European Review of History
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The European Review of History - Revue européenne d’histoire is an international journal covering European history of all centuries and subdisciplines. It aims to create a forum for ideas across Europe and to assist exchanges between young historians.
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A little update - we weren’t really posting on X as it stood, but after Musk’s behaviour yesterday we will no longer be posting anything on that site (and will eventually delete our account) and will be primarily posting here (or Mastodon).
This quote from Hannah Arendt feels pertinent today.
This quote from Hannah Arendt feels pertinent today.
The final episode of our History & Entertainment series is out now! Philip Rowe, host of The History of European Theatre Podcast, joins us to talk theatre from ancient Greece to Shakespeare, what performances meant to audiences, and how podcasting fuels passion and curiosity.
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Philip Rowe: The History of European Theatre
Podcast Episode · European Review of History Podcast · 21/11/2025 · 39m
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November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The final episode of our History & Entertainment series is out now! Philip Rowe, host of The History of European Theatre Podcast, joins us to talk theatre from ancient Greece to Shakespeare, what performances meant to audiences, and how podcasting fuels passion and curiosity.
@thoetp.bsky.social
@thoetp.bsky.social
🎙️ New episode!
How do you dramatise a past full of silences? Playwright Dr Stephen Hornby discusses writing queer histories for stage and screen, archival absences, anachronism, authenticity (its limits) + why theatre is uniquely equipped to tell disruptive, emotionally resonant historical stories.
How do you dramatise a past full of silences? Playwright Dr Stephen Hornby discusses writing queer histories for stage and screen, archival absences, anachronism, authenticity (its limits) + why theatre is uniquely equipped to tell disruptive, emotionally resonant historical stories.
Dr Stephen Hornby - Dramatizing the Archive
Podcast Episode · European Review of History Podcast · 15/11/2025 · 1h 3m
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November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🎙️ New episode!
How do you dramatise a past full of silences? Playwright Dr Stephen Hornby discusses writing queer histories for stage and screen, archival absences, anachronism, authenticity (its limits) + why theatre is uniquely equipped to tell disruptive, emotionally resonant historical stories.
How do you dramatise a past full of silences? Playwright Dr Stephen Hornby discusses writing queer histories for stage and screen, archival absences, anachronism, authenticity (its limits) + why theatre is uniquely equipped to tell disruptive, emotionally resonant historical stories.
🎙️ New podcast episode!
This week we’re joined by @hmaloigne.bsky.social to talk archaeology on screen.
From Indiana Jones to The Dig, archaeologists are often portrayed as heroic adventurers. But what do these depictions really tell us about archaeology? And what do they leave out?
This week we’re joined by @hmaloigne.bsky.social to talk archaeology on screen.
From Indiana Jones to The Dig, archaeologists are often portrayed as heroic adventurers. But what do these depictions really tell us about archaeology? And what do they leave out?
European Review of History Podcast
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November 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🎙️ New podcast episode!
This week we’re joined by @hmaloigne.bsky.social to talk archaeology on screen.
From Indiana Jones to The Dig, archaeologists are often portrayed as heroic adventurers. But what do these depictions really tell us about archaeology? And what do they leave out?
This week we’re joined by @hmaloigne.bsky.social to talk archaeology on screen.
From Indiana Jones to The Dig, archaeologists are often portrayed as heroic adventurers. But what do these depictions really tell us about archaeology? And what do they leave out?
🎙️ New episode!
This week Dr Katie Turner explores the complex — sometimes contentious — world of “Jesus films”.
Why does Jesus on screen so often look like a Hollywood leading man? And how have films shaped our imagination of the biblical world more than scholarship ever could?
This week Dr Katie Turner explores the complex — sometimes contentious — world of “Jesus films”.
Why does Jesus on screen so often look like a Hollywood leading man? And how have films shaped our imagination of the biblical world more than scholarship ever could?
Dr Katie Turner - Jesus Films and Historical Authenticity
Podcast Episode · European Review of History Podcast · 31/10/2025 · 1h 24m
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November 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🎙️ New episode!
This week Dr Katie Turner explores the complex — sometimes contentious — world of “Jesus films”.
Why does Jesus on screen so often look like a Hollywood leading man? And how have films shaped our imagination of the biblical world more than scholarship ever could?
This week Dr Katie Turner explores the complex — sometimes contentious — world of “Jesus films”.
Why does Jesus on screen so often look like a Hollywood leading man? And how have films shaped our imagination of the biblical world more than scholarship ever could?
🎙️ New episode of the ERH Podcast!
This week, Maxime Durand, Historical Researcher + Production Coordinator at Ubisoft Montréal, talks about the fascinating relationship between history, gaming, and storytelling in his work on the Assassin’s Creed games
#AssassinsCreed #history #digitalhumanities
This week, Maxime Durand, Historical Researcher + Production Coordinator at Ubisoft Montréal, talks about the fascinating relationship between history, gaming, and storytelling in his work on the Assassin’s Creed games
#AssassinsCreed #history #digitalhumanities
Maxime Durand - How Assassin’s Creed Brings the Past to Life
Podcast Episode · European Review of History Podcast · 24/10/2025 · 26m
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October 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🎙️ New episode of the ERH Podcast!
This week, Maxime Durand, Historical Researcher + Production Coordinator at Ubisoft Montréal, talks about the fascinating relationship between history, gaming, and storytelling in his work on the Assassin’s Creed games
#AssassinsCreed #history #digitalhumanities
This week, Maxime Durand, Historical Researcher + Production Coordinator at Ubisoft Montréal, talks about the fascinating relationship between history, gaming, and storytelling in his work on the Assassin’s Creed games
#AssassinsCreed #history #digitalhumanities
Have you listened to our latest podcast episode yet? Dr Oliver Coulson (who’s also responsible for these fab cartoons) discusses humour in Medieval England.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Have you listened to our latest podcast episode yet? Dr Oliver Coulson (who’s also responsible for these fab cartoons) discusses humour in Medieval England.
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🎙️ Episode 1 of S2 of The European Review of History Podcast is now live!
Dr Oliver Coulson talks humour in the medieval period, + of course we had to cover medieval illuminators’ love of a phallus joke…
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: tinyurl.com/bdet47uu
Dr Oliver Coulson talks humour in the medieval period, + of course we had to cover medieval illuminators’ love of a phallus joke…
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: tinyurl.com/bdet47uu
October 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🎙️ Episode 1 of S2 of The European Review of History Podcast is now live!
Dr Oliver Coulson talks humour in the medieval period, + of course we had to cover medieval illuminators’ love of a phallus joke…
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: tinyurl.com/bdet47uu
Dr Oliver Coulson talks humour in the medieval period, + of course we had to cover medieval illuminators’ love of a phallus joke…
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: tinyurl.com/bdet47uu
🎙️ The European Review Podcast returns this Friday!
This season, we’re exploring History and Entertainment — how the past has made us laugh, cry, and think. Ep 1 features Dr Oliver Coulson on humour in medieval religious material culture.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
#podcast #history
This season, we’re exploring History and Entertainment — how the past has made us laugh, cry, and think. Ep 1 features Dr Oliver Coulson on humour in medieval religious material culture.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
#podcast #history
European Review of History Podcast
History Podcast · Podcast for the European Review of History Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We’re delighted to share that Veronica Szeghy-Gayer has won the Slovak Academy of Science award for her article, ‘Former Hungarian civil servants on the territory of Slovakia amid the first years of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1919–24’.
You can read it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
You can read it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Former Hungarian civil servants on the territory of Slovakia amid the first years of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1919–24: a case study on the status regulation of teachers and postal employees
The study investigates the Habsburg (Hungarian) civil service and its relation to the Czechoslovak state on the territory of Slovakia in the immediate post-First World War years. By exploring how C...
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October 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
We’re delighted to share that Veronica Szeghy-Gayer has won the Slovak Academy of Science award for her article, ‘Former Hungarian civil servants on the territory of Slovakia amid the first years of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1919–24’.
You can read it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
You can read it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨Our latest special issue is live!🚨
Read ‘Between Collapse, Integration and Co-Transformation: Universalist and Particularist Economic Ideas and Practices in Europe since the 1970s’ here:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/c...
Read ‘Between Collapse, Integration and Co-Transformation: Universalist and Particularist Economic Ideas and Practices in Europe since the 1970s’ here:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/c...
September 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🚨Our latest special issue is live!🚨
Read ‘Between Collapse, Integration and Co-Transformation: Universalist and Particularist Economic Ideas and Practices in Europe since the 1970s’ here:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/c...
Read ‘Between Collapse, Integration and Co-Transformation: Universalist and Particularist Economic Ideas and Practices in Europe since the 1970s’ here:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/c...
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Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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September 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
New article 🚨
Women’s Europeanist networks and the gendering of EEC labour policies during the long 1960s (1957–74) by Simon Godard is now live:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Women’s Europeanist networks and the gendering of EEC labour policies during the long 1960s (1957–74) by Simon Godard is now live:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
New article 🚨
Women’s Europeanist networks and the gendering of EEC labour policies during the long 1960s (1957–74) by Simon Godard is now live:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Women’s Europeanist networks and the gendering of EEC labour policies during the long 1960s (1957–74) by Simon Godard is now live:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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From political exile to colonial military service
Our #PhD researcher Salvador Lima recently published an article @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social on White Russians in the French Foreign Legion in the #1920s 👉 loom.ly/fP3v0LQ
📚 #PoliticalHistory #WarHistory
Our #PhD researcher Salvador Lima recently published an article @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social on White Russians in the French Foreign Legion in the #1920s 👉 loom.ly/fP3v0LQ
📚 #PoliticalHistory #WarHistory
August 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
From political exile to colonial military service
Our #PhD researcher Salvador Lima recently published an article @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social on White Russians in the French Foreign Legion in the #1920s 👉 loom.ly/fP3v0LQ
📚 #PoliticalHistory #WarHistory
Our #PhD researcher Salvador Lima recently published an article @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social on White Russians in the French Foreign Legion in the #1920s 👉 loom.ly/fP3v0LQ
📚 #PoliticalHistory #WarHistory
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My article on the Ikarian Revolution (1912) in @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social is currently the 'most read' for the year. Check it out #OpenAccess here:
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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September 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My article on the Ikarian Revolution (1912) in @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social is currently the 'most read' for the year. Check it out #OpenAccess here:
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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New @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social special issue
'Towards a Social History of European Integration' carefully curated by Liesbeth van de Grift and Brigitte Leucht and with contributions from @koenvanzon.bsky.social and yours truly! ⤵
#socialhist #history #EU
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'Towards a Social History of European Integration' carefully curated by Liesbeth van de Grift and Brigitte Leucht and with contributions from @koenvanzon.bsky.social and yours truly! ⤵
#socialhist #history #EU
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July 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
New @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social special issue
'Towards a Social History of European Integration' carefully curated by Liesbeth van de Grift and Brigitte Leucht and with contributions from @koenvanzon.bsky.social and yours truly! ⤵
#socialhist #history #EU
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/3...
'Towards a Social History of European Integration' carefully curated by Liesbeth van de Grift and Brigitte Leucht and with contributions from @koenvanzon.bsky.social and yours truly! ⤵
#socialhist #history #EU
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/3...
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Nice to see this in a solid copy to accompany its open access version @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social Thanks to the editors Romain Fathi and Melanie Oppenheimer for sorting it.
July 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Nice to see this in a solid copy to accompany its open access version @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social Thanks to the editors Romain Fathi and Melanie Oppenheimer for sorting it.
@roelkonijn.bsky.social and Herman Paul’s article, ‘First-hand experience: a Polybian motif in nineteenth-century German historiography’ is available now and open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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First-hand experience: a Polybian motif in nineteenth-century German historiography
How important is it for historians to have first-hand experience of political or military affairs? Up until the eighteenth century, historians often followed Polybius in welcoming experience in pub...
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June 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
@roelkonijn.bsky.social and Herman Paul’s article, ‘First-hand experience: a Polybian motif in nineteenth-century German historiography’ is available now and open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Always glad to see the subject of "selling a nation" tackled by critical scholars (especially fellow historians) rather than practitioners from the publicity industry. Eager to discover this take on Spain by @ericstorm.bsky.social, Alejandro Quiroga et al.
Our latest special issue, ‘Selling the Fatherland: Spanish nation branding and soft power in the twentieth century’ is now live (link below).
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/c...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/c...
April 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Always glad to see the subject of "selling a nation" tackled by critical scholars (especially fellow historians) rather than practitioners from the publicity industry. Eager to discover this take on Spain by @ericstorm.bsky.social, Alejandro Quiroga et al.
Our latest special issue, ‘Selling the Fatherland: Spanish nation branding and soft power in the twentieth century’ is now live (link below).
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/c...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/c...
April 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our latest special issue, ‘Selling the Fatherland: Spanish nation branding and soft power in the twentieth century’ is now live (link below).
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/c...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/c...
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Returning from leave to find my article 'An environmental escape from European integration' pre-published w @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social.
It's part of a special issue on the social history of European integration edited by Liesbeth van de Grift and Brigitte Leucht out later this year!
#envhist
It's part of a special issue on the social history of European integration edited by Liesbeth van de Grift and Brigitte Leucht out later this year!
#envhist
April 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Returning from leave to find my article 'An environmental escape from European integration' pre-published w @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social.
It's part of a special issue on the social history of European integration edited by Liesbeth van de Grift and Brigitte Leucht out later this year!
#envhist
It's part of a special issue on the social history of European integration edited by Liesbeth van de Grift and Brigitte Leucht out later this year!
#envhist
It seems rather timely that Kiran Klaus Patel’s article on trading relations and the European Union has been published today…
‘Desafio’ or ‘modelo’? the European Union’s international trade and Brazil, 1980/-90s’ is available via open access now:
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
‘Desafio’ or ‘modelo’? the European Union’s international trade and Brazil, 1980/-90s’ is available via open access now:
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
‘Desafio’ or ‘modelo’? The European Union’s international trade and Brazil, 1980s–90s
This article analyses the history of today’s European Union (EU) and its role in international trade. It highlights the increasingly universalist claims undergirding European policies in this domai...
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April 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It seems rather timely that Kiran Klaus Patel’s article on trading relations and the European Union has been published today…
‘Desafio’ or ‘modelo’? the European Union’s international trade and Brazil, 1980/-90s’ is available via open access now:
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
‘Desafio’ or ‘modelo’? the European Union’s international trade and Brazil, 1980/-90s’ is available via open access now:
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
We’re looking for someone to review ‘Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined: A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State’. Reviewer will receive a free copy of the book and their review published in the journal.
DM us if you’re interested or email [email protected]
DM us if you’re interested or email [email protected]
March 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
We’re looking for someone to review ‘Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined: A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State’. Reviewer will receive a free copy of the book and their review published in the journal.
DM us if you’re interested or email [email protected]
DM us if you’re interested or email [email protected]
Call for film and TV reviews!
Have you recently seen a historical film or series and wanted to write about it from a historian’s perspective?
We are inviting reviews of 500-1000 words on historical films and TV series to be posted on our website.
DM us or email [email protected]
Have you recently seen a historical film or series and wanted to write about it from a historian’s perspective?
We are inviting reviews of 500-1000 words on historical films and TV series to be posted on our website.
DM us or email [email protected]
February 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Call for film and TV reviews!
Have you recently seen a historical film or series and wanted to write about it from a historian’s perspective?
We are inviting reviews of 500-1000 words on historical films and TV series to be posted on our website.
DM us or email [email protected]
Have you recently seen a historical film or series and wanted to write about it from a historian’s perspective?
We are inviting reviews of 500-1000 words on historical films and TV series to be posted on our website.
DM us or email [email protected]
New publication day! Our first issue of 2025 is out today. Read Volume 32, Issue 1 here:
European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire | Taylor & Francis Online www.tandfonline.com/journals/cer...
European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire | Taylor & Francis Online www.tandfonline.com/journals/cer...
European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire
A forum for exchanging ideas, publishing innovatory research on European history of all centuries and disciplines, making diverse historiographies better known.
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February 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
New publication day! Our first issue of 2025 is out today. Read Volume 32, Issue 1 here:
European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire | Taylor & Francis Online www.tandfonline.com/journals/cer...
European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire | Taylor & Francis Online www.tandfonline.com/journals/cer...
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Check out my latest article just published in the
@euroreviewhistory.bsky.social on the Ikarian Revolution (1912): doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Many thanks to @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social and @evansmithhist.bsky.social for their guidance with this article!
@euroreviewhistory.bsky.social on the Ikarian Revolution (1912): doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Many thanks to @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social and @evansmithhist.bsky.social for their guidance with this article!
The Ikarian Revolution (1912) and the ‘Red Rock’: the Free State, enosis and communism
In July 1912, the inhabitants of Ikaria, an island of Greek speakers in the North Aegean Sea, revolted against the Ottoman garrison and proclaimed independence as the Free State of Ikaria. With the...
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February 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Check out my latest article just published in the
@euroreviewhistory.bsky.social on the Ikarian Revolution (1912): doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Many thanks to @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social and @evansmithhist.bsky.social for their guidance with this article!
@euroreviewhistory.bsky.social on the Ikarian Revolution (1912): doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Many thanks to @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social and @evansmithhist.bsky.social for their guidance with this article!