Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social

Can someone kindly help me with a bibliographical query? Any publications on the #Greek govt-in-exile in #WW2, beside Clogg´s & Papastratis'? I can read #Greek with some understanding but searches are difficult. @swwstudiesedin.bsky.social @ndh-network.bsky.social @greekhistory.bsky.social?

#jobopportunity Universitätsassistent*in Postdoc am Institut für Zeitgeschichte @univie.ac.at im Arbeitsbereich der Professur „Österreichische Zeitgeschichte seit 1918 im internationalen Kontext" mitarbeiten. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Academia edu has been a rather troublesome knowledge-visibility platform for quite some time now. Their new steps to monetise research to which they´ve not contributed prompt me to leave. I´m still on RG which, as far as I can tell, has a different business model.

1,000 reads is not 100 citations. Not even 10. Still, not a bad attention score for an article discussing what some might consider, quite unjustly, a niche topic.

Earlier this month, a German historian who, although from a distance, had a great influence on my research on Second World War governments-in-exile, passed away. Requiescat in pacem. www.collegium-carolinum.de/institut/akt...

In the 1970s and 1980s Wimpy faced off with McDonald’s in a battle over what it meant to eat British. ⌛️ Last chance to read this History Matters for free www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

Happy to see a special issue dedicated to the #scholarship of Adam Watson. His works have profoundly influenced my take on #International #History and #Politics. link.springer.com/journal/4131...

Do I know anyone who reads #Korean? I would love to know who cited one of my articles over there.

If you happen to be in Brussels on 16–17 September, join us at the ULB for the international conference “Influence and Propaganda: New Historiographical Perspectives” repine.hypotheses.org/1216

Historians: tailoring a practical micro-course in #diplomatic #history for undergrads that extends beyond my period of expertise, I need help. Is there a compendium of key 19C diplomatic documents (treaties etc.) where these are rendered in English, not French?

In the offing for quite some time now. If anything drives POTUS, it´s a childish preoccupation with his lasting legacy, which is currently in the making. There may be none greater accolade for a statesman in office than the #NobelPeacePrize. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

50 years of the Helsinki Final Act 1975. Having worked with “old guard” activists [a.k.a dissidents] in 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇨🇿🇸🇰🇨🇱🇦🇷🇧🇷 - I know personally how important the Helsinki Human Rights Declaration was to their work in the 1970s and 1980s. That’s right the effect went beyond Europe and Canada and US.

A short piece on Norwegian security policy: upnorth.eu/from-hygge-t...

I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of Lying Abroad by Carol Chillington Rutter from @manchesterup.bsky.social I very much recommend it. Here are my comments… #lyingabroad #diplomacy #tudor #stuartdynasty #ambassador

Bizarre! An MEP leaves her position after just 1 year (out of 5!), gives no real reason, and people hail her “legacy”. Why run if you are not interested in the job? Or, if you were, why not explain what changed?

The European papers of Prof. Geremek have been made available at @eui-euarchives.bsky.social. It was accompanied by a seminar that discussed research paths of East-West collaborations before 1989 and 2004/07 enlargements @eui-history.bsky.social @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social More 👉 shorturl.at/iP49A

Echoing recent PM #Fico´s praise for regimes getting things done bc they don't get disturbed by elections, 25% of voters declare a preference for a single party regime, a #poll from #Slovakia shows. Are there #polls asking about this from other #EuropeanUnion member states?

It’s here!

Not only for the love of mountains. #ComingFromAnAlpinistFamily

Of course, why would you need diplomats ? www.ft.com/content/9bac...

🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests

6th New Diplomatic History Conference, @ndh-network.bsky.social. Privileged to be a part of this network, through which I've learned an awful lot. Great to meet friends, make some new, test ideas, sip grenache in a lovely Provencal ambient. W/ @karenskjoldager.bsky.social @martindbbrown.bsky.social

Hva er lov og ikke lov innen partifinansiering? Til etter årtusenskiftet var det straffbart med utenlandsk partistøtte for å påvirke utenrikspolitikk. Et påvirkningsforbud er delvis gjeninnført, men på nye og ulike vilkår. Her er noe jeg har laget selv: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mrs. Dalloway turned 100 yesterday. To celebrate I read @markhussey.bsky.social’s Mrs. Dalloway: Biography of a Novel, a fascinating exploration of the novel’s creation, reception, and lasting impact, just out from @manchesterup.bsky.social. I loved it! mookseandgripes.com/reviews/2025...

This cannot be true. Or can it?

PKK announces decision to disband and end its armed struggle, following a call in February by imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan. Following his call, the SDF, led by PKK offshoots in Syria, also struck a deal with the new Damascus govt. @ragipsoylu.bsky.social www.middleeasteye.net/news/pkk-dis...

Where I studied & started as a researcher, mental health was an unknown concept. Luckily, at my current workplace, it was promoted from a footnote to a page, although probably not the one where one should dwell often.

#OTD vor 80 Jahren befreite die Erste Ukrainische Armee das Ghetto Theresienstadt. Die Soldat*innen der Roten Armee kümmerten sich in den daraufkommenden Wochen um die schwerkranken Menschen, die die Deutschen in den Wochen zuvor mit Todesmärschen hierher gejagt haben.

Very pleased to share my article in the Journal of Baltic Studies on popular fundraising in Lithuania during the #GreaterWar, where I explore the dynamics of mass politics in a newly established state. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

One great PhD opportunity! The lucky historian will learn a great deal. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Intro of Il Gattopardo (2025, Nefliix): "Italy is fragmented in statelets." Area of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies where the show (novel) is set: 108,536 km2. One third of today´s Italy, roughly the size of Bulgaria. 15+ EU member states are smaller. youtu.be/O8aIgP1aUdA

A Q concerning #academic #publishing (Humanities, social science). I am suddenly noticing books w/ long titles & short subtitles while I am used to the opposite: a short, catchy/distinctive title & a longer, descriptive subtitle. Is there a new trend out?

Please share!

x.com/bulutuzay_/s... George Aslan, the only Christian MP in Turkey from the opposition Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM), honored the victims of the 1915-23 Armenian genocide in Turkey's parliament. The government of Turkey still aggressively denies this genocide.

I humbly admit this is news to me. thecatholicherald.com/visiting-the...

Read Howard Louthan's resignation letter from the University of Minnesota's Center for Austrian Studies in response to the university admin's unilateral choice to erase the Center's public statement of support of Ukraine after the 2022 invasion. www.centraleuropeanhistory.org?p=1083

Prompts odd connotations. Is "awkward" the appropriate adjective here? Btw., yesterday we commemorated the 85th anniversary of Nazi assault on 🇩🇰 & 🇳🇴. The plan was to reward the victims for not retaliating. Did not work quite as expected in the end.

Fabulous!

Yep. Yet I am afraid there might by some distinction contrasting hired personnel to elected/nominated officials.

Looking forward to reading this. My instinctive take would be a rather simple 'no'.

Ru opposes NATO membership for Ukraine, peacekeepers of any kind, and security guarantees of any kind for Ukraine. Ru demands Ukraine reduce its army. Ru demands the West stop sending any military aid to Ukraine. Why? Because it wants its next invasion of Ukraine to be as easy as possible.

We historians (and others) need to start mass downloading archives from places like this before they go. Regardless of your subfield, download! I'm focusing on the CIA's FOIA site, but Wilson, the National Archives, Presidential libraries etc all have to be downloaded to be preserved.

2) Trump's assertion that the 🇬🇱 election results were good for 🇺🇸 is unfounded. The winning party, Demokraatit, is pro-business and interested in stronger economic ties with 🇺🇸 but strongly opposes Trumps interest in annexing 🇬🇱. The runner-up, Naleraq, is more pro-Trump but also opposes joining 🇺🇸.

In Finland, commander of the Neo-Nazi Rusich unit Yan Petrovsky (aka “Vojislav Torden” lol) has been sentenced to life in prison for war crimes committed against Ukrainian soldiers in 2014, including mutilating one’s face with a kolovrat before he died, among others

Dear NDH'ers, we start the new year with a new social platform. We hope many of you will join us here as before. Spread the word! And we hope to see you in Aix for NDH6! ❤️ @lukasschemper.bsky.social @elineceulemans.bsky.social @elinevanommen.bsky.social @giusirusso.bsky.social @luikki.bsky.social

The League of Nations is among the international actors accompanying me throughout my life as a historian. So, what could be said about the experiment of winding down of an international organisation, designed as perpetual, so to speak? doi.org/10.1080/0959...