Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live! The theme this year is Creative Misuse - interpret as you will. Read the full prompt: https:// drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-7J4UoajGAooans30yEgQKlzys2hD/view Fill out the application: https:// forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyURiWJA

Thanks a lot for organising this incredible event!

Dónal Hassett@donalh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And it's a wrap. Thanks to all who came to Maynooth for FCHS. So many brilliant people helped make this happen. It was great to see old friends and make new ones, all while learning lots about the wide range of exciting research happening in our field. @frenchcolonial.bsky.social

🤝 Togolese/French/German collaboration on colonial photographs @richardlegay.bsky.social & his project partners from #Togo, #France and #Germany spent 2 days in #Freiburg's ethnological collection to analyse conolial photography. Read their report: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/togo...

Nous avons eu le plaisir d’organiser le workshop de notre projet PhotoTogo, qui s’est tenu la semaine dernière, les jeudi 28 et vendredi 29 mai 2026, au @abi-freiburg.bsky.social à Fribourg-en-B. Quel plaisir de pouvoir travailler toutes et tous ensemble pendant ces deux jours !

📋💬 Conference discussion on decolonisation and restitution @richardlegay.bsky.social took part in a conference on transcultural relations and colonial legacies at Zeppelin University (DE). 💡Read more on their panel discussion: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/abi-...

Incredible piece by @forbetterscience.bsky.social now painstakingly documenting plagiarism by the HU history professor under investigation for sexual misconduct 😱

Leonid Schneider@forbetterscience.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Marginalised and isolated in academic publishing activities forbetterscience.com/2026/02/02/m...

Restitution in Frankreich: Senat verabschiedet einstimmig Gesetzentwurf für kolonial angeeignete Kulturgüter. Und Deutschland @diplo.de @spdfraktion.de @spd.de @laenderkultur.bsky.social? @mehler.bsky.social @goldmatt.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social h/t RM* www.france24.com/en/france/20...

French Senate approves draft bill to simplify return of colonial-era artefacts

The French Senate on Wednesday adopted a draft legislation to facilitate the return of artworks and other prized artefacts looted during the country’s colonial era. This new procedure could help addre...

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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a

Defending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen Wheatley

People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my brilliant colleagues discussing the essential work that they have been able to do thanks to the…

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Great opportunities for #publichistory !

Ciaran O'Neill@ciaranon.bsky.social · 11mo ago

4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030. One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods. www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...

📚🔍 New project starts at ABI: PhotoTogo Under the coordination of @richardlegay.bsky.social, a collection of colonial photographs from #Togo held at the Museum Natur und Mensch in #Freiburg will be critically examined. ▶️ Find out more on the project: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/projects/...

My History colleagues are looking for a Europeanist who can also teach in a non-Western area. I'd personally be enthusiastic about another French speaker joining the college. We have a lovely Francophone community of faculty and students, and there are French lunches on campus twice a month!

Kelsey Madsen@quellekelsey.bsky.social · last yr.

Job Announcement: Professor Modern European History (1750-Present), open rank, beginning in Fall 2026 at Grove City College, a small Christian liberal arts college an hour north of Pittsburgh. Preference for someone who can also teach courses in a non-Western field. www.gcc.edu/Utility/Port...

Great Call for Papers for #media historians working on #radio & #magazines! 📻📰 The 'Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?' conference (Lausanne, 30.06-01.07.2026) is looking for contributions. L'appel est aussi disponible en français. impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne...

New publication available through open access. Public History in Global Perspective… Conflict Textiles features in chapter by Nico Ferguson Crossing Borders in Cloth, from Collectivizing to Commemorating…. Full details www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Bon, vu les débats lancés à ce sujet depuis plus d’un mois, voilà un fil qui tente d’expliquer le problème que pose l’infiltration par les ultra-conservateurs des spectacles historiques et autres fêtes médiévales (ou de villages). À dérouler ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/

Ian Greaves@greavesian.bsky.social · last yr.

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔 Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social

Public History in Global Perspective

Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

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The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔 Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social

Public History in Global Perspective

Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

degruyterbrill.com

Really delighted to see this out. Great work by colleagues and alumni of @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory masters programme. #openaccess as well. Thanks to everyone involved. @smythh.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social @ciaranon.bsky.social

Hannah K. Smyth 🍉@smythh.bsky.social · last yr.

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx

Public History in Global Perspective

Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

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www.conseil-etat.fr/avis-consult... A défaut du texte de loi, j'ai lu l'avis du conseil d'état qui est majoritairement du blabla de juriste mais qui revient sur deux points de tension dans le texte de loi prévu: les bornes chronologiques et les dons et legs.

Avis sur un projet de loi relatif à la restitution de biens culturels provenant d’Etats qui, du fait d’une appropriation illicite, en ont été privés. - Conseil d'État

Le Gouvernement a décidé de rendre public l'avis du Conseil d’État sur un projet de loi relatif à la restitution de biens culturels provenant d’Etats qui, du fait d’une appropriation illicite, en ont ...

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🚨 #Jobalert Join us as a #PostDoc in the Horizon Europe project TWON (Twin of Online Social Network)! You'll work in the Political Communication & Journalism group, as well as in the Computational Communication Science Amsterdam Lab. 📅Deadline: 28 July 2025 🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/mswjxnaj

📆 Afrikanisches Erbe in Europa - Aufführung von #Dahomey &"If Objects could speak", Diskussion mit #KokouAzamede & @richardlegay.bsky.social 👉24.7. um 19.30 Uhr im Kommunalen Kino #Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social @decolonialitynow.bsky.social www.koki-freiburg.de/dahomey-if-o...

You can now find a selection of the zines my students made in our course 'Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past?' Many thanks to @vivigarciap.bsky.social, Miriam Bartelmann & Su Gökyokuş (@abi-freiburg.bsky.social) for putting it together! rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/07/14/c...

Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past? - Rewriting peace and conflict

Over the last few years, several European powers and actors have increasingly engaged with political acts of remembering colonial violence, wars, and crimes committed in Africa in their name. Among ot...

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This thread departs somewhat from the editorial line of this account, but it remains within memory studies. It should be considered as a personal reflection by Frédéric Clavert.

Day 1 of the 'Decentering Media Histories & Practices' @iamhist.bsky.social Conference at the University of Cape Town 📻🎙️📺 Such a pleasure to be in South Africa for our biannual event! Looking forward to a packed programme. Thanks to @marthaevans.bsky.social for organising it!

Registration for the 2025 conference "Resistance/Résister" organized by The Global Consortium for French Historical Studies is now open. Have a look at our stunning program. We can't wait to see you in Paris in a few weeks! www.sfhsconference.org

Many thanks to French Politics for publishing our research with @mehler.bsky.social at the @abi-freiburg.bsky.social on Franco-German memory politics and colonial past! The article is available online here: doi.org/10.1057/s412... And as a pdf upon request! #publichistory #memory #colonialhistory

*IAMHIST News*: Ross Melnick is the winner of the Culbert Family Memorial Book Prize 2024 for his publication Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)! Huge congratulations Ross 🥳 iamhist.net/winner-culbe...

*IAMHIST News* Updated Summer 2025 books for review in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: iamhist.net/journal/#boo... Please contact Veronica Johnson should you be interested in reviewing a particular title (Veronica.Johnson@outlook.ie)