Peripheral Histories? has just published a new author interview with Beatrice Penati about her excellent book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' @peripheralhist.bsky.social www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...

🧵 In CEH's first digest (tinyurl.com/38p3yxky), our six editors each highlighted a recent article they have particularly enjoyed working on. This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]

I've been reading the Russian Red Cross's magazine lately and the back covers perfectly encapsulate the whiplash of the 1990s. In one issue - a cute dog calendar, in another - an advert for a US-manufactured antibiotic to treat gonorrhoea

Excited to share my short piece on Soviet Lithuanian priests studying at the Vatican and their role in religious and diplomatic policy of the early 1960s! Thank you to @peripheralhist.bsky.social as well for the platform to do so. t.co/OOUz7xtn6U

Back to reality after a brilliant couple of weeks at the National Archives of Armenia. Trying to convince myself that I love the understated beauty of the UK in autumn, rather than fantasising about sunshine and mountains.

Delighted to have an article on the Irish Save the Children Fund and the Volga famine campaign as part of this special issue of @conteurohistory.bsky.social Available open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!

Tere! I'm in Estonia 🇪🇪 at Uni of Tartu Skytte Institute for 2 months researching the intergenerational effects of Soviet repression. I'm interviewing Estonians whose family experienced deportation/other repression. Interested? Please DM me, email [email protected] & share widely. Aitäh!

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

The CEH editors have started a digest in which we share news & choose an article that we have particularly enjoyed working on recently. My pick was Tereza Juhászová’s excellent ‘Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery'. Find the digest here: tinyurl.com/try6n599

Contemporary history provides unlimited avenues for distraction. I read in an archival document about Julio Iglesias doing a charity concert in Moscow in 1989 for UNICEF and hey presto, two minutes later I'm wincing at his cringey interactions with Soviet kids www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNRM...

Back from #ICCEES2025 and still processing all the connections and conversations! It was great to see so many panels on the history of humanitarianism, and to share some preliminary #ERC EMPSOLID research in such inspiring company.

Are you looking to publish your research in an academic journal? Then this ICCEES roundtable is for you! Featuring the editors of @conteurohistory.bsky.social sky.social @europe-asia.bsky.social, Diaspora, & Journal of Baltic Studies www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...

En route to ICCEES and looking forward to catching up with colleagues. Come join our panel on solidarities and relief across the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It's on Thursday 24th at 14:45 with @jolaycock.bsky.social and @catherinegibson.bsky.social www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...

This year I will have the pleasure of presenting my research at the #iccees2025 congress at @uclssees.bsky.social, in our panel "Ukraine as a humanitarian front: actors, practices and challenges, 1914-1923". It's on Thursday 24 July. Don't hesitate to join us! www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...

Heading to #ICCEES2025 next week? We have put together a list of sessions that may be of interest to Peripheral Histories? readers here: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/iccees-...

We are back with a new great post from Stanisław Boridczenko on memory, identity, and conflict in Western Belarus www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/father-...

A brilliant new special issue on transnational HIV/AIDS activism has been published in @jhistsex.bsky.social co-edited by the dream team of @npapadogian.bsky.social and @somakbiswas.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146 My contribution examines transnational US-Soviet AIDS activism (cont. below)

Next Wednesday, we host the Society's annual Prothero Lecture. This year's lecturer is Prof Peter Gatrell who will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' bit.ly/44xmpfx The Lecture is at 6.30pm at Mary Ward House, London, and online and all are welcome #skystorians 1/2

✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

Here is a sneak peek into our upcoming OA special issue Socialist Health: of Shortages and Solidarity in the European Journal of the History of Medicine and Health, co-edited with @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue as part of @socmederc.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal... #histmed

Are you a PhD student/ECR working on contemporary European history? If so, consider submitting to the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize. Deadline 12 September. I strongly encourage submissions from those working on Central/Eastern Europe & the USSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Terrific review article by current @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social fellows on ‘immobility’, challenging dominant historical narratives about mobility & globalisation. Also looks at how immobility shapes academic careers & who a leading history journal publishes… academic.oup.com/past/advance...

From the current issue: "AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union" by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I’m a BIG fan of @conteurohistory.bsky.social board meetings. We learn what’s going on with the journal + publishing at large. AND I get to spend a day with a merry band of historians and laugh, talk, listen, giggle and LEARN. Just a perfect first day. Thank you @siobhanhearne.bsky.social

Continuing with the theme of religion, we have another excellent new post up on the website. Victoria Peretitskaya shares her research on the Doukhobors' attempts to return to the Soviet Union from Canada in the 1920s www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/migrati...

A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thrilled to see this article out in the world, soon featuring in the special issue on Health and Socialism edited by @doravargha.bsky.social @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue! For more on entanglements between socialist and social medicine from the Yugoslav perspective: t.co/5QnTExGqa7

Finally out! The paper studies Yugoslav medical assistance to the FLN as stemming from the WW2 experience of the People‘s Liberation War, part of the forthcoming special issue edited by @doravargha.bsky.social, @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue. brill.com/view/journal...

My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi. #USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM

We are heading to Alaska with our latest post. Many thanks to Aglaia Gulakova for sharing her fascinating research on the history of Old Believers’ migration and resettlement www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/in-purs...

Big update for The Beet: We now have our own landing page on @meduza.io! 🎉 Pay it a visit if you’re looking to subscribe to the newsletter or want to read any of our top reporting from the last year-ish. meduza.io/en/specials/...

In the Manchester area and are interested in food production and alternatives to capitalism? Join me at the Co-operative Archive on 1 July for conversation and archival exploration. @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-the-mar...

In Bread and Autocracy (@oxunipress.bsky.social, 2023), Janetta Azarieva, Yitzhak M. Brudny, and Eugene Finkel argue that Russia’s pursuit of food independence is the result of a deliberate, long-term strategic plan. Jason A. Reuscher reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/food-...

Ideal working conditions

This will be excellent. 4 June, 4pm, University of Manchester. Lecture by Lucy Riall on Migrant Colonialism: South American States and European Empires, c.1830-c.1950 All welcome. royalhistsoc.org/locations/un...

Save the date for the last (but very exciting) ESEH online seminar in environmental history of the 2024–2025 season, "Hooked: A History of the Black Sea in Six Animals," with Taylor Zajicek and Constantin Ardeleanu. Register here: forms.gle/pyjgCXSWJcdk... #envhist

@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site "New Voices" for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post in English on any aspect of European history (and its empires) since 1914? Contact [email protected] or see: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...

A great OA collection on Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, edited by Anne Kveim Lie, Jeremy Green and @wombatscholar.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Cover reveal for People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, forthcoming in four months with @uoftpress.bsky.social Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.

📖 New article online! 'A Provincial Pandemic: European Ignorance of the 1918 ‘Spanish’ Influenza as a Shared Event', by John P.R. Eicher www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Don't forget to submit your paper for our 2nd event on 'Rethinking Internationalism' - we're looking for papers/panel proposals focused on methods and new ways of writing history. Perfect if you've been trying to figure out how to push beyond (or find new ways of approaching) the 'official' archive!

A family funeral in Gagauzia (Moldova) prompts reflections on tradition and Latvian-Gagauz cultural differences - from likely the only writer in the world able to reflect on such, Vilis Kasims. Glad to have this translation in recently revived Elsewhere www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2025/5/...

Bringing up the rear in the latest issue of @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social. You can read 'AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union' here: academic.oup.com/past/article...

(Call for Papers) Body and care in the ordeal of war. A socio-historical perspective on East-Central and East-Southern Europe in the 20th-21st centuries histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/05/corp... #histSTM

Really enjoyed this new post up on @peripheralhist.bsky.social on Kazakh and Uzbek Estrada by Leora Eisenberg www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/singing...

📖 New article online! 'Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery (1918–1947)' by Tereza Juhászová www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am very pleased to announce the publication (in Open access) of the article I wrote for Contemporary European History on the ‘counter-revolutionary humanitarianism’ displayed by the French Consulate-General in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War.

Heading to Cambridge this week for the Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe? Here's a sneak peek of our 📹 documentary film 🎬 with the wonderful Maarja Merivoo-Parro and Sanita Reinsone for our panel on solidarity in the Baltics in the long 20th century! 📆 25 April 15:30 @balticstudies.bsky.social