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Published by Cambridge University Press. Edited by Emile Chabal, Siobhán Hearne, Michelle Lynn Kahn, and Nikolaos Papadogiannis. www.cambridge.org/core/journals/con…

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📣 New article online! 'A Battle for the Post-War Mind: Social Imaginaries of Brainwashing, Resilience and the Welfare Citizen in Sweden and Denmark, c. 1950–1970', by Rosanna Farbøl and Marie Cronqvist Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the Second World War, women were active and effective SOE agents. But are they mainly remembered today through their glamour and tragedy? In our latest New Voices blog, Danielle Wirsansky offers a more nuanced picture, dissecting why the phrase 'lady spy' is so limiting. ⬇️ tinyurl.com/5dfnyjz3
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Beyond the ‘Lady Spy’: Noor Inayat Khan, Violette Szabo, and the Making of SOE Agents « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
The phrase “lady spy” is hard to escape when writing about women of Britain’s Special Operations Executive. It appears in headlines, documentaries, book blurbs, and popular retellings of World War II....
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📣 Don't miss @jelenadj.bsky.social's recent article, 'Hay Mattresses, Mountaineers and the Kolo: The 1958 Commemoration of the Battle of Sutjeska and the Social Organisation of War Remembrance in Socialist Yugoslavia' Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📣 Don't miss @carorusterholz.bsky.social's recently published article, 'Race, Population and the Family Planning Association in Britain (1950s–1970s)' Read it #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Jelena Đureinović @jelenadj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What do the logistics, agency and organisation of the 1958 commemoration of the Battle of Sutjeska reveal about the social production of war remembrance in socialist Yugoslavia? Super excited about my new article in @conteurohistory.bsky.social and it’s open access: doi.org/10.1017/S096...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📣 New article online! 'Reframing Anti-Soviet Defiance: Albania, Romania and Global Circulations of Sovereignty (1960–1964)', by Idrit Idrizi and Bogdan Cristian Iacob. Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🏆 We're delighted to learn that @lewisedriver.bsky.social has been awarded an Honourable Mention by the SIHS Modern Italian History Article Prize Committee for his article, 'Rethinking Campanilismo', published by CEH in February 2025. Read Lewis's article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Rethinking Campanilismo: Community and Conflict in Fascist Arezzo, 1922–1928 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Rethinking Campanilismo: Community and Conflict in Fascist Arezzo, 1922–1928 - Volume 34 Issue 3
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📣 New article online! 'Prostitution and Moral Regulation in Spain, 1936–56: Institutional Control, Social Trajectories and Gendered Marginality', by Julio Prada Rodríguez Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨Final week to submit to the CEH Prize!
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
📣 New article online! 'Planning for the Neoliberal Transition: The Transnational Legacy of Private–Public Cooperation in the Cahora Bassa Dam', by Philipp Müller Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There’s still time to submit your work for the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize! Deadline is 11 September.
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
📣 New article online! 'A Periphery Looking for a Centre: Corporatist Networks in Spain during the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923–30)', by Nicola Cacciatore Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
✈️🇬🇧 Our latest New Voices blog is out! @tomkelsey.bsky.social compares and reflects on the ambitions, political economies and outcomes of two high-profile national projects in recent British history: Concorde and Brexit. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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Was Concorde Really the Flying Brexit? « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
The Anglo-French supersonic airliner, Concorde, is well known as a symbol of European collaboration. With its dubious economics, it is no surprise that Britain partly stayed in the project to ease its...
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Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Nine years ago, I called Concorde the “flying Brexit” in the @theguardian.com Looking back, I’m now struck by the differences, especially how Concorde was secretly cancelled, while Brexit certainly was not. See my blog for @conteurohistory.bsky.social New Voices: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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Was Concorde Really the Flying Brexit? « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
The Anglo-French supersonic airliner, Concorde, is well known as a symbol of European collaboration. With its dubious economics, it is no surprise that Britain partly stayed in the project to ease its...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
📣 New article online! 'Unequal Friendship: West Germany, the EEC and ASEAN in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s', by Pai-Li Liu Read #OpenAccess: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
⏰ Just under a month to go until the deadline closes for this year's CEH Prize!
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📣 New article online! 'Vanguard of Socialist Democracy: Democracy in Agricultural Cooperatives and Its Limits in Socialist Hungary', by Milán Pap Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
📣 New article online! 'Commerce and Conservatism: The Politics and Practice of Soviet Art Export', by Vera Otdelnova Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's here! After so many years! I wasn't entirely sure this book would really happen, until I opened the box. Now, perhaps, it's time to let go of it and see what others think..? Thanks to @harvardpress.bsky.social and everyone else who followed me in this journey.
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Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My new article 'Three Waves of Social Markets: The Ordoliberal Variety of Neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, 1972–97' is now available in @conteurohistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S096...
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Three Waves of Social Markets: The Ordoliberal Variety of Neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, 1972–97 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Three Waves of Social Markets: The Ordoliberal Variety of Neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, 1972–97 - Volume 35
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
📣 New article online! 'From Empire to Elsewhere: Eastern Galicia in the Viennese Press, 1918–20', by Hannah Riedler Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
📣 New article online! 'The Ukrainian Football Federation Declares Independence (1959–65)', by Yacov Zohn Muldoon Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
📣 New article online! 'The Visible Hand on the Land: Agricultural Planning in the United States and Switzerland in the Interwar Years', by Juri Auderset. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Visible Hand on the Land: Agricultural Planning in the United States and Switzerland in the Interwar Years | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
The Visible Hand on the Land: Agricultural Planning in the United States and Switzerland in the Interwar Years - Volume 35
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📣 Our latest New Voices blog is out! Tim Mansueto, @bristoluni.bsky.social, charts the history and expansion of asylums in Fascist Italy as sites of internment for political dissenters. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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The Pathologisation of Dissent in Fascist Italy, 1922-43 « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
Mussolini’s Blackshirts marched on Rome in 1922 and consolidated power by 1925-26, turning the country into the world’s first ‘totalitarian’ state. Political dissent was ruthlessly quashed – though af...
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Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Our latest digest has now been published: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... I am presenting Anna Dobrowolska’s prizewinning article on the history of nude activism in Poland in the 1980s and 1990s. @conteurohistory.bsky.social
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Contemporary European History digest, no. 3, January to June 2026 « News# « Cambridge Core Blog
In our third digest, we present our new managing editor; we highlight two recently published prize-winning articles on nude activists in communist Poland and the politics of transnational banking in t...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
📣 CEH's third digest is out now, featuring journal news, blog updates, prizewinners, and more! And our editors have again chosen an article from the last six months on which they've enjoyed working - read on to see their selections! [1/7] www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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Contemporary European History digest, no. 3, January to June 2026 « News# « Cambridge Core Blog
In our third digest, we present our new managing editor; we highlight two recently published prize-winning articles on nude activists in communist Poland and the politics of transnational banking in t...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🏆 A reminder that the CEH Prize is accepting submissions until 11 September 2026! Full details ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Contemporary European History Prize
A prize aimed at encouraging, recognizing and promoting high-quality research among postgraduate and early career historians.
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📣 New article online! 'The Grey Escape: Britons Retiring Overseas, c. 1980–2010', by Helen McCarthy | @historianhelen.bsky.social Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📣 New article online! 'Redemptive Recovery: The Ruhr, Reconstruction and Repatriation to Poland in the Early Post–Second World War Period', by Nikolas Weyland Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Ever dreamed of a sun-soaked retirement overseas? Plenty of older Britons chased that fantasy in the late 20th century as my new article in @conteurohistory.bsky.social reveals. But retirement migration was also a space of racialisation and postcolonial anxieties. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Grey Escape: Britons Retiring Overseas, c. 1980–2010 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
The Grey Escape: Britons Retiring Overseas, c. 1980–2010 - Volume 35
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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder
Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
📣 New article online! 'Forks in the ‘Mother Tongue’: UNESCO and the Transnational Renewal of Bilingual Education after 1945' by Diana Lemberg Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
📣 New article online! '‘Domesticating’ China Through Economics? The Logic of West Germany’s China Policy 1974–1990', by Lili Li Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Our article prize for PGRs and ECRs opens soon! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
📣 New article online! 'The International Political Thought of Luigi Sturzo in the United States', by Or Rosenboim Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Alison Carrol @alisoncarrol.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This will be followed by a 'Publishing in journals' workshop led by @eldrclaire.bsky.social & @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@frenchhistory.bsky.social @conteurohistory.bsky.social). All welcome! Full info here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Modern French History
Seminar
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
📣 New article online! 'Disillusionment in the Schlaraffenland: German Soldiers in the Occupied Channel Islands, 1940–1945', by Laura K. Noller Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
📣 New #OpenAccess article online! 'Claiming the Skies: The Politics and Practices of Diplomacy in Early Global Aviation', by Andreas Greiner www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Claiming the Skies: The Politics and Practices of Diplomacy in Early Global Aviation | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Claiming the Skies: The Politics and Practices of Diplomacy in Early Global Aviation - Volume 35
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
📣 Read now on Firstview! 'The Limits of Economic Liberalism under Thatcher: The Cases of Aerospace and Defence Procurement', by Tom Kelsey | @tomkelsey.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Limits of Economic Liberalism under Thatcher: The Cases of Aerospace and Defence Procurement | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
The Limits of Economic Liberalism under Thatcher: The Cases of Aerospace and Defence Procurement - Volume 35
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German Historical Institute Washington @ghiwashington.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
📑New publication, available now: Research Fellow Andreas Greiner's article "Claiming the Skies: The Politics and Practices of Diplomacy in Early Global Aviation," forthcoming in @conteurohistory.bsky.social
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Claiming the Skies: The Politics and Practices of Diplomacy in Early Global Aviation | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Claiming the Skies: The Politics and Practices of Diplomacy in Early Global Aviation - Volume 35
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
📣 New #OpenAccess article online! 'Unveiling Hidden Russophilia or Paradoxical Pragmatism? Slovak–Soviet Relations Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact', by Anton Hruboň www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Unveiling Hidden Russophilia or Paradoxical Pragmatism? Slovak–Soviet Relations Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Unveiling Hidden Russophilia or Paradoxical Pragmatism? Slovak–Soviet Relations Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact - Volume 35
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Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In my new article, ‘The Limits of Economic Liberalism under Thatcher: The Cases of Aerospace and Defence Procurement,’ published in @conteurohistory.bsky.social, I revisit these areas of policy using newly available state records.
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The Limits of Economic Liberalism under Thatcher: The Cases of Aerospace and Defence Procurement | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
The Limits of Economic Liberalism under Thatcher: The Cases of Aerospace and Defence Procurement - Volume 35
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Michele Di Donato @micdido.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
New article out on @conteurohistory.bsky.social: "The Left-Wing Case for Austerity: Planning and Consumption Restraint in 1970s Europe" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Left-Wing Case for Austerity: Planning and Consumption Restraint in 1970s Europe | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
The Left-Wing Case for Austerity: Planning and Consumption Restraint in 1970s Europe - Volume 35
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Very honored that my book is a finalist for the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize! The book is available open access, and you can download the PDF at the link in the comments. 👇
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2024 Book Prize Finalist Michelle Lynn Kahn | Waterloo Centre for German Studies | University of Waterloo
2024 Book Prize finalist
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
📣 New Voices returns with a blog from Clément Ferrier, @clementferrier.bsky.social Clément's blog explores Rexism and the reworking of fascism in interwar Belgium. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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Between Rome, Berlin and Brussels: Rexism and the Circulation of Fascist Models in Europe « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
On 10 July 1938, several thousand supporters of the Rexist movement gathered in the Flemish village of Lombeek-Notre-Dame, on the outskirts of Brussels. Uniformed activists marched in columns before t...
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Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Advertising 2 more positions (doc/postdoc) as part of BLOCKADE. PhD cand to examine the heroization of blockade runners in the era of the world wars; postdoc to explore the transatlantic dimension of blockades. 4 year positions in beautiful Freiburg. Please SHARE! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
That's it. I've checked the very last proofs of the book and it's now off to the printers. I hope it will reach Hobsbawm fans, Hobsbawm sceptics, and anyone curious about the intellectual life of the left in the 20th century! Publication: 18 Aug (US), 4 Sept (UK) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
📣 New article online! 'Far Right and HIV/AIDS in Italy (1980s–1990s)', by Marco Rovinello Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Annalisa Martin @annalisamartin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Just seeing this 6 months on, but very happy to see @michellelkahn.bsky.social 's words on my article in the CEH digest - and discovering so many new articles to read!
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Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Say hello to this fabulous group of Contemporary European Historians (by @conteurohistory.bsky.social )! Please follow all 👇 go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb
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