Question for Germanists (and others)—can anyone recommend good scholarship on the discourse of "die soziale Frage" / "the social question" around 1900ish?

A job in history! At a UK university! (Not envying the colleagues at Warwick who will probably have to go through 100s of applications...)

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize

From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.

Out now: brill.com/view/journal...

www.hdg.de/zeitgeschich... Come on queers! Do you believe in history? Cause the zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig has the desire to collect some of it. And it explains it something like this:

Vor zwei Jahren wurde Halles „Zwangsarbeiter-Meldekartei“ wiederentdeckt. Knapp 4.000 Namen und Schicksale, fast alle in Sütterlin geschrieben. Mach mit bei #everynamecounts und hilf uns, sie für alle auffindbar und sichtbar zu machen. Los geht’s: everynamecounts.arolsen-archives.org

Worth translating: interview w/ @valentimvicente.bsky.social on a very plausible explanation for the rise of the radical right in Europe: Norms that made voting far-right parties socially undesirable have eroded - and the availability of far-right parties met a certain "demand" that already existed

Eine Rede, die geschrieben, aber nur zu zwei Dritteln gehalten werden konnte: Abdruck in der Dienstagsausgabe der F.A.Z.

Liebe Historiker*innen, Heraldiker*innen oder Ornitholog*innen - kann mir jemand sagen ob der Adler auf diesem NPD-Motiv (entworfen Anfang der 1970er) ein spezifischer ist? Die geschlossenen Flügel erinnern eher an den Reichsadler der WR oder des NS (z.B. Stahlhelm) als das Bundeswappen oder?

Love this so much.

Hat jemand zufällig PDF? UwU Wandhoff, Haiko: The Fall of Man and the Corruption of Nature. In: Roman Bartosch u. Sieglinde Grimm (Hgg.): Teaching Environments. Ecocritical Encounters. Frankfurt a. M. 2014, S. 155–170.

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.

after the music festival is before the mini poetry festival

'D66 “have really embraced” universities’ call for the Netherlands to “grow towards a 3 per cent of GDP investment in research and innovation”, said van den Berg, while the party has pledged that “they won’t enter a government coalition that wants to cut back on the whole educational sector”.'

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci

Such a key point about cutting back on language provision - it’s not good for science and it’s not good for growth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

In Utrecht blijft cum laude promoveren voorlopig mogelijk

I’m very happy to announce that I won a book prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. You can download the book for free at tinyurl.com/kahnbk. It’s about the history of Turkish migration to Germany and anti-migrant racism. @ghiwashington.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

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I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.

no surprises here: a Berlin court has confirmed that the "political activity ban" on Ghassan Abu-Sittah 1,5years ago was against the law – I remember being on a train to Berlin when those news broke; infuriating like almost every encounter with the city in the last two years

It's also worth noting that leaking to UK journalists that UK-EU talks are in a bad state is a classic Brussels move to ratchet up pressure on states that need a deal more with the EU than the EU does with them

This evening I'll give a public lecture on the biblical epic, and how it mutated into the modern blockbuster — followed by a special screening of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956). filmtheaterhilversum.nl/film/episch-...

Über die Ohrfeige am 7. Nov 1968 schrieb Beate Klarsfeld ein Gedicht: "[...] während Kurt Georg Kiesinger wie ein falscher Blinder seine Augen mit der schwarzen Brille verdeckt, die so viele getragen haben, um sich der Wirklichkeit zu verschließen, Und es brauchte sie von der Hand einer Frau." 🧵

It's almost like the aggressive attack on trans people was just a pretext for rolling back any kind of gender equality whatsoever

The new issue of our GHIL Bulletin is out now! 📘 The two articles in the November issue illustrate just how far cultural, social, and intellectual history have left behind the framework of the nation state... 1/4

Sind Personen mit HU-Berlin-Bibliothekszugang unter uns?

Fellow #skystorians - does anybody know any publications on racism in Germany after reunification - the so-called Baseballschlägerjahre - in English. I need this for teaching and so far I found only literature in German 🙏🙏🙏

Electioneering on the streets Frankfurt on the brink of dictatorship: a fascinating unfinished documentary about the July 1932 parliamentary elections in Weimar Germany. The Nazis won 37.3 percent of the vote in this election.

"Convert for-profit to sustainable non-profit publishing models, where the academic community owns the journals' titles and authors retain the copyright, e.g. using open access models." HELL YES! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Humanities where the cool jobs at

Self-portrait, 1633, by #AnnaMariaVanSchurman (Dutch, 1607-1678), who was born #otd, Nov 5. Held by RISD Museum, risdmuseum.org/art-design/c... #womenartists #artherstory

Gibt es historische Wahrheit? Diese Frage ist nicht neu. Ob & in welcher Weise Aussagen über historische Sachverhalte »wahr« sein können & was die Antwort auf diese Frage über den epistemologischen Status der Geschichtswissenschaft oder Geschichtsschreibung aussagt, wird seit der Antike reflektiert.

I’ll be presenting 'Queering the Rhineland: Same-Sex Intimacies and Interracial Fantasies during the Occupation' at the Modern European History Seminar @camhistory.bsky.social next Tuesday (11.11) at 5:15 pm.

People keep trying to explain the behaviour of "centralist" Social Democrats in Europe (embracing right-wing talking points, rejecting left-wing policies) with "hypercaution", when the much more plausible explanation is that they actually believe in the talking points and not in the policies.

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It’s an exciting time of year - time for budding Europeanists to check out and apply for the PhD in history at the EUI. This is a special place that wants to support creative historical research into Europe and the world, from the early modern to contemporary periods. Happy to answer questions!

OTD in 1928, the Carreras Cigarette Factory opened in London. Built for speed and precision, it subjected workers to strict fines and constant oversight. From the archives, Sally Alexander explores Thomas Garland's groundbreaking work on the mental health of factory girls:

Disappointed they forgot "limp-wristed elbow-patched Marxist professors"

🤩 noch 17mal schlafen, dann...