PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships- King's College London - Department of War Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD022/p...
Have housemaids staged a comeback? Join us next Thursday for the final lecture in our Spring Series! 📅
Nicole Kramer (Universität zu Köln) will give a talk on 'The Return of the Maidservant? The Hidden History of Long-Term Care for Older People' at Pushkin House (with Zoom option).
1/4
Please join us for the 2026 GHIL-IHR spring lecture:
The Return of the Maidservant? The Hidden History of Long-Term Care for Older People
Nicole Kramer (Cologne)
Abstract: Have housemaids staged a comeback?
Hot off the press 🥳 "Always forwards, never backwards? The reinvention of the Democratic Women's League of German during German reunification, 1989-1990".
Want to know more about current research on the German colonial Empire?
Check out our new Special Issue on Labour and Business in german Colonialism.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...
RIP Jurgen Habermas - one of the five major social theorists of the past 60 years. Much to learn from his work. Many gaps, some errors, but he was so rigorous that he inspired some of the best simultaneously dissenting and generative thought of any postwar academic.
The German History Society is proud to release the call for papers for our 2026 Annual Conference, held this year at the University of Stirling!
The deadline for papers is the 14 April 2026.
For more information check our website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/conference/
"Provincialising Weimar Culture" is out! @nwbaer.bsky.social, Britta Schilling and I edited a special issue for German Life and Letters on "local and global perspectives on interwar Germany": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680483....
LEGAL ENTANGLEMENTS: Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989 by Sebastian Gehrig @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social is now available in paperback!
Find out more here: bit.ly/45GNX2l
Review from @choicereviews.bsky.social
#History
We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/
The cover of the book shows a fork and spoon. Four QR codes lead to the free pdf, epub and kindle, as well as the hardback. President of the AHA Suzanne Marchand endorses the book.
It is out, everyone! 🎉
My book "The Making of Modern Eating" is out with
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social and the
@ghiwashington.bsky.social!
The digital versions are free—so download, share and enjoy! 📚
@thegsa.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
Wahoo!! Congratulations 🎉
Talitha Ilacqua has won the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize for her book *Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the French Nation-State* (MUP, 2024). Congratulations!!
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/prizes/winne...
@manchesterup.bsky.social
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
Front cover of a pamphlet with the title 'Aid for Spain', promoting the International Solidarity Fund. It includes an image of a food bowl being passed from one hand to another, with the ruins of a destroyed building in the background.
The Spanish Civil War through contemporary eyes
Faced with a fascist coup and polarising conflict, an international aid effort was launched - our digitised collection on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9, contains 4,000+ archive sources freely available
Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Great opportunities for fully-funded PhDs in history of science and/or technology in London, for candidates from anywhere in the world.
🌟 We have launched a suite of new doctoral studentships through our new Doctoral School 🌟
Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities.
More details and how to apply 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
@komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social
I would like to re-up this as there are 4 more weeks to hand in an application for this PhD position on the "hunger blockade" @uni-freiburg.de
This will be a lovely event tomorrow! Come, all!
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Episode 4 of 'Glimpses of German History' is now LIVE!
In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India.
Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA
We very much look forward to this year's seminar papers! Please join us @ihr.bsky.social for the Modern German History research seminar 2025-26.
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For this year's programme, please see below
📣 Launching next week!
This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 euthanasia programme, featuring previously unseen materials from Schloss Hartheim memorial and The Wiener Holocaust Library
If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe
cst.org.uk/donate-now
Eric D Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (2009) is super-readable
Welcome to the Bluesky page for the Sport in History journal, the official journal of @bssh.bsky.social that covers all eras & contexts of sports history.
If you want to find out more about the journal or submit a piece, please check our website:
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsi...
We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Lecture Series! 📣
We're kicking off our lecture programme on 21 October with a lecture by Benno Gammerl (European University Institute) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?'! 📅
1/3
Siemens on Wessel, too
Lecture title, speaker name, and lecture time/date/location info on a poster, all of which is available on the website for the event.
QR code for the online registration for those interested attending via zoom.
UBC Queer and Trans German Studies is hosting Andrea Rottmann (FU Berlin) as the next Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies! The event will take place in person at UBC as well as online. We would be grateful if you could pass the announcement on to your networks.
