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Andy Willimott @andywillimott.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Full recording now available - CEREES Panel Discussion with Dmytro Kuleba, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Ukraine, Olesya Khromeychuk, Ukrainian Institute London, Philippe Sands KC, and Björn Berge, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_S1...

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Andy Willimott @andywillimott.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

CEREES Paper: Monday 28 April, 6pm "Between Sound and Silence: Arseny Avraamov’s Symphony of Sirens in Baku (1922)" by David Schwartz (McGill Uni) Orchestrating the sound of the October Revolution through the Soviet urban soundscape Registration essential! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-so...

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Between Sound and Silence: Avraamov’s Symphony of Sirens in Baku (1922)

A screening of Arseny Avraamov's 'Symphony of Sirens in Baku' (1922)

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Andy Willimott @andywillimott.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Our next CEREES Lecture – Monday 10 March, 18:00-20:00 – 'Geopolitical shifts in Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine' Speaker: Dr Bhavna Dave (SOAS). Registration essential! eventbrite.co.uk/e/central-as...

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Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine

Join us for the next CEREES public lecture, 'Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.'

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Andy Willimott @andywillimott.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

CEREES Lecture: "Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine" Speaker: Dr Bhavna Dave, Senior Lecturer in Politics of Central Asia at SOAS Monday 10 March, 2025, 6pm-8pm @QMHistory @QMUL_HSS www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/central-as...

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Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine

Join us for the next CEREES public lecture, 'Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.'

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Andy Willimott @andywillimott.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Paul Mason writes up his paper "Ukraine: The Endgame of Leninism?" Delivered to @qmul.ac.uk Centre for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CEREES) open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/u...

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Ukraine: The Endgame of Leninism?

As the tankies pile in with Musk and Trump, what theory is driving them?

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Andy Willimott @andywillimott.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Join us to discuss Ukraine, war, and the British Left 📅 Monday, 10 Feb 2025, 18:00 - 20:30 GMT 📷 Queen Mary University of London Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-britis... #CEREES

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The British Left and Ukraine

Join us in discussing the historical and contemporary political aspects of whether the UK Left still has a blind spot with regard to Ukraine

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Andy Willimott @andywillimott.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

CEREES Hybrid Event – The British Left and Ukraine – Monday 10 February, 18:00-20:30 – @QMUL Speakers: @paulmason.bsky.social (journalist) Christopher Ford (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign) Yuliya Yurchenko (Uni of Greenwich) Registration essential! projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/cerees/2024/...

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CEREES Panel – Centre for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies

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Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Today made a trip to Dunfermline, Fife, birthplace of the great Andrew Carnegie, a man to whom library-lovers owe an enormous debt of gratitude! #libraries

Cover of "The Man who Loved Libraries" by Andrew Larsen.

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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello Bluesky, I am a historian based in Ankara. A few months ago, Oxford University Press published my first book, which explores the way that Russian and Turkish revolutionaries arrived at a statist partnership as they responded to post-WWI liberal internationalism.

Book cover of "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford University Press, 2024).

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David Geiringer @davidgeiringer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My first #Delighted post on here! Delighted to receive a copy of @clairelanghamer.bsky.social’s expertly edited collection A Cultural History of Love. Includes my chapter on ‘Love and the Divine’ - featuring Virginia Woolf, the Beatles and Sun Myong Moon - and many other brilliant contributions!

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Andy Willimott @andywillimott.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

CEREES Event, QMUL - ‘The British Left and Ukraine’ Join us on Monday 10 February Speakers: Paul Mason (journalist - @paulmason.bsky.social); Christopher Ford (Ukrainian Solidarity); Yuliia Yurchenko (Greenwich) Registration essential: projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/cerees/2024/...

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Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Having spent many years behind the Readers’ Enquiry Desk in the British Museum’s famous round reading room, I would have to disagree. As Lenin said: “Let me tell you, there is no better library than the British Museum. Here there are fewer gaps in the collections than in any other library.”

"In the library" drawing by Nikolai Zhukov (1908 - 1973).
Portrait of V. I. Lenin consulting a book in a library.

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Andy Willimott @andywillimott.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

CEREES Event, QMUL - "New Directions in Ukrainian Film History" Join us on Monday 3 February We will launch a joint special issue of 'Culture of Ukraine (Kharkov)' and 'Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema'. Registration essential projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/cerees/2024/...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/12/2024

"For the past few yrs, Kingston Univ has been asking businesses what skills they need but currently aren’t finding in potential employees. Top ... are the ability to communicate, analyse, adapt, problem-solve & think creatively." (Telegraph) A recent @royalhistsoc.bsky.social briefing agrees 1/3 👇

Front cover of October 2024 Royal Historical Society briefing, 'The Value of History in UK Higher Education and Society'.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 09/12/2024

We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

9th Annual SEEES Online Dissertation Research Workshop March 6, 2025 9:00 am – 12:45 pm CT Register buff.ly/3VpoEg5 The Slavic Reference Service (SRS) with ASEEES invites doctoral students in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and affiliated disciplines to attend this annual event.

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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Wrote a blog about the collapse of the Barnier government and the political crisis. How to find a Goldlilocks government in a parliament of bears? awmsmith.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/5...

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5, 4, 3…. To gone

The logic of the Fifth Republic is stability, yet increasingly it is clear that this much-vaunted stability rests on the say-so of 289 Deputies in the Assembly. Whoever can build a winning majority…

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

100+ archives & library special collections accounts have now joined Bluesky! Welcome to @britrecs.bsky.social @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social @archives76.bsky.social & catch up with more new arrivals in our starter pack at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2

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Peripheral Histories? @peripheralhist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Our workshop on using archives and libraries in Eastern Europe & Eurasia is on 6 December 14:00-15:30 UK time. Join us to learn about conducting research in Central and Southeast Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, the Baltic States, the Caucasus & Central Asia. All welcome! forms.gle/hAC9jrrsdYbj...

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I thought I'd share some recent research for the new crowd. A few months ago my article on Soviet HIV-AIDS activism was published in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social. It examines the local/global entanglements of AIDS activism in Moscow and Riga in the twilight years of Soviet power tinyurl.com/3a7xdsp6

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 03/12/2024

Looking for radical histories on Bluesky? We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for. Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added. 🗃️ & ✊🗃️ go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV

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Radical Histories

Join the conversation

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 03/12/2024

Applications for the Royal Historical Society's Workshop Grants for 2025 are now invited. Grants offer £1,000 to enable a day-long project meeting for historians bit.ly/3Omeg4T The scheme supports a wide range of activities to promote networking and project development. Closing date 24 January.

Slide advertising the Royal Historical Society's RHS Workshop Grants for 2025. The grants support projects and networking by historians. Closing date: Friday 24 January 2025.

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Queen Mary University of London @qmul.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

We've created our first Starter Pack, collecting accounts from all our schools, faculties, institutes, research centres and departments. We'll keep adding to this list as our university Bluesky community grows. bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Mile End Institute @mileendinstitute.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🖋️NEW #MEIBlog🖋️ After the death of the former Deputy Prime Minister, #JohnPrescott, was announced this morning, @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social's Tony McNulty reflects on the gravitas, personal warmth and political nous of a #LabourParty giant. 🔗 www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/news-and...

John Prescott, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, visits the party conference on October 1, 1991 in Brighton, Sussex. Credit: David Fowler

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British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies @basees.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Join us at the ICCEES World Congress in London next summer! The deadline for submitting paper, panel, and roundtable proposals has been extended to midnight (GMT) on November 30, 2024. Remote attendance is also possible! Visit iccees2025.org for more details.

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Andy Willimott @andywillimott.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Tonight’s important CEREES Panel: “Political Prisoners in Russian and the Occupied Territories of Ukraine”. Despite security and tube issues, we drew a good in-person and online audience. Speakers:Judith Pallot, Bill Bowring, Valentina Chubarova, and Yevgeniy Zakharov @qmul.bsky.social

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Andy Willimott @andywillimott.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A wonderful gift from Masha Karp, who came to see us tonight at the Centre for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CEREES), Queen Mary University of London. @qmul.bsky.social

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 18/11/2024

Cambridge friends, a reminder that this event is coming up on Weds 20 Nov. All welcome!

Poster advertising talk by me in Cambridge UK, 5pm in Sidney Sussex College on 20 November

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 16/11/2024

historians arriving on Bluesky be like

abstract (potentially TOO abstract) Paul Klee + Bluesky visual joke

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Right, in an unsubtle attempt at enticing more colleagues on here: look at my lovely and brilliant colleagues at QMUL who are already on here! Give them a follow, for some truly inspirational research, #skystorians go.bsky.app/cpVJHE

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Jeremy Hicks @hicksjeremy22.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

'Imagining Central Asia on Film: Soviet Folklorisation of Cultural Identity.' 25.09 7pm. Kazakh scholar Assiya Issemberdiyeva (@QMUL_HSS ) on how WWII Soviet cinema portrayed Soviet Central Asia through 'folklorisation,' a pattern established for Ukraine: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-...

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Jeremy Hicks @hicksjeremy22.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

My review of Greg Carleton on Crimean war reporting in the Times Literary Supplement. Perhaps some parallels? Let's hope so in the case of Russia... www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

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Crimean Quagmire by Gregory Carleton | Book review | The TLS

In Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the birth of modern warfare, Gregory Carleton argues that the Crimean War (1854–6) “changed forever the face of

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Lisa A. Kirschenbaum @lakirsch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

By way of introduction: my most recent book "Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip"

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Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists | Russian and east European history

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