Damien Accoulon

@daccoulon.bsky.social

#Historian of #Aviation #WW1 #interwar #veterans #France #Germany Maître de conférences (Associate Prof.), Université de Tours Membre du CA @asso-h2c.bsky.social

🎓 📖 J’ai le plaisir de signer dans ce volume collectif, dirigé par Marie-Bénédicte Vincent, à paraître le 28 juillet, le chapitre consacré à la Hongrie de Miklós Horthy. J’essaie de définir la nature de ce régime et de montrer sa spécificité dans le paysage européen des années 1920 et 1930.

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📣 We're looking for new members to join our International Advisory Board! 📣 🌍 We're particularly interested in recruiting board members with expertise in the following areas: urban history of Africa (any region); South Asia; China; Latin America & the Caribbean; Central and Eastern Europe

Call for new members of Urban History’s International Advisory Board.

Urban History seeks to appoint new members to its international advisory board.
This is an exciting opportunity to become involved with a world-leading journal for urban historical research.  Urban History is published by Cambridge University Press and occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each issue features wide-ranging research articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities and supplementary material including periodical reviews, thesis reviews and book reviews.  Our growing submissions are becoming increasingly global and chronologically diverse and we seek to appoint an additional members of the international advisory board to reflect these developments and to further broaden our geographical range in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.  
About the role
Members of the International Advisory Board are expected to promote the journal through their networks and to encourage high quality submissions in the field of urban history. Board members support the Editorial Team (Shane Ewen, Prashant Kidambi, Domenic Vitiello, Roey Sweet and Rosemary Wakeman) as requested on submissions that fall within their field, undertaking peer review where appropriate or providing suggestions for specialist reviewers within their field.  All board members are expected to attend the annual meeting of the International Advisory Board (held online) where there are opportunities to provide advice and suggestions for the future direction of the journal.  

We are particularly interested in recruiting board members with expertise in the following areas: urban history of Africa (any region); South Asia; China; Latin America and the Caribbean; Central and Eastern Europe.

Text continued in next slideEssential qualities (to be used in shortlisting)
•	Expertise in urban history or a cognate discipline (candidates with expertise in the areas listed above may be preferred)
•	Evidence of active participation in urban history networks 
We are happy to receive applications from individuals at different career stages and we welcome applications from historians and colleagues from cognate disciplines – working in any context – from under-represented groups, including those from minoritized ethnic groups, disabled people, LGBTQIA+ people, and those who are ‘first generation’ in Higher Education. 

How to apply
Those interested in making an application to join the international advisory board should send to Roey Sweet (rhs4@le.ac.uk) 
•	a CV (no more than 3 pages)
•	a summary of up to 500 words outlining your interest in the role and what you would bring to it. 
Enquiries
Informal enquiries about the role can be made to: Professor Roey Sweet rhs4@le.ac.uk
Deadline
Deadline for applications: 5.00pm on Friday 11 September 2026 
We expect interviews to take place in October 2026 and that the new board members will start their term of office from January 2027.

The @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize opens for submissions on 1 July. The prize aims to recognize and promote high-quality research among PGRs and ECRs working broadly in the field of contemporary European history. You can find the full announcement here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Contemporary European History Prize

A prize aimed at encouraging, recognizing and promoting high-quality research among postgraduate and early career historians.

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Nouvelles questions d'histoire au programme de l'agrégation externe d'histoire (session 2027) : - Histoire moderne : Les Amériques des années 1560 aux années 1660 (comme à l'agrégation de géographie). - Histoire contemporaine : Régimes et mouvements autoritaires en Europe, 1918-1939.