Does anyone else get this feeling that you could write multiple new articles after a conference and should research a million new topics?

Another week, another great conference!

I'm back after quite some time! Lots of conferences and wonderful discussions, lots of work done. One of that includes a book review of 'Mediating the Decline of Industrial Cities'. A pleasure to read and review. Here's the link (in German): www.sehepunkte.de/2026/07/4100...

Today starts the joint #conference "Concepts of Freedom and the Development in Democracy in Great Britain in Historical Comparison" by the German Association for #BritishStudies #AGF & the Institute for Social Movements in Bochum - w rep.s N. Fabian, S. Berger & M. Guderjan welcoming us #History

I am immensely grateful for such an amazing review from such an esteemed scholar in the field! It is wonderful to see how well the book has been received so far: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deutsche Minderheiten in Frankreich und Großbritannien: Im Niemandsland der Identität zwischen 1914 und 1924

Published in First World War Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Really looking forward to performing stand-up on the French Revolution at this event!

Brunel Museum@brunelmuseum.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Announcing our 3rd comedian for Engineering is a Joke: @drjamesconnolly.bsky.social James is Associate Professor of Modern French History at UCL. He's been performing stand-up since Nov 2024, including 4 Science Showoff events, as well as open-mic slots. Get your tickets now: vist.ly/4r2rn

It's crazy that I had to wait 32 years and go to a tiny Pizza place in rural France to have someone ask for my first name and immediately write it down correctly without asking or trying to tell me that I'm not indeed named Matthias

Happy holidays to all my followers! May these holidays be calm and meeting/e-mail-free

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)

Thanks to Stefan Berger for writing for our blog! Please take a look 😊

Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts@glosoc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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

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...

James Connolly - peer review - LOLs in Translation

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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

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.

Steve Cross@drstevex.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

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

H-Soz-Kult@hsozkult.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

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).

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.

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

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) ...

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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."

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.

"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.

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

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ALT: a man with glasses is surrounded by a glowing circle and the website pmitf.com is displayed below him

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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"?

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)

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!