#Teachers make sure you check out GHS's annual Creative Research Contest - entries are open now! For more information, head to our website at: www.germanhistorysoc...#Teachers

The "Vienna" model or sample book, c. 1410-20. An aid for workshops and travelling artists so that they had a stock of motifs & shapes. Silverpoint drawing on paper, maple wood, leather. Dimensions: 9.5 cm × 9 cm. A small thing. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Great project by @mattaucott.bsky.social and Jeff Bowersox - really enjoyed coming up with this ‘Glimpse of German History’ for @germanhistsoc.bsky.social Hope there’ll be many more seasons!

McEwan, the liberal critic of liberalism - Kevin Power's review of McEwan's What We Can Know in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Adorno and this violent political moment by @jennifervevans.bsky.social and Josh Greenberg in @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-charlie-kirk-assassination-authoritarianism/?utm_source=Shared+Article+Sent+to+User&utm_medium=LinkCopy&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

Solidarity with refugees - wonderful initiative in North London run by volunteers nnlsdropin.org.uk youtu.be/DwX2OmHP_e4?...

gazasoupkitchen.org Serving hot meals to 3,000 people daily. Grassroots lifeline - their fundraising page is here: givebutter.com/gaza-soup-ki...

@danielerk.bsky.social und Anne-Sophie Lang über die Geschichte mittelständischer Unternehmen im NS @diezeit.bsky.social www.zeit.de/zeit-fuer-un...

A powerful portrait of Vance’s politics of othering and anti-liberalism in this podcast by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

On Sunday August 10th, I'll be leading a walking tour of New York's East Side for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, focused on sites related to Jewish dancing and literature about New York Jewish dancing. @jewishstudies.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social www.yivo.org/Dance-Guided...

Age and education overtake class in UK political landscape. @journo-jess.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ | Harvard University | Michela Moscufo in @theguardian.com

'You can also make lemon curd' - love this discussion of new work in queer Holocaust studies by @ankahajkova.bsky.social sfi.usc.edu/events/i-did...

'... the problem is not what’s hidden, it’s “what we’ve normalised – because the whole strategy is to throw it all in your face”', @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @marcishore.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Huzzah! Next year I get to teach 'Reading and Writing Microhistories' at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, likely with contributions from @julialaite.bsky.social and others! If this sounds like your sort of thing, consider applying for one of our history MAs in 2025-26: search.bbk.ac.uk/search/cours...

It's finally out: Our volume on Poland under German Occupation. With contributions by Natalia Aleksiun, Winson Chu, Maren Röger, Dariusz Stola, Tomasz Frydel, Ingo Loose and the two editors: Jonathan Huener and myself. 📚 www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Huener...

Exciting new Holocaust research agency by the amazing @caileedavis.bsky.social @barnabasbalint.bsky.social @niamh-hanrahan.bsky.social 📚📚👩🏻‍💻 Highly recommend checking out their website and services!

Spoke to Ali Breland over at @theatlantic.com on the prospects of Fusionism 2.0 and the (lack of) a crackup on the right in the first few months of the Trump administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

#Event | Workshop "Heimatlosigkeit und Emanzipation. 1870-1933 im Rahmen des SFB 1671 Heimat(en): Phänomene, Praktiken, Darstellungen Im Goethe-Museum Düsseldorf am 1. April 2025 von 13:30-18:00 Uhr www.sfb1671.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...

Anspruchseinbürgerung v. Ermessenseinbürgerung - just one legal difference facilitating the fiendish finessing of the postwar (re-)naturalisation of German Jews by the FRG’s Interior Ministry, superbly presented by @ncourtman.bsky.social Great talk @lbilondon.bsky.social and @ghilondon.bsky.social

Another great podcast - Noah Shenker talks about Holocaust testimonies and their histories on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

What Authoritarianism Means   Even critical observers underestimated the speed and scope of the Trumpist assault, they overestimated democratic resilience. What is America now, and what comes next?   New piece:

Fascinating podcast by Melanie Longerich and Brigitte Baetz (gestern ist jetzt) about the Polish-German #familyhistory of Florian Urbański. Displaced Persons and their lives in DP camps in early post-war Germany with @sarahgrandke.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

The question we should be asking is not “what would Arendt herself do” (it would be nothing good) or even “what does the totality of Arendt’s thought suggest about this moment”, but “what moments of genuine insight are helpful to us here and now?”

The construction of the "white working class" and the myth of the "left behind" that conveniently ignored how diverse the really existing working class and left behind are and how their interests are linked rather than opposed has been central to the mainstreaming of far right politics 1/

Es gibt auch anständige Konservative. Ich hoffe, den Dreien geht es gut.

We're very pleased to announce that Anoushka Alexander-Rose's (@anoushka-ar.bsky.social) exhibition will stay with us at the GHIL for a while longer! It reframes the Wandering Jew from its origins in medieval Christian myth and presents how the legend has evolved across time and cultures. 👇

@parkesinstitute.bsky.social hosted a screening of Jessie Eisenberg’s #ARealPain — it’s a lovely example of 3rd Gen #Holocaust representation. Go see it if you haven’t! Really enjoyed the fantastic discussion w/ EmilyRose Baker, Tony Kushner, & Janek Gryta, moderated by @charlieknight.bsky.social

Moving Holocaust family research by the wonderful @etansmallman.bsky.social with a shout-out to Elise Bath and her team of International Tracing Service researchers. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Christopher Dyer reviews 'Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households, 1300–1600', by Ben Jervis, Chris Briggs, Alice Forward, Tomasz Gromelski and Matthew Tompkins @leverhulme.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Historical resonances of the successful long game played by the extreme right in Germany: ‘Schon wieder’ by @michaelkreil.bsky.social datajournal.org/schon-wieder/

Ich hätte ja gerne, dass das Faschismusbegrenzungsgesetz, auch bekannt als Grundgesetz, wieder stärker beachtet wird.

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

The Antonescu Paradox by Robert D Kaplan in @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/05/t...

Always great to find rich relational histories of the 20th century. @mauricejcasey.com shows #familyhistory as integral to the history of radicalism by investigating the experience of 3 families who stayed at Moscow’s Hotel Lux (podcast by @historyextra.bsky.social)

London! I will be speaking at this Pushkin House event with @simonparkin.bsky.social, author of the brilliant new book The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad. Weds 12 March at 18:30, tickets available here: www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...

auch erschienen: der Sammelband»Investigating, Punishing, Agitating« zu den NS-Prozessen in den 1960er Jahren in Ungarn, der DDR, Polen, der Tschechoslowakei und der Sowjetunion mit Beiträgen von Mary Fulbrook, Jan T. Gross, Hermann Wentker uvm www.fritz-bauer-institut.de/publikation/...

🚨BLOG UPDATE!🚨 Check out the latest blog on the GHS website from @camhistory.bsky.social PhD student Sophia Feist who received a GHS small grant to attend the conference 'Crafting Fashion in the Longue Durée' at Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris www.germanhistorysociety.org/ecr-blogs/at...

The new Sino-Indian War British historians have been appropriated by nationalists or if you prefer, The Golden Road vs The Silk Road Pratinav Anil opens 2025 by declaring historiographical war between Beijing & New Delhi unherd.com/2025/01/the-...

Rolf Gardiner, Blood and Soil thecritic.co.uk/issues/augus...

Nobody: Target: “I’m a Litvak and she’s a Galitz,” but as a toy. [Below, the classic Yinglish song about differences between Lithuanian (sour cream on latkes) and Polish (applesauce on latkes) Jews, interpreted by Hy Wolfe] www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQA7...

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