UPDATE: It's officially published as of today! If you're interested, I'm happy to answer questions and to speak to undergraduate and graduate courses as desired.
lsupress.org/978080718678...

#skystorians

Couldn't have done it without your incredibly smart questions/advice!

Since the UN’s Geneva offices held the League of Nations, peacocks have called its grounds home, a semi-mascot donated by various member states. In Nov 1937, Sec General Avenol was distraught when 8 died (the “Tragedy of the Peacocks” per Daily Mail). He ordered shelters be built for the birds.

An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia Mikko Toivanen Abstract: This article examines the development of colonial public culture in Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, over the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing on two moments of extended colonial ceremony: the city’s 250th anniversary in 1869 and the inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina in 1898. The analysis shows that over the course of the century, colonial ceremonial increasingly sought to assimilate facets of local cultural practices, while also expanding spatially into a more diverse set of neighbourhoods. Nevertheless, this new and superficially more representative order still maintained a strict internal hierarchy embedded in spatial and socio-cultural boundaries.

Oh hello, the latest issue of @urbanhistory.bsky.social is out, containing my article 'An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia'. Check it out if interested in colonial uses of ceremonials, history of Jakarta etc: doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Very excited to publish my article “Geneva’s Environment and the League of Nations” in the new issue of Geschichte und Gesellschaft!
www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109...

Map of Ecuador, coloured based on its three physiographic regions (coastal, Andean & Amazon) and annotated with the locations of archaeological and palaeoecological sites mentioned in the article.

NEW How did climate change affect life in pre-Columbian Amazonia?

Modelling occupation and abandonment of settlements in the Ecuadorian Amazon over the past 4500 years shows how people overcame El Niño events by adapting to changing conditions.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Detail from the painting “Abend über Potsdam” [“Evening over Potsdam”] by Lotte Laserstein, 1930

“Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933,” the final volume of our relaunched “German History in Documents and Images” primary source project, is now published and available! You can find the expanded edition, edited and with a new introduction by Erik Jensen, here: germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge...

This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this.

With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist

Thanks for sharing this, I'm going to enjoy reading it!

Incredible find!

Scan of a typed letter sent within the Ministry for Italian Africa in September 1942

In 1942, Italian soldiers in Libya were sending home coffee (both in grains and ground) in their letters to their family - because they got a coffee ration while at home in Italy it was running out! ☕️ (though some were just pinching it from the army stores...) Vital Second World War content 😂

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts coming this summer. Looking forward to talking with @chadgibbs101.bsky.social & Sarah Zarrow about their fantastic new books!

Listen to co-author Jane Leung Larson discussing her successful book "A Chinese Reformer in Exile" at the Northwest China Council in Portland!

Full presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=72th...

Download the book for free: brill.com/display/titl...

#openaccess

@degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Creating the National/Border Security Nexus: Counter-Terrorist Operations and Monitoring Middle Eastern and North African Visitors to the UK in the 1970s–1980s This article looks at an earlier episode in the history of the UK border security apparatus by examining how the immigration control system was used in the 1970s and 1980s to detect potential terro...

Academics, is there an article or paper that you've published that you feel has slipped under the radar?

Reply or quote this post with your overlooked piece!

Here's mine...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

So excited for this upcoming event with authors @danielagerson.bsky.social and Judy Battalion at The Max Kade Institute @dornsife.usc.edu on the 26th. 🗃️

***Free e-book from @illinoispress.bsky.social ***

Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States edited by Danielle Battisti and S. Deborah Kang

www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500–2026 (Lucerne, Oct 8–10, 2026)🚨🗃️

We’re organizing an interdisciplinary conference on global histories, cultures, and legacies of hair.
Researchers from all relevant fields and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply. All costs are covered.
📆 May 15, 2026

A book cover with diagonal text for the title, reading From Incarceration to Repatriation in black, with alternating red and yellow triangle shapes in the background.

FYI Team #MilitaryHistory! Praise for @susangrunewald.bsky.social's book: an "important contribution to our understanding of WWII, the Soviet postwar recovery, the penal system(s) of the Soviet Union, & the Cold War" AND "a noteworthy piece of scholarship."
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Histories and Legacies of Migrant Labour in Namibia and Switzerland This edited volume shows surprising similarities in labour history and its legacy in two different contexts: South African occupied Namibia and Switzerland in the second half of the 20th century. Both...

New open access book comparing migrant labour in Namibia and Switzerland.

I admit I was sceptical about this (are they really comparable?) until I read about Italian labour migrants in Switzerland and the restrictive laws that governed their lives:

baslerafrika.ch/en-en/produc...

Volume 43 Issue 4 | German History | Oxford Academic The official journal of the German History Society. Publishes original research on all periods of German history and all German-speaking areas. An essential resource for German historians and valuable...

It's publication day! We have a complete issue now in "German History". With @aselmeyer.bsky.social I edited a volume on "Colonial Transactions in the German Empire". The contributions offer new insights into the construction of railways and colonial societies.
academic.oup.com/gh/issue/43/4

Always forwards, never backwards? The reinvention of the Democratic Women’s League of Germany during German reunification (1989-1990) Anna McEwan Abstract: Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands (DFD), the state women’s organisation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), faced an existential challenge as the state it belonged to crumbled, thereby dismantling the organisational structures that had sustained it for forty years. Many East German women, ostensibly represented by the DFD, began to voice their dissatisfaction towards the women’s organisation through angry public protests. While this could have marked the end of the DFD, this article explores how the organisation’s magazines (Lernen und Handeln and Frauen-Initiative’90: Die Zeitung des DFD) reveal a strategic reinvention during the Wende (Turning Point) of 1990. The magazines illustrate the DFD’s adoption of second-wave feminist practices, though it avoided explicitly identifying itself as feminist. Concurrently, the DFD maintained the socialist anti-fascist rhetoric characteristic of the GDR, thereby appealing to a specifically East German subjectivity. The article ultimately argues that the ideological practices developed during the Wende served as a template for the DFD’s survival, enabling its continued existence in modern day Germany. Keywords: GDR, DFD, anti-fascism, second-wave feminism, reunification, press

Lastly, we have Anna McEwan's article, 'Always forwards, never backwards? The reinvention of the Democratic Women’s League of Germany during German reunification (1989-1990)'

journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2026...

Uncanny Beliefs — Harvard University Press In the early twentieth century, scholars around the world believed that “superstition” belonged to a bygone era. Yet despite their confident predictions, superstitious beliefs have endured. Perhaps no...

Great to get an ARC of this excellent forthcoming book www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... co-edited by my colleague @emilybaum.bsky.social & @albertmwu.bsky.social, heard stimulating early versions of some chapters at a UCI conference, includes a valuable epilogue by @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social

This #MosseWednesday, we invite you to join us for Rebecca Carter-Chand's upcoming lecture, "Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army From Imperial Germany to Nazism."

🗓️ April 7th
⏰ 3:00 PM CST
📍 Zoom

#UWHistdept #EuropeanstudiesatUWMadison

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From our FirstView article: Storm from the Steppes: Warfare and Succession Institutions in Pre-Modern Eurasia, 1000–1799 CE by DANIEL STEVEN SMITH. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Business and Labour in German Colonialism. Volume 54, Issue 1 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Fabulous new special issue on business and labour in the German colonial empire. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

A few places remain!
Join us for Charity After Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development
24th March, QMUL, London E1
Book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-charity-after-empire-tickets-1981162909594

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@qmul.bsky.social
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Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy — Common Notions Press Take Over the City provides the first comprehensive spatial analysis of Italian operaismo and the extraordinary urban struggles of 1970s Italy.

Neil Gray, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in
Italian Autonomy – Common Notions, August 2026
www.commonnotions.org/buy/take-ove...

The rise of repatriation: Global South refugees and forerunners of the International Organization for Migration in the long 1970s Contemporary international migration debates have been marked by a confrontation between the requirements of refugee and asylum law, on the one hand, and accusations they are being abused, concerns...

The rise of repatriation: Global South refugees and forerunners of the International Organization for Migration in the long 1970s

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This will be the final instalment of my 'Nordics in Colonial SE Asia' trilogy (although the first one I wrote, academic publishing you know...). The first one was my @jich.bsky.social article in 2023 on the Finland-Swedish merchant Hjalmar Björling's transimperial networks: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Have always found interesting a bit in Alexandra Lohse’s book on German POW conversations recorded by the British. The officers are totally stumped by the idea that post-war East Prussia might no longer be German. Hitler could die, Nazi Germany might fall, but that was totally unimaginable.