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Samantha K. Knapton

@lgmsam.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in History, UoN, UK | Anglo-German-Polish relations | displaced persons | post-war history | UNRRA | Queer Displacement | Hidden Histories. Dogs, cats, coffee, and bad puns welcome. She/Her

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
2023 begann man in über sexuellen Mißbrauch in der Geschichtswissenschaft zu diskutieren. #metoohistory veränderte den Diskurs. Andreas Kohring musste gehen. Ein weiterer Prof der HU muss sich vor Gericht verantworten, die Uni stellte ihn außer Dienst. ABER: forbetterscience.com/2026/01/23/s...
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Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – Marginalised and isolated in academic publishing activities
Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – German sexual harasser defended by peers, Italian cheater defended by former mentor, Daddy’s darling wins in court, antivaxxer loses in court, retractions …
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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
As I sit in the library of the Schwules Museum about to have gone through the full run of the gay magazine Du & Ich (1969–2000), I confirm that the demise of gay culture and sexual politics is inversely proportional to the growth of “health” and “fitness” discourse, and ads for tacky underwear.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 15/07/2025
“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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Michael Lombardi-Nash @lombardinash.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Envision a world where the writings of #KarlHeinrichUlrichs and Magnus Hirschfeld are available in your language. English translations give us access to their works. #LGBTQhistory #MagnusHirschfeld #TransgenderStudies of the Early #GermanGayMovement www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBG5BRSD
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Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume VIII Part 2 of 2 (1906)
Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume VIII Part 2 of 2 (1906) [Hirschfeld, Magnus, Lombardi-Nash, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume VIII Part 2 of 2 (1906)
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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I had a lovely time to chatting to @franziskalamp.bsky.social about my work. Listen here to me talking about Anglo-Polish relations, teaching Polish history to undergrads, and researching queer histories of displacement 😊
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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Had to go to a bank to verify my ID yesterday. They hadn't asked for proof of doctorate, and my passport/DL say "miss" (because, cba to change it/money). Banker: "don't you have your PhD with you??" Me: "... the scroll?" Banker: "yes! Don't you just have it in your pocket?" Pocket. POCKET!
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It’s here!
Copies of The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State by Ned Richardson-Little (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
CfP for conferencing on refugees /migrants in the always-fabulous Prague. Dates: 19-20 Nov. 2025.
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Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This is fantastic.
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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
It’s been a really busy week but *what* a week! Days of queer history, including spending time with some of my fave people (pictured here: the outrageously brilliant @lgmsam.bsky.social). Farvel til København. Indtil næste gang!
On the left, a person — me — with mauve hair and square glasses, wearing a rainbow patchwork coat. On the right, another — Sam — wearing a rainbow scarf and with bisexual-coloured hair. Both are smiling.
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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
What's the collective noun for a bunch of academics? A fabulousness? @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @queerstorian.bsky.social
Picture of 6 lovely academics next to a river in Copenhagen.
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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I had such a great time at the Queer Pasts conference in Copenhagen. Wonderful papers. Excellent city. Thanks to the organisers and every participant 💜
Poster for Queer Pasts conference - "what's queer in queer history?". May 21st to 23rd. 2025. Image is an androgynous person wearing a lovely bowtie. Pink and red background.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Ok, it’s time to settle this 1st c. SHORT 2nd c. LONG 3rd c. SHORT 4th c. SHORT 5th c. LONG 6th c. SHORT 7th c. LONG 8th c. SHORT 9th c. SHORT 10th c. LONG 11th c. SHORT 12th c. LONG 13th c. LONG 14th c. SHORT 15th c. SHORT 16th c. LONG 17th c. LONG 18th c. SHORT 19th c. LONG 20th c. SHORT
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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
GSA graduate student essay prize for an article-length 2024 manuscript written with a focus on German, Austrian, + Swiss history, literature, culture studies, political science, + economics). Share! More details here: www.thegsa.org/prizes/gradu... @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social @thegsa.bsky.social
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graduate student essay prize | German Studies Association
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Second World War Studies Edinburgh @swwstudiesedin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A timely essay by Prof. Wendy Webster on Polish perspectives around VE Day: theconversation.com/by-ve-day-in...
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By VE Day in 1945, Stalin had got what he wanted in Poland – now Putin may get what he wants in Ukraine
Ukrainians fear that what happened to Poland after the second world war could happen to their country.
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Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur @agatumilowicz.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Welcome to my customary and super-random report from my hometown’s biannual antique market. It’s that time of the year various old and less-old objects almost come alive and swarm the city in a symphony of idiosyncrasies. Let’s see what was there this year. 🧵
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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
A useful reminder that understanding verifiable sources, building plausible arguments and interpreting varied information about human experiences - the bread and butter of the Humanities, and certainly of History - is more necessary than ever.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
When your bff is in town, you MUST have an obligatory selfie in front of the ugliest building in Warsaw! @lgmsam.bsky.social #historianBFFs #Warsaw #StalinsPenis #PalaceOfScienceandCulture
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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Delighted to announce an exciting collaborative PhD studentship at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and the Imperial War Museum in London. The project is entitled "Lithographs of the First World War: printmaking, propaganda and mobilisation" and funded by the AHRC. 👇👇👇 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... 🗃️
A French lithograph of the First World War entitled La Tradition. It shows a French WWI soldier embracing a soldier of the French revolutionary wars. René Georges Hermann-Paul 
La Tradition, c.1918
Hand-coloured woodcut 
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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Excellent conference on counter-hegemonic internationalisms at @northumbriauni.bsky.social thanks to the whole team on the AHRC curiosity project @riakapoor.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social, and particularly Daniel Laqua for allowing me to attend w/out a paper! 🥳
Red hand breaking free of a chain
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
this looks fantastic @globalhistjnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement
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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Join me and Jennifer Shearman, the curator of #QueerBritain, as we talk about #Queer and/or #Refugee histories as "hidden histories". The highlights, challenges, and hopes for future research and curating practices as part of our #AHRC work. You can listen here ⬇️⬇️ and share wherever 💜
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Big announcement! POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28). POLIN is offering very generous financial support. More details below. Please share! polin.pl/en/event/sum...
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Summer School with POLIN Museum for Early Career Scholars | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie
Organizujemy tygodniowy program skierowany do doktorantów i doktorów na wczesnym etapie kariery.
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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Lovely roundtable talk for LGBTQ+ History Month at the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Excited to talk with @abikaras.bsky.social and @siobhanhearne.bsky.social about queer histories of central and eastern Europe 🥳 Join us (if you're about in Nottingham, of course) - all are welcome!
Poster for an event. Title: "queer histories of central and eastern europe". Date: 18th February at 5.30pm. Location: Lenton Grove at the University of Nottingham, room a18. Email Kate.law@nottingham.ac.uk with any queries.
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Funded PhD project on AIDS, care, and the Salvation Army. Examines the Army's little-known AIDs initiatives through ethnographic interviews & archival work. Really cool project supervised by Julie-Marie Strange and David Minto. Deadline Friday- tell your MA students! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ476/p...
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PhD Studentship - AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain at Durham University
Apply for a PhD Studentship - AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain. Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.
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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals! More info here: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...
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Call for Proposals: Bloomsbury Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism — Centre for the Study of Internationalism
We invite contributions to a new handbook on the Histories of Internationalism, to be published by Bloomsbury.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
“maybe I’ll do some writing between christmas and new year” Between christmas and new year:
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
My favourite part of my relaxing break was missing 11 deadlines
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2025
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome…
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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Term is still happening. Teaching is still happening. Research is... like... "happening". But brain has ceased function. E R R O R. Which obviously means it's now time to mark over 100 pieces of coursework. Perfect.
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a winnie the pooh cartoon says think think think think think think
ALT: a winnie the pooh cartoon says think think think think think think
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Dr Lucie Fremlova 🍉🌻🦋 @inclusivelucie.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
back in 1982, the Czechoslovak visionary cartoonist Zdenek Miler gave my generation of children a recipe for solving the future CO2 crisis
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Here is a thread on what we have put together:
Cover of the book Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies featuring an abstract piece of art by Kasimir Malevich
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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I wrote this a while ago on how categories of migration can obscure hierarchies, and how these inequities explain why ‘managing’ mobility entrenches inequities
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Pigs drawn in the style of Richard scary doing different activities. 

“self care day ideas”

Have a cry
Take a nap
Eat a pickle
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Wendy Ugolini @wugolini.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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1945/2025: Reflections on the Second World War – CALL FOR PAPERS | RHS
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in. The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers. This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Posted on the other place by my publisher - '@LgmSam's notable study advances our understanding of ethnicity, nationality, and identity in periods of postwar occupation and displacement. This work is a significant addition to existing literature' Review bit.ly/48VZnQf Book bit.ly/3UYxzox
Book cover and snippet of Book review from h-net
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15/11/2024
Yesterday was the start of UK Disability History Month - but how can we think about disabled voices in the past in a way that recognises their agency? Our new series does just that! @beckierutherford.bsky.social introduces the idea that we can historicise disability as more than a medical identity.
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Reimagining Disability
How can we reimagine disability as more than just a medical identity? This series explores disabled people’s history in relation to social, political, cultural, and economic agency.
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Birte Julia Gippert @birtegippert.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🎉🎉🎉 Our new book 'United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism' with @oisintansey.bsky.social, @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social, and Sarah von Billerbeck is now available for pre-order and will be open access with Oxford University Press from February 2025 🎉🎉🎉 (1/5)
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as
"Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator.
"The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Room for one more starter pack? Here's the (very) beginning of a list of people, journals, institutions etc, working in or adjacent to contemporary European History. Comment if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Illustration from Baba Yaga’s Cat - a story in My Big Book of Cat Stories, written by various authors and illustrated by Adrienne Ségur. 1965.
Color illustration of a beautiful young blonde white girl with her arms crossed, looking affectionately down at a shorthaired black tuxedo cat. The cat is standing up anthropomorphically looking back at her, holding a comb and embroidered handkerchief.
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Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Just goes to show that no #university, no matter how prestigious, is insulated from financial crisis in British higher education right now.
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Durham University outlines cuts programme as costs rise in wake of Budget
The university is seeing increased costs at the same time as income from some overseas students is falling, and says last week's tuition fee rise will not meet the shortfall
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I made a starter pack for German History!!! Please repost, and comment if you'd like to be added! :) go.bsky.app/QMHzmog
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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This is Bao. Bao likes to relax. Little bothers Bao. Bao's brain "Bao Bao Bao, Meow Bao Bao. Snacks?" Be more like Bao.
A white cat belly up on the floor looking relaxed
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
every academic you meet is fighting their own battle. Make it worse by asking them how the writing is going
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𝚆𝚎𝚎 𝙽𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚢 @weenippysweety.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Twitter
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
📢 New Call for Papers! The 8th Beyond Camps & Forced Labour Conference, taking place in January 2026, is now accepting applications. The aim is to bring together scholars engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution Find out more: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...
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Beyond Camps and Forced Labour - The Wiener Holocaust Library
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