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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Rare aesthetic: academia with no filter.

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Trying to understand Vatican-Yugoslav relations in the early years of the Cold War. National Library, Vienna.

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Winter writing retreat ✍️

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Wienbibliothek im Rathaus – Vienna Library in the City Hall 📖🔎📚

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My review of Erik Scott's latest book 📕 for Journal of Contemporary History: "Defectors" is an exemplary piece of scholarship that transforms a historical narrative into a page-turner... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Congratulations to Katarzyna Nowak for winning the second prize for Best Historical Book by the Polish Foreign Ministry for Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria. Learn more about her book: buff.ly/U91YR9S

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Authors of history books honoured by Polish FM

The Polish foreign ministry has presented its annual awards for the best books on Polish history and diplomacy.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Historians have a reputation for writing massive tracts, but compared to legal academics, we are purveyors of brevity

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

"Every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable" (Etty Hillesum diary) 30 November 1943 | Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish diarist and author, perished in Auschwitz. She was deported there from the Westerbork camp in the occupied Netherlands on 7 September 1943.

Photo of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish diarist and author that perished in Auschwitz.

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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

In her "Peripheral states, weak empires and other fairytales," Lida Dodou reveals how global history has changed (and changes) our understandings of Habsburg Europe as seen from the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/295

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Incredible photographs from WWII have just been published online by UN archives. Creator: the United Nations Information Organization (UNIO) You can view over 3k photographs here: search.archives.un.org/informationo...

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Arguing with a historian is a lot like wrestling in the mud with a pig. After a couple of hours, you realize the pig likes it.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 22/07/2025

Marking the end of school and the beginning of summer for many students in the UK, a piece from the archive by Sorcha Thomson. In the summer of 1969, 120 European students travelled to a camp in Jordan to learn from Palestinians about the Palestinian Revolution. www.historyworkshop....

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Solidarity and the Summer Camp

What might the story of a summer camp tell us about the practice and politics of solidarity? Sorcha Thomson on the 'Friends of Palestine' camp of 1969.

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"Keep comments short and on topic, avoid grandstanding, be responsible. Do not engage in harassment or judgemental rudeness." But that's endangering our way of life as academics. Without grandstanding, we're just underpaid hobbyists with library cards. #iccees2025

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Central European History Convention, University of Vienna #cehc @univie.ac.at

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

London, ICCEES 2025, join us for the roundtable on global archives in researching the history of Eastern Europe and the USSR:

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

My article on the Vatican archives🇻🇦🏛 in the latest issue of New Eastern Europe: 🔎 For years to come, these immense multilingual archives will be a vital resource contributing to writing a new transnational history of the Cold War East neweasterneurope.eu/2025/07/08/t...

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The Vatican and the Eastern Bloc: what the Vatican archives can reveal about Cold War Europe - New Eastern Europe

Five years after the Vatican unsealed its archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, historians are only beginning to uncover the depth of insight they offer into the post-war transformation of Eas...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 03/07/2025

Our great thanks to Prof Peter Gatrell who yesterday evening gave the 2025 RHS Prothero Lecture on ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’: bit.ly/3GmcpN6 Thank you to all who attended in person and online. Video & audio recordings of the lecture will be available shortly #Skystorians

Image of Professor Peter Gatrell delivering the 2025 RHS Prothero Lecture at Mary Ward House, London, 2 July 2025.

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

These just reached me!! You can request your free inspection or review copy here: global.oup.com/academic/hel...

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

22 May 2025, 6:30 pm, Zeitgeschichte Library (Campus, Altes AKH), University of Vienna: Book Launch: A History of Displaced Knowledge Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia, by Philipp Strobl 📚

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Book Launch 📚 Join @PeterGatrell and me on 25 May 2025 at 6pm at Hotel Regina in Vienna for a conversation about "Refugee Voices in Modern Global History. Reckoning with Refugeedom" global-displacement-and-resettlement.univie.ac.at/internationa...

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

CONCLAVE! 🗝️ As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave

Detail of two of the [Four voting slips for the election of a Pope]. [Rome?: Reverenda Camera Apostolica?, 16--?], National Library of Scotland, Crawford.B.41(15). Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Congratulations to Katarzyna Nowak for winning two BASEES awards for her book Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria! Nowak won the Stephen White Prize and Women's Forum Prize. Learn more about the book: buff.ly/lDfoQNi

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Join us for the online book launch this Wednesday 📖📚 #VaticanArchives #PiusXII

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Congratulations to our colleague Katarzyna Nowak for receiving the Imra-Rosenberg Award awarded by the city of Vienna for her book "Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria" (McGill-Queen's UP 2023)! ogz.univie.ac.at/irma-rosenbe...

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Preisträger:innen 2024

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 26/02/2025

We are delighted to announce a new Virtual Special Issue on The New Left. This collection of 22 articles & podcasts is free-to-access - with work on May 68, the SCUM manifesto, Spies for Peace, Women's Liberation, the ANC, the Hungarian Uprising & more. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/virtual-issu...

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The New Left

In this new and free-access Virtual Special Issue, Andrew Whitehead brings together almost 50 years of writing and reflection on the New Left

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Lena Christoph @lenachristoph.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thank you for a wonderful conference @aseees.bsky.social and an amazing panel! I'm very happy I got to meet so many great scholars and about the opportunity to present my research 💫 #ASEEES24

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Just got my review copy of "Reading the Archival Revolution" - so excited to read it Thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social

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