus Patel mit Immanuel Wallerstein und der Weltwirtschaft auseinander. www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/cur...

Happy to announce that my article 'Rethinking Commodity Frontiers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Capitalist World Economy' was published in OA in Geschichte & Gesellschaft! @ggjournal.bsky.social @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social You can read it here for free: doi.org/10.13109/geg...

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Im neuen #GG Heft setzen sich - neben dem Herausgeber Friedrich Lenger - Jürgen Osterhammel, Wolfgang Knöbl, Kaveh Yazdani, Samuël Coghe, Alexander Engel und unser Mitherausgeber Kiran Klaus Patel mit Immanuel Wallerstein und der Weltwirtschaft auseinander. www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/cur...

Casper Andersen and I are really excited that our special issue on history writing after independence has now been published. In the issue, we are looking at how institutional and epistemological factors impacted the process of history writing in the aftermath of independence. 🧵

📣 New article online! 'The Grey Escape: Britons Retiring Overseas, c. 1980–2010', by Helen McCarthy | @historianhelen.bsky.social Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to share the cover of "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany," a forthcoming book I co-edited with Lauren Stokes. A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today. 30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell

We're launching a new journal and can finally share the news! Edited by Stephen Brain and Victor Pal, 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe' will open to submissions in Autumn this year, for a first issue in 2027. More information forthcoming soon! #envhist #envhum

New book Can Eyüp Çekiç by titled "Constantinople and the Battle for the League of Nations, 1919–1920" link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Constantinople and the Battle for the League of Nations, 1919–1920

This book examines the forgotten proposal to make Constantinople the headquarters of the League of Nations after World War I

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Ein vergessener Krieg des 20. Jahrhunderts: Interview mit Jannis Girgsdies (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) über den Rifkrieg, koloniale Gewalt in Nordafrika und deutsche Söldner. lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/interview_gi...

„Deutsche kämpften auf allen Seiten“ | L.I.S.A. Wissenschaftsportal Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Vor 100 Jahren, am 27. Mai 1926, streckte Mohammed Abd el-Krim die Waffen. Fünf Jahre lang führte er die Rifkabylen im Aufstand gegen die spanische und französische Kolonialherrschaft in Marokko und w...

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Did you know that the League of Nation’s Palais Wilson made its staff sick because they couldn’t ventilate the building properly? Utterly fascinating article on the League of Nation’s microclimate in Geneva.

Alex Levine@alexmaxlevine.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very excited to publish my article “Geneva’s Environment and the League of Nations” in the new issue of Geschichte und Gesellschaft! www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109...

We're sending HUGE congratulations to Astrid Rasch for winning the Wulf Kansteiner MSA First Book Award 2026. Her work explores how four centuries of imperial culture shaped the buildings, spaces and infrastructures of the British Isles. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189172/

I've been so busy at work I haven't had the chance to share that my book is now in paperback!!

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@tsasson.bsky.social's The Solidarity Economy tells the untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empire. Out now in #paperback! Find it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #History

Happy to announce the publication of my article on international volunteers in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social. Thanks to @sdanisimova.bsky.social & Robert Gerwarth for their support and to the reviewers for their advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Commissars for the ‘world civil war’: recruiting and educating internationalists in the Russian Civil War, 1918–1920

Nearly 18,000 people enlisted in international volunteers’ units in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. With many of them being former prisoners of war and foreign workers, the technical and...

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Enfin, c'est demain ! Notre #conférence "Du conflit à la coopération" sur l' #histoirefranco-allemande en #Sarre après la #SecondeGuerremondiale aura lieu demain à DHIP et en ligne sur Zoom ! Pour en savoir plus ⬇️

Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris@dhi-paris.fr · 4mo ago

Comment la Sarre est-elle devenue un pont de la réconciliation franco-allemande ? Reiner Marcowitz explique comment le conflit a cédé la place à la coopération après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 📍29.04. | 18h00-20h00 | hybrid #histoirecontempraine #histoirefrancoallemande

Packed house last night at the @dornsife.usc.edu Max Kade Institute with authors @danielagerson.bsky.social & Judy Batalion in conversation with Aliza Luft (UCLA) about their brand new books. Fascinating and lively discussion.

UPDATE: It's officially published as of today! If you're interested, I'm happy to answer questions and to speak to undergraduate and graduate courses as desired. lsupress.org/978080718678... #skystorians

From Occupation to Integration

After the collapse of the National Socialist regime in May 1945, France became one of four principal occupying powers in a defeated Germany. Within their zon...

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Drew Flanagan Ph.D@drewflanaganphd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's real! @lsupress.bsky.social #skystorians lsupress.org/978080718678...

Since the UN’s Geneva offices held the League of Nations, peacocks have called its grounds home, a semi-mascot donated by various member states. In Nov 1937, Sec General Avenol was distraught when 8 died (the “Tragedy of the Peacocks” per Daily Mail). He ordered shelters be built for the birds.

Oh hello, the latest issue of @urbanhistory.bsky.social is out, containing my article 'An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia'. Check it out if interested in colonial uses of ceremonials, history of Jakarta etc: doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Very excited to publish my article “Geneva’s Environment and the League of Nations” in the new issue of Geschichte und Gesellschaft! www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109...

Geschichte und Gesellschaft@ggjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Unser neues Heft ist da! www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/cur... Beiträge zur Schweizer Behördenpraxis zum nationalsozialistischen Mischehenverbot, zur Unternehmensbesteuerung aus globalhistorischer Perspektive, zu Genfs Umwelt und der League of Nations und zur Familienrechtsdebatte in der frühen BRD

NEW How did climate change affect life in pre-Columbian Amazonia? Modelling occupation and abandonment of settlements in the Ecuadorian Amazon over the past 4500 years shows how people overcame El Niño events by adapting to changing conditions. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

“Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933,” the final volume of our relaunched “German History in Documents and Images” primary source project, is now published and available! You can find the expanded edition, edited and with a new introduction by Erik Jensen, here: germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge...

This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this. With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist

In 1942, Italian soldiers in Libya were sending home coffee (both in grains and ground) in their letters to their family - because they got a coffee ration while at home in Italy it was running out! ☕️ (though some were just pinching it from the army stores...) Vital Second World War content 😂

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts coming this summer. Looking forward to talking with @chadgibbs101.bsky.social & Sarah Zarrow about their fantastic new books!

Listen to co-author Jane Leung Larson discussing her successful book "A Chinese Reformer in Exile" at the Northwest China Council in Portland! Full presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=72th... Download the book for free: brill.com/display/titl... #openaccess @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Academics, is there an article or paper that you've published that you feel has slipped under the radar? Reply or quote this post with your overlooked piece! Here's mine... www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Creating the National/Border Security Nexus: Counter-Terrorist Operations and Monitoring Middle Eastern and North African Visitors to the UK in the 1970s–1980s

This article looks at an earlier episode in the history of the UK border security apparatus by examining how the immigration control system was used in the 1970s and 1980s to detect potential terro...

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So excited for this upcoming event with authors @danielagerson.bsky.social and Judy Battalion at The Max Kade Institute @dornsife.usc.edu on the 26th. 🗃️

***Free e-book from @illinoispress.bsky.social *** Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States edited by Danielle Battisti and S. Deborah Kang www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500–2026 (Lucerne, Oct 8–10, 2026)🚨🗃️ We’re organizing an interdisciplinary conference on global histories, cultures, and legacies of hair. Researchers from all relevant fields and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply. All costs are covered. 📆 May 15, 2026