Colleagues at DIGHT-net project are organising a super interesting summer school at @utu.fi in August! dight-net.tlu.ee/call-for-par... The lineup looks really good @heidihakkarainen.bsky.social @hansalmi.bsky.social

Now available in January 2026. My book Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna has just come out in paperback! Find out more here: bit.ly/3MNglZV #History #AustrianStudies #NineteenthCentury

Today we celebrate International Children's Book Day. Our ongoing project Becoming a Reading Nation? Children's Books and Educational Literature in Finland, 1790-1850 investigates literature for children and young people in the early 19th century sites.utu.fi/luka/en/

The Call for Papers for our next biennial conference is now open! Submit your proposals by 1 October 2025 so you can join us at the University of Arizona in Phoenix/Tempe, Arizona on 22-23 May 2026. More information can be found at the link below ✨ nachemotion.wordpress.com/conference/t...

CFP: Children, Youth, and the Making of International Society. Deadline 23 April 2025 #histchild networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Happy International Women's Day

Good God. In Munich, fascist Vance calls for cooperation between German parties and the fascist AfD. The new Axis forms. J.D. Vance fordert Zusammenarbeit deutscher Parteien mit der AfD www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Happy Valentine's Day - may today be a bright spot in a darkening world.

My article discussing the catalogue of the library of the German-language Gymnasium in Vyborg (Wiburg) 1805-1860 has been published (in Finnish) in the journal Kasvatus & Aika: journal.fi/kasvatusjaai...

Our EU-funded project DIGHT-Net organises a series of online workshops. The first one on digital archives will be on 21 Feb 2025, with @gerbenzaagsma.bsky.social as one of the speakers. #digitalarchive #digitalhistory #culturalheritage More info on registration: dight-net.tlu.ee/event/online...

Hope. In times of trouble you can always rely on your hope. This seventeenth-century copperplate print of an original handdrawing is titled (in French and German): l'Esperance. Die Hoffnung. #earlymodern #hope #skystorians

It took me some time to get here, but here I am.