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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 21d

The new and improved 2nd Edition of The Holocaust in Eastern Europe is out now, hot off the presses!!!

If you're teaching about the Holocaust or just interested in the topic, please check it out!

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Emiliano Perra @emilianoperra.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's a great book, and it's open access to boot!

Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · Jul 9

Full open access ❗
Nicholas K. Johnson's book on the production of television representations of the Wannsee Conference. With @degruyterbrill.bsky.social and @c2dh.uni.lu
#Television #WWII #PublicHistory
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Scripting Genocide

Scripting Genocide traces the history of how and why the Wannsee Conference has repeatedly attracted the attention of American, British, and German artists, writers, and filmmakers since 1960. Almost ...

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · Aug 6

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

www.theguardian.com

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · Jul 19

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza

Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Emiliano Perra @emilianoperra.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is excellent by Omer Bartov, with serious food for thought for anyone engaged in the study of the Holocaust and Genocide.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Jul 15

"I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one."

Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.

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My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.

This is not just my conclusion. A growing number of experts in genocide studies and international law have concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza can only be defined as genocide.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jul 13

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

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Emiliano Perra @emilianoperra.bsky.social · Jun 28

Thank you, Kay. It's a good idea. I'll mention it to our branch officers.

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Emiliano Perra @emilianoperra.bsky.social · Jun 28

Bravo: 'this [...] also provides a blueprint for other branches'. @winchesterucu.bsky.social

Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · Jun 27

I am so proud of my branch right now, and I want everyone to remember that NOTHING is ever over until you decide to roll over. It is always in your power to keep a fight going and to win.

UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · Jun 27

A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Jun 26

Spiteful, petty bean counters

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Cardiff University academic who objected to cuts robbed of title through 'spite'

Martin Shipton A distinguished archaeologist and academic who publicly opposed Cardiff University’s cuts programme has been “spitefully” denied a status often given to retired professors. James Whitle...

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Jun 26

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Jun 9

A small upside of my institution cutting all personal research allowances means I don't have to use Key Travel 👇

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · Jun 9

You’d think providing a costly, useless service would be an issue but there are enough uni senior managers following their already promoted herd in signing off the deal. And this is also b/c it’s so horrible a service that academic travel goes down by more than the Key Travel markup. Great success!

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Jun 9

Key Travel you absolute bastards. Eurostar ending in Brussels not in Rotterdam, while I have to be in Utrecht in the morning, have connecting trains and hotels booked. And you did not let me know.

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · May 29

New article!
jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/articles/10....

Complicit Testimonies in the Australian Investigative Archive | Journal of Perpetrator Research

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Journal of Perpetrator Research @perpetratorres.bsky.social · May 29

JPR 7.2 is out! Complicit Testimonies by Ivan Stacy (ed.). Articles by Eunike Mutiara Himawan, Annie Pohlman & @winnifredlouis.bsky.social; @drjpersian.bsky.social; Michelle E. Anderson; Sofía Forchieri; Juliane Prade-Weiss; Sue Vice; Guido Bartolini jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/14/volume/7/...

Special Issue: Complicit Testimonies | Journal of Perpetrator Research

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Journal of Perpetrator Research @perpetratorres.bsky.social · May 29

Call for Papers: Special Issue on ‘Dehumanization and Violence’ in JPR, edited by Jonathan Leader-Maynard (@jleadermaynard.bsky.social), Aliza Luft, and Torsten Michel. Deadline 16 October 2025. Please send your abstract (or any related questions/queries) to [email protected].

Call for Papers: Special Issue on ‘Dehumanization and Violence’
in the Journal of Perpetrator Research
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This special issue invites papers that examine dehumanization in and across diverse local and global contexts of harm. We seek contributions that employ a range of methods, offer rigorous analysis, and push theoretical and methodological boundaries. In particular, we aim to foster sustained dialogue across disciplines that too often remain siloed, bringing together insights from sociology, history, anthropology, psychology, political science, and beyond. By bridging these fields, we hope to generate more integrated and expansive understandings of how dehumanization takes shape, is contested, and unfolds across time, space, and structure. We especially welcome contributions that explore:

Dehumanization during armed conflict past and present (e.g. genocide, conventional and civil wars, colonial violence, terrorism, and various forms of extra-lethal violence during conflict (e.g., sexual violence, torture)
Dehumanization outside of wartime contexts, e.g., in policing and police violence, concerning houselessness, gender-based violence, gang violence, migration/deportation regimes, and more.
Dehumanization of participants in violence, self-dehumanization, how it feels to be a victim of dehumanization, mutual dehumanization, and so on.

We invite abstracts of approximately 350 words outlining key arguments and focus of the proposed article by 16/10/2025.
Selected authors will be invited to submit a full-length article (8000 words max; due date around April 2026).

Please send your abstract (or any related questions/queries) to torsten.michel@bristol.ac.uk.

Guest Editors

Dr Jonathan Leader-Maynard, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, King’s College London

Dr Aliza Luft, Assistant Professor in Sociology, UCLA (aluft@soc.ucla.edu)

Dr Torsten Michel, Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Bristol (torsten.michel@bristol.ac.uk)

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · May 29

This is good and it does something all journalists looking at UK politicians and education should do, it lists where each of the MPs attacking universities went to school (invariably a posh grammar or private college then a top flight university for a PPE or equivalent).

James Ball @jamesrball.com · May 29

“If universities start to fail, it will be disastrous for Labour MPs and their constituents. It would be the modern equivalent of the factory closure, or the end of the pit.

“And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”

If universities sink, then so will Starmer

Some Labour figures believe Britain has too many unis. But if they start failing, local economies – and Starmer’s re-election prospects – will go with them

www.theneweuropean.co.uk

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Emiliano Perra @emilianoperra.bsky.social · May 27

Academia in 2025, indeed.

Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · May 27

The publisher has cut their costs by outsourcing to this company, the company has cut their costs by using AI/low-paid staff instead of paying for a proper job, while I’ve spent hours & hours fixing the manuscript, so all the extra labour from cost-costing has fallen on me, the unremunerated author

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · May 26

I do think companies who are able to stomach/weather the (imo) short term loss of rejecting gen AI and building a trusted, solid content site will eventually come out on top during the Slop Wars. People will be searching for places they can rely on to be accurate, entertaining, and engaging.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · May 25

Starmer should invite Farage to tour a NHS ward in central London to see how much he connects with working people.

Geri Scott @geraldinescott.co.uk · May 25

Excl: Nigel Farage will challenge Sir Keir Starmer to accompany him on a visit to a working men’s club in the north of England to see who connects better with working people, as the Reform UK leader makes his pitch to traditional Labour voters.

www.thetimes.com/article/331b...

Nigel Farage to challenge Keir Starmer to ‘connect with working people’

The Reform UK leader is seeking to capitalise on his party’s rising popularity by launching his ‘biggest direct attack yet’ on the prime minister

www.thetimes.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · May 20

Liberal arts majors rise up www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

Even so, demand for humanities majors is on the rise, and with good reason.

At a conference last year, Robert Goldstein, the chief operating officer of BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, said the firm was adjusting its hiring strategy for recent grads. “We have more and more conviction that we need people who majored in history, in English, and things that have nothing to do with finance or technology,” Goldstein said.

This demand for liberal arts degrees is due in part to the rise of artificial intelligence, which drives the need for creative thinking and so-called soft skills.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · May 16

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters.

I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · May 16

Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters

All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)

By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · May 14

If you're going to attack immigration levels in 2022-3, you need to say something about provision for Ukraine & Hong Kong (which Labour backed).

Blaming a "one-nation experiment in open borders" is not levelling with voters or restoring trust.

It's telling the kind of lie on which populism thrives

Extract from Keir Starmer's foreword to the government's White Paper on immigration: "In 2023, under the previous government, inward migration exploded to over a million people a year – four times the level compared with 2019. This was a political choice that was never put before the British people. In fact, quite the opposite – the previous government repeatedly promised inward migration would be brought under control. Instead, Britain became a one-nation experiment in open borders".

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · May 3

🎶Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses🎶

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Mar 14

Can anyone who has some expertise in way metrics shape reality and not always with good consequences please write about how the gaming of league tables has distorted our priorities? 1/

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Mar 14

This week, we are launching a new series on "History & Higher Education in Crisis".

We are inviting articles on:
🎓 the history & origins of this crisis
🔮 its impact on research, methodologies, specialisms & teaching
✊ building solidarities & collective action

www.historyworkshop....

Contribute

Interested in publishing an article or podcast with History Workshop? Find out how to contribute to our digital magazine of radical history.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Mar 13

🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾

📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Mar 13

UK universities are in crisis.

Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system.

www.historyworkshop....

A Decade of Crisis

The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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