Happy to announce the publication of my article on international volunteers in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social. Thanks to @sdanisimova.bsky.social & Robert Gerwarth for their support and to the reviewers for their advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I am daft enough to have tried to make a Spotify playlist to accompany my book, 'Make Cheese Not War'. My rules were the artist had to be mentioned in the book, have played on the plateau, or be extremely thematically linked open.spotify.com/playlist/2L8...

Read more about our new Radical Histories book series in our blog post @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04...

Call for Applicants Asynchronous Histories Summer School (Second Edition) 31 August - 4 September 2026, Warsaw We welcome submissions from PhD students. Advanced MA students and early career postdocs (up to two years post-defence) are also encouraged to apply. ihpan.edu.pl/en/cfp-async...

This wonderful looking new edited collection on informal by Brodwyn Fischer and Charlotte Vorms.

Hello Bluesky. I haven’t been posting much because it’s been a difficult few months. My husband and I are fundraising for Sands, the baby loss charity. Any donations will be very gratefully received: justgiving.com/page/gandmfu...

The Chinese Matzah Campaign of 1905 How Chabad rallied to provide Jewish troops with matzah and kosher meat during the Russo-Japanese War elirubin.substack.com/p/the-chines...

We are recruiting two postdoctoral researchers (2.5 years, full-time) 📢 Preference for candidates working on the Caucasus and/or Central Asia, but applications focusing on other regions of the late Romanov Empire are also encouraged. 📅 Deadline: 4 May 👉 Apply: lnkd.in/dPejtfYs

PhD students everywhere! Respond to this call for papers to participate in the doctoral workshop "Socialism and the Sea," Aug 26-29 in Pula, Croatia and spearheaded by the always fascinating Prof. Igor Duda. www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/doc...

I'm delighted to announce that I've just signed a book contract with @syracuseup.bsky.social. My translation (with biographical introduction) "Miryeml: And Other Writings" by Tea Arciszewska (working title) is forthcoming in 2028. @uclhjs.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social

New 📖: James Morris, Revolution and Counterrevolution on the Russian–Ottoman Border: Wallachia in 1848 @oxfordunipress.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/62436

It's 500 years since the first text printed in Yiddish, and one of our amazing grad students is hosting a symposium this October to mark the date: please forward the CFP to Yiddishists, book historians, typography nerds, and anyone you think might be up for this! medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...

Nice piece in @forward.com about the dynamic new London-based Yiddish/Jewish culture organization Jargon. forward.com/yiddish-non-...

A call for papers that may be of interest to our readers - The 'Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern Eurasia' conference will be held at the University of Szczecin in October networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Any tips on keeping emails from my soon-to-be-deleted university account? Is there away to just save them in my mail app?

Call for papers: “Experiencing, reporting, recording civil wars, 1917-1949” University College Dublin (@ucddublin.bsky.social), 25-26 June 2025. Deadline: 13 February 2026. More info to come here: civil-wars.eu/workshops/ #CivilWar

Two fantastic events coming up from Jargon: Holocaust Memorial Day with the great @ankahajkova.bsky.social, author of People Without History Are Dust, at the brilliant @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social, and legend David Rosenberg doing a From Yiddish to Bangla Street Life walk www.jargon.org.uk/events

Our term has started and we've got another round of great Environmental History Research Seminars scheduled in Dublin. Come and join us! Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for supporting and hosting the series! #envhist @historytcd.bsky.social 👇

Looking for recommendations for a proofreader with experience in academic art history. Any leads much appreciated!

🎉 Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry turns 40 in 2026. To celebrate, the editors have curated a selection of journal articles free to read for the next year, highlighting four decades of leading scholarship on Polish–Jewish history & culture ⬇️ @uclhjs.bsky.social @ochjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

CfP: Second Conference on Parliamentary Junctures in Continental Europe 💡 Recombining Representation During the Transformation from Empires to Nation-States 1905-1923 📆 15-16 June 2026 📍 Warsaw, Poland ⏰ Submission deadline: 15 January 2026 Detailed information ⤵️ iss.uw.edu.pl/recombining-...

Calling all EC researchers working on environmental law. Come and tell us about your work in London on the 21st of April 2026!

We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy to answer any questions via DM or email

I am happy to share my Past & Present (@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) article (available in Open Access). It examines what happened to the "abandoned land" of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in 1878 and finds much post-Ottoman legal continuity. (1)

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!

Hi everyone! I am beginning my search for prospective PhD supervisors for a September 2026 start. If you specialise in Caribbean slavery and/or the East India Company, and are interested in supervising my doctoral research, I would be delighted to hear from you! #Skystorians #AcademicSky

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make. 2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors. 1/n

This year I will have the pleasure of presenting my research at the #iccees2025 congress at @uclssees.bsky.social, in our panel "Ukraine as a humanitarian front: actors, practices and challenges, 1914-1923". It's on Thursday 24 July. Don't hesitate to join us! www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...

The latest virtual issue of the journal on: "Immobility" by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social , Malika Zehni, Lamin Manneh Is now out in full and free to access academic.oup.com/past/pages/i...

A few words on the article about historiography that everyone is annoyed about. There are obvious technical problems with the suggestion that historians may soon let LLMs sift through the sources, suggest a book structure, select examples from the sources etc. 1/x

From the current issue: "AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union" by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Looking forward to seeing the publication of “State-making in an age of Revolution, 1830-80” in August after receiving a preprint of my chapter today. Full details and contents page here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

I refused to sign an AI addendum to my contract with CUP. Officially started my career as a Luddite, I suppose.

Book talk tomorrow (29 May) hosted by UCL‘s Institute for Jewish Studies Glenn Dynner on “The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland in the Eve of the Holocaust” 6 PM UK (10 AM PT, 12 PM CT, 1 PM ET, 7 PM CET, 8 PM IT) @uclhjs.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin...

For this long & commemorative holiday weekend, my super-sized 226th #ScholarSunday thread is full of thoughtful public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

How did the definition of the 'urban' and the 'suburban' affect the lives of residents? Antoni Porayski-Pomsta (@camhistory.bsky.social) addresses this important question through his research on early twentieth century Warsaw

We're hiring! Two tenure-track openings for Assistant Professors in Political Science or International Relations. Sharing = 🙏❤️ www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Geht jemand der*die mir folgt die Tage ins Berliner Landesarchiv und könnte für mich gegen Bezahlung oder/und Orangenmarmelade eine sehr kurze Akte bestellen und kopieren? Danke!

Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales 'Pluraliser la #modernité politique. Actualité de l’histoire #transimpériale russo-ottomane (note critique)' par Masha Cerovic (@mcerovic.bsky.social) Une note critique à propos de trois ouvrages récents 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

🎮 Four months ago, as part of the Game Jam of @rdvhistoire.bsky.social, we developed in 48 hours a video game based on my doctoral thesis on fin-de-siècle historical reconstructions, with a team of programmers, game designers and graphic designers.

Hot off the presses! My article about Friedrich Schiller’s East European Jewish reception, available in Polin 37 (in excellent company). With appearances by Fradel Shtok, Karl Emil Franzos, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Pauline Wengeroff, and more. Thanks to the editors for their diligent support.

Hey everyone! My contract is about to end so I would appreciate you all keeping an eye out for roles/funding schemes that may suit me. I am a "geriatric ECR" too far from PhD viva (5 years) for most postdocs yet unable to get permanence with the job market being the way it is.

As this site is coming alive, I tried to help my own orientation by creating a starter pack for global urban history. Suggestions welcome go.bsky.app/3FUgYoE

Catch me and Kasia Tomasiewicz in @vittles.bsky.social today: A cultural history of the polski sklep www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural...

RELEASE DAY!!! It’s here at last and I am very proud of it. Immense thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social for supporting this project ( & check out the promotional code).

QueerMuzeum Warsaw is about to open! I am super excited (and a bit nervous). Our page is already online (English version will be in a couple of days), along with the exhibition guide, describing centuries of Polish queer history 🏳️‍🌈👇🏼 queermuzeum.pl

I've made a start pack on imperial Russia, which anyone interested in the subject is welcome to join go.bsky.app/5BYjY1u