My first time seeing this bleak note alongside a journal article. It barely adds anything that the abstract does not do. It is not a “key takeaway” but a surface-level summary of the stakes of the article, not its conclusions or findings. What happens if an author disagrees?

Really looking forward to tonight’s Institute of Historical Research book launch for Talitha Ilacqua “Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the French nation-state” history.ac.uk/events/book-la…

Il était là, sous nos yeux, pendant tout ce temps...

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Interested in studying 17th-19thC material culture, dec arts or histories of collecting/art market?! Come do a PhD with me! PhD scholarships now available at EdinburghArtHistory @edinburghcollegeofart registryservices.ed.ac.uk/student-fundin…

1862 satirical print about the sensory overload of modern Paris, around the Canal Saint-Denis “By closing your eyes and covering your nose and ears, you could almost imagine that you were in Venice”

know that I am screaming rn

Ava-Santina Have they tried ditching avocados and lattes or maybe selling their 60 properties?

I've been asked what my favourite commentary is on the budget and it's unquestionably this exchange.

Can a history person help me? Looking for digitised 1920s South African newspapers. Is there a database that I'm missing that's like British Newspaper Library / Trove / PapersPast? If so, can anyone help me access it? Urgent as ever #HISTORY #historicnewspapers #southafrica

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

Who’d have thought that the medium term legacy of communism would be very high levels of home ownership? Love to see Germany disaggregated- former FRG/GDR.

CFP: Urban History Group Conference 2025 The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4th & 5th Sept. 2025, University of Leicester. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c... We are back. Special sessions for New Researchers & PGs, as usual.

The conference has two strands: the Main Theme - which looks at the history of urban commons – and a New Researchers strand that welcomes papers from ECRs on any aspect of urban history. We welcome single paper and panel proposals, which can be for either two or three papers.