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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Solidarity from Nottingham 🩷💜

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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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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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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

WOO!! Congratulations 🎊 👏 🥳

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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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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Ah, yeah. I will not go for work - I've redrafted funding bids to stay in Europe when the UN archives in NYC would have been my 1st option. This trip is to finally take Andy's elderly dad to America - probably our last chance before his chest gets worse 🤞

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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Cancelling isn't really an option for us, so we will just have to see what happens.

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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

We, unfortunately, booked in August last year for September - so... this will be interesting

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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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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Ah ha! Excellent. You and your new wolf friend will have an excellent time... don't lose the hand!

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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Passport control may take an hour 😕

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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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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
Art.IWM BUTE 290

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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! 🥳

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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The introduction pretty much always gets rewritten. It'll be great!

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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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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Congratulations on the fellowship! And the talk sounds excellent. I hope you enjoy Bochum 🙂

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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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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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