My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

The Department of History at the EUI is based at Villa Salviati, Fiesole (Italy). I’m delighted and honoured to be visiting fellow here for the next few weeks 📚📚📚

📣 #STEXEU is hiring an early-career researcher! The researcher will join the project team, led by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, and focus on historical research on authoritarianism, states of exception, and the crisis of democracy in #Germany in the years 1900-1939. 👉 ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu...

Wonderful Ljubljana 🎄❄️

Machtwechsel 1919 in #Kamerun : Der Fall Charles #Atangana macht Brüche & Kontinuitäten zwischen deutscher & französischer #Kolonialherrschaft sichtbar. Von Rebellionsangst & Loyalitätswechsel – der Abschlussbericht unseres Stipendiaten Christian Jacobs#Kamerun#Atangana

#CfP "Venice and fascism. Museums, exhibitions and the art market" 📌 #Conference in #Venice | 7 - 9 October 2026 | organised by @dhiroma.bsky.social and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social | exploring Venetian history, collections, artworks and more 📅 Deadline: 18 January 2026 🔗 dhi-roma.it/fileadmi...

Winter retreat in Slovenia 🩵❄️🏔️

Die PDFs von "Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe", Band 1-7: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Right now, @camilleriana.bsky.social is talking about firearms in the colony of Italian East Africa. #gunhistory #globarms #euguns #unipd #dissgea

🌹 😢 www.morgenpost.de/panorama/art...

📌 I am very much looking forward to this event, at which I will discuss some archival material from Addis Ababa concerning former native soldiers of the Italian colonial army and their requests for gun licences in the late 1930s 🔫

Bologna

Tomorrow and Friday, in Rome and online. www.biblhertz.it/events/43901...

„A sad fiasco“, my book on colonial concentration camps, has been released in paperback today. If you want to know what characterized these deadly institutions; whether colonial powers copied this technique from each other; and whether they are connected to later Nazi camps, consider taking a look.

Universität Erfurt

Lovely Erfurt tonight 🎄

Berlin 🍂

Today in Potsdam 🔫 Society for the History of War Conference 2025: Culture of War and Violence #COLVET @erc.europa.eu

📍 I'm very excited to be back in Erfurt soon! I love this workshop programme, and I have so much admiration for the people involved! 🙂 www.voluntariness.org/workshop-bet...

Rome stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🇪🇺

Addio Ornella Vanoni 💔 youtu.be/DC4xNSuBLWk?...

We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb. www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

👥 Associate Editors introductions: Rok Stergar As of this week we will be introducing each associate editor of the Journal with a post dedicated to them. This week we’re pleased to introduce Dr. Rok Stergar, a leading historian of the Habsburg Empire.

Today in Rome 😎

#ciakpolska Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma

Looking forward to speaking at the Institute of Historical Research Seminar in King's College London next Wednesday evening. I will present research from the @erc.europa.eu COLVET project. Open to all but pre-registration required to attend. Thanks to the organisers www.eventbrite.ie/e/colonial-v...

The yearbook of the GHI Rome Rome, rather austerely called Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, has published some of my thoughts on how to write European colonial history, moving away from national narratives. Here is some recommended reading for a rainy weekend 😁

🥂Eine freudige Nachricht! Unser Sammelband zum kolonialen Erbe der Stadt Hamburg ist nun auch als Open Access erhältlich und kann unter nachfolgender Adresse kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. 🥂 Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...

Un omaggio a un amico e maestro con affetto e gratitudine ☺️ www.viella.it/libro/979125...

I'm excited to see that @routledgehistory.bsky.social has published an expanded version of the special issue, 'The Cold War of Labour Migrants'. In it, my article, 'From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism' explores the global intellectual history of migrant activists in 1970s France.

I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

Tomorrow in Naples!

🧵 Poiché in Italia Jeffrey Sachs viene spesso presentato come una sorta di oracolo, un’autorità morale e scientifica, credo sia utile ricordare cosa pensi in realtà la comunità accademica internazionale dei suoi interventi nel dibattito pubblico. 1/5 fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/lettera-de...

🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word! www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...

These books come with me from Addis Ababa 😍

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A wonderful book now available in Open Access. It would be great for teaching too!

Bye bye Addis Ababa 🫶🏼

I have reviewed this book and recommend it to anynone interested in a truly global history of international relations (who can read Italian). It is highly regarded @fwwsjournal.bsky.social Missions Abyssines: L’Etiopia, la Grande Guerra e la Conferenza della pace www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QCGYS...

Happy 75th Birthday, Addis Ababa University! 🎉

Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...