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Christopher Dillon

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Historian of Modern Germany at KCL

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
History Dept @ University of Texas Austin invites applications for a TT assistant professor, specializing in modern history of science, technology, & medicine. Committee will consider applicants who specialize in any scientific practice in any part of the world since 1600. Deadline Nov 30 #HPS
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The University of Texas at Austin - Assistant Professor (TT) – History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | H-Net
Preferred qualifications include research and teaching records that will complement one or more of the department’s strengths including: African History, Asian History, British History, Digital Humanities, Latin American History, U.S. History, and related fields.
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Tim Grady @tlgrady68.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A European athletics champion and also a BA History graduate. Dina Asher-Smith talked this morning about how her BA History degree has helped to power her running career. One for the graduate outcomes survey! (circa 2:30.00): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @royalhistsoc.org
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Today - 01/09/2026 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Also, if you are interested in other periods in Germany and are looking for a readable intro to the latest scholarship in the field check out these other titles including Weimar by @drcrdillon.bsky.social, West Germany by @juliasneeringer.bsky.social and the Reformation by @davidmluebke.bsky.social
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 11/08/2026
#ResearchCareer: Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme is a funding option for your next step in academia? Come and find out in our info talk on 31 August. No registration, the meeting link will be published here: 👉 www.dfg.de/en/research-...
Information sign with the words “Walter Benjamin Program” and dates:
Monday, 31 August 2026, 10 - 11:30 a.m. CEST
in English
And small Logo of the DFG Research Career Series PROSPECTS
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Geschichte und Gesellschaft @ggjournal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Unser neues #GG-Themenheft "Gender Regimes in History", herausgegeben von Christina von Hodenberg und Sylvia Walby, ist im #openaccess erschienen. Mit Beiträgen zur Gendergeschichte in DE, in GB, Schweden und Irland, in der EU und global. www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/cur...
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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️
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Alumni petition against the cuts to the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Any Exeter alumni who wish for their names to be added to the petition below should please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/SpdYvmmsCaJbmZft6. If you are not an alumnus, but still wis...
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
JOB (zur Promotion). Wer hat Lust zu uns nach Hamburg zu kommen und in ein tolles Team im Bereich Global- und Kolonialgeschichte / Afrika einzubringen. Please RT Ausschreibung hier 👇 www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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...
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PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships at King's College London
Discover a PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.
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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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
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IHR Modern German History Seminar @ihrgermanhistory.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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?
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Dr Anna McEwan @annamcewan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Hot off the press 🥳 "Always forwards, never backwards? The reinvention of the Democratic Women's League of German during German reunification, 1989-1990".
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Nina Kleinöder @nkleinoeder.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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...
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Business and Labour in German Colonialism. Volume 54, Issue 1 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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.
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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figur...
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German History Society @germanhistsoc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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/
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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"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....
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Special Issue: PROVINCIALISING WEIMAR CULTURE: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERWAR GERMANY A SPECIAL NUMBER: German Life and Letters: Vol 79, No 1
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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
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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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/
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York History Department - Academic Jobs
Uncover the past to define the future. We are seeking research-led historians to join our world-class, collaborative community. Discover career-defining opportunities within one of the UK’s most disti...
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Dr Claudia Kreklau @claudiakreklau.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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
The cover of the book shows a fork and spoon. Four QR codes lead to the free pdf, epub and kindle, as well as the hardback. President of the AHA Suzanne Marchand endorses the book.
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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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
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Winners of the SSFH Book Prize – SSFH
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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...
Front cover of a pamphlet with the title 'Aid for Spain', promoting the International Solidarity Fund. It includes an image of a food bowl being passed from one hand to another, with the ruins of a destroyed building in the background.
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David Edgerton @davidedgerton.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Great opportunities for fully-funded PhDs in history of science and/or technology in London, for candidates from anywhere in the world.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🌟 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
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Arts & Humanities Doctoral School launches new studentships programme | King's College London
Over 30 Doctoral studentship places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities at King’s.
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Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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
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King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We have a new Modern World History MA! www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
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King's launches new Modern World History MA | King's College London
A new Master’s degree by the Department of History is now open for applications.
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This will be a lovely event tomorrow! Come, all!
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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
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German History Society @germanhistsoc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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
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IHR Modern German History Seminar @ihrgermanhistory.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
📣 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
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Travelling exhibition - Finding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life - The Wiener Holocaust Library
This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of disabled British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 ‘euthanasia’ programme. It features previous unseen…
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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
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Donate Online Now – CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...
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Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner
Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.
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Sport in History @sportinhistory.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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...
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Learn about Sport in History
Learn about Sport in History aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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
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Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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.
Lecture title, speaker name, and lecture time/date/location info on a poster, all of which is available on the website for the event. QR code for the online registration for those interested attending via zoom.
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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!
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Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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German History Society @germanhistsoc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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...
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🎓 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...
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Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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...
Book cover for Jonah Garde's "Trans* Geschichten der Moderne
»Geschlechtsumwandlung« im 20. Jahrhundert und ihre kolonialen Geister." The figure of a ghostly apparition floats behind the text against a dark background.
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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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...
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Dr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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!
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Smart Cookies podcast @smartcookies.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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
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Oksana Dudko @oksanadudko.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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-...
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Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation On Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice
Abstract. This forum brings together six historians of Eastern Europe who discuss decolonizing approaches. In the aftermath of the Russian genocidal war, t
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Anoushka Alexander-Rose @anoushka-ar.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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
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German History Society @germanhistsoc.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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...
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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...
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Palestinian Scholarship
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IHR Modern German History Seminar @ihrgermanhistory.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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
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German History Society @germanhistsoc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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
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IHR Modern German History Seminar @ihrgermanhistory.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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
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Julia Eichenberg @jeichenberg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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
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Das Historische Museum in Bayreuth
Unsere Sammlung dokumentiert die Kultur- und Kunstgeschichte der Festspielstadt und ihrer Region vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart.
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James Mellor @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My cartoon from the current edition of Private Eye Magazine.
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