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Moritz Föllmer

@moritzfoellmer.bsky.social
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Historian of Twentieth-Century Germany and Europe at the University of Amsterdam www.uva.nl/en/profile/f/o/m.foellme… new book: The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History www.cambridge.org/nl/u

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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, lieber Tobias! Eine sehr gute und auch erleichternde Nachricht.
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ben Kafka on France and Peter Becker on the Habsburg Empire/First Austrian Republic come to mind. There is also a journal, Administory, which might be worth checking out.
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Soll ja immer auch für Nichtexperten inhaltlich plausibel und als Text nachvollziehbar sein. Wenn der Artikel auf Deutsch ist, wird es ohnehin wenig Spezialisten geben. Viel Erfolg!
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
naja, Stadthistoriker halt! Mut zum Amateurismus, würde ich sagen (wenn Du Zeit dafür hast).
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In belated response to your question: It's not THAT bad, but I really dislike these constructions with 'with' and '...ing', as in 'retirement has become a hot topic for historians, with Helen McCarthy arguing...'. I think they have become fashionable quite recently, I didn't use to encounter them.
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's never been a culinary highlight, to put it politely
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Hi Sam, excellent news, congratulations!
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Science Museum
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Good to know! I learned a lot from, and very much enjoyed, "Queuing for Beginners".
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This may be the notoriously mean-spirited Austrians's idea of a practical joke!
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Finally getting around to reading it - a most illuminative piece!
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Excellent article!
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
An article on the history of municipal government, offering insights into late-20th-c. Amsterdam, some unintentionally entertaining quotations by beleaguered yet enterprising mayors, and my take on the relationship between social democracy and neoliberalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Intriguing piece by an outstanding historian, who has just received a major prize: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/war-military...
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Cycling the German Peasants’ War
The German Peasants' War (1524-26) was the largest uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Lyndal Roper recalls how a cycle ride around Germany led her to appreciate the vast scale of...
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Right, even longer ago - time passes more quickly than I prefer to acknowledge.
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
That's, to put it mildly, unusual editorial behaviour. The request was probably due to someone else not submitting their review. It should have come with apologies and been followed by thanks. Hope all is well with you otherwise! I still fondly remember our MA course in 2011/12.
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
There are worse places to die on (or, better yet, visit while being alive) than the hills and moors of West Yorkshire!
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I wrote a brief piece on 'Crime fiction and multiculturalism', focusing on the novels of A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir. These are set in Bradford, where I did some urban walking last September and took pictures, some of which are included as images. geschichtedergegenwart.ch/crime-fictio...
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Crime fiction and multi­cul­tu­ra­lism. A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir on Bradford
A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir are known for their crime novels set in Bradford, a postindustrial city in Northern England with a large British Asian population. Their fiction reflects local stories of immi...
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Try Joachim Häberlen. He is no longer in academia but I could get you in touch.
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Try Mark B. Smith at Cambridge
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I had a conversation with the stimulating scholar Morteza Hajizadeh about my book The Quest for Individual Freedom, which has now appeared as a podcast on the New Books Network. newbooksnetwork.com/the-quest-fo...
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Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Hi Sam, yes, I'd like to review this. m.foellmer@uva.nl, Moritz Föllmer, MyPup, Kuiperbergweg 32, 1101 AG Amsterdam, Netherlands (odd address, but I use this in case people go via a delivery service rather than classical mail). Thanks! Moritz
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Congratulations, Gianamar!
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
excellent article, Kieran!
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 23/09/2025
Dénes's new article is available free Open Access, as is all content published in Transactions bit.ly/486BF5d The journal's editors welcome submission of research articles and comment pieces, on historical practice and debate, from historians working within and outside education 2/2 #Skystorians
Cover of the latest volume of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society.
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Yes, it has been very useful!
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Dr Claudia Kreklau @claudiakreklau.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Everyone: we have a cover. I repeat--the cover has landed, and it is glorious!
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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
What does p. 99 say or not say about a book? I applied this test to my own one and incidentally tried to make a broader point on the relationship between social democracy and individual freedom. page99test.blogspot.com/2025/07/mori...
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Moritz Föllmer's "The Quest for Individual Freedom"
Moritz Föllmer is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. He has particular interests in Weimar and Nazi Germ...
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Theo Jung @theojung.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I'm very happy to see my 'second book' on the uses and meanings of silence in 19th century politics now officially published. Many thanks to all who made this moment possible. More information on the publisher's website: www.droste-verlag.de/buecher/tite...
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Five questions you were absolutely desperate to ask but now don't have to because your friends at @uchicagopress.bsky.social got there first -
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Five Questions with Neil Gregor, Author of “The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany” – The Chicago Blog
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
You certainly demonstrated the required perseverance!
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Hi Tom, Christine Brocks is excellent, very experienced and thorough. Has PhD in history. christine.brocks@web.de. Best Moritz
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This essay summarises the approach and key arguments of my recently published book The Quest for Individual Freedom. It also argues for the usefulness of Isaiah Berlin's famous concept of negative freedom, but in the plural rather than the singular. cambridgeblog.org/2025/05/nega...
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Negative Freedoms in Twentieth-Century Europe
How can individual freedom be historicised in the context of twentieth-century Europe? When setting out to answer this question I found myself grappling with the following problem: on the one hand, co...
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Danke! Exemplar wird bald bei Dir eintrudeln.
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
My book on the quest for individual freedom in twentieth-century Europe is now out. Click on 'look inside' and 'marketing excerpt' to read the introduction. www.cambridge.org/nl/universit...
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The Quest for Individual Freedom | Twentieth century European history
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Guter Text!
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Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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