Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.

The multilayered question is why many eastern Europeans vote for Farage's allies in loco: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Many thanks to Grant Harward for the kind review of my book! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shoutout to my good friend and collaborator, Dagmar Hájková, who knows way more about TGM than anyone should have to. 🥰https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/europe/tgm-letter-czech-republic-scli-intl

Escaping to Italy and checking a bucket list must since I was 8: F1 Grand Prix at Monza.

Baffling to say that the "lottery" system was kind to me, but super grateful to have received a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant...Time to finish research for project #2 and spend some time back in Central Europe next year (if all goes well). #birthdaypresent

Times are grim, but at least Great British Bake-Off is back.

Fueling racism in Romania like there's no tomorrow as well.

area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians

The kind of good news we have been waiting for far too long: 👇👇👇 "UK preparing for Erasmus reunion" www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...

Good time as any to announce that I have joined the Contemporary European History team as a Reviews Editor. Holler at me if you'd be interested in putting a review essay together...I have already started a list.😎 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps. "Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps" archive.ph/78dcP

We have launched a series highlighting the positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland 💙 Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇 #refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere

🎺 Job alert! 🎺 Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time! Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...

refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.

Finalizing my new module on "History of Refugees in Modern Europe" and am both nervous and SO very excited to get this going.

„The ‚deal’ being proposed for 🇺🇦 could very well be the pivot which decides what the new Europe will be. Will it be one of validated conquest, of war crimes covered up, of abducted children and normalization with butchers.“ @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Is that the Europe you would like to live in?

CNN trying to make any sense about what the hell that was about is entertaining at least.

Ugly grim history.

My fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of European History was the BEST. If you or someone you know works on European history, you should apply!! Deadline is Friday 8/15 www.ieg-mainz.de/en/fellowshi... #history #fellowships #academic

I am developing a course titled “Anthropocene Histories, History in the Anthropocene” at UCPH. My idea is to structure the it thematically through planetary boundaries. But what are the best texts around these days. I have the obvious stuff: Chakrabarty, Bonneuil & Fressoz, McNeill, Brown

Well… 😂

Ion Iliescu, Romania's first post-1989 president, died today. Controversial legacy. And I am being gentle. Let's see how much gets erased in the near future and in the long term.

Finally overcame a publication glitch and my reading of Jan Rybak’s excellent “Everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe” is out at last! www.ecmi.de/JEMIE/index....

It was one of the most positive conferences I've ever been on. I hope, it was not the last time! Thanks again to the organizers!!! This was truly amazing!

heads up historians of the Roman period - very, very, short deadline on this *permanent* job to start this academic year at Uni of Nottingham www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX393/a... 🗃️

Needed thanks to Peter Becker, @dominiquereill.bsky.social , and everyone who worked tirelessly to conceptualize the events, find the funding, and give voices and opportunities to young scholars in particular.

What a superb first edition of the Central European History Convention in Vienna! A privilege to be part of it and especially to thank the great Pieter Judson for his intellectual AND human influence for the past few years. Add old AND new friends, fantastic papers, Vienna.

The team at the University of Vienna’s Institute of Austrian Historical Research has been working non-stop to get everything for tomorrow’s first day on the Central European History Convention (CEHC). Come join us tomorrow! ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

Gosh, that was moving

Two days ago I had the pleasure of running a session with students from the Ukrainian Catholic University, part of the Third Annual Ukrainian Summer School at Warwick. I am so proud that this event exists and I can only hope that similar opportunities will exist going forward.

Brilliant opportunity, do consider applying!

This was such a pleasure to work on! Go and read @dacretu.bsky.social’s excellent book (after you listened to the podcast 😜).

I may or may not be excited and nervous.

My friend Raul Carstocea is advertising 2 PhD positions within his fabulous ERC project. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU289/p...

So very grateful for the opportunity to showcase my book! Many many thanks to @anditalaber.bsky.social for her time, patience, and reading of this material.

One year teaching fellow post at Warwick University in Modern Eastern European History. I will be on academic leave next year and the Histoty Department looks for someone to teach my two modules on Ukrainian History and on Stalinism. Look here warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Join us!

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

This coming later this year from yours truly, Michal Frankl, and 10 compelling contributions. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189936/

Presented in my funky ways, tested some ideas, met some wonderful people, got loads of ideas ( always a bad thing in my world 😆), and saw some beautiful Prague sunsets. Conference success.

CfP for conferencing on refugees /migrants in the always-fabulous Prague. Dates: 19-20 Nov. 2025.

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Everything is terrible, but Robert Kubica won #LeMans and while this is niche joy...WOOHOO!

My spams are odder than yours.

Check out this incredible event on Transformations of Shoah Trauma in Post-2000 Literatures, organized by the Center for Jewish Studies, Palacký University of Olomouc, in cooperation with Royal Holloway University of London and Catholic University in Lublin on November 5-6, 2025, in Olomouc.

I was wondering the other day how many of the travel ban nations are likely to qualify for the World Cup, and what the… contingency is, there?