“Our position was always clear … yes, we are doing this because we believe that there has to be justice for this crime committed. But we were always clear that this is really about the future of humanity.”

Critical fabulation requires an intimate knowledge of what is in and what is not in the archives. It means having a deep engagement with scholarship. It is not about making up fictitious histories. I am so tired of people failing to understand that. Lorde, hilfe.

New on the GHIL Podcast! 🎧 In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Fellow Thomas Kaal sit down with Ulrike Lindner, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne, to talk about the research behind her lecture on epistemic inequalities in the Global South and 1/4

We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship of the Society. Next closing dates: 27 July and 5 October. Fellowship is open to those who have made a scholarly research contribution to #history in all sectors (within & beyond higher education) in the UK/worldwide bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

If all humans share a common origin, how did that idea become a global consensus? #histsci On my way to Rome to give a keynote at a fascinating event on the transnational construction of the Homo sapiens paradigm—the idea that all human beings share a common origin. www.efrome.it/la-recherche....

Over the next two weeks, we feature the 8 articles and 8 monographs shortlisted for the Society's 2026 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today: 'Domestic labor and white Creole womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938', by Liz Egan, published in 'Journal of British Studies' #Skystorians 1/2

As an aside, this is such an important book on methodology, no matter if as a historian you write about a small village in medieval Italy or postcolonial Haiti. It is an absolute scandal that it's not recognised among the classics of history methodology. It was just recently translated in German.

Pleased to be one of the key note speakers alongside Kelley Wilder and Jennifer Tucker next week. At the core of my talk lies a political question: Who has access to tacit knowledge? Whose tacit knowledge counts, and who decides?

What do we mean when we say “transculturality”? Is the term still useful for understanding the movement of objects & people? What happens when collection histories are deeply intertwined with forced labour migration? I’ll be discussing these questions this Wednesday in a hybrid lecture. #skytorians

Pleased to be part of this panel on the "Ecologies of Restitution: Relational and More-than-Human Approaches to Repair into the translocal lives of plants". This is part of 'Heritage Week', organised by our partner's @unibonn.bsky.social Global Heritage Lab. globalheritagelab.org/event/herita...

Ten years on from the Brexit vote: a new @yougov.co.uk poll finds that 77% of the British public have trust in the expertise of historians bit.ly/49I9NV7 It's heartening to hear that so many value, and certainly haven't had enough of, the historian as expert. #Skystorians 1/4

We're excited to announce our Summer Lecture Series 2026: "Environments of Knowledge: Climate, Risk, and Governance from the Middle Ages to the Anthropocene" The series examines how societies have understood, managed, and monetized environmental change. 1/6

#Syria: Robin Yassin-Kassab, author of "The Blood Between Us", on Syria and why the government’s focus on stability may prove a pitfall @qunfuz.bsky.social @saqibooks.bsky.social qantara.de/en/article/s...

Just a few days left to apply for the job opportunity below—and for our Autumn School on “The Democratization of Heritage” in Paris. Applications are welcome from heritage and museum practitioners in NRW, as well as graduate students at Uni Cologne & Bonn. gssc.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...

Also now available: the 2026 call for applications for the Society's annual Funded Book Workshops - for historians writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with specialist readers to discuss a manuscript in detail before submission #Skystorians

It's #PrideMonth! To mark the occasion, we have compiled some of our most recent GHIL Library acquisitions on #QueerHistory! 🏳️‍🌈 1/3

Our conference is the best you should all come!

Unsere Beiträge zur Aktionswoche 'Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus' am Institut für Medienkultur und Theater in Köln mekuwi.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de @wigefa.bsky.social

Wir gedenken heute Walter #Lübcke. Der Kasseler Regierungspräsident (CDU) wurde vor sieben Jahren, in der Nacht vom 1. auf den 2. Juni 2019, von einem Neonazi auf seiner Terrasse in Wolfhagen-Istha bei #Kassel ermordet. Er wurde 65 Jahre alt. #KeinVergessen #RechtenTerrorStoppen

Belated but happy to finally share: I began a professorship in Critical Heritage & Memory Studies at Uni Cologne earlier this year. Please stay tuned for future announcements — exciting things are in the works. Meanwhile, I’m very happy to say that I’m hiring: www.stellenwerk.de/koeln/resear...

Come to our conference! We have three wonderful keynotes: Dr Mirjam Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social, Prof Jennifer Tucker and our very dear Prof Kelley Wilder. It's going to be great! #photohist

There's an exciting job opening in Critical Heritage Studies with Prof. Dr. Mirjam S. Brusius (@mideastineurope.bsky.social) at Uni Cologne (German required).

„…despite the view of many Israeli archaeologists that the visible remains date to other eras, before and after King David’s iron-age reign.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Signed. iranianarchaeology.org/statement/61...

Currently only £22 via Amazon… www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1501...

Heritage & art blogs have not yet picked this particularly bizarre case up, so I'm sharing a news article for now. Not everyone might be aware Iran has synagogues, some of them old & still in use. Others destroyed by the IDF during the Jewish holidays; Torah scrolls found under the rubble.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

Nowruz and Eid Mubarak, Peace and Solidarity, everyone! Please see the online event below: "Experts on the history of Iran will offer important historical context to the unfolding crisis in the Middle East. Panellists will reflect on long and short term causes and consequences of the current war."

It’s an immense problem that only institutions with massive collections derived from colonialism get to ‘decolonise’ them.

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Zum feministischen Kampftag diese leider immer noch aktuelle Diskussion darüber wie schädlich und moralisch verwerflich diese Ausstellung ist, die Doro Bär jetzt stolz im Ministerium präsentiert. Also in diesem Ministerium für …. Raumfahrt.

A grimly familiar liberation cycle - it will repeat. We mourn the Golestan as the people’s heritage, but that grief always includes their schools, hospitals, political prisons, and sites of struggle. Let's hope this time the heritage sector cares as much for the people as they do for the monuments.

Newly uncovered archival evidence that Israel committed dozens of massacres of Palestinians in 1948 to clear them from Palestine. Ilan Pappé in 2006 argued that there was a violent and strategically planned "ethnic cleansing of Palestine" by Israel's founders.

"I can't find any reason to celebrate the assassination of the Iranian supreme leader because I think it's part of a package ... It's also part of the killing of Iranian innocent people," says Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a longtime critic of the Iranian government.

Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT? As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc. It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece??? What?

AI is eugenics is antihuman

@danielloick.bsky.social and I wrote a thing: "Surplus Fascism: Reflections on Current Tendencies of Abandonment in Germany and Beyond", for a SI in New German Critique. @robin-c.bsky.social and H. Kundnani also contributed some really good pieces, among others! read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...

I talked to the New York Times about the political debate at #Berlinale www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/m...

Apply & share! @englishpen.bsky.social writing residencies for "writers currently based in England who identify as experiencing displacement – including (but not only) refugee writers, writers seeking asylum, and writers in exile." www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

Heute gedenken wir Blanka Zmigrod. Vor 34 Jahren, am 23. Februar 1992, wurde die Shoa-Überlebende auf dem Nachhauseweg in Frankfurt von einem schwedischen Rechtsterroristen ermordet. #KeinVergessen Wichtiger Text zu Blanka Zmigrod: www.fr.de/frankfurt/fr...

“It is perhaps ironic that it is Epstein’s endless cataloguing that has brought us here. Epstein built a Victorian-style archive of surveillance of the rich, …https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/20/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-prince-face-car-window?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

13 Tage Deutschland, 8 Veranstaltungen (es kommt noch was dazu)

Six years ago, on February 19, 2020, a far-right extremist killed nine people predominantly of Muslim background out of racist motives in #Hanau, Germany. Today also marks six years of denied justice for Hanau victims & families, as the German government keeps failing to address systemic racism⬇️