If it’s not on Strava, it never happened 👶

i love watching people in the library doing their BeReal. it’s the most ritualistic part of the day. and so funny.

22 yrs ago, while writing Mountains of the Mind, I studied George Mallory's original letters home from Everest in 1921, '22 & '24, in Magdalene College's archive.
Now they've digitised/published them all.
Fascinating, moving documents.
Open access here: magdalene.maxarchiveservices.co.uk/index.php/to-r…

God tier recommendation letter

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

writing about bohemian porcelain and a girl in front of me has a keep cup with a bohemian porcelain design. niche. should i tell her? lol

The TORCH Oxford/PolishStudies BASEES Polish Studies Working Group Postgraduate Workshop is back in April!

Next Thursday (25.04.), 17.15-18.15 GMT, Przemysław Górecki (@asc_uw) will join us to deliver a paper on masculinities in post-1989 Polish fiction.

More details below 👇

Pax Mongolia shaped the geography of dumplings’ diffusion, from ravioli to gyoza. Laudan’s Cuisine and Empire

tried texting someone 'sup' and google took me to stanford university press

Making this a bit more public... Super happy to announce that I’ll be joining University of Warwick WarwickHistory as Assistant Professor in Modern European History this coming fall ( nerves re: visa notwithstanding). 🙃

just an easter reminder to send in your abstracts!!! 🤠

reminder to send in your abstracts!!! 🤠

it’s for when the fellowship wants a 16-page research proposal

Seems churlish to drop back in for a second to tweet about an article, but if anyone is interested in reading something (open access) about Europe, temporality, and the revolutions of 1848... cambridge.org/core/journals/…

just a reminder! please do apply 😎

wow

CfP: 'The Future of Central and East European Studies', 17-19 October 2024, Instytut Pileckiego Warsaw.
instytutpileckiego.pl/en/badania/fal…

For Cold War buffs: There’s a new doc making the rounds on Czechoslovakia’s tragic 1952 communist show trial. “Le Procès, Prague 1952” incorporates footage from the trial that was thought lost but discovered by chance in 2018. Took me down a rabbit hole: markbakerprague.com/le-proces-the-…

“This is not an election because the definition is that it offers a choice. And the essence of this election is the absence of choice,” says Arkady Ostrovsky on “The Intelligence” as Russia goes to the polls. Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3v4qF7A 🎧

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