Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellowship for research on nations and nationalism - £5,000 for a one to two month research stay at London School of Economics (LSE IDEAS): asen.ac.uk/journals/natio… ASEN Nations & Nationalism

Some things a Brit might say to visitors when they want them to go. From the new book: Britain According to Very British Problems.

#NewRelease #OpenAccess Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region eds. Ninja Bumann et al. De Gruyter 2025 ⬇️ degruyter.com/document/doi/1… doi.org/10.1515/978311…

New year, new book.

CfP 'Socialisms in the Face of the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe: 80 Years to 1945', Haifa/Zoom, 7-8 April 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Love the Hungarian delights on offer on BBC Radio 3 today.

David Lynch. One of the greatest scenes in a film.

A Romanian ad for the original Nosferatu. I would like to read a Romanian review from that time.

Pencil factory and museum, Keswick, Cumbria.

“Six million people were killed in concentration camps during the Second World War, as well as millions of others because they were Polish, disabled, gay, or belonged to another ethnic group.” Jews. The word you’re looking for is ‘Jews’, not ‘people’. This truly beggars belief.

A West German and an Austrian drive their Mercedes cars to Bratislava to fill up on gas. What could possibly go wrong? At long last, my article "The 1970s Energy Crises and the Threat to Czechoslovak Consumer Socialism" is out in the world. doi.org/10.1177/002200…

Looks like the Germans are to blame again… theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/…

“And the claim often repeated these days that pro-Palestinian voices are being silenced is proven false […] by their invitations to German talk shows and publications in prestigious newspapers” isca.indiana.edu/publication-re…

The Israeli Left begged for help for years. The global Left laughed. Israel abolitionists are suddenly two statists? It’s too late.

A company in Braunschweig offers a wonderful service of sending requested AI-generated answers to customers by fax machine. I think we've reached peak Germany. derstandard.at/story/30000002…

OUT NOW: 'Women and the Travel Guidebook, 1870-c.1910' by Jasmine Proteau is the first study to take a broad view of women’s place within the late nineteenth-century guidebook market, both as readers and writers. bit.ly/3CFB11i

#opportunities 3-4 Fellowships "Center for Eastern European Studies" (Univ. Zurich) Universität Zürich #Zuerich hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-…

Images from travelogues #Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to nineteenth century. congratulations to all who contributed to that fab project ACDH-CH Austrian Academy of Sciences FWF labs.onb.ac.at/en/tool/onit-e…

We are advertising for an Assistant Professor in Early Modern History. The deadline for applications for this open-ended, full time post is 27th March 2025. For full details see the link below. durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

Talking to Anca Cretu about her new book ‘Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania’ ICR London at 7pm tonight. rcilondon.co.uk/event-details/…