Now available in January 2026. My book Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna has just come out in paperback! Find out more here: bit.ly/3MNglZV
#History #AustrianStudies #NineteenthCentury
Today we celebrate International Children's Book Day. Our ongoing project Becoming a Reading Nation? Children's Books and Educational Literature in Finland, 1790-1850 investigates literature for children and young people in the early 19th century sites.utu.fi/luka/en/
The Call for Papers for our next biennial conference is now open! Submit your proposals by 1 October 2025 so you can join us at the University of Arizona in Phoenix/Tempe, Arizona on 22-23 May 2026. More information can be found at the link below ✨
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CFP: Children, Youth, and the Making of International Society.
Deadline 23 April 2025
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Red roses
Happy International Women's Day
Good God. In Munich, fascist Vance calls for cooperation between German parties and the fascist AfD. The new Axis forms.
J.D. Vance fordert Zusammenarbeit deutscher Parteien mit der AfD
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
Vintage Valentine's Day card - gold-edged card with small gold heart in each corner; in the centre a small blue and russet bird perched on twigs with pink apple/cherry blossoms that frame a gold-edged heart shape in which the simple greeting of 'St. Valentine's Day' in gold appears.
Happy Valentine's Day - may today be a bright spot in a darkening world.
My article discussing the catalogue of the library of the German-language Gymnasium in Vyborg (Wiburg) 1805-1860 has been published (in Finnish) in the journal Kasvatus & Aika: journal.fi/kasvatusjaai...
Our EU-funded project DIGHT-Net organises a series of online workshops. The first one on digital archives will be on 21 Feb 2025, with @gerbenzaagsma.bsky.social as one of the speakers. #digitalarchive #digitalhistory #culturalheritage More info on registration: dight-net.tlu.ee/event/online...
Detail of a page from a printed publication titled: Abbild oder Vorstellung der Gemüths Regungen / nach Abzeichnung des vortrefflichen le Brun u. von le Clerc in Kupffer gebracht. Joh. Christoph Weigel excudit. The image shows a young woman looking confident. She signals hope. Source: https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbihd/content/pageview/5922498
Hope.
In times of trouble you can always rely on your hope. This seventeenth-century copperplate print of an original handdrawing is titled (in French and German):
l'Esperance. Die Hoffnung.
#earlymodern #hope #skystorians
It took me some time to get here, but here I am.
