On Saturday 20, in Lisbon, Goffredo Adinolfi and I had the pleasure of presenting our edited volume Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule: War, Military Occupation and Political Regimes at the Eighth Convention of COMFAS, discussed by Angel Alcalde from the the University of Melbourne.

for the history feeds, follow my skeets in this thread #comfas 🗂️

A brief essay about my book, with photos not included in the book itself: www.kathleensheldon.net/online-essay...

There is still time to read a new book this summer! Check out the list that I have for review with H-Environment #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #climate #sustainability #conservation #envtech #plantstudies #animalhist docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I wrote this last month and am pretty happy with how it turned out. medium.com/p/33c48f22e617

João Abel Manta, the greatest cartoonist of the Portuguese democratization, has died. When I published my first academic book in English on Salazar's "Estado Novo" I asked him one of his caricatures for the cover. The publisher's designer converted the caricature of the Dictator into a negative.

How do smartphones reshape the dynamics of war? A new open-access article in African Affairs, by Mirjam de Bruijn and Boukary Sangaré, explores the evolving “war ecology” of Mali, where conflict and digital technologies have grown side by side since 2012. 📖Read the article: doi.org/10.1093/afra...

Long-awaited, fantastic article by Katherine Lebow on Polish 'ordinary' people’s memoirs of #WWI, exploring how the war generated new mobilities, perspectives and subjectivities, and how these histories from the margins have been silenced. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

🎉 Congratulations to Antonio Frank, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation 'Policing the Periphery: Party-anchored hybrid policing in Luanda, Angola' on 28 April at @unileiden.bsky.social. #Angola #Luanda #policing #PhDdefence #ASCL

Joseph Atta-Mensah, warns that the US-Israel war on Iran may feel like a distant conflict to many in Africa, but it poses a direct shock to the continent’s economic future, impacting energy, trade, agriculture, finance, and domestic production systems @africaatlse.bsky.social

📢 CfP: Society for the History of War Conference 2026 📍 University of Limerick 🗓 26–27 Nov 2026 Papers & panels invited on all aspects of war & violence incl. gender, memory, civil wars, cultures of conflict, and lived experience. 🗓 Deadline: 3 July 2026 📩 [email protected]

📷 Vêem-se cravos nos canos de muitas espingardas, oferecidos aos soldados por populares. #25a74

📷 A artilharia do Movimento, estacionada no Cristo-Rei, recebeu ordens do Posto de Comando para afundar a Gago Coutinho no caso desta abrir fogo #25a74

📷 Uma força da PSP chega ao Terreiro do Paço, vinda de Santa Apolónia. Também não tenta sequer entrar em confronto com as tropas de Salgueiro Maia. (Autor: Alfredo Cunha) #25a74

Não me obriguem a vir para a rua gritar.

Make plans now to attend an exciting online symposium on May 9 hosted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social: "(Re)Reading Senghor: Poet-Politician at the Crossroads" featuring the editors of our recent translations of Senghor's work. buff.ly/Ydghl42

Link for applications and details: instytutpileckiego.pl/en/instytut/... I'm on the organizing committee, so fire away with questions.

Brilliant piece by @alexjwhite.bsky.social about how the Bandung Conference helped African and Asian voices matter on the world stage. Proud of my brilliant fiancé for telling that story with such detail and care. Read it here!👇 engelsbergideas.com/essays/bandu...

Brutal op-ed about the European Commission's fixation on "innovative finance" in development cooperation. "The long-standing promise of turning 'billions to trillions' – using public finance to mobilise private investment in sustainable development – has long been discredited. ...

🌍El mundo se está fragmentando. Desde la dinámica del BRICS+ hasta las nuevas estrategias entre EE.UU.y África,el viejo guion ya no sirve.¿Cómo afronta la región de África Austral esta nueva realidad?🇿🇦🇦🇴🇿🇼🇿🇲 Únete a la conversación. 🗓️4-6 de mayo 2026,de 10:00 a 18:30 horas. youtube.com/@ucmpolitica...

I am happy to share that my article "Where Socialist Youth and #Anti-Colonial Activists Met: Life, Love, and Work in the Indian News Service and Information Bureau in Interwar #Berlin" was just published in the latest issue of #comparativ. More here: comparativ.net/v2/issue/vie...

"A thousand dead humanitarians in three years - when did that become normal?" United Nations Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher on the violence facing humanitarian workers in conflict zones. Watch the event➡️ bit.ly/4cDWXbb

#Soudan. Avec l’intensification de l’utilisation des drones, la guerre civile gagne des régions jusque-là épargnées par leur isolement, comme dans le #Kordofan du Sud, où s'est déplacée la ligne de front. @afriquexxi.bsky.social ➡️ orientxxi.info/Soudan-Les-m...

Pleased that my review of 'Algerian Independence and the British Left: Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonizing World' by Melanie Torrent (Bloomsbury, 2024) in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (@jich.bsky.social) is now available online! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Grateful for the invitation to speak on Colonial Crimes in Africa at this event hosted by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dedicated to the history of crimes against humanity. Looking forward to engaging debates next Monday and Tuesday.

This Monday 20 April at Noon at QUB @qubhistory.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #Angola #Africa #Governance #Authoritarianism #rural Afroluso Talk by @bradsafarik.bsky.social

Forthcoming workshop in Durham on ‘Historicising the China-Africa relationship’, taking place on August 26th.

Entretanto, a minha dissertação já está disponível nas livrarias em formato impresso, com a colaboração do @nestrangeiro_pt e da Edições Colibri: wook.pt/livro/depois-d…

Guerre civile au #Soudan, 3 ans d'impasse (2/3). Les pertes du secteur sanitaire de l’État de #Khartoum sont estimées à 12 mds de $ tandis qu'1/3 des hôpitaux du pays ont été touchés. En conséquence, des millions de soudanais ne peuvent plus se soigner. @orientxxi.bsky.social

More interesting is perhaps the fact that the Middle East overtook Africa in hunger statistics in the last 10 years. This gap will only widen with the ongoing cycle of vicious wars.

Looking forward to next Thursday’s event and the opportunity to engage with new perspectives on decentring European approaches to history. It’s a real pleasure to have been invited.

The AHR has launched a new project, Authoritarianism 101: A Global History, as part of the #AHRSyllabus series. Explore 30 modules from different contributors and key questions on authoritarianism—each paired with primary sources and teaching resources. The first twelve modules are now live.

Great observations on My Lai from @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social

Diretor-geral da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, o historiador Diogo Ramada Curto, morreu ontem, indicou o Ministério da Cultura, salientando que a sua obra e pensamento constituem "um legado incontornável" para a memória coletiva dos portugueses Sabe +: comunidadeculturaearte.com/morreu-histo...

My dear friend Diogo Ramada Curto passed away this Saturday. An excellent historical sociologist, he held for eight years the Vasco da Gama Chair in the History of European Expansion at the European University Institute, Florence. He was director of the National Library of Portugal since 2024.

Job: 2 Postdoctoral research fellow positions "East European and Eurasian Studies" (Univ. of Tartu) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-161624 Tartu, 01.09.2026, University of Tartu, Bewerbungsschluss: 04.05.2026 Research Fellow in East European and Eurasian Studies

CfP 16th Annual International Student Conference of the Cold War History Research Center, Budapest, July 30–31, 2026 Deadline for proposal submission is May 15, 2026.

World Press Photo 2026 : ces cinq photos de la guerre au Soudan racontées par le photographe récompensé

🚨And another #History Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in the History of Iberian Empires. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Yves Léonard nous offre une belle biographie d’Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, le grand organisateur du 25 avril 1974, l’officier révolutionnaire de 1974-1975, le chantre du pouvoir populaire. Sortie le 17 avril dans toutes les bonnes librairies

A revista Ler História (CEI-Iscte e CIES-Iscte) passou a publicar em First View 📖 Já se encontram disponíveis os primeiros artigos e recensões do n.º 88 👇 journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/ #História #Investigação

I traveled to the Nuba Mountains with @guypeterson.bsky.social 📸 to document how foreign powers are shaping Sudan's war while civilians pay the price. Read our story in @prospectmagazine.co.uk, with thanks to @pulitzercenter.org for the support! www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/africa...

"Apartheid und Fotografie: Windhoek in Namibia" Podiumsgespräch mit Prof. Dr. Henning Melber, Dieter Hinrichs und Hildegard Titus. Dienstag, den 28. April 2026 um 18 Uhr. #München www.museum-fuenf-kontinente.de/veranstaltun... @he-mel.bsky.social @rhoelzl.bsky.social

Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026

Can a university exist without historians? A question asked by this clip. This is an ominous trend in American university education & it is not disconnected from the current political times. Less history= more authoritarianism t.co/qomAef8ooS

Wikipedia, a site once considered not credible as a source and possibly spreading misinformation, now has higher standards for its content than universities have for students

📕 Víctor Barros and Aurora Almada e Santos are the editors of "Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC’s Binational Struggle for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde", that "intends to evince a multiplicity of analytical itineraries." 👉 www.routledge.com/Amilcar-Cabr...

My latest article 'Um país a arder. Os incêndios florestais nos debates parlamentares do Estado Novo, 1935-1974' is now available on first view at Ler História. It traces the history of political debates around wildfires in twentieth-century Portugal. journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/...

Read Alicia C. Decker on Derek R. Peterson’s “A Popular History of Idi Amin’s #Uganda” (@yalepress.bsky.social) in the new #OpenAccess #FeaturedReview “Everyday People and the Making of #Authoritarianism”: cup.org/47o2Pn5