Hard to believe this is the same Keir Starmer who was once a distinguished human rights lawyer, and who was so concerned about international law that he marched in protest at the illegality of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

And it's finally a complete goodbye to twitter. No need to be there, no excuse to be there.

The trouble with starting the year with Strauss waltzes is that it can only ever go downhill from here…..

Who said work and cat photos don’t mix

Dear all, if you ever wondered what an Englishman with acute laryngitis sounded like trying to give a public lecture in German you can now find out - grateful thanks to @topographie.de for their solicitous hospitality, and to Friedrich Geiger for the generous introduction. youtu.be/3TCDNDyxBlg

The perfect gift for that awkward aunt or uncle to buy for this holiday season is available on a 30% discount til 31 December - details in flyer.

My sentiments, perfectly distilled, with the exception that I would use less parliamentary language. www.ft.com/content/1e93...

Good luck to everyone who applies! Great opportunities in a great institution. www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/tw...

More publication news: "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by @drhelenroche.bsky.social and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social, is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. www.bloomsbury.com/us/abusing-a...

📣 Join us on Tues, 2 Dec, at 5.30pm for a hybrid lecture by Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall', followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public. For details and registration see Eventbrite links👇

Die Historikerin Gisela Bock ist gestorben. In der FAZ ein Nachruf von Daniel Schönpflug @wiko-berlin.bsky.social zeitung.faz.net/data/522/rea...

It's a great honour to have been invited to speak about my book in Berlin again, this time in German, and this time at the @topographie.de - Topographie des Terrors - on 10 December. Details here - do come along if you are in Berlin! www.topographie.de/veranstaltun...

Honig wach auf die @zeit.de hat einen politischen Kompass fallengelassen auf dem die Grünen links der Linken sind und die Nazipartei Mitte-rechts

Karl Lueger dividing the spirits as ever….

Hörenswertes Interview @neilgregor.bsky.social www.deutschlandfunk.de/das-sinfonie...

Remind me to give another lecture in Vienna sometime.

Huge pleasure to talk at the Uni. f. Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna this evening - thanks to the audience for stomaching my German and for their really penetrating questions.

You still have time to make it to Vienna for this! oegmw.at/veranstaltun...

In case this was TLDR: Distinguished Professor (co editor of Cambridge History of the Holocaust) and exemplary colleague abruptly replaced with an Associate Professor without consultation.

Leseempfehlung!! „A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa“ Von Matthew P. Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social Oxford Studies in Modern European History

In der Deutung dieser reizenden Begebenheit bin ich noch unentschieden zwischen "großes Kino" und "Untergang des Abendlandes". www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

For Oxford colleagues - 21 October: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/326...

Interesting enough about Kuehne & Nagel but the @financialtimes.com (of all newspapers!) should know that the suggestion that German companies are only now being forced to engage with their difficult pasts is just nonsense - this has been a live topic for a good 30 years. www.ft.com/content/ad3e...

📣 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UPCOMING STRIKE at the University of Leicester, Prof. Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social has CANCELLED his talk next week! The strike takes place in response to the threat of staff cuts with History being one of the areas affected: www.uculeicester.org.uk/information-...

@weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social Hello there! Could I possibly ask you to share this CfC on Masculinities in Weimar Cinema? :)

Very much looking forward to speaking at the Stanley Burton Centre on 1 October - do come along and support the brilliant work of our colleagues in the Department of History at the University of Leicester.

Your periodic reminder that the 'hostile environment' was pioneered by the previous Labour government. www.ft.com/content/d97e...

‘Prejudice against the disabled was still so widespread that in 1980 a Frankfurt court ordered the reimbursement of the cost of a hotel to a tourist who had been upset by the presence of a group of guests with cerebral palsy.’ Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A nice post from @unisouthampton.bsky.social remembering Edgar Feuchtwanger, whose generosity to me as his rather less illustrious replacement as tutor in Gernan history i remember well www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...

My new article on Anglo-German relations prior to 1914 (the introduction to a special issue) has just come out online for the journal 'German History'. academic.oup.com/gh/advance-a...

The @royalmusical.bsky.social is honouring me with a roundtable to discuss the implications of my book both for scholarship and for the contemporary musical world at its annual conference next week - very much hope to see musical friends there! Listing below: www.southampton.ac.uk/~assets/doc/...

If you weren't planning to be in Vienna on 30 October you still have time to change your schedule - looking forward to sharing a few thoughts with colleagues there: oegmw.at/veranstaltun...

If you believe there’s no such thing as too many books, here’s a wonderful opportunity for a bargain, including titles in our “Studies in German History” series… www.berghahnbooks.com/series/studi...

I would so love to see a similar initiative in the UK, but it just feels unthinkable.

The cordon sanitaire (which was always a bit of a myth, recall Alan Clark and the Monday Club crowd) between the Tories and the far right is now well and truly gone. But our media can't bring itself to acknowledge this disturbing fact.

This is well worth 10 minutes of your time - www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Es ist wirklich bitter, wenn Vertreter*innen der vorgeblichen Parteien der Mitte, rechtsextreme Talking Points wiedergeben. Hier aus der Hamburger FDP. Die Merz-Union macht es doch gerade vor, dass man durch Übernahme rechter Ideen, die Rechten nicht halbiert, sondern stärkt

Saddened to read of the untimely passing of Wulf Kansteiner - thoughts with his family and those who knew him well.

Really wasn’t expecting a review in @thewiremagazine.bsky.social but thanks very much!

Likely a long shot, but might any #earlymodern musicologists be able to identify these bars? There are numerous settings by Campion, Morley, Gautier in this Scottish ms, so I wondered if it was recognisable as any of theirs, or indeed someone else’s. As a lit historian, it’s beyond me, sadly.

Raquel Ayora, @msf.ca General Director: “In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations,rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.The GHF distribution sites masquerading as ‘aid’ have morphed into a laboratory of cruelty.This must stop now.” www.msf.org/ghf-run-food...

I'm so pleased to share that my first book, "Reinventing Protestant Germany," appears today with @harvardpress.bsky.social. It offers a new take on West Germany's winding path toward postwar democracy, highlighting the ambivalent role of the Protestant Church. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

A proper 12-month replacement post with decent salary (for UKHE, at least) in modern European history. Belfast is a decent place to live - relatively affordable apart from extortionate pint prices - and I can personally vouch for what a great & friendly School we have. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOE451/l...

128 members of the Royal Ballet and Opera sign an open letter in solidarity with Danni Perry displaying the 🇵🇸 flag at a curtain call, and ask the Royal Ballet and Opera to acknowledge and act against Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. via Make Freedom Ring www.instagram.com/p/DM3Uib-gGH...

Please join us on 9 September for this exciting #event, and to celebrate the #launch of my new #book, A #History of England in 25 Poems. A conversation with award-winning poet Hannah Lowe, chaired by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, then wine reception. All welcome! Book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

An important statement which I wholeheartedly support.

Kay Gottschalk, AfD, im Interview mit der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung.