It was great to see so many colleagues again - thanks for coming out!
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It was great to see so many colleagues again - thanks for coming out!
We had a wonderful workshop on humanitarian biographies in Trondheim. 3 ERC projects (Madeleine Dungy's Internal Fortress; Silvia Salvatici's HumanEuroMed and my BLOCKADE) pooled their interests and resources to ponder how (group) biographies can help us understand the history of humanitarianism
We are advertising two more positions (economic history focus) in the Trondheim-based team of BLOCKADE - one doctoral and one postdoctoral position; great jobs in a fantastic city - please share!
So excited to see this out (soon) - @drmargottudor.bsky.social and @briandrohan.bsky.social did such an amazing job!!!
The intricacies of modern compensation procedures that value human life, injury, and property are often overlooked, despite growing demands for reparations and justice following state violence. This article historicizes the legal structures of modern compensation, arguing that the advent of imperial rule was characterized not only by the extraction of material resources and labour, but also by the discriminatory construction and implementation of imperial law, which sought to protect European life, wealth, and property. By focusing on one of the most notorious episodes of violence in British imperial and modern South Asian history – the atrocities committed by British officials in Punjab (1919), including the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre – this article underscores how British officials penalized protests and freedom struggles by legalizing indemnities, taxes, and fines to compensate European families. In contrast, colonial officials grossly undervalued the claims and payments of Indian subjects killed or maimed during state violence, if they did at all. Furthermore, this article reveals how imperial state compensation, managed in relative privacy and buried in legal proceduralism, was rooted in legal structures of intersectional racialized inequality, and political concerns that valued the longevity of imperialism, rather than a meaningful gesture of justice and redress.
📢We are delighted to announce that Hardeep Dhillon
(@migrantherstory.bsky.social) has been Highly Commended in The Historical Journal ECR Prize for her article 'Imperial Violence, Law, and Compensation in the Age of Empire, 1919–1922'
👉Read the article open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
So...it finally arrived 🥳
A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry
Edited with @capandgown.bsky.social and published with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
With contributions from @tomasirish.bsky.social, @stuartjones.bsky.social, @echomikeromeo.bsky.social and others
#histed
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Excited to see that my new article "The Democratization Paradox: Ordinary Germans, Allied Occupation, and the Built Democracy of Postwar Germany" has been published! DM me if you'd like a pdf.
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900.
Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago!
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Hahaha, okay! Wer hätte das gedacht 😅🤪
Mangful? Das wäre im skandinavischen gebräuchlich
ATTN: advanced grad students, early career, and intl scholars
Steve Broadberry (left) and Mark Harrison (right), standing by an image of our book, Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688
Steve Broadberry and I had a great time introducing our new book Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688 to friends and colleagues in London last night /1
Today is the official publication day of www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hed...
@danielhedinger.bsky.social @uomhistdept.bsky.social
My co-editor Jennifer Keene and I are very excited for our volume to come out this summer! Click through the link to see the amazing roster of contributors.
Pontus Järvstad (University of Iceland) explores in this new essay the postwar evolution of antifascism in the Nordic countries: #Spain #Portugal #Greece helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/02/17/p...
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#food, #blockade and #publicopinion - all my favourite things!
Copies arrived: special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" I've edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social - with articles by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social
metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...
Our volume "Cultural History for a Changing World" has been published! Together with colleagues from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and from around the world, we tried to map the current state of the field and to speculate about where it might be headed: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
Love consular records!
New article, by Frances M Clarke, Joy Damousi, Philip Dwyer, Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social, Reto Hofmann and Hans-Lukas Kieser: 'Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945'
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Wow!
Open for Applications till March 31, 2026: Moore Research Fellowship 2026-2027
The #Fellowship promotes research using the resources of the Friends Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore College #peace Collection @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social
More here: www.swarthmore.edu/libraries/re...
How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history?
📅 On Thurs 19th Feb leading economic historians Stephen Broadberry and @mark4harrison.bsky.social
will be launching their new book covering three centuries of global history at the British Academy.
👉 Register your place:
The cover of the book shows a fork and spoon. Four QR codes lead to the free pdf, epub and kindle, as well as the hardback. President of the AHA Suzanne Marchand endorses the book.
It is out, everyone! 🎉
My book "The Making of Modern Eating" is out with
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social and the
@ghiwashington.bsky.social!
The digital versions are free—so download, share and enjoy! 📚
@thegsa.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
