Questions After Quantico www.thebulwark.com/p/questions-...

On 1 October, We host Dr Nicola Martin from @uhihistory.bsky.social who will discuss: “The British Army and interpretations of the Laws of War in the eighteenth century” Details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/instit... #Skystorians #EarlyModern #17thC #MilHist #LAW @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social

GEN (Ret.) @markhertling.bsky.social is consistently thoughtful and measured in his comments. We need to pay attention to Quantico this week. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

We are hiring new PhD students! Projects can focus on any topics of relevance to pol sci or peace and conflict studies, and the positions are fully funded. Happy to answer any questions from potential applicants! www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Nu är man en stolt akademisk storasyster igen! 😻🥳

“To those men and women in Russia who have truths to share and the courage to share them, I invite you to contact MI6” … through the service’s new dark web portal.

Bumping this up again. Deadline for applications is October 3rd.

www.sydsvenskan.se/2025-09-16/s... kolla in vad berättarministeriet (och min syster) gör för barns språk och läsglädje i utsatta områden.

Welcome to our next IMH research seminar on 17 September. Ody Dwicahyo, PhD student (University of Leiden), will discuss "Rationalizing War in Early Modern Indonesia: Insights from the Javanese Court of Mataram, 1680s–1708 www.linkedin.com/posts/instit... #Skystorians #EarlyModern

For Nordic-speaking #skystorians: Spennende postdoktor i historie om jødisk liv i Norge etter andre verdenskrig! www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

The Hamburg team (Professor Alan Kramer) of our @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant BLOCKADE is looking for a FOUR YEAR PostDoc to work on blockade as 'slow violence' in the Great War-era Middle East. Please share! www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Lubyanka, FSB/KGB headquarters, Moscow. Reputed as the tallest building in Moscow due to the ability to see Siberia from the basement.

Fun discourse related fact - curries have been a part of British cuisine for longer than the USA has been a country.

Interested in contested public history? Fulbright-Queen’s University Belfast award now available for an MA in Public History at Queen’s University Belfast. Apply now! @ncph.bsky.social @@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social us.fulbrightonline.org/countries/eu...

We look forward to welcoming you to our next International Military History Seminar Leyla Belle Drake (Uppsala University) discusses “The 1967 Betrand Russell International War Crimes Tribunal” Date: 03 September Time: 15:00 CET email [email protected] @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social #Skystorians

He’s wrong about everything, and thinks he’s right about everything. Hard to tell which is worse. The war will end when Russia decides no longer to fight. The US could make that happen with a few simple policies. Instead the Trump administration offers ridiculous analysis and pathetic excuses.

Our PhD student @martinaberggren.bsky.social gave no less than 3x presentations at the 31st Nordic History Congress in Iceland this week on the theme of Human-Animal relations. www.linkedin.com/posts/instit... #MilitaryAnimals #AnimalHistory #MilHist #Skystorians @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social

We were delighted that our PhD student, Christian Kjellsson represented us at the 31st Nordic Historical Congress in Iceland. Question: “Where does the boundary between humanitarian aid / military support lie?” Case study: Swedish support to the national movements in Southern Africa #Skystorians

A guess about a point Putin and Trump agreed on: that Putin won’t release the files about Russia’s campaigns to support Trump in 2016 and 2020 so long as Trump continues to aid Russia’s war.

"Drick ert vatten barn. Tänk på barnen i Stockholm."

Setting the hypocrisy aside briefly, the prose makes me think that the author was marked down in a humanities course as an undergraduate for something like 'your style is giving 1850s plantation owner' and rather than taking the advice they nurtured a lifelong resentment. bsky.app/profile/matt...

Ute och forskar.

Seminar Alert! Prof Heather Salter @northeasternu.bsky.social presents: The Chill Before the Cold War: The Noulens Affair & the Global Struggle Between Communism & Anti-Communism in the Interwar Period Date: 13 August Time: 15:00 CET @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social DM for ZOOM #Skystorians

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

As a trained historian: do not use AI to help you do anything.

I regret to inform you that with well funded universal healthcare, Germany is awash in woo woo wellness and antivaxxers. Here the health insurance system has to cover homeopathy to keep seniors from bankrupting themselves by paying privately.

Sometimes swear words are just right

We seek a committed & dynamic feminist to join the existing team as a new book review editor @genderandjustice.bsky.social Details: ✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST ✳️Informal enquiries: [email protected] ✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j... @lexnetwork.bsky.social

Delighted to see our IMH colleague, Dr Fredrika Larsson ( @ikapika.bsky.social) working hard in July, and in Prague to! Thanks for representing both IMH and @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social at this conference Fredrika!

Had the pleasure to present my research on Swedish Veterans Memory Politics at MSA in Prague. Got interesting questions and comments. If I’m allowed it humblebrag I was called ”one of the worldleading experts on murals” by one of my fellow panelists! @mhafhs.bsky.social

Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.

Whose royal monogram is this? Fresh from the ground of the former Warsaw ghetto. Help us us, internet!

The IMH International Seminar Series is back in August 2025. The full list of confirmed speakers is on the link here: www.linkedin.com/posts/instit... @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social @svenskhistoria.bsky.social @flatpacksweden.bsky.social @rusi.bsky.social #Skystorians #MilHist 🗃️

In Wolfenbüttel, if anyone wonders.

IMH PhD student Christian Kjellsson spoke at The Historical Association of South Africa Conference on “Sweden, neutrality & support to the national movements FRELIMO (Mozambique) & MPLA (Angola) 1964–1975 Field trip: Battle of Magersfontein 1899, Scandinavian fallen @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social

This is officially my out of office reply.

Three years ago today, Trump's far-right Supreme Court majority ended Americans' federal right to abortion under Roe v. Wade. Since then, over 100 women have been denied emergency abortion care. Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, was one of them. Today, share her story. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC WEB CHILD project. 2,5ys. Aarhus, Denmark. Well paid. Amazing team. You don't need a PhD in history or prior knowledge of digital methods 😄 You do need fluent Korean and English and interest in collaborative work. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

Happy Midsumer from Bonnie!

Storks at my family’s farm. Photo by Pappa Larsson

🚨 Time is running out! 🚨 Get your abstracts in for SHoW 2025! Deadline: 30 June All details below!

IMH's @nataliesmith.bsky.social gave a paper on assimilation strategies for Roma and Sámi people in #18thC Sweden at the @insuhi.bsky.social REMRA conference. Themes included religious conversion, placing Roma children in state care and military service @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social

IMH's @profmurdoch.bsky.social presented a Keynote lecture at the UHI REMRA conference today. Looking forward to IMHs next speaker on day two (12 June) by @nataliesmith.bsky.social on Swedish assimilation strategies for Roma and Sámi people in the #18thC @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social

Ska poliser, läkare och civilingenjörer läsa historia och skönlitteratur som del i sin utbildning? Kan studier inom humaniora till och med behövas för att uppfylla fastslagna lärandemål? Nu släpps Humtanks nya rapport som behandlar ämnet. Ladda ner och läs den nu. humtank.se/ny-rapport-f...

Welcome to the archives.

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

The 24th Annual Conference of the Euro-Atlantic Conflict Studies Working Group, Moldova 2025. IMH's Lt Col Per Eliasson talked on "Russia-Sweden's eternal enemy? Impacts on Swedish support abroad". Case study: The Finnish Winter War 1939-1940 @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social #Skystorians #svhist

Every night one must bark at dangers of the night so they don’t come near. It’s cats. The dangers are cats.

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