Daniel Banks
@danielobanche.bsky.social
Mobility and changing power relations in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean & beyond | Post-doc at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples | PhD in History from EUI, Florence | Trying to stay sane and write a book
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A wonderful and very pertinent wrap up of one of the funnest and most intellectually stimulating conferences I have attended so far!
Jana Osterkamp + Jonathan Singerton's "How Central European History Became a Vibrant Field — and Where It Might Go Next" reflects on what we can learn from the 20 CEHC blogs written by emerging scholars. I love this piece. Please share. cehc.hypotheses.org/473
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A wonderful and very pertinent wrap up of one of the funnest and most intellectually stimulating conferences I have attended so far!
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Out today!!! "A Spanish Commune", about a little Spanish sister of the Paris Commune.
Endorsements from Kristin Ross and José Carlos Moya here:
www.versobooks.com/products/293...
@versobooks.bsky.social @cataratalibros.bsky.social
Endorsements from Kristin Ross and José Carlos Moya here:
www.versobooks.com/products/293...
@versobooks.bsky.social @cataratalibros.bsky.social
A Spanish Commune
The Paris Commune had a little Spanish sister, the Canton of Cartagena, whose impressive and neglected history is unearthed in this book.In July 1873, thousands of men and women proclaimed a Commune, ...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Out today!!! "A Spanish Commune", about a little Spanish sister of the Paris Commune.
Endorsements from Kristin Ross and José Carlos Moya here:
www.versobooks.com/products/293...
@versobooks.bsky.social @cataratalibros.bsky.social
Endorsements from Kristin Ross and José Carlos Moya here:
www.versobooks.com/products/293...
@versobooks.bsky.social @cataratalibros.bsky.social
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Rethinking labour politics, political violence, and brutalisation thesis!
On advance access: "Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923"
by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (University of Lisbon)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (University of Lisbon)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923*
Abstract. Political violence in Europe in 1917–23 has typically been associated with the destabilizing impact of the First World War. However, some forms o
doi.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Rethinking labour politics, political violence, and brutalisation thesis!
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🔥Le nouveau numéro de Source(s) vient de paraître !
Avec un dossier consacré aux « Mémoires transnationales des révolutions au XIXe siècle (1820-1871) », vous y trouverez aussi une contribution de ma part📘
🙏 Merci à N. Bourguinat et A. Dupont !
👉Pour l’intégralité : shs.hal.science/halshs-05285...
Avec un dossier consacré aux « Mémoires transnationales des révolutions au XIXe siècle (1820-1871) », vous y trouverez aussi une contribution de ma part📘
🙏 Merci à N. Bourguinat et A. Dupont !
👉Pour l’intégralité : shs.hal.science/halshs-05285...
October 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🔥Le nouveau numéro de Source(s) vient de paraître !
Avec un dossier consacré aux « Mémoires transnationales des révolutions au XIXe siècle (1820-1871) », vous y trouverez aussi une contribution de ma part📘
🙏 Merci à N. Bourguinat et A. Dupont !
👉Pour l’intégralité : shs.hal.science/halshs-05285...
Avec un dossier consacré aux « Mémoires transnationales des révolutions au XIXe siècle (1820-1871) », vous y trouverez aussi une contribution de ma part📘
🙏 Merci à N. Bourguinat et A. Dupont !
👉Pour l’intégralité : shs.hal.science/halshs-05285...
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A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/
Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Former Eritrean Soldiers in the Italian Colonial Army: Fragments of Life and Documentation’. | Colvet.eu
colvet.eu
October 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/
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Are you an early-career researcher working with environmental history? Join ESEH Nextgate! Part of the ESEH, Nextgate promotes and supports work by #EnvHist scholars from students to post-docs. Whether or not you'd like to join, make sure to follow @esehnextgate.bsky.social for upcoming events!
Call for Applications
The Early Career branch of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEHNEXTGATe) is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.
Please find the more detailed call text attached.
The Early Career branch of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEHNEXTGATe) is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.
Please find the more detailed call text attached.
October 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Are you an early-career researcher working with environmental history? Join ESEH Nextgate! Part of the ESEH, Nextgate promotes and supports work by #EnvHist scholars from students to post-docs. Whether or not you'd like to join, make sure to follow @esehnextgate.bsky.social for upcoming events!
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¡Tenemos nuevo número de Historia y Política! Iremos compartiendo su contenido en las próximas semanas:
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June 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
¡Tenemos nuevo número de Historia y Política! Iremos compartiendo su contenido en las próximas semanas:
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I'm also incredibly excited (and feel quite humbled) about this prize! Thanks so much Dominique for sharing. For those who are interested, P&P's very kind editors have made the article open access for the next three months:
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academic.oup.com/past/article...
So excited to announce Daniel Banks has been awarded the SIHS Modern Italian History article prize for his Past&Present piece "Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860." More here: www.italianhistoricalstudies.org/events-award...
October 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I'm also incredibly excited (and feel quite humbled) about this prize! Thanks so much Dominique for sharing. For those who are interested, P&P's very kind editors have made the article open access for the next three months:
academic.oup.com/past/article...
academic.oup.com/past/article...
I'm so happy to see one of my favourite books come out in English next week! Jeanne takes readers on an incredible journey through a Spanish Commune-style revolution that lasted much longer than its Paris counterpart, with impressive details on the lives and ideas of its everyday supporters.
"A Spanish Commune". A book about a Spanish little sister of the Paris Commune, the Canton of Cartagena (1873).
Muy orgullosa de anunciar la salida de la versión inglesa de mi libro Federación o muerte el 14 de octubre en Verso.
www.versobooks.com/products/293...
Muy orgullosa de anunciar la salida de la versión inglesa de mi libro Federación o muerte el 14 de octubre en Verso.
www.versobooks.com/products/293...
A Spanish Commune
The Paris Commune had a little Spanish sister, the Canton of Cartagena, whose impressive and neglected history is unearthed in this book.In July 1873, thousands of men and women proclaimed a Commune, ...
www.versobooks.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I'm so happy to see one of my favourite books come out in English next week! Jeanne takes readers on an incredible journey through a Spanish Commune-style revolution that lasted much longer than its Paris counterpart, with impressive details on the lives and ideas of its everyday supporters.
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JOB AD: 3 3-year postdocs available at the Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies (BCDSS) @dependencybonn.de: I can highly recommend it as a place to spend (some of) your postdoc phase -- a deeply interdisciplinary environment with wonderful colleagues. shorturl.at/69hMY
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
October 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
JOB AD: 3 3-year postdocs available at the Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies (BCDSS) @dependencybonn.de: I can highly recommend it as a place to spend (some of) your postdoc phase -- a deeply interdisciplinary environment with wonderful colleagues. shorturl.at/69hMY
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The new issue of @modernitaly.bsky.social is finally out & it's the special issue I guest edited with Maria Stella Chiaruttini, entitled: Turning Points and Transformations in Contemporary Italy: A Century of Big Changes Through ‘Small Histories’
snappy, I know...
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snappy, I know...
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Modern Italy: Volume 30 - Turning Points and Transformations in Contemporary Italy: A Century of Big Changes Through ‘Small Histories’ | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Modern Italy - Volume 30 - Turning Points and Transformations in Contemporary Italy: A Century of Big Changes Through ‘Small Histories’
www.cambridge.org
September 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The new issue of @modernitaly.bsky.social is finally out & it's the special issue I guest edited with Maria Stella Chiaruttini, entitled: Turning Points and Transformations in Contemporary Italy: A Century of Big Changes Through ‘Small Histories’
snappy, I know...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
snappy, I know...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A fascinating, thought-provoking interview by @marcobresciani.bsky.social and @stefanobottoni.bsky.social of the much admired and astoundingly influential historian of the Habsburg Monarchy and Europe, Pieter Judson. Don't miss it! www.francoangeli.it/riviste/arti...
«Becoming A Historian is a Passion»:
A Conversation with Pieter Judson
on Habsburg Europe
PASSATO E PRESENTE - «Becoming A Historian is a Passion»:
A Conversation with Pieter Judson
on Habsburg Europe -
www.francoangeli.it
July 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A fascinating, thought-provoking interview by @marcobresciani.bsky.social and @stefanobottoni.bsky.social of the much admired and astoundingly influential historian of the Habsburg Monarchy and Europe, Pieter Judson. Don't miss it! www.francoangeli.it/riviste/arti...
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The full program for this year's Central European History Convention (CEH-C) July 17-19 is online!: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... The overview: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... With 2 keynotes, 54 panels, a roundtable, poster sessions, + a research lab, there's something to interest everyone!
ceh-c.univie.ac.at
June 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The full program for this year's Central European History Convention (CEH-C) July 17-19 is online!: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... The overview: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... With 2 keynotes, 54 panels, a roundtable, poster sessions, + a research lab, there's something to interest everyone!
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New week, new publication! 🎉 Excited to see my article 'An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia' out in @urbanhistory.bsky.social! And it's Open Access, too, so feel free to check it out (and share, maybe?): doi.org/10.1017/S096...
June 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
New week, new publication! 🎉 Excited to see my article 'An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia' out in @urbanhistory.bsky.social! And it's Open Access, too, so feel free to check it out (and share, maybe?): doi.org/10.1017/S096...
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📢¡Anunciamos la publicación de un nuevo número! Se trata del vol. 138 (2/2025), compuesto por un dosier coord. por Assumpta Castillo y Joan Pubill, cuatro estudios y un ensayo bibliográfico. En abierto, aquí: revistasmarcialpons.es/revistaayer/...
June 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
📢¡Anunciamos la publicación de un nuevo número! Se trata del vol. 138 (2/2025), compuesto por un dosier coord. por Assumpta Castillo y Joan Pubill, cuatro estudios y un ensayo bibliográfico. En abierto, aquí: revistasmarcialpons.es/revistaayer/...
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Estamos realizando una muy bonita encuesta: "Ser historiador.a hoy en España".
Y necesitamos que seais muchos y muchas las que contesteis nuestro cuestionario aqui 🙏🙏
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Y necesitamos que seais muchos y muchas las que contesteis nuestro cuestionario aqui 🙏🙏
g1531.huma-num.fr/L6MRbva/inde...
Ser historiador.a hoy en España
g1531.huma-num.fr
June 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Estamos realizando una muy bonita encuesta: "Ser historiador.a hoy en España".
Y necesitamos que seais muchos y muchas las que contesteis nuestro cuestionario aqui 🙏🙏
g1531.huma-num.fr/L6MRbva/inde...
Y necesitamos que seais muchos y muchas las que contesteis nuestro cuestionario aqui 🙏🙏
g1531.huma-num.fr/L6MRbva/inde...
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My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War
www.cambridge.org
June 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Come join us in Naples! 5 PhD positions in Global History starting in November with 4 years of funding. Deadline 27 August.
www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
5 doctoral scholarships “Global History and Governance” (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples)
The Scuola Superiore Meridionale (SSM) in Naples in partnership with the Università di Napoli Federico II invites applications for 5 fully funded scholarships. The PhD in Global History and Governance...
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June 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Come join us in Naples! 5 PhD positions in Global History starting in November with 4 years of funding. Deadline 27 August.
www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
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Thrilled to see this published (free!) in Past&Present - though it unfortunately feels more relevant than ever... @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
And feeling fortunate to have been able to do this with two of the most talented historians Malika Zehni & Lamin Manneh ❤️
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And feeling fortunate to have been able to do this with two of the most talented historians Malika Zehni & Lamin Manneh ❤️
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
Immobility
Abstract. Increasingly, since the early years of the twenty-first century, some have questioned the relevance of historians’ ‘fetishization of mobility’ in
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June 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Thrilled to see this published (free!) in Past&Present - though it unfortunately feels more relevant than ever... @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
And feeling fortunate to have been able to do this with two of the most talented historians Malika Zehni & Lamin Manneh ❤️
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
And feeling fortunate to have been able to do this with two of the most talented historians Malika Zehni & Lamin Manneh ❤️
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales
Forum à propos du livre de Maurizio Isabella, 'Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions' (@princetonupress.bsky.social)
'Une manière #méridionale de traverser l’âge des #révolutions'
par Juan Luis Simal
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
Forum à propos du livre de Maurizio Isabella, 'Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions' (@princetonupress.bsky.social)
'Une manière #méridionale de traverser l’âge des #révolutions'
par Juan Luis Simal
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
May 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales
Forum à propos du livre de Maurizio Isabella, 'Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions' (@princetonupress.bsky.social)
'Une manière #méridionale de traverser l’âge des #révolutions'
par Juan Luis Simal
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
Forum à propos du livre de Maurizio Isabella, 'Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions' (@princetonupress.bsky.social)
'Une manière #méridionale de traverser l’âge des #révolutions'
par Juan Luis Simal
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
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Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales
#Forum à propos du livre de Maurizio Isabella, 'Southern #Europe in the Age of #Revolutions'
'Mobilités et espaces des révolutions' par Lucy Riall
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
#Forum à propos du livre de Maurizio Isabella, 'Southern #Europe in the Age of #Revolutions'
'Mobilités et espaces des révolutions' par Lucy Riall
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
May 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales
#Forum à propos du livre de Maurizio Isabella, 'Southern #Europe in the Age of #Revolutions'
'Mobilités et espaces des révolutions' par Lucy Riall
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
#Forum à propos du livre de Maurizio Isabella, 'Southern #Europe in the Age of #Revolutions'
'Mobilités et espaces des révolutions' par Lucy Riall
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
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@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site, "New Voices", for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post on any aspect of European history and its empires since 1914? Contact [email protected] (via @dominiquereill.bsky.social)
New Voices « Cambridge Core Blog
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May 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site, "New Voices", for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post on any aspect of European history and its empires since 1914? Contact [email protected] (via @dominiquereill.bsky.social)
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July 17-19 Central European History Convention (CEH-C) panel program is out, featuring 55 panels. Keynotes by Peter Haslinger, Tara Zahra, + 3 panels dedicated to work of Pieter Judson, with receptions galore! It's going to be SOMETHING! More soon! Share! ceh-c.univie.ac.at/program/
Program
Program
ceh-c.univie.ac.at
May 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
July 17-19 Central European History Convention (CEH-C) panel program is out, featuring 55 panels. Keynotes by Peter Haslinger, Tara Zahra, + 3 panels dedicated to work of Pieter Judson, with receptions galore! It's going to be SOMETHING! More soon! Share! ceh-c.univie.ac.at/program/