Snow on the Croatian littoral

Pictured: #Guinness barrels on the Lady Grania's maiden voyage from #Dublin to #Liverpool, 1953. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap See more www.mappingmemory.org/map/r... #OralHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory

New year greetings from the Marseille littoral

Mid winter greeting from our PI in the English westcountry

Mid winter greetings from our Croatian team.

If you’re excited by @danielsoar.bsky.social’s @lrb.co.uk review of Pynchon’s new novel, you’re going to want to follow our project #LiminalWater, the premise of which is that Rijeka (Fiume) is in fact the centre of the universe. chanse.org/liminalwater/

Two places some of our team have been this week. Can you identify both locations?

Including “North African Jewish Heritage, Interrupted Transmission, and Return”, by our @samsamev.bsky.social

Fragments d'un littoral ouvrier : de l'industrie aux habitats informels a l'Estaque, Marseille (années 1970) Giulia Buffoli from our @univ-amu.fr team, presenting this week in Normandy at the brilliant Coastline in motion workshop. @telemme.bsky.social

At an event in Nottingham. Nottingham Trent @jennywustenberg.bsky.social reminds us that as well as our sector as a whole, languages in particular are under attack. So important to remember this while attempting to conduct business as usual in academia.

Many of our team are in Nottingham for “Knowkedge Exchange for Slow Hope” as part of the HERA-CHANSE Crisis – Perspectives from the Humanities programme. Fantastic welcoming talk by @jennywustenberg.bsky.social

Our Portuguese PI, Raquel Gil Carvalheira, with seashells from the maritime museum at Ílhavo.

Our central European and Balkan research teams, along with our fantastic partners from Akademie Graz and the Rijeka maritime museum, had a very productive workshop in Graz this week.

Our Croatian PI, Professor Milka Car, is presenting our project in imperially splendid Vienna today.

Happy to share that our Zagreb team member Jelena Lalatovic will be presenting some of the research she has been doing on the project at the Latin American Studies Association Congress #LASA2026 next year in Paris, in a panel on periodical countercultures.

From our Croatian team on the Adriatic

Activists of @eausecours.bsky.social mourning lakes lost to mining yesterday in Ottawa by the parliament, observed by our PI @bengidley.bsky.social

Pictured: Cast iron Sailors' Home railing detail c1850, #Liverpool. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap See more www.mappingmemory.org/map/r... #OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory

Greetings from the fieldwork in southern Portugal

Bienvenue sur Bluesky ! (Ajouté à notre liste « Mediterranean Studies » dans notre profil 👆🏼.)

Where our team members are today. (Full points to anyone who can name all the locations.)

We never posted about day two of our workshop in Marseille last week. Watch this space! It’s coming soon.

Park Lane, #Liverpool, 1968. Courtesy of Liverpool Record Office. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap See more at www.mappingmemory.org/map/r... #OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory

Posting some highlights of our workshop in this thread…

Fantastic long read by @yvonnesingh.bsky.social on Claude McKay in London www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

We are starting our second team meeting this morning. Expect more pictures.

It was brilliant to kick off the Migration and Mobility Seminar with great papers from @profpanayi.bsky.social @endeeekay.bsky.social @bengidley.bsky.social @marcloureiro.bsky.social - a lot to think about in terms of how we do migration history, especially in the current moment

Including @blenormand.bsky.social on Rijeka on 3 February:

Walter Benjamin, 15 juillet 1892 - 26 septembre 1940. In Memoriam. "Il est plus difficile d'honorer la mémoire des sans-noms que celle des gens célèbres. A la mémoire des sans-noms est dédiée la construction historique" (c'est tout le sens du projet Wo, Walter)

Some of our team are in Marseille this week for “Balkan Matters! Material cultures in the Balkans”, hosted by our project partners MucemLab mucem.org/en/evenement... @telemme.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @lest-umr-cnrs-amu.bsky.social @gsrl.bsky.social @inalco.fr

Greetings from our Zagreb team on the Adriatic coast this week

We’re very excited to be attending this conference next week at MucemLab!

aphg.aixmarseille Grâce à un partenariat entre le MUCEM et l' @aphg-am.bsky.social tous les adhérents de l’ @aphg.bsky.social pourront découvrir l'exposition « Lire le ciel » le mercredi 24 septembre à 14h30. La visite sera menée par un conservateur du MUCEM. Inscription : aphg.aixmarseille.fr

On this day in 1890, the great Claude McKay was born. (My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.

From the Croatian littoral

Groeten uit Antwerpen! Researching the Ostend East India Company in Antwerp

The @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social treasures exhibit is excellent. Struck by this 1779 letter from the Codrington Papers detailing the coercive sexual relationship between an overseer and an unnamed enslaved woman. Even better is Amina Atiq’s 2021 poem, “Wench” which gives her voice (see ALT text)🗃️

Some of the books our team members are reading over the summer

Summer greetings from Liverpool

This looks interesting. Good to see the Danube as a research focus.

A pleasure to have been involved in working towards this new Migration and Mobility history seminar launching in the Autumn and led by the brilliant @kabcommons.bsky.social. Keep your eye out as we have some ace events shaping up.

📣 CFP for our EAJS Virtual 'Translating Maimonides' on 7th December 2025. We invite cross-disciplinary papers related to linguistics, intercommunal/interreligious dialogue, archives and material heritage, Sephardi identities, creative engagement & more… Abstracts due 18th September lnkd.in/ey3fie6c

A pleasure to be part of a lively and interdisciplinary Liquid Jewish Studies panel with @bengidley.bsky.social Tony Kushner, @ophiragamliel.bsky.social & @samsamev.bsky.social on migration, oceanic perspectives, watermarks & @liminalwater.bsky.social - two pence added from me on the Wandering Jew 🌊

What our London team has been up to lately

What our Liverpool team has been up to recently

What our Croatian team has been up to recently

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