An article on the history of municipal government, offering insights into late-20th-c. Amsterdam, some unintentionally entertaining quotations by beleaguered yet enterprising mayors, and my take on the relationship between social democracy and neoliberalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Intriguing piece by an outstanding historian, who has just received a major prize: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/war-military...

Cycling the German Peasants’ War

The German Peasants' War (1524-26) was the largest uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Lyndal Roper recalls how a cycle ride around Germany led her to appreciate the vast scale of...

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I wrote a brief piece on 'Crime fiction and multiculturalism', focusing on the novels of A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir. These are set in Bradford, where I did some urban walking last September and took pictures, some of which are included as images. geschichtedergegenwart.ch/crime-fictio...

Crime fiction and multi­cul­tu­ra­lism. A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir on Bradford

A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir are known for their crime novels set in Bradford, a postindustrial city in Northern England with a large British Asian population. Their fiction reflects local stories of immi...

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I had a conversation with the stimulating scholar Morteza Hajizadeh about my book The Quest for Individual Freedom, which has now appeared as a podcast on the New Books Network. newbooksnetwork.com/the-quest-fo...

Dénes's new article is available free Open Access, as is all content published in Transactions bit.ly/486BF5d The journal's editors welcome submission of research articles and comment pieces, on historical practice and debate, from historians working within and outside education 2/2 #Skystorians

Everyone: we have a cover. I repeat--the cover has landed, and it is glorious!

Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.

What does p. 99 say or not say about a book? I applied this test to my own one and incidentally tried to make a broader point on the relationship between social democracy and individual freedom. page99test.blogspot.com/2025/07/mori...

Moritz Föllmer's "The Quest for Individual Freedom"

Moritz Föllmer is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. He has particular interests in Weimar and Nazi Germ...

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I'm very happy to see my 'second book' on the uses and meanings of silence in 19th century politics now officially published. Many thanks to all who made this moment possible. More information on the publisher's website: www.droste-verlag.de/buecher/tite...

Five questions you were absolutely desperate to ask but now don't have to because your friends at @uchicagopress.bsky.social got there first -

This essay summarises the approach and key arguments of my recently published book The Quest for Individual Freedom. It also argues for the usefulness of Isaiah Berlin's famous concept of negative freedom, but in the plural rather than the singular. cambridgeblog.org/2025/05/nega...

My book on the quest for individual freedom in twentieth-century Europe is now out. Click on 'look inside' and 'marketing excerpt' to read the introduction. www.cambridge.org/nl/universit...