PFAS are linked to cancer and contaminate our water and food - yet chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections to our health. Europe can still act. I just signed. Will you? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...

Le séminaire REPINE poursuit son exploration de l’influence sous toutes ses formes. 📅 Mardi 20 janvier (16–19h) : séance sur les controverses de l’influence numérique, avec Romain Badouard et Aleksandr Alymov. Participation à distance sur inscription : enseignements.ehess.fr/2025-2026/ue...

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Something to look forward to in the new year--in 2026, my book, Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service, will be published with Oxford University Press.

Last jam of the year. #rosehip

Read this cover to cover over the summer (a luxury I rarely allow myself) and finally had time to take notes. Main take-aways: 1. There is no equality without freedom and vice versa. They are not mutually exclusive, as liberalism would have us believe. www.penguin.co.uk/books/314162...

Car il est bien connu qu’à un moment Dreyfus est parti se dorer la pilule en toute quiétude pour se remettre de toutes ces émotions.

I read somewhere that the secret key to postwar British history is that in any incident, meeting, whatever, there’s a high chance that most participants are a bit tipsy and someone round the table is absolutely steaming drunk.

📆🚨 Nouvelle saison du séminaire "De Plus Grandes Guerres" à SciencesPo. Avec @tvaisset.bsky.social @camillemahe.bsky.social @daccoulon.bsky.social Claire Miot et Guillaume Piketty nous accueillerons des chercheuses et chercheurs pour parler alimentation, alcools, déchets, occupations, famines…

Call for papers: “Experiencing, reporting, recording civil wars, 1917-1949” University College Dublin (@ucddublin.bsky.social), 25-26 June 2025. Deadline: 13 February 2026. More info to come here: civil-wars.eu/workshops/ #CivilWar

V good piece - also exemplifies well a specific quality of historical research which AI doesn't do, namely pausing for thought

This Tuesday, December 16, from 3 to 6 pm Paris time, at the monthly REPINE seminar @ehess.fr, we will discuss practices of influence and #humanitarianism with two guest speakers, Francesca Piana and Sossie Kasbarian. All are welcome (online as well)! enseignements.ehess.fr/2025-2026/ue...

This Tuesday, December 16, from 3 to 6 pm Paris time, at the monthly REPINE seminar @ehess.fr, we will discuss practices of influence and #humanitarianism with two guest speakers, Francesca Piana and Sossie Kasbarian. All are welcome (online as well)! enseignements.ehess.fr/2025-2026/ue...

Amazing, the @dailymail.co.uk manages to publish an entire lengthy feature bewailing (!!!!) the exodus of Poles from Britain without once mentioning Brexit. Apparently this outcome (which is surely exactly what they campaigned for in 2016) is all the fault of Keir Starmer. mol.im/a/15379789

This is the desert of the real. The Wachowskis called it. But like Bernie says, no one wants this. Folks are organizing in amazing ways.

Tonight in Brussels, @dirkmoses.bsky.social gave a powerful talk on why separating war and genocide is an intellectual and legal aberration, followed by an illuminating discussion with the legendary Ilan Pappé, Pieter Lagrou, & others. One of those days when I’m so very proud to be part of the #ULB

The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore is holding a conference on the X-Files and 90s culture www.llti.lt/lt/renginiai...

Okay but who won the FIFA Prize in Physics

Puikus kolegos straipsnis. www.lrt.lt/naujienos/nu...

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

A good take on troubled Polish-German relations.

Thrilled to share our new open-access article, co-authored with Robin J. C. Adams, for @conteurohistory.bsky.social - this time focusing on #Poland in the aftermath of #WW1. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Positives - an amazing in-depth conversation on the writing and activist practice of the late David Graeber. Enormous thanks to @leninology.bsky.social + @lrb.co.uk for this. Negatives - I welled up at least 4 times during it. We lost an enormous, kind & astute mind. 💔 www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Rereading one of my all-time favorites.

Polish and German officials will meet in Berlin on December 1 for their latest round of intergovernmental consultations, the first since Friedrich Merz became Chancellor of Germany. READ MORE: tvpworld.com/90264440/ ✍️ by Marcin Zaborowski

Thrilled to share our new open-access article, co-authored with Robin J. C. Adams, for @conteurohistory.bsky.social - this time focusing on #Poland in the aftermath of #WW1. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We're looking for a new modern European colleague @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Preference for 1900-45. Details 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN091/t...

Job Klaxon: Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.

Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A reminder

Really enjoyed this episode on an important book!

RUTA stands in solidarity with the Latvian civil society, that is raising alarms and protesting against the concerning rise of global anti-gender and authoritarian politics fuelled by Russia's propaganda narratives

Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/

A book as smart and engaging as its title. @clairedederer.bsky.social reflects not just on polanskis, wagners, and other picassos, but also on ourselves, redemption, love, and more.

"Youth Protest in Serbia: And some thoughts for America." Serbia is a country without the rule of law, and its young people have been taking risks for the better part of a year in the hopes of creating a future where they can live normally in their own country. snyder.substack.com/p/youth-prot...

First time working at the National Archives in Kew, London, this week. So efficient, friendly, and brutalist. Really, can it get any better?

‘The Kremlin is threatening all of Europe. In other words, just because Putin is carrying out stunts in the Baltic does not mean that the alliance must necessarily focus its response there.’

New Historiographical Perspectives on Influence and Propaganda successfully steered through two major strikes in France and the waves of seasonal viruses. Many 🙏 to our panelists for the stimulating exchanges - it was wonderful to have you all in Brussels! calenda.org/1290551?lang...

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I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Check out Peter Gatrell, John Horne and my (I know, I know, how did that happen?) article on European civil wars and the dialectic of humanitarianism 1914-1949, + the entire special issue edited by @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwarth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you happen to be in Brussels on 16–17 September, join us at the ULB for the international conference “Influence and Propaganda: New Historiographical Perspectives” repine.hypotheses.org/1216

If you happen to be in Brussels on 16–17 September, join us at the ULB for the international conference “Influence and Propaganda: New Historiographical Perspectives” repine.hypotheses.org/1216

Still in Oxford, but my first farewells will be at the Old Boys School, as today the Faculty of History moves out of this building. It’s been a real privilege to spend two years here - with great people - in what was once Lawrence of Arabia’s high school.

Good news!

CFP: Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026 Application deadline: 30.11.2025 URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

today I am loving the UN Geneva Archives platform which hosts the complete League of Nations archives, digitised, entirely free some archive digitisation programs are very clunky & hard to use, this is immaculate & has an incredibly user friendly interface + excellent metadata

I don’t understand why Trump insists on the Nobel Peace Prize specifically. He is just as qualified to claim the one for literature.

“A single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to ‘financially ruin’ the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.” 🎻🎻🎻