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Join me and Jennifer Shearman, the curator of #QueerBritain, as we talk about #Queer and/or #Refugee histories as "hidden histories". The highlights, challenges, and hopes for future research and curating practices as part of our #AHRC work. You can listen here ⬇️⬇️ and share wherever 💜

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Big announcement! POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28). POLIN is offering very generous financial support. More details below. Please share! polin.pl/en/event/sum...

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Lovely roundtable talk for LGBTQ+ History Month at the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Excited to talk with @abikaras.bsky.social and @siobhanhearne.bsky.social about queer histories of central and eastern Europe 🥳 Join us (if you're about in Nottingham, of course) - all are welcome!

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Funded PhD project on AIDS, care, and the Salvation Army. Examines the Army's little-known AIDs initiatives through ethnographic interviews & archival work. Really cool project supervised by Julie-Marie Strange and David Minto. Deadline Friday- tell your MA students! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ476/p...

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Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals! More info here: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...

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“maybe I’ll do some writing between christmas and new year” Between christmas and new year:

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My favourite part of my relaxing break was missing 11 deadlines

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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

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Term is still happening. Teaching is still happening. Research is... like... "happening". But brain has ceased function. E R R O R. Which obviously means it's now time to mark over 100 pieces of coursework. Perfect.

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back in 1982, the Czechoslovak visionary cartoonist Zdenek Miler gave my generation of children a recipe for solving the future CO2 crisis

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Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

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"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Here is a thread on what we have put together:

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I wrote this a while ago on how categories of migration can obscure hierarchies, and how these inequities explain why ‘managing’ mobility entrenches inequities

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Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in. The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers. This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.

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Posted on the other place by my publisher - '@LgmSam's notable study advances our understanding of ethnicity, nationality, and identity in periods of postwar occupation and displacement. This work is a significant addition to existing literature' Review bit.ly/48VZnQf Book bit.ly/3UYxzox

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Yesterday was the start of UK Disability History Month - but how can we think about disabled voices in the past in a way that recognises their agency? Our new series does just that! @beckierutherford.bsky.social introduces the idea that we can historicise disability as more than a medical identity.

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🎉🎉🎉 Our new book 'United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism' with @oisintansey.bsky.social, @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social, and Sarah von Billerbeck is now available for pre-order and will be open access with Oxford University Press from February 2025 🎉🎉🎉 (1/5)

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Room for one more starter pack? Here's the (very) beginning of a list of people, journals, institutions etc, working in or adjacent to contemporary European History. Comment if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb

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Illustration from Baba Yaga’s Cat - a story in My Big Book of Cat Stories, written by various authors and illustrated by Adrienne Ségur. 1965.

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Just goes to show that no #university, no matter how prestigious, is insulated from financial crisis in British higher education right now.

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I made a starter pack for German History!!! Please repost, and comment if you'd like to be added! :) go.bsky.app/QMHzmog

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This is Bao. Bao likes to relax. Little bothers Bao. Bao's brain "Bao Bao Bao, Meow Bao Bao. Snacks?" Be more like Bao.

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every academic you meet is fighting their own battle. Make it worse by asking them how the writing is going

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Twitter

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📢 New Call for Papers! The 8th Beyond Camps & Forced Labour Conference, taking place in January 2026, is now accepting applications. The aim is to bring together scholars engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution Find out more: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...

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New favourite mug ☕️ courtesy of DEAG (delicate emails advice group... if you work in academia, you know one of those is essential)

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It has a name

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Lovely little blog on our UNRRA edited volume which came out in Dec.2023 - what the edited volume is about, where future research may go, and some thoughts from our 3 distinguished commentators from the launch event in Feb. 2024 refugeehistory.org/blog/2024/7/...

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A lovely (and generous) review of my book - Occupiers, Humanitarian Workers, and Polish Displaced Persons in British Occupied Germany - in CEU Review of Books today 😊 ceureviewofbooks.com/review/polish-… Thank you, CEU review of books and Katarzyna Nowak!

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