Only 38 pages in, and I’m hooked. (And absolutely do not sense the origins of modern conflicts within these pages…/s) Upcoming course is “The Global War” and I’m thrilled to be learning more about the ‘fringes’ of WWII. (Aka, what isn’t taught in US schools)

Neuerscheinung: "Das gelebte Europa!" Ich freue mich übermäßig, dass dieses von Florian Greiner und mir herausgegebene Themenheft heute erschienen ist - mit fünf großartigen Beiträgen, von Abolitionskampagnen über Wein und Versicherungen bis hin zu faschistischen Netzwerken und Siedlerkolonien...

A fantastic discussion of 'Islam and Nazi Germany's War' in Mehdi Falahati's show (in Persian; from min. 24), with the brilliant @arashtehran.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUP...

A fantastic discussion of 'Islam and Nazi Germany's War' in Mehdi Falahati's show (in Persian; from min. 24), with the brilliant @arashtehran.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUP...

Looking forward to speaking about GLOBALIZING EUROPE today at the University of Warwick - all welcome! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... via @post-doc-club.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @dacretu.bsky.social @purseigle.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking about GLOBALIZING EUROPE today at the University of Warwick - all welcome! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... via @post-doc-club.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @dacretu.bsky.social @purseigle.bsky.social

I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social

Islam is part of European history https://www.byteseu.com/1555420/ Edwin Lord Weeks’s Interior of the Mosque at Córdoba (1880). Image by Bridgeman Images In 1993, Prince Charles, now King Charles III, gave a spectacular speech at the University of Oxford, entitled “Islam and the West”, …

Today, the popular view prevails that Muslims have never been part of European history. It is an environment in which populist right-wing polemics critical of Muslim migration can reach a receptive a mass audience. By David Motadel www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Feed: "New Statesman" By: David Motadel on Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Islam is part of European history www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social

How can European history be integrated into global history? This is the question at the heart of „Globalizing Europe“ edited by @davidmotadel.bsky.social. Here is my review.

A fantastic new review of GLOBALIZING EUROPE by Jonas Kreienbaum (@kreienbaumj.bsky.social): www.hsozkult.de/publicationr... via @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @hsozkult.bsky.social

A fantastic new review of GLOBALIZING EUROPE by Jonas Kreienbaum (@kreienbaumj.bsky.social): www.hsozkult.de/publicationr... via @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @hsozkult.bsky.social

In der heutigen Wochenendausgabe von Haaretz: Mein Artikel über den indischen Unabhängigkeitsführer Subhas Chandra Bose und seine neue Anhängerschaft in der hindu-nationalistischen Bewegung, mit Einschätzungen von David Motadel und Anita Bose Pfaff.

dlf Tag für Tag mit einem hörenswerten Interview mit David Motadel www.deutschlandfunk.de/tag-fuer-tag...

Very much looking forward to the EUROPE AFTER DECOLONISATION conference in Konstanz this week! A fantastic line-up.

Very much looking forward to the EUROPE AFTER DECOLONISATION conference in Konstanz this week! A fantastic line-up.

Greatly looking forward to a research seminar on GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY, tomorrow, 7 October, at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Campus du Solbosch, Room NA 4 302, funded by Royal Academy of Belgium. All welcome! @universitypress.cambridge.org

Greatly looking forward to a research seminar on GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY, tomorrow, 7 October, at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Campus du Solbosch, Room NA 4 302, funded by Royal Academy of Belgium. All welcome! @universitypress.cambridge.org

Oxford and Cambridge have been knocked out of the top three in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide’s ranking for the first time

What a great way to celebrate the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE. Many thanks, Cambridge University Press bookshop! @universitypress.cambridge.org @lsehy.bsky.social

What a great way to celebrate the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE. Many thanks, Cambridge University Press bookshop! @universitypress.cambridge.org @lsehy.bsky.social

On Tuesday 3 June we hosted our book launch event "Globalizing Europe: A History". The book was edited by Dr David Motadel (who also chaired the event). We saw much rigorous discussion! View the event recording here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa... #events #history #LSE #Globalization #europe

Delighted to chair today's launch of Matt Myers' fantastic THE HALTED MARCH OF THE EUROPEAN LEFT: THE WORKING CLASS IN BRTAIN, FRANCE, AND ITALY, 1968–1989 (OUP), Thursday, 5 June, 5:30pm, Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre (CBG.1.01), Central Building, LSE. Please join!

Delighted to chair today's launch of Matt Myers' fantastic THE HALTED MARCH OF THE EUROPEAN LEFT: THE WORKING CLASS IN BRTAIN, FRANCE, AND ITALY, 1968–1989 (OUP), Thursday, 5 June, 5:30pm, Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre (CBG.1.01), Central Building, LSE. Please join!

TONIGHT - don't miss this exciting panel discussion we are hosting in-person and via Zoom... Full details and registration here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa... #events #history #europe #LSE

This afternoon! bsky.app/profile/davi...

This afternoon! bsky.app/profile/davi...

TODAY:

Please join us this Tuesday, 3 June, 5-7pm, for the book launch of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY, with Sir Richard J. Evans, Maxine Berg, Richard Drayton, Abigail Green, Jan Rüger, and me, at MAR.2.04, Marshall Building, LSE: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

Please join us this Tuesday, 3 June, 5-7pm, for the book launch of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY, with Sir Richard J. Evans, Maxine Berg, Richard Drayton, Abigail Green, Jan Rüger, and me, at MAR.2.04, Marshall Building, LSE: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

Next Tuesday 3 June we are hosting a panel of world leading historians who will be speaking on the newly released book "Globalizing Europe: A History" (edited by our own Dr David Motadel, who is set to chair the event). Full details: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa... #events #history #europe #LSE

Last Thursday, we hosted our evening event "Unconquered States: Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age". It was great to see such a strong turn out! #events #LSE #history #books #empire #Colonialism

Please join us this Thursday, 22 May, 6:30-8pm, for the book launch of UNCONQUERED STATES: NON-EUROPEAN POWERS IN THE IMPERIAL AGE, David Armitage, Richard Drayton, Ron Po, Chika Tonooka, and me, at Alumni Theatre, Cheng King Ku Building (CKK), LSE: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

Please join us this Thursday, 22 May, 6:30-8pm, for the book launch of UNCONQUERED STATES: NON-EUROPEAN POWERS IN THE IMPERIAL AGE, David Armitage, Richard Drayton, Ron Po, Chika Tonooka, and me, at Alumni Theatre, Cheng King Ku Building (CKK), LSE: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

On 3 June we are hosting a panel of world leading historians who will be speaking on the newly released book "Globalizing Europe: A History" (edited by our own Dr David Motadel, who is set to chair the event). Full events details here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa... #event #LSE

In this incisive Long Read, @ferenclaczo.bsky.social critically engages with Globalizing Europe, edited by David Motadel (@cambridgeup.bsky.social, 2025). Laczó highlights the volume’s intellectual ambition and scholarly range, while probing its limitations. ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/stu...

Don’t forget! On 22 May, we host our panel event ‘Unconquered States: Non-European States in the Imperial Age’. Full event details: www.lse.ac.uk/.../Unconque.... Registration: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS... #empire #colonialism #History #events #LSE #Harvard #KCL #cambridge

Islam and Nazi Germany's War. By @davidmotadel.bsky.social #glykoreads

💡 Quand les bouleversements s’accumulent, la certitude d’être à un point d’inflexion historique devient générale. Au regard des événements actuels, est-ce vraiment le cas ? L’historien britannique David Motadel interroge dans The Guardian l’incertitude historique qui s’ouvre devant nous.

New (March 2025): Globalizing Europe: A History – Edited by David Motadel | Cambridge University Press | More information can be found here: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Check out my new article: SOVIET AND US INVOLVEMENT IN THE COLONIAL WORLD, 1939-1945, published in ‘The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives’, ed. by R. Lawlor and A. Buchanan (Cornell University Press): muse.jhu.edu/pub/255/edit... via @lsehy.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social

Dr David Motadel has contributed a chapter to ‘The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives’ (Cornell University Press). His work is entitled ‘Soviet and US Involvement in the Colonial World, 1939-1945’: muse.jhu.edu/pub/255/edit... Book Link: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

One of our alumni, Harry McGuire, has had their thesis published in the Historical Journal (Cambridge University Press): "British Military Bands, Propaganda, and Diplomacy, 1872–1918". Harry was supervised by Dr David Motadel. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Check out my new article: SOVIET AND US INVOLVEMENT IN THE COLONIAL WORLD, 1939-1945, published in ‘The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives’, ed. by R. Lawlor and A. Buchanan (Cornell University Press): muse.jhu.edu/pub/255/edit... via @lsehy.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social

Just arrived…

Athlete #Owens had to go by the servants entrance of the White House at the time after returning from Berlin (Trumpland at the time). The then president didn't recognise his black performance at the Olympics. He focussed on white suprematist performance.

Nearly 8 years old...but worth reposting..."The United States was never immune to fascism. Not then, not now" - The Guardian. One of the very first articles on this question... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com