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Holger Nehring

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Contemporary historian #ColdWar #diplomacy

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13h
Die WELT unterscheidet jetzt offenbar zwischen «ethnokultureller Gemeinschaft» (supi und verfassungskonform) und «Volksgemeinschaft» (irgendwie anrüchig, zumindest für den Moment noch), und das ist doch mal wirklich hilfreich, vor allem für die AfD
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Nordisch.info @nordischinfo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Herbstregen und trotzdem Dürre: Yorkshire im Norden Englands ist offiziell zum Dürregebiet erklärt worden. In Flüssen und Wasserspeichern zeigen sich noch immer die Folgen des trockenen Frühjahrs und Sommers. www.nordisch.info/panorama/tro...
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Trotz Herbstregen: Yorkshire zum Dürregebiet erklärt
Yorkshire im Norden Englands ist trotz jüngster Regenfälle offiziell zum Dürregebiet erklärt worden. Die Umweltbehörde Environment Agency begründet den Schritt vom 9. Oktober mit niedrigen Wasserständ...
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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Applied History Fellowship would suit a historian of interwar international relations. And you get to hang out with the FCDO Historians, who are super-lovely people.
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Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There will be many appreciations of Chris Wickham - as a historian and as a human being. This is a good starting place. www.medievalists.net/2026/10/chri...
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Chris Wickham, Leading Historian of Medieval Europe, Passes Away - Medievalists.net
Chris Wickham, one of the most influential historians of medieval Europe, has passed away. His research transformed how scholars understand the transition from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages, whi...
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Very sad news
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'Wer einmal Kommunist war, den verfolgt die gesittete Gesellschaft bis zum Lebensende.' (Herbert Wehner).
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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Browsing in a bookshop earlier and idly noticing that their three-and-a-bit shelves of the world wars include 19 books by five authors, one of whom has seven titles and two who have three each. 40-odd authors total, and I think seven of them women.
Shelves of books at a bookshop
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"It isn’t point scoring that has delayed care reform, but disagreements on how to find the money and what to spend it on... What’s been missing is a leader willing to lead." I look at 20 years of failed adult care reform - and what Labour's proposals could miss By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social
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Death tax, dementia tax, no tax at all: Why England hasn’t fixed social care
Fifteen years after Dilnot called adult care "not fit for purpose", reform still hasn't come. As Andy Burnham and Louise Casey try again, Chaminda Jayanetti traces three decades of false starts.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'According to analysis by social mobility charity the Sutton Trust, those who were eligible for free school meals (FSM) earn 55 per cent more than non-graduates from a similar background. In contrast, graduates who aren’t from an FSM background earn only 43 per cent more.'
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Disadvantaged ‘gain more from degrees’ than better-off peers
Social mobility charity urges universities to double down on access efforts after releasing new analysis showing benefits of higher education
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very good thread. The warm words of 'we would welcome you back' should not be taken as more than an indication of general good will. The UK would need to make this a strategic priority and put substantial FCDO and other resources behind it.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pretty much all of this
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Remembering Barbara Castle (1910-2002), born on this day in Chesterfield, raised in Pontefract and Bradford. MP for Blackburn. Held several cabinet roles under Harold Wilson and is the only woman to have been First Secretary of State. Painting by Ruskin Spear (Walker Art Gallery).
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Anna Victoria @annavictoria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Es ist eine wahnsinnig dramatische Lage beim grössten Trinkwasserspeicher Europas"
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Rekordtiefer Pegelstand am Bodensee: Die dramatischen Bilder
Der Untersee ist so tief gesunken wie noch nie seit Beginn der Messungen. Wo sonst Wasser steht, liegen Kiesbänke und Schlickflächen frei. Eine Entspannung ist nicht in Sicht.
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Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Vor drei Tagen in der FAZ, seit heute auch online: Mein Artikel zur Skandalisierung des Begriffs „Siedlerkolonialismus“ in Bezug auf Israel, die sich gerade wieder in der Kritik an der Berufung von Maha El Hissy zeigt www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
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Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hear me out... the bigger story is the doubling of votes for the Left Party in Berlin, not the entirely predictable rise of the AFD in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a really fascinating data-thread for politics nerds
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Man muss auch betonen was für ein schlechtes Ergebnis das ist für die Grünen in Berlin. Möglicherweise das schlechteste Ergebnis seit 20 Jahren. Es zeigt wie stark die Grünen in progressiven Milieus Vertrauen verlieren gerade. Man verspielt die Position die man eigentlich hätte.
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Swedish election results
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Private healthcare in the NHS, July 1952 - from Richard Crossman's diaries. It turns out that a friend of his arranged for his dying wife Zita to be transferred to Westminster Hospital on the understanding that Crossman would pay for private healthcare - which came as a surprise to RC.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026
Saudi Arabia could face the biggest threat to its existence ever. With oil exports shuttered and no money coming in, it will be forced to sell treasuries for liquidity which the US will oppose because it will cause yields to spike. Thus, they could be pushed into a balance of payments crisis.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026
A lot of people really have no idea what's coming with the energy crisis in the coming months. A lot of the crisis from the start of the war were postponed but those tricks can no longer work. We're about to see the worst energy crisis in 50 years.
Screenshot of an X post by The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) reporting breaking news about Saudi oil exports.
The post reads:
"BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has informed its European customers that late-September crude oil cargoes will be cancelled, due to the East-West pipeline being shut after last week's attacks and Yemen's Houthis taking over the entire Red Sea coast, per three sources to Reuters.
Yanbu had five to seven days of crude stocks left for export when the East-West line went down, per industry sources on Saturday, and cancelling late-September cargoes means Riyadh does not expect the line back before they run out. Europe has been taking Saudi crude through Yanbu because Hormuz has been closed since spring. On top of the pipeline, the Houthis appear to have struck the YASREF refinery at that same port this morning."
The post is dated 10:20 AM · Sep 15, 2026, with 155.9K views.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What this post really crystallised for me is the extent to which the different global conflicts are merging around key chokepoints around the Med, Red Sea, Caspian Sea and Indian Ocean. Global trade has shown remarkable resillience but it gets to the point where there are too many chokepoints.
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Total chaos happening is still an underpriced scenario. My worry is: we are continuing with the same policies, yet fundamentally different packaging. That makes it more difficult to spot the problems.
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Stuart Lock @stulock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I don't think they know what they are announcing, which is the main reason I suspect an early election might be up - because I cannot see them doing any of this without total chaos.
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The future of Sheffield's school children can only be ensured at Forgemasters or up the road at McLaren!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The whole point of the baseline assessment in Year One is precisely to provide a baseline to actually judge 'is this school improving outcomes' versus 'does this school just have a lot of kids who were doing well at aged five and they haven't messed it up by age 11'.
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Schöne Rezension und subtiler Verriss der (wohl völlig überschätzten) Ausstellung der Bayeux-St(r)ickerei im Britischen Museum. Man wünscht sich, die Regierung widmete sich mit ähnlichen Ressourcen der Geschichte des Mittelalters. zeitung.faz.net/data/949/rea...
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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A colour block social media card promoting the 2026-27 round of Global Innovation Fellowships: The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The most annoying claim is that the 'protests' about small boats are happening because politicians are 'ignoring' voters. The government has spent an enormous (and arguably disproportionate) amount of time on the issue and made a huge impact. It is the politicians who are being ignored.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I am even less optimistic than you are, because I don't think the notion of "deal that fits the UK" has been communicated. In particular the services - movement link.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And in a surprise to no one, Hendrik Wüst begins to take centre stage in German politics in a style that is almost...Burnhamesque
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As with so many responses in the UK towards Farage over the years, the responses to the AfD you get on this site and on more liberal and left-coded spaces of discourse frequently generates a level of panic that engenders the kind of fatalism and paralysis that plays into the Far Right's hands
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Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As the political landscape in Turkey moves increasingly away from political representation towards elite pacts, the media landscape is simultaneously transforming into a series of pillarised platforms for manufacturing consent.
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Poole is the centre of the RNLI; an organisation of those who risk their lives to go out and save others from the sea, not for pay, but for duty and civic goodness. The RNLI is one of the very best things that the UK has ever done. Targeting its centre is abominable and seen as such.
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg @stabihh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Schatz im Sozialkaufhaus - Buch von 1594 entdeckt „Es schlummerte verborgen in einer Bücherspende für das Sozialkaufhaus in Flörsheim: Der wertvolle Druck eines Rechtsbuchs aus dem Jahr 1594, geschrieben auf Latein. Nun wurde das Buch an die Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin übergeben.“
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Wertvolles Buch von 1594 in Sozialkaufhaus aufgetaucht - Rückgabe an Staatsbibliothek in Berlin
Es schlummerte verborgen in einer Bücherspende für das Sozialkaufhaus in Flörsheim: Der wertvolle Druck eines Rechtsbuchs aus dem Jahr 1594, geschrieben auf Latein. Nun wurde das Buch an die Staatsbib...
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 14/09/2025
Today I learned Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA. How did this impact the women's lib movement if one of its leaders was on the payroll of the patriarchy? uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/feminis...
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The Feminist Was a Spy
Steinem was an energetic global representative.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, one of the leaders of second-wave feminism and a feminist thought leader for generations, has died at the age of 92.
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Gloria Steinem, who pushed for gender equality, dies at 92
Steinem was the founder of Ms. Magazine and a tireless champion for the feminist movement.
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a classic there...though quite pricey.
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sad news - the German-American historian Konrad Jarausch has died aged 85 while swimming. RIP.
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Longniddry, east of E'burgh.
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
At the beach, just after a torrential rain shower. I suspect it was a saintly presence that let us off rather lightly...
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Key point in this: if estimated GDP reduction of 6-8% didn't cause UK to immediately reverse Brexit, hard to see why Canada would bow down to US over an increase in Canada’s average US tariff of 1.9% and permanent reduction of GDP of 0.2%.
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Loads of bats chasing insects in the garden tonight. Amazing.
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 27/08/2026
Here's an Iran War consequence I hadn't thought of, at all: Invasive species clinging to idling oil tankers.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New poll from Deltapoll: Lab 30% (+1) Reform 27% (=) Con 20% (-1) Green 8% (=) Lib Dem 8% (=) Fieldwork: 21st - 24th August 2026 Sample: 2,022 GB Adults First time Lab have been at 30% since Jan 2025.
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is an excellent must read.
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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yes, councils built 130,000 houses pa in the 70s, but they had their own construction workforce, architects, planners, lawyers etc. Thatcher destroyed all of this and it has never been replenished.
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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
'We put a higher bar on buying alcohol than we do on money laundering via the post office.' 👀
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