British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

What is happening to the humanities at British universities? Here is my report, published in today's FAZ:

Was gerade in UK an den Universitäten passiert (aktuell: Exeter) fasst mein Kollege @jheathershaw.bsky.social hier in einem Thread zusammen. Solidarität aus Deutschland!!

Ten years after the Brexit referendum, "Global Britain" is still going strong. Oh, wait a minute ... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

Étudiez l'histoire à l'ombre de Notre-Dame (et à Bielefeld) ! Vous pouvez postuler jusqu'au 15 juin 2026 à nos programmes de double diplôme de licence et de master avec l'université Paris Cité. Mot-clé : BiPaG. Faites passer le mot ! www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...

Genuine question: what exactly are we all doing.

It’s a very early morning for me after two great workshop days in Berlin, discussing the opportunities and challenges of AI for historical research and archival work, organised by the team of the research project "A Global History of the URO". Many thanks to all participants!

Great opportunity for doing a PhD on European history, culture and literature with us @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social, funded for 3 years, open to UK and international applicants. Reach out if you want to know more. We have a fantastic group of potential PhD supervisors! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Today’s Education Select Committee report on higher education is the best report on HE to come from Govt/Parliament in ages. It takes a rounded view of the whole system, moving away from the more atomistic or narrow accounts we’ve seen 🧵 committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

How to research and teach the history of violence? Really pleased that this edited collection is now available, with key sources and exemplary interpretations. Open access here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-8...

Venez nous rejoindre à l’université Bordeaux Montaigne ou en zoom pour assister aux Premières Doctoriales d’études germaniques ! @ubmontaigne.bsky.social @bubmontaigne.bsky.social

1/4: Registration for the Rethinking Weimar Cinema conference (organised by @weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social) is now open! The conference will take place 17-19 June at Worcester College, Oxford. Spaces are limited so register via the link below to secure your place!

My book about the photographer Fred Stein is reviewed in today's #FAZ. The exhibition of selected #photographs mentioned in the article lasts until 30 May - very much worth seeing, if you happen to be in #Düsseldorf in the coming weeks!

I am happy to share that my article "Where Socialist Youth and #Anti-Colonial Activists Met: Life, Love, and Work in the Indian News Service and Information Bureau in Interwar #Berlin" was just published in the latest issue of #comparativ. More here: comparativ.net/v2/issue/vie...

Gedenkstätte zum SA-Terror von Juni 1933: Offener Brief zur Bestürzung und Sorge über die seit Jahren schleppende und zunehmend widersprüchliche Entwicklung rund um die Gedenkstätte Köpenicker Blutwoche www.rettet-die-gedenkstaette.de innn.it/rettet-die-g... Lesen, unterschreiben, teilen!

Fred Stein (1909-1967) als politischer Fotograf im Paris der 1930er Jahre. Mehr dazu nicht nur in meinem neuen Buch, sondern jetzt auch hier: www.re-vue.org/beitrag/bild...

Intriguing piece by an outstanding historian, who has just received a major prize: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/war-military...

Lyndal Roper: ‘Drastic’ cuts to UK humanities risk brain drain www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lyndal-...

Interested in the history of photography, the challenges of exile, political dreams, and networks of friendship? Then my latest book, a biography of the German-Jewish photographer Fred Stein (1909-1967), might be of interest to you. Published today! www.aufbau-verlage.de/ch-links-ver...

Nun ist mein Buch #Heimat als soziale Praxis auch im Open Access verfügbar: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Nächste Woche Montag in Dresden - all welcome!

'A statement on 23 February explained the Bloomsbury-based research institute will be “disbanded” at the end of July 2026 because it “in its current form is not sustainable”.' Goodbye utopia, hello myopia?

Auch die schöne Besprechung von Anselm Meyer in den "sehepunkten" ist lesenswert (wie natürlich auch das Buch selbst): www.sehepunkte.de/2026/02/4049...

Ich habe schon in den Druckfahnen lesen können, da mit beteiligt, und bin insofern parteiisch. Ich hoffe, ich darf das Buch dennoch empfehlen: Spannende Quellen und anregende Interpretationen aus dem breiten Spektrum der #Gewaltgeschichte. Noch dazu Open Access. Großer Dank an alle Beteiligten!

Herzliche Einladung: Am Montag, 16. März 2026, werde ich mein neues Buch über den Fotografen Fred Stein in Dresden vorstellen. Beginn ist um 18 Uhr in der Gedenkstätte Münchner Platz, der Eintritt ist frei! Eine Kooperation des @hait-tud.bsky.social und der Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten:

Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership

The Canadian newspaper "The Globe and Mail" asked me whether the actions being taken by #ICE in the United States today can be compared to those of Nazi #Brownshirts in the early 1930s. Here is my op-ed piece: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

📢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