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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Jul 25

Some ‘light’ reading at the British Library! 📚 @britishlibrary.bsky.social

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Liudmila Lyagushkina @llyag.bsky.social · Jul 25

The people in the photo enjoy spending time reading through kilometres of documents produced by the secret services, trying to extract any trace of meaning from them. It was a great joy to co-organise a panel on preventative policing and repression in the USSR and Czechoslovakia at #ICCEES2025

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Jul 25

New badge! From #ICCEES2025

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Jul 24

‘Racing in the East’ - a great exhibition in Jeffrey Hall at #ICCEES2025

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · Jul 23

This starter pack is an experiment on our part, we've added everyone we can find posting under the conference hashtags #ICCEES2025 & #ICCEES25

If you would like to be added, just add to the conversation using #ICCEES2025 or #ICCEES25
go.bsky.app/Hb5CnBQ @basees.bsky.social

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today at #ICCEES2025 : why not end the day at our panel about Preventative Policing and Repression within the USSR and Czechoslovakia? Panel 10.1, W3.01, 16.30-18.00

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’m starting #ICCEES2025 day 3 at a panel about Culture, Politics and Civil Society in the Soviet Union, including a paper by @shsslbu.bsky.social PhD student Christina Schlegel

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Jul 22

Two great papers by Olga Polishchuk and Alina Mozolevska, related to their research project about the use of digital diaries, textual and visual, as a means of communicating and processing wartime experiences and trauma in Ukraine #ICCEES2025

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Jul 22

I’m starting day 2 of #ICCEES2025 by attending a very interesting panel: 3.1 ‘Voices from Ukraine: War Diaries of the Russo-Ukrainian War’

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Jul 21

This panel looks interesting 😉 Panel 2.12, 16.30-18.00, today. Come and join us! #ICCEES2025

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Jul 21

I am sorry to miss this, but I am presenting in the same panel stream 🙁

Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Jul 21

I thoroughly enjoyed Taťjana Šarić’s fascinating paper ´Tracked Lives: Yugoslav State Security and Female Cominform Emigration’ (Panel 1.3) #ICCEES2025 👏

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Jul 21

It’s great to be in London for #ICCEES2025

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CEU Review of Books @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social · Mar 21

New review out!

In Red Tape (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024), Rosamund Johnston shows how Czechoslovak Radio became a site of negotiation between the regime, the listeners and the people who worked there. David M. Durant reviews the books.

ceureviewofbooks.com/review/radio...

Radio politics in Czechoslovakia - CEU Review of Books

In Red Tape (Stanford University Press, 2024), Rosamund Johnston shows how Czechoslovak Radio became a site of negotiation between the regime, the listeners and the people who worked there. David M. D...

ceureviewofbooks.com

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Mar 21

Thirteen of my publications are listed here, including my co-authored book, some journal articles and several book reviews. Years of research, all used without my knowledge or permission…

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · Mar 20

NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

www.theatlantic.com

Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Mar 14

Me on Teams meetings 😂😂

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · Mar 13

Me to myself: This is annoying. This conversation is annoying, this person is annoying. I hope I’m hiding it well.

My face:

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Mar 10

This particular project is run by one of the Historians there, whose research focuses on religion in communist Eastern Europe

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Mar 10

This sounds like a great opportunity for someone! #history #coldwarhist #skystorians

Three-year fixed term research post working on religion under communist regimes in Central and/or Eastern Europe at Cardiff University:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMB493/k....

Keston Research Associate in Religion under Communist Regimes at Cardiff University

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Keston Research Associate in Religion under Communist Regimes on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Mar 5

We have a great event coming up at @shsslbu.bsky.social next Wednesday! From Leeds to Manila: come and hear former @leedsbeckett.bsky.social student Rafa Ortile speak about his research into the scandalous case of Lord Antony Moynihan

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

Centre for Culture and Humanities research seminar

Join us for talk from Rafael Antonio Ortile on 'The Rock ‘N’ Roll Lord of Manila', Lord Antony “Tony” Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan of Leeds

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Mar 5

Exhibition Shines Light on Bulgaria’s Forgotten Communist-Era ‘Labour Troops’ #bulgaria #coldwarhist

balkaninsight.com/2025/01/10/e...

Exhibition Shines Light on Bulgaria’s Forgotten Communist-Era ‘Labour Troops’

An exhibition in Sofia of Garo Keshishian's black-and-white photos of communist-era compulsory labour units delves into a little-remembered aspect of Bulgaria's repressive past.

balkaninsight.com

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Mar 4

We went from “what good are the humanities?” to “suddenly, no one can read” in about a year, and the answer to the first question is the disinformation and lack of critical thinking you see all around you. *That* is why you need the humanities. This is what they prevent.

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Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social · Mar 5

New event in the History on the Edge series:
“Women in Serbia during the Second World War (1941-1945)” by Ljubinka Škodrić.
WHEN? Wednesday, 12 March 2025 at 13:00
WHERE? at the INZ premises (Privoz 11) or at the ZOOM link: us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Mar 3

Nice to see the latest installation in my local village phone box showing support for Ukraine today #SlavaUkraini #standwithukraine

a traditional British red public telephone box in my local village, decorated with the Ukrainian flag and the message ‘Stand With Ukraine’

A photograph showing the display inside the red telephone box, with Ukrainian flags and printed sheets saying ‘Stand with Ukraine’, free for the public to take away.

Photograph of my hand holding a free printout in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag, with two white doves and the message “Stand With Ukraine” printed on the front.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · Mar 3

I’m going to go out on a limb and say the Nazis were very problematic even before the invasion of Poland and the genocides.

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Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social · Mar 3

It’s Monday, and my research assistant is sleeping on the job! #cats #lapcat #rescuecat

A small tabby cat is lying stretched out on my things, as I sit at my desk working.

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