Ich habe mich sehr gefreut, einen Beitrag zu den Gesellschaftskonzepten von New Labour, ihren historischen Wurzeln und ihrer politischen Mobilisierung im neuen Heft des Mittelweg 36 beisteuern zu können. Vielen Dank an die Herausgeber:innen Zarin Aschrafi und @vanlaak.bsky.social !
Das hat Spaß gemacht! Vielen herzlichen Dank für die Einladung ☺️
Sending out a random request to the universe —
If there are any Borges scholars in my network, or if anyone has a connection to a Borges scholar and could DM me their name, I would love to find such people.
JOB
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 @ University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
"But the rejections remain hidden, forming a shadow CV of declined manuscripts, unfunded proposals, and invitations that never came. Rejection, however, isn’t the exception in this profession. It’s the norm." 👇👇👇
New on the GHIL #Podcast!
Coinciding with tonight's #ThyssenLecture, our latest episode is a recording of the fifth lecture in our series in collaboration with the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on 'Science, Knowledge, and the Legacy of Empire', given by Gudrun Krämer (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)
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We are excited to welcome this year's Medieval History Seminar participants tomorrow! 📣
The seminar will bring together Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients (2024/2025) in medieval history from American, Canadian, British, Irish, and
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Cool job opportunity 🕵🕵️♂️ PhD in Modern History, Political Science, or International Relations or related field required.
Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person
Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
#Joboffer in Innsbruck: The Institute for Diversity in Medicine looks for a postdoc in the field of Sex/Gender and Diversity-sensitive Medicine: www.i-med.ac.at/karriere/job...
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RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.
We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians
Wenn jetzt jede Jahreszeit ihre Romance-Bestseller bekommt, dann freue ich mich irgendwie schon drauf, wenn der deutsche Buchmarkt Karneval entdeckt.
Nach einem persönlichen Trauma tritt [x] den Funkenmariechen bei und trifft dort auf den brooding Karnevalsprinz ihrer Träume.
Only 1 week left to apply for our #PhD prize! 👇
#skystorians #historyphd
We are looking forward to this special event tomorrow!
There is still time to sign up and join us - either in person or online:
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
Expert guidance on using, and getting the most from, the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History', from @ihr.bsky.social. Booking now available. #skystorians
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
I don't think I've laughed as hard since Four Seasons Landscaping :-)
Picture of my book Teenage Intimacies: Young women, sex and social life in England 1950-80
‘Teenage Intimacies’ is now officially out in the world! It’s a history of teenage sexuality in postwar England that speaks to ideas of growing up, adolescence, friendship, family, identity, culture and education. It’s been a long time coming but I’m really proud of the end result! 🗃️ #histsex
Image of part of the D section of the index of a book. It lists, in this order: D'Amico, John Dante Alighieri (with subsections on Inferno, Paradiso, Virtue Ethics and the Guelph-Ghibelline Feud) Dark ages, Don't Call Them the Darth Vader Darwin, Charles Davidson, Nicholas de Beer, Susanna
Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its index.
(From my Inventing the Renaissance)
Join us on 27.2. at 5:30pm for a GHIL Lecture in co-operation with the Modern History Research Seminar (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) given by Maren Röger (Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa - GWZO) on '(Cold) War Games: Scenarios on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain'!
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PSA: VG Wort Meldefrist ist der 31. Januar.
Every 19th century German academic: after Abitur at the age of 16 they defended their thesis (17 pages, 3 footnotes) on Hegel at 23 in Tübingen, followed by a habilitation on Roman History at 25 in Marburg. Then held the chair of medicine at the Karl-Justus-Heinrich-Wilhelm-Universität for 55 years.
meme showing ma looking at 2145661(1) PDF file while other girl named 2145661.PDF looks on angrily
Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:
Zweiter Advent, kein Wunder in Sicht, aber ihr seid wunderbedürftig? Zeit für Weihnachtsfilme! Hier stecken viele Anregungen drin. #WeihnachtsfilmeLesen
Wenig Überraschend: Die Novellierung des #WissZeitVG hat sich offensichtlich dank der fehlenden Parlamentsmehrheit von rot-grün erledigt.
Das Fazit von @jmwiarda.bsky.social:
"oft drängte sich der Eindruck auf: Es fehlt an Willen und an Können".
#IchbinHanna
www.jmwiarda.de/2024/12/05/d...
Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
"these were the objections he had to urge at the moment, though no doubt, with more time he should discover more defects, and have more objections to state".
Horace Twiss, writer and Tory MP, invokes the spirit of "Reviewer 2" on the reform bill in 1831.
