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Peripheral Histories? is a collaborative digital history project focused on peoples and regions of Eastern Europe and Eurasia that have been perceived as geographically, politically, or culturally “peripheral"
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Our full series includes interviews with staff working at archives and libraries in the UK, US, Georgia, Estonia, Moldova, and Switzerland. Check out all the posts here: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/archives-and...
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For the latest post, we spoke with the Open Society Archives - a great repository for anyone working on post-war Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/open-so...
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We move back to digital collections for our third instalment on the Blavatnik Archive, an essential resource for Soviet Jewish history, as well as the history of the First and Second World Wars www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/the-bla...
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Next, we interviewed Yuexin Rachel Lin about the Leeds Russian Archive, which holds extensive collections related to the history of Anglo-Russian relations, as well as histories of refugees and emigration www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/leeds-r...
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Thanks, Mikko! It's a great post and we are grateful to you for sharing your research with us.
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Thank you!
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If you have an idea for a post, we would love to hear from you. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us via DM or at [email protected]
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Finally, we have Josef Butler on the Polish diaspora & national indifference in post-war Britain www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/indiffe...
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Next up is Karina Khasnulina, who de-centres Soviet-Chinese cooperation in the 1950s by looking at Kharkiv-Luoyang connections in the field of industrial development www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/localis...
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Then we have a post from Leah Johnson, in which she presents her fascinating oral history interviews with members of the Estonian American National Council who engaged in political activism throughout the second half of the twentieth century www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/far-awa...
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In March, we published this excellent post by Anna Efimova on homosexuality, nationalism, and imperial anxieties in the early twentieth-century Caucasus (one for the #histsex crowd) www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/homosex...
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Please could you add us? Thank you!