📢Es ist vollbracht! 💎 Die NPL erscheint ab sofort Diamond Open Access (DOA) unter www.neue-politische-literatur.tu-darmstadt.de. Die ersten Artikel für das neue Heft 1/2026 sind bereits online - natürlich kostenfrei zu lesen: 1/4

Endlich erschienen - das Thema könnte aktueller nicht sein: Wie kann sich die Demokratie gegen ihre Feinde verteidigen? Ein Sammelband zu prodemokratischer Propaganda in der Weimarer Republik, hrsg. von Erik Koenen und Simon Sax. www.steiner-verlag.de/Prodemokrati...

I believe this development is not only driven by the reasons discussed below but is also a consequence of the obsession that everything schools do must be measured, assessed and compared. Learning foreign languages is important in many ways, not only in terms of future employability and performance.

How to create a political martyr? Looking forward to my pub lecture and the discussion tomorrow, organised by @newcastleuni.bsky.social's History Society. Starting at 6.30pm in the Trent House.

This event was tremendously interesting. A mix of art meets Aufklärungsarbeit with cherished colleagues @danielsiemens.bsky.social and Thomas Weber among others bringing their research to bear on the danger of the AfD for Germany. @politicalbeauty.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Andreas Möller, Am Rande Berlins lebt die Intelligenz: Kleinmachnow, mein Großvater und die Reklame fürs Volk (Friedenhauer Presse / Matthes & Seitz, 2025; #skystorians) www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/am-rand...

Die Eigentumsfrage bei der #Weltbühne war seit den 1930er Jahren immer kompliziert. Kurt R. Grossmann merkte 1951 im New Yorker "Aufbau" Folgendes an. Mehr zu den Eigentumsverhältnissen bei den "Weltbühnen" zwischen den 1930er und 1990er Jahren gibt es hier: www.aufbau-verlage.de/aufbau/hinte...

The new book by @kathiprager.bsky.social 'A Game as Mindless as Love: The Life of Satirist Karl Kraus' is magnificent, especially for former Berliners like me who have always struggled to understand the coexistence of reactionary and progressive elements in Vienna around 1900. 1/2

Eight years later. Daphne Caruana Galizia's voice lives on.

My good friend Gautam Pemmaraju has written an exciting article about "‘Entangled Agents’: Women, Espionage and Empire­ from 1920 to 1945" (open access) journals.sagepub.com/eprint/2JHPH...

Residents of #Newcastle of all ages sent a clear message today against all those who incite hatred.

Some major personal news:   Things have really changed. Now I need your help.   On why I left academia, why I left America, and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:   Onward. Forward. Steady:

My review of Andreas Molitor's new biography of Hermann #Göring was published today in the #FAZ. More topical than I initially thought: www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

I spoke with "Forward" about why comparions between the murder of Charlie Kirk and the Nazi "martyr" Horst Wessel are problematic in several respects: forward.com/news/768607/...

What’s a big export sector shared by Leicester, Exeter and Newcastle? Award yourself five points if you said higher education

It’s insane what’s going on at the University of Chicago, and this is well worth reading. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

Polen schafft Deutschland-Beauftragten ab: „Das sind schlechte Nachrichten“ Parallel zum Amtsantritt des nationalpopulistischen Präsidenten Nawrocki entlässt die Regierung den vielfach ausgezeichneten Breslauer Historiker Krzysztof Ruchniewicz. #Polen #Deutschland

In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has today written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education system www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-aca...

Workshop: Translating Cultures: Migration, Mobility and Translation in Europe, c1600-1850, 3/4 September 2025, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. With @rhammersley99.bsky.social @ebuchetmann.bsky.social @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social et al. The programme is now online @ www.hab.de/event/transl...

Mein Artikel zur Begriffsgeschichte von #Propaganda für das Projekt "Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen" des ‪@zfl-berlin.bsky.social‬ ist erschienen. Vielen Dank an Barbara Picht, Falko Schmieder und Ernst Müller für die Betreuung! Die Veröffentlichung ist open access: doi.org/10.31267/Gru...

‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’ FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches! www.ft.com/content/3162...

Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.

Today we awarded Professor @davidolusoga.bsky.social OBE an honorary degree for his outstanding work as a social historian. As someone who grew up in Tyneside we asked David what he misses most about living here, as well as his words of advice for the graduating class of 2025. #WeAreNCL #NCLGrad

📆 13.-14. November, Düsseldorf Was ist Kopfarbeit, und wie prägte sie die Geschichte der Arbeit in der Industriemoderne? Diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen widmet sich die Tagung in Kooperation mit der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social. Alle Infos zu Programm und Anmeldung: www.boeckler.de/de/a...

Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Massive triumph for the UK on the European research grants front - especially in Humanities and Social Sciences. Don't cut us off at the knees - give us more backing and we'll bring home the cash!

1945–2025. War and Post-War(s). Contemporary Perspectives on the Post-WWII World. 📅 June 16–18 | #paris International #conference Series (Berlin & New York) 🔗 Program: https://t1p.de/zoko1 #theendsofwar #endofwwii #wwii80 @unesco @histodons

Wir blicken auf die "Goldenen Zwanziger" noch heute mit den Augen von Pionierinnen der Fotografie. Susanne Byk, Frieda Riess, "Yva" und Marta Vietz schufen großartige Bilder - bis zur Nazi-Zeit. Herzlichen Dank an die @taz.de, dass ich als Gastautor daran erinnern darf. 👇 👇 👇 taz.de/Vor-100-Jahr...

Very shy to share this new text of mine. Here’s a very personal essay about being an independent scholar, my method, about immigration, cracks in academia and fragments. I don’t know if people even read this kind of stuff anymore but if you do, enjoy. aseees.org/newsnet-arti...

Aus aktuellem Anlass ein wenig Werbung in eigener Sache - zur Geschichte der "Weltbühne" von den 1920er Jahren bis 1993:

Some of the best research at universities is done by PhD students. At British universities, scholarships for ‘student-initiated PhDs’ and for those who need them most will be substantially reduced from 2025/26 onwards. I recommend this article: www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/will-f...

Lektor at home verlost ein Freiexemplar dieses Buchs von @dstolper.bsky.social. Teilnahme per Like bis Montag Vormittag.

PhD position available in "Early Modern Global History" (1400-1800) in the Department of Modern History, University of Tübingen (3+1 years), working under the supervision of the amazing Christina Brauner @chbrauner.bsky.social. Apply by 20 June. Details attached.

Wer wissen möchte, was wir am @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social treiben, dem empfehle ich den neuen Podcast mit Leonie Wolters über alternative Nachrichtenagenturen im globalen Süden. Sehr spannend zu hören, wie sie die Mainstream-News veränderten: zzf-potsdam.de/forschung/ne...

Our special section "In Search of the Migrant Child" with Journal of Contemporary History by Bettina Hitzer, @swensteinberg.bsky.social, Sheer Ganor and myself is finally printed. With @susannequitmann.bsky.social,@dacretu.bsky.social, Emma Wyse & Kimberly Cheng, journals.sagepub.com/toc/JCH/curr...

Screenshot from Times Higher Education today

Launching "Historians on Democracy", a transatlantic network and conversation series! For inputs by historians working across the Atlantic on the rise and demise of democratic orders join us on Tue, April 8, 11-12 a.m. EST/17-18 CET, speakers t.b.a. Register: uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

Looking forward to the workshop 'Exile, Migration, Translation' at Newcastle University on 26 February 2025. Organised by @gmahlberg.bsky.social, with a keynote by Susanne Lachenicht and in cooperation with the Modern European History seminar at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

My #book is now available for pre-order with OUP. It's a comparative study of #emergency powers in #Britain and #Germany during WW1. The hardcover price is a bit steep, but I hope it will sell well enough for the publisher to consider a paperback edition. #skystorians

1/Soeben muss ich erfahren, dass bei dem gestrigen Zugunglück der Historiker Thomas Großbölting (Jg. 1969) so schwer verletzt wurde, dass er auf dem Weg ins Krankenhaus verstarb. Ich habe einige Jahre mit Thomas zusammengearbeitet. Er war ein vielseitig interessierter Historiker

Bob (R.I.) Moore, Professor @newcastleuni.bsky.social for many years, died this morning. He leaves behind an impressive body of academic work, including his masterpiece “The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215”. He was also a pioneer of comparative world history. We will sorely miss him.

📢 We're proud to announce over 1,000 scholarships for international and EU students to support them to pursue their degrees, and help to foster a truly global academic community here at Newcastle University. 🌎 Find out more➡️ www.ncl.ac.uk/study/global... #WeAreNCL #WeAreInternational #Scholarships

Stabi on Potsdamerplatz in Berlin: the last modernist giant, falling apart, roof leaking, the Fighting Temeraire of libraries, a 1970s time machine which gave me my PhD and most of my publications, a magical place, a testament of an epoch when libraries were ships moored in the centers of our cities

Including in nineteenth century cities of Central Europe @danielsiemens.bsky.social (Newcastle), 'The German language is "just our blood. We can't get over it." German-Jewish exiles in New York after 1945 and the problem of language and translation'

This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

Workshop: 'Exile, Migration, Translation', Newcastle University, 26 February 2025, 3-5.30pm. Come and join us for an afternoon of papers and discussions with Mark Hutchinson, Katalin Straner, Markian Prokopovych, @danielsiemens.bsky.social and Susanne Lachenicht! @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Just published - the American edition of my book "Hinter der ,Weltbühne'", initially written in German and originally published in 2022. The contact sheet we have used for the cover is from the photographer Fred Stein. I hope you'll like it!