Contemporary European History
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Published by Cambridge University Press. Edited by Emile Chabal, Siobhán Hearne, Michelle Lynn Kahn, and Nikolaos Papadogiannis.
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📖 New article online!
'Revisiting Ordoliberal Influence in the Process of Early European Integration' by Pavlos Roufos
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'Revisiting Ordoliberal Influence in the Process of Early European Integration' by Pavlos Roufos
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November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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'Revisiting Ordoliberal Influence in the Process of Early European Integration' by Pavlos Roufos
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'Revisiting Ordoliberal Influence in the Process of Early European Integration' by Pavlos Roufos
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We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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📖 New article online!
'Financing Foreign Policy: UK Government–Bank Relations During the Development of the 1981–2 Sovereign Debt Crisis in Poland, Romania and Hungary', by Catherine Lefèvre
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'Financing Foreign Policy: UK Government–Bank Relations During the Development of the 1981–2 Sovereign Debt Crisis in Poland, Romania and Hungary', by Catherine Lefèvre
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Financing Foreign Policy: UK Government–Bank Relations During the Development of the 1981–2 Sovereign Debt Crisis in Poland, Romania and Hungary | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Financing Foreign Policy: UK Government–Bank Relations During the Development of the 1981–2 Sovereign Debt Crisis in Poland, Romania and Hungary
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November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
📖 New article online!
'Financing Foreign Policy: UK Government–Bank Relations During the Development of the 1981–2 Sovereign Debt Crisis in Poland, Romania and Hungary', by Catherine Lefèvre
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'Financing Foreign Policy: UK Government–Bank Relations During the Development of the 1981–2 Sovereign Debt Crisis in Poland, Romania and Hungary', by Catherine Lefèvre
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My paper on ordoliberal influence on early EU integration has just been published by @conteurohistory.bsky.social. A ton of gratitude to @manumourlon.bsky.social for organising the @eui-eu.bsky.social conference where this was first presented and for his help since www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
My paper on ordoliberal influence on early EU integration has just been published by @conteurohistory.bsky.social. A ton of gratitude to @manumourlon.bsky.social for organising the @eui-eu.bsky.social conference where this was first presented and for his help since www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📖 New article online!
'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
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'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
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Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter
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November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
📖 New article online!
'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
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'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
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Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30.
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Managing Editor – Call for Applications
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30.
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
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We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
🚨 Job Alert!
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Managing Editor – Call for Applications
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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November 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🚨 Job Alert!
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
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📖 New article online!
'Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91', by Alessandro Favilli
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'Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91', by Alessandro Favilli
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Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91
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October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📖 New article online!
'Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91', by Alessandro Favilli
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'Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91', by Alessandro Favilli
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If you’re a postgraduate student or ECR researching any aspect of post-1914 European history (including the UK and Europe’s overseas empires), we’d love to hear from you. To submit a blog idea, or for more information about New Voices, please email [email protected]
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If you’re a postgraduate student or ECR researching any aspect of post-1914 European history (including the UK and Europe’s overseas empires), we’d love to hear from you. To submit a blog idea, or for more information about New Voices, please email [email protected]
📣 New Voices continues with a blog from Rosie Charles, @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social.
Rosie's blog explores superphosphate manufacturing by the British and French empires, charting the impact of fertiliser production on imperial expansion and agricultural practices.
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Rosie's blog explores superphosphate manufacturing by the British and French empires, charting the impact of fertiliser production on imperial expansion and agricultural practices.
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Empire in the Soil: Superphosphate and the British and French Imperial Manufacture, 1914-1937 « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
The history of European imperial agriculture has often been told through the lens of technological innovation, such as the development of the agricultural automotive industry or the application of adv...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
📣 New Voices continues with a blog from Rosie Charles, @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social.
Rosie's blog explores superphosphate manufacturing by the British and French empires, charting the impact of fertiliser production on imperial expansion and agricultural practices.
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Rosie's blog explores superphosphate manufacturing by the British and French empires, charting the impact of fertiliser production on imperial expansion and agricultural practices.
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
📖 New article online!
'Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67' by Bartosz Matyja
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'Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67' by Bartosz Matyja
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Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67
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October 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📖 New article online!
'Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67' by Bartosz Matyja
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'Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67' by Bartosz Matyja
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Congrats to Jean-Michel Johnston + Anna Ross for their @conteurohistory.bsky.social special issue "Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions after the First World War." I just read the intro: what an amazing resource! I forsee it becomes required reading for the field! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions after the First World War: Introduction | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions after the First World War: Introduction
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October 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Congrats to Jean-Michel Johnston + Anna Ross for their @conteurohistory.bsky.social special issue "Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions after the First World War." I just read the intro: what an amazing resource! I forsee it becomes required reading for the field! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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What can a commercial venture tell us about fascist Italy's colonial diplomacy in Latin America in the #1920s ?
Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article @conteurohistory.bsky.social by our #PhD researcher @jgomezreig.bsky.social on the journey of the Regia Nave Italia 👉 loom.ly/Pt7OpH8
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Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article @conteurohistory.bsky.social by our #PhD researcher @jgomezreig.bsky.social on the journey of the Regia Nave Italia 👉 loom.ly/Pt7OpH8
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October 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
What can a commercial venture tell us about fascist Italy's colonial diplomacy in Latin America in the #1920s ?
Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article @conteurohistory.bsky.social by our #PhD researcher @jgomezreig.bsky.social on the journey of the Regia Nave Italia 👉 loom.ly/Pt7OpH8
📚 #FridayReads
Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article @conteurohistory.bsky.social by our #PhD researcher @jgomezreig.bsky.social on the journey of the Regia Nave Italia 👉 loom.ly/Pt7OpH8
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📖 New article online!
'Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War', by Stephen Rainbird | @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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'Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War', by Stephen Rainbird | @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War
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October 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
📖 New article online!
'Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War', by Stephen Rainbird | @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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'Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War', by Stephen Rainbird | @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social
See the full vacancy text here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD position - Benign Blockades? Blockades and sanctions, 1919-1939
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, wh...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field.
Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free!
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Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free!
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October 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field.
Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free!
go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb
Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free!
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Peripheral Histories? has just published a new author interview with Beatrice Penati about her excellent book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' @peripheralhist.bsky.social www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...
Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan
Beatrice Penati’s new book Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan (published with Brill, 2025) provides a comprehensive account of early S...
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September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Peripheral Histories? has just published a new author interview with Beatrice Penati about her excellent book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' @peripheralhist.bsky.social www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...
New Voices offers a space for postgraduate students working in our field to write short public-facing blogs about their original research on the contemporary history of Europe and its overseas empires (c.1914-present).
Email [email protected] to find out more or submit an idea.
Email [email protected] to find out more or submit an idea.
September 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
New Voices offers a space for postgraduate students working in our field to write short public-facing blogs about their original research on the contemporary history of Europe and its overseas empires (c.1914-present).
Email [email protected] to find out more or submit an idea.
Email [email protected] to find out more or submit an idea.
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New Voices continues with a blog from Benjamin Pfannes, @unipotsdam.bsky.social.
Benjamin's blog explores the historical context and contemporary challenges of the Franco-German Brigade, a unique experiment in military co-operation and integration.
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New Voices continues with a blog from Benjamin Pfannes, @unipotsdam.bsky.social.
Benjamin's blog explores the historical context and contemporary challenges of the Franco-German Brigade, a unique experiment in military co-operation and integration.
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
The Franco-German Brigade: A Mirror of Integration—and Its Limits « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
When the Franco-German Brigade (FGB) was established in 1989, it was hailed as a unique experiment in postwar Europe. Never before had soldiers from two former enemies served permanently under a share...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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New Voices continues with a blog from Benjamin Pfannes, @unipotsdam.bsky.social.
Benjamin's blog explores the historical context and contemporary challenges of the Franco-German Brigade, a unique experiment in military co-operation and integration.
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
New Voices continues with a blog from Benjamin Pfannes, @unipotsdam.bsky.social.
Benjamin's blog explores the historical context and contemporary challenges of the Franco-German Brigade, a unique experiment in military co-operation and integration.
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Finally, @estefwright.bsky.social chose Claire Nally's review article on thanatalogy, 'Death is Not the End', for offering "an impressive synthesis of the emerging field of death studies" with "profound implications for how we think about grief". [7/7]
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‘Death is Not the End’: Thanatology Today | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
‘Death is Not the End’: Thanatology Today
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September 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Finally, @estefwright.bsky.social chose Claire Nally's review article on thanatalogy, 'Death is Not the End', for offering "an impressive synthesis of the emerging field of death studies" with "profound implications for how we think about grief". [7/7]
tinyurl.com/2m6dmtee
tinyurl.com/2m6dmtee
Harry Legg's article, 'I Hid for Days in the Basement' was chosen by @npapadogian.bsky.social for its use of autobiographical narrations, "[highlighting] the complexities of this hitherto understudied moment of discovery in the years before the Holocaust". [6/7]
tinyurl.com/4k86mvh2
tinyurl.com/4k86mvh2
‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria - Volume 34 Issue 2
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September 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Harry Legg's article, 'I Hid for Days in the Basement' was chosen by @npapadogian.bsky.social for its use of autobiographical narrations, "[highlighting] the complexities of this hitherto understudied moment of discovery in the years before the Holocaust". [6/7]
tinyurl.com/4k86mvh2
tinyurl.com/4k86mvh2
@laurenstokes.bsky.social selected Dónal Hassett's Spotlight piece, 'Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War', describing it as 'an incisive overview of a scholarly field that has grown to daunting proportions'. [5/7]
tinyurl.com/5es9h7k2
tinyurl.com/5es9h7k2
Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War
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September 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
@laurenstokes.bsky.social selected Dónal Hassett's Spotlight piece, 'Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War', describing it as 'an incisive overview of a scholarly field that has grown to daunting proportions'. [5/7]
tinyurl.com/5es9h7k2
tinyurl.com/5es9h7k2
Highlighting 'Teachers in Power' from April 2025, @siobhanhearne.bsky.social notes that Tereza Juhászová's article "aptly demonstrates how schools became contested sites of power and ideology against the backdrop of wars and regime change" in Central Europe. [4/7]
tinyurl.com/4s3d2rdr
tinyurl.com/4s3d2rdr
Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery (1918–1947) | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery (1918–1947)
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September 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Highlighting 'Teachers in Power' from April 2025, @siobhanhearne.bsky.social notes that Tereza Juhászová's article "aptly demonstrates how schools became contested sites of power and ideology against the backdrop of wars and regime change" in Central Europe. [4/7]
tinyurl.com/4s3d2rdr
tinyurl.com/4s3d2rdr