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ACORD UK brings together Romanian experts in the UK within a diaspora diplomacy framework, providing evidence, expertise and community dialogue.

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📣 CEH's third digest is out now, featuring journal news, blog updates, prizewinners, and more! And our editors have again chosen an article from the last six months on which they've enjoyed working - read on to see their selections! [1/7] www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Contemporary European History digest, no. 3, January to June 2026 « News# « Cambridge Core Blog

In our third digest, we present our new managing editor; we highlight two recently published prize-winning articles on nude activists in communist Poland and the politics of transnational banking in t...

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Choosing @christianrau.bsky.social's 'Ambivalent Entanglements and Participations', @dacretu.bsky.social noted that 'Rau skilfully demonstrates... “East German life-worlds and subjectivities” as innovative approaches to understanding post-1945 Germany'. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In personal news…I’m on vacation. Rotting on a couch and feeling giddy things at the below is a good start. If you know me, you know.

Losing Carlo Ginzburg and Slavenka Drakulić in the same week seems cruel. Gratitude for everything they produced and with hope that I do their work justice in my classroom.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... Many thanks to @stefanc-ionescu.bsky.social for the thoughtful review of my book!

Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an Ideal. By Doina Anca Cretu. Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by Norman Naimark and Larry Wolff. Stanford, CA: S...

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Productive day of plotting Eastern European history takeover at St Andrews, hosted by the wonderful Bernhard Struck with @dacretu.bsky.social @svenjabethke.bsky.social & al

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A Letter to the Children of Bosnia | By Edin Džeko

I grew up with war. Suddenly, I was living a fairy tale. Nothing is ever impossible. Not even taking Bosnia to the World Cup.

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It was a pleasure to give a keynote on "History of Humanitarianism: The View *From* East-Central Europe" at Cardiff University, part of the "Belief and the Future: Global Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe" workshop last week. Fancy room included!

On Monday, I passed my viva! Many thanks to my supervisors @ankahajkova.bsky.social and @dacretu.bsky.social for getting me to the finish line. Many thanks to my examiners Lydia Plath and @history-doug.bsky.social !

Incredible in every way.

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Cristian Mungiu wins second Palme d’Or at Cannes for child abuse drama Fjord

Very glad to see this finally come to fruition! A pleasure to develop and co-edit this series with the wonderful Jill Massino. With immense thanks to Andrea Talabér for the help and patience. www.ceupressauthorhub.com/studies-in-t...

Thank you to @alexdrace.bsky.social for reading my book with such a keen eye regarding what I did well and what could have been done better (but maybe COULD be done...*wink to other researchers*) in relation to historiography on interwar Romania.

Alex Drace-Francis@alexdrace.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My review of Doina Anca Cretu, "Foreign Aid and State-Building in Interwar Romania" (European History Quarterly) doi.org/10.1177/0265...

New review! @nmw1.bsky.social reviews Pieter Judson and Tara Zahra's new book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 (@academic.oup.com, 2005). Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-l...

The long end to Habsburg Central Europe’s long nineteenth century - CEU Review of Books

In The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe (OUP, 2025), Pieter M. Judson and Tara Zahra analyse the war not as the end of the Monarchy, but rather as a series of socio-politica...

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I am delighted and proud to share with you the programme for the last conference in our #ERC research programme "The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, 1917-1949". Robert Gerwarth, @sdanisimova.bsky.social and I will be happy to welcome you at UCD in Dublin on 25-26 June. civil-wars.eu/wp-content/u...

with comment from @dacretu.bsky.social who points out Florea's beautiful analytical writing that poses some hard questions about centrality of the West in our knowledge of the "European" history

An absolute pleasure to briefly discuss this wonderful book...probably on many many syllabi for the foreseeable future!

Dr Anna Hájková@ankahajkova.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Cristina Florea is introducing her beautiful book Bukovina to the EHRC @princetonupress.bsky.social

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...

Sometimes one has to escape to the theatre. Very interesting production.

"A history professor course could not allocate instructional time to the Stonewall riots or the gay rights movement. If a U.S. history textbook includes a chapter on the AIDS crisis, the professor must skip it." www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics

The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.

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Exciting to see this joint volume out in OA already (traditional format soon)! A representation of the work under the @michalfrankl.bsky.social - led ERC "Unlikely Refuge?" My own chapter can be read here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Jewish Refugees, Encampment, and the Humanitarian Paradox in Austria-H

This chapter is an analysis of what the author calls an ecosystem of humanitarian aid designed for Jews placed in refugee camps in Austria-Hungary during the

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A change of register for me, with a really compelling day discussing research potential, as well as shortcomings in possible collaborations between Romanian researchers in the UK and at home. Many thanks to Romanian Embassy in London and to Her Excellency Laura Popescu for the initiative.

Scenes of a revolution These tinted slides show Russia at a time of revolutions and civil war Produced in the USA by the Victor Animatograph Company, they were used for Henry Sara's UK lantern lecture tours See more Sara slides at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #Archive30 #ColourfulArchives

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

A photo I took 14 years ago at an anti-Orbán/Fidesz demonstration in Budapest... It is finally done!

The upcoming anticorruption campaign will be hard. A constitutional majority goes a long way, but entrenched corrupt networks fight back and sabotage, they don't give up easily. Just ask Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, etc.

András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Magyar calls on the figurehead head of state Tamás Sulyok, as well as all high justice officials and other high officials appointed by Fidesz to resign immediately or they will be removed by the new government. He also announces a constitutional reform and that Hungary is joining EPPO.

“Ruszkik haza!” on the Budapest metro after the vote!

Orbán concedes and focuses on Hungarians voting from neighboring countries (and supporting Fidesz overwhelmingly) as his team looks on shellshocked. The man on the far left, János Lázár (in a political sense actually far right) will be angling for the party. Mark my words.

What becomes of the Budapest hub of nationalist thinkers and institutions after Orbán’s downfall? Does it stay put and seek to incubate a Fidesz comeback? Decamp to Bratislava / Belgrade / Prague / Washington DC? Or disperse across the continent ahead of the major election years of 2027 and 2029?