The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a

Great opportunities for #publichistory !

📚🔍 New project starts at ABI: PhotoTogo Under the coordination of @richardlegay.bsky.social, a collection of colonial photographs from #Togo held at the Museum Natur und Mensch in #Freiburg will be critically examined. ▶️ Find out more on the project: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/projects/...

My History colleagues are looking for a Europeanist who can also teach in a non-Western area. I'd personally be enthusiastic about another French speaker joining the college. We have a lovely Francophone community of faculty and students, and there are French lunches on campus twice a month!

Great Call for Papers for #media historians working on #radio & #magazines! 📻📰 The 'Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?' conference (Lausanne, 30.06-01.07.2026) is looking for contributions. L'appel est aussi disponible en français. impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne...

New publication available through open access. Public History in Global Perspective… Conflict Textiles features in chapter by Nico Ferguson Crossing Borders in Cloth, from Collectivizing to Commemorating…. Full details www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Bon, vu les débats lancés à ce sujet depuis plus d’un mois, voilà un fil qui tente d’expliquer le problème que pose l’infiltration par les ultra-conservateurs des spectacles historiques et autres fêtes médiévales (ou de villages). À dérouler ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/

The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔 Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social

The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔 Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social

Really delighted to see this out. Great work by colleagues and alumni of @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory masters programme. #openaccess as well. Thanks to everyone involved. @smythh.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social @ciaranon.bsky.social

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx

www.conseil-etat.fr/avis-consult... A défaut du texte de loi, j'ai lu l'avis du conseil d'état qui est majoritairement du blabla de juriste mais qui revient sur deux points de tension dans le texte de loi prévu: les bornes chronologiques et les dons et legs.

🚨 #Jobalert Join us as a #PostDoc in the Horizon Europe project TWON (Twin of Online Social Network)! You'll work in the Political Communication & Journalism group, as well as in the Computational Communication Science Amsterdam Lab. 📅Deadline: 28 July 2025 🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/mswjxnaj

📆 Afrikanisches Erbe in Europa - Aufführung von #Dahomey &"If Objects could speak", Diskussion mit #KokouAzamede & @richardlegay.bsky.social 👉24.7. um 19.30 Uhr im Kommunalen Kino #Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social @decolonialitynow.bsky.social www.koki-freiburg.de/dahomey-if-o...

You can now find a selection of the zines my students made in our course 'Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past?' Many thanks to @vivigarciap.bsky.social, Miriam Bartelmann & Su Gökyokuş (@abi-freiburg.bsky.social) for putting it together! rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/07/14/c...

This thread departs somewhat from the editorial line of this account, but it remains within memory studies. It should be considered as a personal reflection by Frédéric Clavert.

Day 1 of the 'Decentering Media Histories & Practices' @iamhist.bsky.social Conference at the University of Cape Town 📻🎙️📺 Such a pleasure to be in South Africa for our biannual event! Looking forward to a packed programme. Thanks to @marthaevans.bsky.social for organising it!

Which French historian is going to write about the second season of Andor????? Come on people. I’m dying for a specialist take on the French Resistance aka Ghorman Front story.

Registration for the 2025 conference "Resistance/Résister" organized by The Global Consortium for French Historical Studies is now open. Have a look at our stunning program. We can't wait to see you in Paris in a few weeks! www.sfhsconference.org

Many thanks to French Politics for publishing our research with @mehler.bsky.social at the @abi-freiburg.bsky.social on Franco-German memory politics and colonial past! The article is available online here: doi.org/10.1057/s412... And as a pdf upon request! #publichistory #memory #colonialhistory

*IAMHIST News*: Ross Melnick is the winner of the Culbert Family Memorial Book Prize 2024 for his publication Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)! Huge congratulations Ross 🥳 iamhist.net/winner-culbe...

*IAMHIST News* Updated Summer 2025 books for review in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: iamhist.net/journal/#boo... Please contact Veronica Johnson should you be interested in reviewing a particular title ([email protected])

#CfA Praktikant*innen für 2026 am @dhi-paris.fr gesucht 📌 für Studierende höherer Semester | für 2-3 Monate in #Paris | in den Bereichen #Forschung, #Bibliothek, #Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit u.v.m. Bewerbungsschluss: 15. September 2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

If you're in Freiburg and interested in colonial memory, come take a look at the great work my students have done! This Friday (23rd May, 4.30-7.30pm) at University College Freiburg, we will show the zines they worked on as a final assignment, and everyone is most welcome.

JOIN this Friday afternoon, 23.5. at UCF @uni-freiburg.de A display of zines on #colonial #memory by students from the University College with @richardlegay.bsky.social from @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

If you're in Freiburg and interested in colonial memory, come take a look at the great work my students have done! This Friday (23rd May, 4.30-7.30pm) at University College Freiburg, we will show the zines they worked on as a final assignment, and everyone is most welcome.

Les Quatre Cavaliers de l'Apocalypse de la vulgarisation historique

The piece I wrote got covered by The Week today.

In Kooperation mit Richard Tsogang Fossi... rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/04/25/p...

Zum Wintersemester 2025/2026 richtet der Fachbereich Geschichte @uni-hamburg.de einen neuen Studiengang ein: Der Master Public History kommt! Erste Infos hier: www.geschichte.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsberei...

Excited about our upcoming #soundstudies event this autumn, the inaugural conference of the newly launched network SOUND+ at Lund University, Sweden. Do join us! See link regarding #callforpapers

If you're curious about philosophy in France, thousand of students have competed during an exam (6h) and the question was "You must." Without knowing anything about the expected methodology, what would you write?

"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately? anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.

Hélène Miard-Delacroix - Les émotions de 1989 France et Allemagne face aux bouleversements du monde À paraître en mai chez Flammarion

Bourse de doctorat sur la presse (deadline 1e juin): Avec Mélodie Simard-Houde, nous proposons une bourse de doctorat en cotutelle (Trois-Rivières & Nanterre) pour un sujet sur des corpus de presse. Tous les sujets sont acceptés (XIX-XXIe S.): www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Reposts bienvenus!

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.

@wcaleb.org shows how to use Python to download and parse MARC records from the internet @archive.org: doi.org/10.46430/phe...

PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:

Offre d’emploi – Post-doc en histoire médiévale et humanités numériques rmblf.be/2025/04/07/o...

« Faire de la recherche, c’est se projeter dans l’avenir – dommage que nous n’en ayons pas ». Par un collectif de jeunes chercheur·euses. aoc.media/opinion/2025...

Some observations about the Marine Le Pen verdict: 1) WOW. They really went for it: prison term (w/electronic tag) and 5 years of ineligibility. That's almost exactly what the prosecutors asked for, so she's seriously guilty. 2) Will this halt the progress of the far-right in France? No. But... 1/

A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked. I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.

For once, great news from French politics!

Myself and my colleague Dr Raul Carstocea are inviting applications for a PhD scholarship at Maynooth University , looking at the imperial roots of the Ustasha fascist movement. If successful, the position is fully-funded for four years. Please share and feel free to contact me!

Nur noch eine Woche, um sich zu bewerben! Das DHIP fördert die Veröffentlichung herausragender Dissertationen/Habilitationen (2023–2024) als französischsprachigen Aufsatz und übernimmt die Kosten für Übersetzung & Redaktion. Bewerbungsfrist: 31.3.2025 Zur Ausschreibung: www.dhi-paris.fr/de/...

CfP: “History of Intellectual Culture” We invite contributions to Vol. 5 of the scholarly yearbook "History of Intellectual Culture" (De Gruyter), to be published in autumn 2026. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 5 May. Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/03/18/c...

Of potential interest: 6 funded PhDs (UK fees + stipend) at Stirling University's Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. Deadline 18 April. All disciplinary backgrounds engaging with the Centre's research interests are welcome to apply. Further info available: placememory.net/apply-now-fo...