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

The image that ended an era? Step inside the high-stakes scramble to capture Prince Andrew’s walk of shame from police custody. No filters, no spin, just the shot that changed everything. 🗃️

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⬇️

Weekly event overview, including the 6th anniversary of the racist attack in Hanau. For a daily updated overview and more information, please visit our website. Photo: Boris Roessler/dpa #Hanau, #HanauWasNotAnIsolatedIncident, #SayTheirNames #February19

How historical research informs policy practice in home heating #Skystorians

Did they at least get the costs of their visa applications reimbursed, Frau Bleis? #Berlinale

Ramadan Mubarak 🌙 Wishing a peaceful month to our Muslim students, colleagues and Readers. Ramadan and pilgrimage in our collections: 🕌 Sultanahmet Mosque (Bodl. Or. 430, fol 57r) 📖 Sūrat al-Baqarah, Tīpū’s Qurʾān (Bodl. Or. 793, fols 24a–24b) 🧳 Pilgrims to Mecca (Bodl. Or. 430, fols 145r & 148r)

“Jefferson’s life and legacies cannot be fully understood without understanding American chattel slavery, nor can it be understood without understanding the lives of the hundreds of enslaved individuals that lived and labored at Monticello,” ~Andrew Davenport www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...

I just got a copy of my cover for my forthcoming book! It features a postcard from Fez by the Moroccan Jewish photographer Joseph Bouhsira. Bouhsira was the first Moroccan to establish his own commercial photography studio, and many of his images featured the Jewish community in Fez.

Five great resources for archives in the thread introduced by the post below. 📜🗃️

The 20th-century globe, as 'colonised by immigrants'.

Judge orders Trump administration to restore Philadelphia slavery exhibit https://aje.news/8nioa5

Der Februar ist Black History Month. Schon gewusst?

The memorial of Elise and Otto Hampel, a working-class couple from Berlin-Wedding who distributed anti-Hitler postcards they had written throughout Berlin and were killed by the Nazis in 1943. Hans Fallada made them the main protagonists in his novel “Alone in Berlin”. Postcards can be resistance.

Es ist die rassistische Visumspolitik, die dem ganzen kosmopolitischen Kulturfestivalstrubel Hohn spricht.

The body in the archive ... on heritage, photography, and archaeological labour, including the Palmyra (Tadmur) logs, this by @mideastineurope.bsky.social and Trinidad Rico is v good. 🏺📜🗃️📷📸 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Glyptoteket (Copenhagen) just, four days ago, opened a new gallery showcasing its collection, primarily funerary statuary, from Palmyra. Highly recommended.

Applications are open for our 23rd Summer School on British History and the History of the British Empire! This year's topic will be "City and Empire. Colonial and Postcolonial London". 🏛️ 📅 21-24 July 2026 📍German Historical Institute London ⏰ Apply by 6 March 2026 1/5

Stellungnahme zum Stellenwert der Kolonialgeschichte in der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte 👇 wird gezeichnet u.a. von @hdilger.bsky.social @glasmanjo.bsky.social @noa-k-ha.bsky.social @mrothberg.bsky.social @rjmauk.bsky.social @patrickhege.bsky.social @he-mel.bsky.social @franziscaz.bsky.social

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I signed this open letter from archaeologists, conservation experts, museum curators and other heritage professionals against cultural destruction in Gaza and the West Bank initiated by the incredibly important NGO @emekshavehheb.bsky.social. Please follow and support: emekshaveh.org/en/open-lett...

Reminded of this article again after finding an Italian colonial army payroll today, where ascari acknowledged receipt of payment with their fingerprint

200 years Museum Island in Berlin! 🎂 🎈💥💫 What has changed, or rather, what has to change in the age of repatriation? Delighted to be part of new documentaries by ARTE @artefr.bsky.social & Deutsche Welle @news.dw.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnoz... Tune in on Sunday (ARTE) or use the links below.

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

The road to fascism is paved by German media calling things umstritten...

@taz.de: „Am Samstag wird in Berlin-Mitte das neue Stra­ßen­schild in der Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße fei­er­lich enthüllt. Damit enden die jah­re­lan­gen Kämpfe um die Um­be­nen­nung der M-Str. Die Ak­ti­vis­tin­nen Regina Römhild & Adela Taleb vom Amo Kol­lek­tiv blicken zurück.“ www.taz.de/!6105262

Public Events on Memory & Responsibility 🌍 Roundtable: Practising Memory in Times of Crisis — Amani El Haddad, Manoeuvre vzw, Pieter Lagrou, Ann Rigney & Michael Rothberg 🎓 Keynotes: Carlos Fonseca · Sara Dybris McQuaid · Hanna Meretoja Info and registration: event.ugent.be/registration...

In case you've been wondering about the moral and intellectual crisis in Holocaust studies, here's exhibit A. It also illustrates why we felt the need to found the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: www.ghscn.org/home