The first EMPSOLID article, co-authored w Anton Kotenko, is out! We wrote the piece to foreground horizontal entanglements as a distinctive approach to the spatial history of the Romanov Empire, synthesising current research and our archival findings to suggest future directions tinyurl.com/p3ehjbja

We've just launched the cfp for the 10th anniversary Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies, 10–12 June 2026! Theme: "Global Flows and Frictions in Eastern Europe and Eurasia" Cfp: tartuconference.ut.ee Deadline for submissions: 25 Jan 2026 We look forward to seeing you in Tartu!

We have a great new author interview on the website. Beatrice Penati spoke with our editor Hanna Matt about her new book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...

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-...

Call for Papers: Third Annual Baltic Study Group Workshop, The University of Glasgow, 30-31 October 2025. Please see below for full details. Please send a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio note by 1 August 2025 to [email protected]

This spring I've had the pleasure of working with Michela, an #Erasmus+ intern, who has been doing a fabulous job helping to copy documents in the Estonian National Archives!

🎙️ Interview Time with Michela Quercetti! "I'm not a historian, but I'm enchanted by the archives!" Michela shares her experience working on the #EMPSOLID project, diving into 100-year-old documents, Romanov-era charity networks, and Estonian archives. 📸 Archive photo + full quote in the post!

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

💡Our PhD call is now also available at EURAXESS! You can find a thorough description of the position and of the application process here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333981 #EMPSOLID #EMPSOLIDnews #PhD

🌟 Fully Funded PhD Position 🌟 4-year PhD position at the University of Tartu in the history of solidarity in the Romanov Empire. Happy to chat with prospective applicants about their ideas or questions – please feel free to reach out! More info in the link below ⬇️

Just back from archival trips to Riga for my new project on intra-imperial philanthropy in the Romanov Empire. Staggered but excited by how much material there is to work with! A PhD position will be opening soon, so stay tuned!

I am delighted to begin working on my new ERC-funded project on intra-imperial charitable solidarities in the Romanov Empire. Check out our just-launched website for further details: www.empsolid.ee. More info about PhD & postdoc opportunities is coming soon!

We are hosting a workshop on migration and mobilities in Eurasia at Manchester in March - CFP below - feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. Bursaries for UK travel available.

A reminder that there is still time to submit proposals for the Tartu Conference (cfp deadline 20 Jan)!

Our guest-edited Baltic series draws to a close with Mann Loper's fascinating post on the establishment of national education and the development of the history school curriculum in interwar Estonia: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/nationa...

First up in our new Baltic series we have John Freeman's post on attempts to de-peripheralize the early modern Eastern Baltic through Atlantic colonisation www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/breakin...

Our second post in the Baltic series is an interview with sexualities scholar Rasa Navickaitė on LGBT studies in Lithuania www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/periphe...

Over the next few weeks, we will have a new series of posts on the website curated by the @basees.bsky.social Study Group on the Baltic States. We will share each post as its published and the whole series will eventually be grouped here: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/baltic

📢 CfP: 9th Annual Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies, 11-13 June 2025 🔹 Conference theme: "Resilience and Adaptation in Times of Adversity" & our plenary speaker is Kate Brown (MIT) 👉 For more information & submission of abstracts, please see: sisu.ut.ee/tartuconfere...

Join us in December for the next instalment of the archives and libraries online workshop! Harry Merritt and I will share some tips on working with materials in Estonia and Latvia.