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Gwen Jones

@gwenyth.bsky.social
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Archival researcher, editor. Favourite pasttime: learning languages. Part-time collector of martial arts maxims: be like the fan on the wall gwenjones.de

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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The mighty Sarajevo Inn in Grunewald is no more. Even Vučko has gone. So sad. What happened to the lovely people who ran it, I wonder, and where are they now?
Wooden gate to a Bosnian restaurant in Berlin, now closed
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A selection of anonymous public editing work on BSW election posters in Berlin. Translations in alt text
Photo of 3 BSW candidates with graffiti "Putin Knecht" (Putin Lackey), Wagenknecht's name edited to "Putin Knecht" (Putin Lackey)
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We are all ten years younger now
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Welsh entries in the OED: boys bach, now in a minute, and twpsyn (or twp for short) which means not very bright
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#AICouldNever www.youtube.com/watch?v=d108...
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John Coltrane – Alabama (1963) | A Historic Performance
YouTube video by Dan's Jazz Journey
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yassin al-Haj Saleh: "There is something intellectually and morally fossilized in Western tankies — American ones in particular — connected to their inverted imperialism: their subordination of every struggle to one enormous struggle they imagine themselves to be waging."
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's the translators I feel sorry for. Translating János Kádár is like translating Trump or indeed any elderly statesman high on his own supply and averse to the rules of grammar. The opera dramatised Kádár's last speech but sadly without arias or full orchestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VaQ...
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Kádár (leg)utolsó beszéde
YouTube video by Magyar Állami Operaház | Hungarian State Opera
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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David Lynch as Gordon Cole: Cranked Up to the Max!
Alt: David Lynch as FBI chief Gordon Cole: Cranked Up to the Max!
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Attn samizdat fans: hybrid conference 28-29 January 2027 at Blinken OSA Archivum, Budapest. Submit your abstract by 27 September this year archivum.org/news/cfp-con...
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Cfp: Conference “Uncensored Literature Across Borders”
“Uncensored Literature Across Borders” Transnational Exchange, Text Migration and Archival Practices during the Cold War
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026
I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures
Supplemento al dizionario italiano, by Bruno Munari, a white paperback with a photo of a hand giving the classic Italian finger-purse “Che vuoi” hand gesture
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Battle of Algiers debuted 60 years ago this August. I wrote a historian's guide to the now classic film. Read it here:
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A Historian's Guide to The Battle of Algiers
Pontecorvo and Saadi Yacef's now-classic film debuted 60 years ago this August. Here's everything you need to know about it.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
C21 version of "gullible isn't in the dictionary"
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Krsto Lazarević @krstorevic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ratko Mladić ist tot. Kein Grund zur Trauer. Gedenken sollten wir den Menschen, die auf seinen Befehl ermordet, vertrieben und gefoltert wurden. Er selbst verdient nur Verachtung. Möge er ewig in der Hölle verroten. www.zdfheute.de/politik/ausl...
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Mladic: Ex-bosnisch-serbischer Armeechef und Kriegsverbrecher tot
Der frühere bosnisch-serbische Armeechef Ratko Mladic ist tot. Wegen Kriegsverbrechen war er zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt worden.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Big B
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
On the 58th anniversary, I have an article in Slovak on the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia and the reactions of Western CPs (but no gift link yet) www.tyzden.sk/spolocnost/1...
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Dilemy východných aj západných komunistov po invázii
V roku 1968 päť krajín Varšavskej zmluvy na čele so Sovietskym zväzom napadlo Československo. Surovo tým ukončili Pražskú jar, Dubčekov pokus o reformu socializmu.
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Live stream of the partial solar eclipse from the Royal Observatory on this link of the Royal Museums Greenwich: youtube.com/live/ngUPAl-... Starting in about an hour 🙌
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Partial solar eclipse live stream, 12 August 2026 | Quiet feed | Live from the Royal Observatory
YouTube video by Royal Museums Greenwich
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
#InternationalCatDay here is my rescue cat Bobby. You can tell she's a she because she has three colours. Over the past five years she slowly came out of her shell. She has very soft fur and doesn't talk much. No interest in middle-class cat food. Hobbies include running really fast and staring.
Three-coloured cat sitting on a kitchen table staring at you
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Anyone in or travelling to Budapest soon should go see the renovated Carmelite monastery in the Buda Castle district where Orbán had his personal offices. The guided tour is free and lasts around one hour. It is in Hungarian. szabadkarmelita.jegy.hu/dates/tickets/
szabadkarmelita.jegy.hu
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Mark E Smith The Fall Band
Alt: Mark E Smith from The Fall singing into a microphone
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Saw this headline while five chapters into re-reading Leonardo Padura's brilliant novel The Man Who Loved Dogs. Trotsky is currently exiled in Istanbul while his friends are all being shot or turned against him in order to stamp out the bloody tentacles of his movement (which barely exists)
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
82 years ago: Signals Corps in Maastricht coordinating the Normandy Landings, arrested for speaking some Dutch at the barbers (show-off) because polyglot in British army uniform obvs = German spy. Before that school teacher in Jamaica, Library of Congress clerk, bilingual BBC Radio Wales announcer
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Another recent translation. Quite a to-and-fro between the US and Germany over these files. Glad they are absorbed into the Bundesarchiv and not sidelined. Now they are freely searchable too www.zeit.de/wissenschaft...
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SA and SS personnel files: What these documents reveal about the Nazi perpetrators
For decades, there has been a struggle over the SS and SA personnel files, which DIE ZEIT has now published. Why they are important – and why they belong to the public.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A very recent translation of mine. I plan to use this search engine on a regular basis. The hierarchy fetish is something else. Minutiae of gradations www.zeit.de/wissenschaft...
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Nazi Files: Search for family members in the SA and SS personnel files
The SA and SS murdered in the name of Nazi ideology. For the first time, DIE ZEIT digitised hundreds of thousands of files: search CVs, letters, and character references.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Half pondering what other wordy types listen to (or not) while working. As I translate a humongous database of SA and SS ranks and terminology plus contextual essays I enjoy Brahms Piano Concerto no. 1 and NWA, Straight Outta Compton.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
At the Stasi museum in Berlin there’s a secret police surveillance photo of “undesirable elements” in the late 80s at an outdoor gig, one of whom has a mullet and a tattoo of Bonnie Tyler’s face on his shoulderblade
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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 09/07/2026
📢 VISEGRAD SCHOLARSHIP AT OSA – NEW CALL! How do we name and understand reality in a rapidly changing world? Join the 2026/27 Visegrad Scholarship and explore "Naming Reality" through archives, media, documentary practices, and culture. 📅 Deadline: 25 July 2026
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“Let history open its arms. Let the world bear witness to this moment. Let glory be etched for ever into eternity. I do not call you Leo, I call you history itself!” Don’t care for the footie at all but this is very attractive www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘You’re history itself!’: how Arab World Cup commentators fuel fans’ passions
Arabic’s rich history of poetry lends itself well to ‘beautiful commentary that … sounds like a love letter to football’
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
writing about tankies and listening to - who else? - Scott Walker, The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime) www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zg...
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Scott Walker The Old Man`s Back Again
YouTube video by Kassiber
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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Carlo Ginzburg (1939–2026). The Cheese and the Worms about the beliefs and thoughts of the 16th century Italian miller, Domenico Scandella aka Menocchio is one of the most fascinating non-fiction books I've ever read.
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E' morto a 87 anni lo storico Carlo Ginzburg: il teorico della microstoria
È stato una delle figure più influenti del Novecento, ha cambiato il modo di guardare al passato attraverso le vicende di persone comuni e delle culture locali
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"Everyone used the system to pay out their own clients. Orbán’s Fidesz merely enlarged it to industrial scale, centralized it, and poured its own distinctive, foul-smelling ideological sauce over it." by Sándor Jászberényi fieldnotesfromtheworldonfire.substack.com/p/no-steel-w...
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No Steel Will Flow Here. Fuck-All Will.
Thoughts on the Past and Future of Hungarian Cultural Funding
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
For #WorldOceansDay today, stunning colour lithographs from William Saville-Kent's The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893), created from the author's original watercolour sketches: publicdomainreview.org/collection/i...
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Three years ago, russia destroyed the Kakhovka Dam. The flood badly damaged Polina Raiko’s painted house in occupied Oleshky. She began painting at 69 and turned her home into art. The video shows a reconstruction of the house, created for the Ukraine WOW exhibition.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
One of the most surprising findings was the prevalence of Slovak-language pro-Kremlin propaganda in Czechia, and Moldovans who all hated Péter Magyar. Conclusion: Russia used old botnets but didn't bother to change the profiles
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned 

I can summarize that for you
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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Ver sur Mer, France Cornflowers - 📷 26.05.2026 #elevensestime
Blue cornflowers.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Monday 1 June, in English, in-person and online: "At the event, researchers will present, for the first time, findings that analyze the coordinated dissemination of Russian narratives in the V4 countries regarding the war in Ukraine." www.uni-corvinus.hu/post/event/r...
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Russian disinformation in the Visegrad region: results of a comparative study - Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem
At the event, researchers will present, for the first time, findings that analyze the coordinated dissemination of Russian narratives in the V4 countries regarding the war in Ukraine.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And bring back the cafe near Blaha where you could get "értelmiséggi reggeli" i.e. intellectuals' breakfast: double espresso, a copy of the left-wing daily (d. 2016) and two cigarettes www.change.org/p/bring-the-...
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Sign the Petition
Bring the Central European University back to Budapest
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atlatszo.hu @atlatszo.hu · 15/05/2026
Videóinterjúnkban ifjúsági Tisza-sziget tagok kampányát követtük, és tapasztalataikról kérdeztünk Tolna megyei és debreceni fiatalokat. 👉 atlatszo.hu/orszagszerte... #Debrecen #fiatalok #kampány #TiszaPárt #Tolna
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Martin Adam @martinadam.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Ein großer Fehler, der zeigt, dass der Wert deutsch-polnischen Zusammenrückens immer noch nicht erkannt wird. Als könnte man den Erfolg von einem Projekt wie dem Kulturzug in Euro und Złoty messen. www.rbb24.de/content/rbb/...
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Kulturzug Berlin-Wrocław steht vor dem Aus
Musik, Kunst, Sprach- und Kulturaustausch: All das bietet der Kulturzug zwischen der deutschen Hauptstadt und der niederschlesischen Metropole Wrocław. Doch der Zug ist wirtschaftlich nicht mehr renta...
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Péter Magyar gives the world a tour of the luxurious and top secret propaganda ministry built at great public expense. The irony is that Pete is now so much better at political comms than Fidesz hvg.hu/itthon/20260...
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Videó: Magyar Péter megmutatta, milyen luxusból irányította Rogán Antal a gyűlöletpropagandát
A Karmelita is megdöbbentő, de azt gondolom, ez magáért beszél – mondta a miniszterelnök a Miniszterelnöki Kabinetiroda 2025-ben átadott épületéről.
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Last week I left my bag in a black cab. Assumed it was lost forever. Moments before I passed through security at Heathrow, the cabby—who’d identified me by my books—contacted me on Twitter. An hour later, bag in hand, I was ready to fly. He asked for a poem. Here you are, Gary Vidgeon!
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This latest video from Hungary shows in excruciating detail what was basically a feudal system of rewards and punishments in Fidesz-run villages. I assume the subtitles sort of work www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNnn...
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Besokalltak a falvakban a Fidesztől. Miért?
YouTube video by Partizán
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Includes numerous folding techniques
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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Political scientists' accounts of how they do 'historical' research will always remind me of Monty Python's How to Play the Flute sketch www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1sM...
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Monty Python - How To Play the Flute
YouTube video by Diego Ferri
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Will be fascinating to read forthcoming Hungarian receptions of Biedermann's much-lauded saga of C20 Hungarian history, now out in Hungarian translation. I'm over halfway through and in two minds. Bodice ripping and wrong Holocaust chronology 3/10. The rest is fun konyvesmagazin.hu/kritika/neli...
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Milyen egy magyar arisztokrata család hanyatlása egy fiatal svájci író szemével? - Nelio Biedermann sikerkönyvéről - Könyves magazin
Nelio Biedermann Lázár című regény kritika, egy magyar arisztokrata család hanyatlásának története.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A charming #Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog, made of faience, dating ca 1900 BC, from Thebes, #Egypt. The Egyptians associated hedgehogs with rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺
Close-up of a hedgehog figurine. It is glazed in a bright blue, its eyes are black. The glaze is chipped in many places but remains mostly intact.
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
For the day that’s in it, one of the scariest photos I know. Слонова нога or the Elephant’s Foot, which formed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, a deadly mass made of molten concrete, sand, steel, uranium, and zirconium. Image by Valentin Obodzinsky.
Artur Korneyev's photo of the Elephant's Foot, 1996. His movements under a slow shutter speed likely caused his flashlight to look like lightning.
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"Punk had a genuine impact on the faraway towns like Northampton, where Bauhaus emerged. It was a new filter and turned us into dancing medieval jesters or flamboyant second-hand clothes-wearing punchbags for the retro thugs and Tetley Bittermen to assault."
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Gwen Jones @gwenyth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
So where are all the Reform supporters then? Zero visible support in Ceredigion and North Pembs, both of which are plastered with Plaid posters. Perhaps Reform voters are ashamed round these parts, it's unlikely they are just being polite
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