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Christian Goeschel

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Professor of Modern European History at the University of Manchester. www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hedinger-mue… yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300254730/…

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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I bought this edited volume online and did not expect the dedication to the Doktorvater of my distinguished Doktorvater.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Those in the CDU flirting with the far-right AfD might want to read up on the fate of the Centre Party.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
30 years ago. youtube.com/watch?v=79vs...
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Goldhagen Debatte Goldhagen unter Deutschen 1/6
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 01/10/2026
"Wer schweigt, wenn die Demokratie angegriffen wird, hat sich schon für eine Seite entschieden."
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/09/2026
Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts. Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Solidarity with all our striking colleagues at Edinburgh facing down a managerial massacre of courses and jobs. An injury to them is absolutely and inevitably an injury to us all. This is not going to stop here.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some German political commentators on the right are paving the way for an AfD regime with their primitive and polemical lumping together of Die Linke and the AfD.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A surprisingly disappointing and turgid read.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saw a solid performance of Ein Deutsches Requiem last night in Manchester. Odd that quite a few in the audience decided to stand up and leave in the most intimate moments. Would good old Johannes Brahms spin his grave?
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Internationales Auschwitz Komitee @auschwitz.info · 24/09/2026
Heidenau: AfD und CDU wollen Stolpersteine aus dem öffentlichen Raum verbannen und das Gedenken auf den Friedhof verlagern. Ein durchsichtiger und schäbiger Versuch, die Opfer der Nazis erneut aus der Stadt hinauszuwerfen. Dass CDU-Abgeordnete der AfD dafür die Hand reichen, ist ein Skandal.
Drei Stolpersteine im dunklen Straßenpflaster erinnern an Alice David, Hedwig Eppstein und Paul Maximilian Eppstein. Auf den Steinen liegen rote Rosen. Alice David wurde 1942 durch Verfolgung und Entrechtung in den Tod getrieben. Hedwig Eppstein wurde nach Theresienstadt deportiert und 1944 in Auschwitz ermordet. Paul Maximilian Eppstein wurde nach Theresienstadt deportiert und dort 1944 ermordet. Foto: KGS für IAK Berlin.

https://www.auschwitz.info/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/presseinfo-einzeln/lesen/ein-schaebiger-angriff-auf-die-erinnerung-auschwitz-komitee-verurteilt-stolperstein-antrag.html
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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Call for chapters: "The Aesthetics of Modern Monarchies: c. 1842-1952" @livsmitch.bsky.social and I are inviting chapter proposals for a volume on the ways that global 'modern monarchies' (defined broadly) self-presented and were presented through visual culture. Full details below - please share!
Call for Chapters: The Aesthetics of Modern Monarchies: c. 1842-1952 (This volume is being
proposed as a submission to the Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy series at Palgrave
MacMillan)
This is an invitation for proposals for chapters for an innovative, forthcoming collection on the
connected aesthetic histories of rulers, royalty, monarchs and consorts. In 1842, the French king
Louis-Philippe I was the first reigning monarch to be photographed, with the British Prince Albert
photographed in the same year. Over a century after these first royal photographs, the aesthetics of
modern monarchies now had to contend with the advent of televisual media, which covered
moments of triumph as much as of weakness. The referendum on Belgian king Leopold III’s rule in
1950 and his abdication the following year was widely covered by the international media; just a year
later, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realms was the first monarch
to have their coronation ceremony fully broadcast on television.
Between these two moments of mediatised royal presentation, this was a period of seismic change
for royalty and rulers across the world who were subject to expanding and diminishing empires, the
threat of revolutions and nationalism, the fall of dynasties as well as the ongoing impact of wars,
trade and politics. Visual culture, including but certainly not limited to photography and televisual
media, became increasingly integral to the image of monarchy as the rise of new technologies and
communications shaped the way rulers were presented and could present themselves to broad
audiences, domestically and globally. This collection will assess varied forms of visual culture
during this transitional period, exploring the ways that royalty could be defined and redefined as well
as connected on a global scale.The editors define ‘modern monarchies’ for this collection as including absolute or constitutional
monarchs, members of royal families, emperors/empresses, deposed monarchs,
ceremonial/puppet monarchs and consorts. Studies of non-European royals are particularly
welcomed. This excludes histories of recent remembrance of these royals. Chapter proposals must
contain a visual component to this study inclusive of but not limited to:
• Photographs
• Paintings/drawings/illustrations
• Prints (including newspaper print)
• Caricatures
• Clothing
• Loot
• Architecture
• Coinage
• Cinema/television
• Theatre/pantomime
• Posters
• Medals/jewels
Studies on royals are inclusive but not limited to:
• Displays of gender
• Politics and authority
• Resistance and revolution
• Charity and humanitarianism
• Nationalism
• Colonialism and empire
• Religion
• Race and racism
• Succession, coronation, and
abdication
• Scandal and public image
• Domesticity
• Modernity
• Class/poverty
Please send detailed chapter proposals of 350 words and a 100-word biography to Dr Olivia Mitchell
and Dr Will Clement at aestheticsmonarchy@gmail.com with the header ‘Aesthetics of Modern
Monarchies’ by 1 October 2026. Informal enquiries may also be sent to the editors at this address.
Contributors will be notified of the outcome by 1 December 2026 with full chapters of 8,000-10,000
words due from accepted proposals by summer 2027.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dr Döpfner, the boss of Axel Springer with some pro-Trump views, has been humiliated by the despot's decision to ban Politico from the White House. When will Dr Döpfner react and how?
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Talking on the phone on speaker on a train reveals that the person doing it lacks basic manners.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Allen, die nach dem AfD-Wahlsieg ratlos sind, empfehle ich die Lektüre des Briefs von Joseph Roth an Benno Reifenberg vom 9. August 1932.
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Bernhard Blumenau @bblumenau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
With Russia intensifying its hybrid campaign against Europe and Friedrich Merz facing mounting domestic pressures, particularly from the pro-Russian AfD, the question of what role Germany will play in shaping Europe's future remains a crucial one.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Do journalistic clichés (‘seismic’) really help in this dire situation? www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
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Friedrich Merz is now on borrowed time. But that’s not why the AfD’s triumph is seismic | Jörg Lau
The anti-fascist consensus about our Nazi past is fundamental to German democracy. But that, shockingly, is being shattered, says Jörg Lau, an international correspondent for the German weekly Die Zei...
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Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Perhaps we should bear in mind this morning that the AfD is the equivalent of the Reform party here, which only a few weeks ago was topping the polls. The AfD is obviously fully supported by Moscow, but it is also encouraged by Trump's Washington, which we appease.
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John Kampfner @johnkampfner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A week ahead of elections in Saxony-Anhalt
politico.eu
Germany is poised to enter one of its most dangerous moments yet
What happens in Saxony-Anhalt on Sept. 6 will affect all of Germany, Europe and the wider world.
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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935" - great (and sadly posthumous) book by our inspirational and much-missed colleague Philippa Hetherington @cornellupress.bsky.social cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Circulating Subjects by Philippa Hetherington | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Circulating Subjects investigates the migration of women abroad for sex work from the 1880s through the 1930s, which Russian feminists, liberal jurists, and imperial bureaucrats worked together to def...
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
13 August is a day to commemorate the families, friends, and people torn apart by the Berlin Wall constructed by the SED regime in the GDR on this day in 1961.
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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Excellent from @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social (as usual) zeteo.uk/p/the-jason-...
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The Jason Arday Affair and the 'Oprahfication' of Antiracism
Culture warriors blame 'woke' Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policies for the scandal surrounding the Cambridge professor. The real problem is that EDI has been rendered symbolic and superficial.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
mainichi.jp/english/arti...
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Full text of Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 81st anniversary of atomic bombing - The Mainichi
NAGASAKI -- The following is the full text of the Nagasaki Peace Declaration read on Aug. 9 by Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki at a ceremony to mark 81 ye
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today, on the anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, it is time to reflect on peace and disarmament.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
31 July, a dark day in German history. On this day in 1932, the Nazi party won the Reichstag elections, gaining 37.3 % and 230 seats. The election campaign was the most violent one in modern German history to date.
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
a dispatch from yesterday’s slightly bizarre day in Albert sq as.ft.com/r/39686fc3-0...
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Number 10 North is no ‘gimmick’, says Andy Burnham
Prime minister remains insistent that new Manchester office sends a more important signal to rest of the country
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Tongue in cheek? @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is an excellent initiative on book burnings in Nazi Germany.
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Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️
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Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) at The University of Manchester
Apply now for the Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Daniel Siemens @danielsiemens.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What is happening to the humanities at British universities? Here is my report, published in today's FAZ:
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A picture of my professorial inaugural lecture at the University of Manchester last night.
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Was gerade in UK an den Universitäten passiert (aktuell: Exeter) fasst mein Kollege @jheathershaw.bsky.social hier in einem Thread zusammen. Solidarität aus Deutschland!!
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What, if any, Brexit benefits are there ten years since the referendum?
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Italy is on its sixth PM since 2016. Britain will soon be having its seventh PM since 2016.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A classic article by Christopher Hill. Def. worth rereading in the current geopolitical context.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Lieber @spiegel.de Sind Sie sicher, dass Scurati eine Mussolini-Biografie geschrieben hat, wie Ihr Titel andeutet? Scuratis Bücher zum Duce sind eindeutig Romane.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
We knew GBNews is obsessed with immigration. We didn’t know that the obsession extends to the Jews who fled the Nazis in the 1930s - and that we should be wary even of their grandchildren app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73892/...
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The GB News obsession with immigration even extends to antisemitic tropes, and no one is stopping it
One presenter invited her followers to be wary of the grandchild of Jewish émigrés
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Makerfield result is extraordinary: A swing back to governing party in a by-election is exceptional. Winning absolute majority of the vote in a seat with Reform friendly demographics is exceptional. Doing both on an increased turnout when your party is polling under 20% is truly exceptional
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
73 years ago: www.bpb.de/themen/deuts...
bpb.de
Der Aufstand des 17. Juni 1953 | bpb.de
Dieses Online-Dossier gibt einen Überblick über Vorgeschichte, Verlauf und Folgen des Aufstandes vom 17. Juni 1953 - mit interaktiven Karten, Fotos, Interviews sowie Ton- und Filmdokumenten.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Schade. Hoffe, wenigstens die FAZ bleibt in Frankfurt. www.spiegel.de/kultur/liter...
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S. Fischer Verlage ziehen nach Berlin
Kreative und wirtschaftliche Bündelung in der Hauptstadt: Die S. Fischer Verlage ziehen von Frankfurt nach Berlin um. Einzelne Abteilungen bleiben aber am alten Standort.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Handy.
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How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts
Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My department is hiring: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
jobs.manchester.ac.uk
Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Why do ppl on very busy German trains always block adjacent free seats with bags and then get stroppy when asked to move the bags so that one can sit?
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Jenny Günther @jennyguenther.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Woop!🎙️ @drgoeschel.bsky.social & Daniel Hedinger über „München 38" @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social – was drei Tage im September 1938 über unsere Gegenwart sagen. Und @arnesemsrott.bsky.social über „Gegenmacht" (Droemer) wie die Zivilgesellschaft zurückschlägt. podcaste97de5.podigee.io/358-m-nchen-...
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München 38 und die Gegenmacht
Woop! Woop! Heute habe ich gleich drei Gäste – und zwei Bücher, die unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnten und doch beide dieselbe Frage stellen: Was tun wir, wenn die Demokratie unter Druck gerät? Zuers...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A truly disgusting speech that disgraces the sacrifice made by the Allied soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy to defeat fascism.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/06/2026
1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
pnas.org
The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles | PNAS
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/06/2026
This is an enormously important point. The scope and values of any scholarly field are self-defined by those who practice it. If we grant corporate interests the legitimacy to establish these definitions, it is obvious that they will define a field such that their tools surpass human ingenuity.
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Relieved to see more coverage of the grip Nous is getting on #UKHE. Thanks @privateeyenews.bsky.social! A million pound @cardiffucu.bsky.social alone. That’s a lot of money for the very same PowerPoint…
Scrap merchants. Australian management consultancy Nous, which promises to help universities define the pathway forward for budget model change, has been picking up plenty of lucrative work in the struggling UK higher education sector this year. Having been involved in controversial restructurings at Australian and Canadian universities, Eye 1659 notes last year that the company was one of several being paid thousands of pounds for management advice by de Montfort University (which has its own business school chock full of people who teach postgraduate-level management). Since thenNous is known to have advised the university of Edinburgh on academic efficiency opportunities, carried out a portfolio review at QMUL and been involved in the hunt for savings atpartsmoith, Plymouth, and Derby universities. Information released by Cardiff university, in response to a freedom of information request from UCU revealed the university has paid more than £1 million to Nous in the last couple of years much of it for transformationsupport
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I love you, my students, who write genuinely awkward, human essays. That’s the whole point. We try.
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Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This debate seems very provincial and divorced from what current historians of fascism actually do. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Faschismus-Debatte: Nachtwey und Amlinger antworten auf Reemtsma
Die Frage nach dem Faschismus ist mehr als nur eine akademische. Sie entscheidet darüber, wie demokratische Gesellschaften auf rechte Gewalt reagieren. Eine Erwiderung auf Jan Philipp Reemtsma.
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