PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships- King's College London - Department of War Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD022/p...

Have housemaids staged a comeback? Join us next Thursday for the final lecture in our Spring Series! 📅 Nicole Kramer (Universität zu Köln) will give a talk on 'The Return of the Maidservant? The Hidden History of Long-Term Care for Older People' at Pushkin House (with Zoom option). 1/4

Please join us for the 2026 GHIL-IHR spring lecture: The Return of the Maidservant? The Hidden History of Long-Term Care for Older People Nicole Kramer (Cologne) Abstract: Have housemaids staged a comeback?

Hot off the press 🥳 "Always forwards, never backwards? The reinvention of the Democratic Women's League of German during German reunification, 1989-1990".

Want to know more about current research on the German colonial Empire? Check out our new Special Issue on Labour and Business in german Colonialism. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

RIP Jurgen Habermas - one of the five major social theorists of the past 60 years. Much to learn from his work. Many gaps, some errors, but he was so rigorous that he inspired some of the best simultaneously dissenting and generative thought of any postwar academic.

The German History Society is proud to release the call for papers for our 2026 Annual Conference, held this year at the University of Stirling! The deadline for papers is the 14 April 2026. For more information check our website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/conference/

"Provincialising Weimar Culture" is out! @nwbaer.bsky.social, Britta Schilling and I edited a special issue for German Life and Letters on "local and global perspectives on interwar Germany": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680483....

LEGAL ENTANGLEMENTS: Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989 by Sebastian Gehrig @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social is now available in paperback! Find out more here: bit.ly/45GNX2l Review from @choicereviews.bsky.social #History

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

It is out, everyone! 🎉 My book "The Making of Modern Eating" is out with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social and the @ghiwashington.bsky.social! The digital versions are free—so download, share and enjoy! 📚 @thegsa.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social

Talitha Ilacqua has won the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize for her book *Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the French Nation-State* (MUP, 2024). Congratulations!! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/prizes/winne... @manchesterup.bsky.social @frenchhistory.bsky.social

The Spanish Civil War through contemporary eyes Faced with a fascist coup and polarising conflict, an international aid effort was launched - our digitised collection on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9, contains 4,000+ archive sources freely available Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Great opportunities for fully-funded PhDs in history of science and/or technology in London, for candidates from anywhere in the world.

🌟 We have launched a suite of new doctoral studentships through our new Doctoral School 🌟 Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities. More details and how to apply 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu... @komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social

I would like to re-up this as there are 4 more weeks to hand in an application for this PhD position on the "hunger blockade" @uni-freiburg.de

We have a new Modern World History MA! www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

This will be a lovely event tomorrow! Come, all!

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Episode 4 of 'Glimpses of German History' is now LIVE! In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India. Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA

We very much look forward to this year's seminar papers! Please join us @ihr.bsky.social for the Modern German History research seminar 2025-26. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... For this year's programme, please see below

📣 Launching next week! This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 euthanasia programme, featuring previously unseen materials from Schloss Hartheim memorial and The Wiener Holocaust Library

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe cst.org.uk/donate-now

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

Welcome to the Bluesky page for the Sport in History journal, the official journal of @bssh.bsky.social that covers all eras & contexts of sports history. If you want to find out more about the journal or submit a piece, please check our website: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsi...

We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Lecture Series! 📣 We're kicking off our lecture programme on 21 October with a lecture by Benno Gammerl (European University Institute) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?'! 📅 1/3

UBC Queer and Trans German Studies is hosting Andrea Rottmann (FU Berlin) as the next Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies! The event will take place in person at UBC as well as online. We would be grateful if you could pass the announcement on to your networks.

Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!

There's just over two weeks left to register for #GermanHistSoc2025 !! On our website you'll also find accommodation and dinner registration links so check it out soon! www.germanhistorysoc...

🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's. Read more👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

It is out! @jonahgarde.bsky.social's magnificent and field-defining book. A good way to support this fab project and amazing scholar is to acquire the book for your personal or institutional library. You'll notice it is also available open access. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

We're hiring for two 12-month lecturing jobs at King's History --- History of political thought, especially focusing on Indian & anticolonial perspectives: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... & early American history: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

CfP: Queer Lives & Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures, an online conference that I have co-organized with Cedar Lensing-Sharp! Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2025! Keynotes from @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @jonahgarde.bsky.social & Camilla Smith!

Did the GREAT CRASH of 1929 really propel HITLER into power?? Historian of the Third Reich, Dr. @drcrdillon.bsky.social from King's College London clarifies once and for all🎙️ 👇🏻 YT: youtu.be/W9zlZjtrWM8 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3vwsz3S... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... #ww2

So happy that our piece with @ankahajkova.bsky.social—"Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation on Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice"—is finally out in @historyworkshop.org.uk academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

The Wandering Jew is going up north! The travelling exhibition will be on display at HCN 12th May - 30th June, launched with a conversation on the Holocaust context of the legend and origins of 'Der ewige Jude' @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social

Check out our website now for the CFP and details of how to send us your abstract! We're excited to be heading to @lborouniversity.bsky.social, and welcome papers on ALL periods and topics relating to the history of the German speaking world www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/04/18/g...

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Join us for IHR@Sheffield! Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War" The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm. Save the date, more details to follow

The GHS has numerous funding opportunities and awards available throughout the year for PGRs and ECRs. The deadline for some of them is fast approaching! Check out the following 🧵 for more details: 1/6

We have two events coming up next week! Isabella Löhr's lecture "The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s" (25 Mar, GHI London, 5:30pm) and Tim Grady's talk on "Travelling as a Culture of Reconciliation: Britain, Germany and the Enemy War Dead" (26 Mar, IHR London, 5:30pm) Sign-up below

Heute Abend eröffnen wir im Historischen Museum Bayreuth die von Studierenden aus Bayreuth und Wuppertal erarbeitete Ausstellung "Leben im Umbruch" zu den Anfangsjahren der Weimarer Republik! www.historisches-museum-bayreuth.de

My cartoon from the current edition of Private Eye Magazine.

Fancy studying for a fully funded PhD? Of course, you do! We’re currently advertising a studentship in ‘war, commemoration & international relations’ in collaboration with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Drop me a line & we can discuss different approaches: www.chester.ac.uk/study/resear...

🚨History job in the Department of History at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Research Fellowship ‘Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953’ 🗃️ 👇👇👇 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Some good academic news: My colleagues Olena Palko, Börries Kuzmany, and I have signed a contract to edit a Handbook of Ukrainian History for Oxford University Press - to my knowledge the first major academic handbook of Ukrainian history in any language. Looking forward to a challenging task!

With my thanks to @ankahajkova.bsky.social for reminding me: today, 6 January 2025, is the 82nd anniversary of the murder of Liddy Bacroff in the concentration camp at Mauthausen. Bacroff was an extraordinary transgender woman whose fate was the result of Nazi persecution. 1/

I am using this book for my Twentieth Century Europe class again this semester. And as I am prepping it and my assignments, its breadth and depth of primary sources documents showing how fascism grew in many different European countries is amazing. Thanks to all the chapter authors!

Two popular ideas about academic research. Either in a white coat, looking down a microscope, or at the top of library steps lost in thought poring over an ancient hardback. Reality. Blinking at a screen, trying to come up with a decent string of words to search for a missing PDF.