Winter writing retreat ✍️

Wienbibliothek im Rathaus – Vienna Library in the City Hall 📖🔎📚

My review of Erik Scott's latest book 📕 for Journal of Contemporary History: "Defectors" is an exemplary piece of scholarship that transforms a historical narrative into a page-turner... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congratulations to Katarzyna Nowak for winning the second prize for Best Historical Book by the Polish Foreign Ministry for Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria. Learn more about her book: buff.ly/U91YR9S

Historians have a reputation for writing massive tracts, but compared to legal academics, we are purveyors of brevity

"Every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable" (Etty Hillesum diary) 30 November 1943 | Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish diarist and author, perished in Auschwitz. She was deported there from the Westerbork camp in the occupied Netherlands on 7 September 1943.

In her "Peripheral states, weak empires and other fairytales," Lida Dodou reveals how global history has changed (and changes) our understandings of Habsburg Europe as seen from the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/295

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Incredible photographs from WWII have just been published online by UN archives. Creator: the United Nations Information Organization (UNIO) You can view over 3k photographs here: search.archives.un.org/informationo...

Arguing with a historian is a lot like wrestling in the mud with a pig. After a couple of hours, you realize the pig likes it.

#iccees2025 @royalhistsoc.org

Closing plenary #iccees2025

Marking the end of school and the beginning of summer for many students in the UK, a piece from the archive by Sorcha Thomson. In the summer of 1969, 120 European students travelled to a camp in Jordan to learn from Palestinians about the Palestinian Revolution. www.historyworkshop....

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"Keep comments short and on topic, avoid grandstanding, be responsible. Do not engage in harassment or judgemental rudeness." But that's endangering our way of life as academics. Without grandstanding, we're just underpaid hobbyists with library cards. #iccees2025

Central European History Convention, University of Vienna #cehc @univie.ac.at

London, ICCEES 2025, join us for the roundtable on global archives in researching the history of Eastern Europe and the USSR:

My article on the Vatican archives🇻🇦🏛 in the latest issue of New Eastern Europe: 🔎 For years to come, these immense multilingual archives will be a vital resource contributing to writing a new transnational history of the Cold War East neweasterneurope.eu/2025/07/08/t...

Our great thanks to Prof Peter Gatrell who yesterday evening gave the 2025 RHS Prothero Lecture on ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’: bit.ly/3GmcpN6 Thank you to all who attended in person and online. Video & audio recordings of the lecture will be available shortly #Skystorians

These just reached me!! You can request your free inspection or review copy here: global.oup.com/academic/hel...

22 May 2025, 6:30 pm, Zeitgeschichte Library (Campus, Altes AKH), University of Vienna: Book Launch: A History of Displaced Knowledge Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia, by Philipp Strobl 📚

Book Launch 📚 Join @PeterGatrell and me on 25 May 2025 at 6pm at Hotel Regina in Vienna for a conversation about "Refugee Voices in Modern Global History. Reckoning with Refugeedom" global-displacement-and-resettlement.univie.ac.at/internationa...

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CONCLAVE! 🗝️ As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave

Congratulations to Katarzyna Nowak for winning two BASEES awards for her book Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria! Nowak won the Stephen White Prize and Women's Forum Prize. Learn more about the book: buff.ly/lDfoQNi

Join us for the online book launch this Wednesday 📖📚 #VaticanArchives #PiusXII

Congratulations to our colleague Katarzyna Nowak for receiving the Imra-Rosenberg Award awarded by the city of Vienna for her book "Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria" (McGill-Queen's UP 2023)! ogz.univie.ac.at/irma-rosenbe...

We are delighted to announce a new Virtual Special Issue on The New Left. This collection of 22 articles & podcasts is free-to-access - with work on May 68, the SCUM manifesto, Spies for Peace, Women's Liberation, the ANC, the Hungarian Uprising & more. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/virtual-issu...

Thank you for a wonderful conference @aseees.bsky.social and an amazing panel! I'm very happy I got to meet so many great scholars and about the opportunity to present my research 💫 #ASEEES24

Just got my review copy of "Reading the Archival Revolution" - so excited to read it Thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Boston, #ASEEES24