‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

@theguardian.com's Paul Lewis on Pete Hegseth's poisonous variant of Christianity: a Christian reconstructionist worldview, millennialism and white Christian nationalism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Gotta lotta bottle: doing the rounds with Britain’s last milkmen – photo essay Their floats were once a regular sight, quietly whirring down the country’s streets, delivering daily pints. Photographer Maxine Beuret captures the vanishing world of electric milk floats (and their ...

Maxine Beuret is on the road with the last milk floats
www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...

Tantrums, rancid meatloaf and family silver stuffed into underpants: the delicate art of the Holocaust comedy Making light of one of the darkest horrors of the 20th century is a risky business – but a new generation is taking ownership of family histories by making space for human foibles, says an award-winni...

New #familyhistory graphic novel - irreverent, tell-all third-geneation Holocaust memoir by Astrid Goldsmith. #freiburg @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

A book, with a person reading a letter in a photo on the cover

A page of written text

Thrilled to see our beautiful book, Holocaust Letters, out soon from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social! With huge thanks to my amazing co-editors @sandralipner.bsky.social @charlieknight.bsky.social & Clara Dijkstra. Launching soon @wienerlibrary.bsky.social: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-l...

#Teachers make sure you check out GHS's annual Creative Research Contest - entries are open now!

For more information, head to our website at: www.germanhistorysoc...

1000 Words for Belonging - A podcast about languages and belonging in the classroom — The Space Between Podcast

www.the-space-between.org/1000wordspod...

The "Vienna" model or sample book, c. 1410-20. An aid for workshops and travelling artists so that they had a stock of motifs & shapes. Silverpoint drawing on paper, maple wood, leather. Dimensions: 9.5 cm × 9 cm. A small thing. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Great project by @mattaucott.bsky.social and Jeff Bowersox - really enjoyed coming up with this ‘Glimpse of German History’ for @germanhistsoc.bsky.social Hope there’ll be many more seasons!

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan review – the limits of liberalism A century from now, a literature scholar pieces together a picture of our times in a novel that quietly compels us to consider the moral consequences of global catastrophe

McEwan, the liberal critic of liberalism - Kevin Power's review of McEwan's What We Can Know in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Opinion: The assassination of Charlie Kirk has revealed the authoritarian inside all of us The killing of a public figure has become a dopamine hit in an endless cycle of doom-scrolled violence. Where do we find ourselves as a society when murder is met with delight?

Adorno and this violent political moment by @jennifervevans.bsky.social and Josh Greenberg in @theglobeandmail.com
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-charlie-kirk-assassination-authoritarianism/?utm_source=Shared+Article+Sent+to+User&utm_medium=LinkCopy&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

drop in video updated YouTube video by Noah Taylor

Solidarity with refugees - wonderful initiative in North London run by volunteers
nnlsdropin.org.uk

youtu.be/DwX2OmHP_e4?...

gazasoupkitchen.org
Serving hot meals to 3,000 people daily. Grassroots lifeline - their fundraising page is here:

givebutter.com/gaza-soup-ki...

Firmengeschichte während der NS-Zeit: Wenn Familienunternehmen in Abgründe blicken Die Rolle des deutschen Mittelstands in der Nazizeit ist bis heute kaum aufgearbeitet. Nur wenige Firmen wollen sich der eigenen Vergangenheit stellen.

@danielerk.bsky.social und Anne-Sophie Lang über die Geschichte mittelständischer Unternehmen im NS @diezeit.bsky.social

www.zeit.de/zeit-fuer-un...

Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 01/08/2025 · 1h 19m

A powerful portrait of Vance’s politics of othering and anti-liberalism in this podcast by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
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Dancing through Yiddish Literary New York: A Guided Tour | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research On this guided tour with Yiddish literature and dance scholar Dr. Sonia Gollance, we will visit some key New York dance sites in the footsteps of Yiddish writers and journalists.

On Sunday August 10th, I'll be leading a walking tour of New York's East Side for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, focused on sites related to Jewish dancing and literature about New York Jewish dancing. @jewishstudies.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social www.yivo.org/Dance-Guided...

Class no longer main dividing line in UK politics, survey shows Age and education now bigger indicators, according to study, which also shows record support for electoral reform

Age and education overtake class in UK political landscape. @journo-jess.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ | Harvard University | Michela Moscufo in @theguardian.com

That looks gorgeous! Reminds me of a place I went last summer… (Emmendingen but the surrounding Black Forest is not v visible)!

'You can also make lemon curd' - love this discussion of new work in queer Holocaust studies by @ankahajkova.bsky.social
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Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’ Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

'... the problem is not what’s hidden, it’s “what we’ve normalised – because the whole strategy is to throw it all in your face”', @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @marcishore.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Slide depicting 'The World in a Grain of Sand: Reading and Writing Microhistories', MA Option 2025-26, School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck, University of London

Huzzah! Next year I get to teach 'Reading and Writing Microhistories' at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, likely with contributions from @julialaite.bsky.social and others!

If this sounds like your sort of thing, consider applying for one of our history MAs in 2025-26: search.bbk.ac.uk/search/cours...

Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945: New Perspectives | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

It's finally out: Our volume on Poland under German Occupation. With contributions by Natalia Aleksiun, Winson Chu, Maren Röger, Dariusz Stola, Tomasz Frydel, Ingo Loose and the two editors: Jonathan Huener and myself. 📚

www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Huener...

Exciting new Holocaust research agency by the amazing @caileedavis.bsky.social @barnabasbalint.bsky.social @niamh-hanrahan.bsky.social 📚📚👩🏻‍💻 Highly recommend checking out their website and services!

So Much for the MAGA Divorce The nativist right is starting to make peace with Elon Musk.

Spoke to Ali Breland over at @theatlantic.com on the prospects of Fusionism 2.0 and the (lack of) a crackup on the right in the first few months of the Trump administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

#Event | Workshop "Heimatlosigkeit und Emanzipation. 1870-1933 im Rahmen des SFB 1671 Heimat(en): Phänomene, Praktiken, Darstellungen

Im Goethe-Museum Düsseldorf am 1. April 2025 von 13:30-18:00 Uhr

www.sfb1671.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...

Anspruchseinbürgerung v. Ermessenseinbürgerung - just one legal difference facilitating the fiendish finessing of the postwar (re-)naturalisation of German Jews by the FRG’s Interior Ministry, superbly presented by @ncourtman.bsky.social Great talk @lbilondon.bsky.social and @ghilondon.bsky.social

Noah Shenker, “Reframing Holocaust Testimony” (Indiana UP, 2016) Podcast Episode · New Books in Communications · 07/10/2016 · 1h 18m

Another great podcast - Noah Shenker talks about Holocaust testimonies and their histories on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

What Authoritarianism Means Even critical observers underestimated the speed and scope of the Trumpist assault, they overestimated democratic resilience. What is America now, and what comes next?

What Authoritarianism Means
 
Even critical observers underestimated the speed and scope of the Trumpist assault, they overestimated democratic resilience. What is America now, and what comes next?
 
New piece:

#26 - Displaced Persons Podcast Episode · gestern ist jetzt · 15/11/2022 · 49m

Fascinating podcast by Melanie Longerich and Brigitte Baetz (gestern ist jetzt) about the Polish-German #familyhistory of Florian Urbański. Displaced Persons and their lives in DP camps in early post-war Germany with @sarahgrandke.bsky.social

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