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Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh
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Historian of modern Germany | Assistent Professor of Political History, Utrecht University | Second book: Chancellors and Crises: Democratic Leadership from Konrad Adenauer to Olaf Scholz | First book: Wilhelm I as German Emperor: Staging the Kaiser (2024)
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Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social · Jan 27
Being an academic comes with many, many happy days - despite the severe headwinds caused by the current political climate - but few will ever equal today: the physical copies of my book arrived this afternoon! So much looking forward now to Thursday, the start of the book tour!
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#Samstagslektüre
February 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Mehr Quellen also! #Forschungsprojekt #Buchprojekt #Kanzlerdemokratie

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Altbundeskanzler Olaf Scholz plant Memoiren
Altbundeskanzler Olaf Scholz kündigt an, seine Memoiren zu schreiben. Zugleich erklärt er, warum er nichts von einer europäischen Armee und einem gemeinsamen Atomschutzschirm hält.
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February 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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New article in the Society's journal, 'Transactions':

‘Lord Palmerston and Tiverton: Politics, Celebrity and Memory in Victorian Britain’, by Frederick William Hyde bit.ly/4aHDoPo

What can a study of local politics contribute to work on Victorian celebrity and the political uses of the past? 1/2
Opening page of new Transactions article: 'Lord Palmerston and Tiverton: Politics, Celebrity and Memory in Victorian Britain', by Fredericl William Hyde. Full abstract: 'Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston, the ebullient Victorian foreign secretary and prime minister, is no stranger to historians; few stones in his life have been left unturned. One exception is Palmerston’s relationship with the Devonshire borough of Tiverton, which he represented in Parliament for thirty years. Palmerston’s biographers have traditionally downplayed the significance of the Tivertonians and this article offers a more sophisticated approach, by relating popular politics to the nascent historiographical subfields of celebrity and memory. It finds that, during Palmerston’s lifetime, the celebrity status that he used Tiverton to cultivate became a source of civic pride and a pillar of the borough’s identity. Then, after Palmerston’s death, the politics of celebrity became intertwined with the politics of memory. Control of the political space that Palmerston’s legacy occupied became a prerequisite for electoral success, as political debates mutated into bitter arguments over which faction had the better claim to his legacy. This article therefore seeks to illuminate new ways of reading Palmerston and to contribute to the growing body of work on Victorian celebrities and the political uses of the Victorian past.'
February 11, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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janmarkert.bsky.social
I was reading Wolfgang Kruse's updated @bpb.de article on the founding of the German Empire, when I noticed my book on Wilhelm I (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social) is now listed as one of the reference works on the topic. What an honour! Thank you!

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Äußere und innere Reichsgründung | Das Deutsche Kaiserreich | bpb.de
Am 18. Januar 1871 wurde das Deutsche Reich gegründet. Der äußeren musste nun die innere Reichsgründung folgen – ein schwieriger Prozess, denn das Reich war ein Bund der deutschen Fürsten.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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feshistory.bsky.social
#AfS: Gleich zwei neue Biografien Konrad Adenauers, verfasst von Norbert Frei und Friedrich Kießling, rezensiert Klaus-Dietmar Henke. Er liest dabei zwei auch zeitlich völlig unterschiedliche Ansätze, denen gemein ist, "hagiografischen Versuchungen" nicht zu erliegen:

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Norbert Frei, Konrad Adenauer. Kanzler nach der Katastrophe Friedrich Kießling, Adenauer. Dreieinhalb Leben – Biografie
February 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social
Year two of our book tour is about to begin! On 26 February 2026, @janmarkert.bsky.social (@unitrier.bsky.social) and I (@humanitiesuu.bsky.social) will present our books at Buchhandlung Winckelmann in Stendal, during an evening organised by @bismarckstiftung.bsky.social. All welcome at 6:30 PM!
February 4, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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dgb-history.bsky.social
Druckfrisch und Open Access: Das neue Heft der Historischen Zeitschrift, mit Beiträgen zu Geographiegeschichte, Mythosforschung und Friedrich Meinecke sowie mit zahlreichen Rezensionen der neuen historischen Literatur. @writinghelena.bsky.social
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Das Cover von Heft 322.1 der Historischen Zeitschrift mit einem Open Access-Logo
February 4, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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claudiakreklau.bsky.social
It is out, everyone! 🎉

My book "The Making of Modern Eating" is out with
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social and the
@ghiwashington.bsky.social!

The digital versions are free—so download, share and enjoy! 📚

@thegsa.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
The cover of the book shows a fork and spoon. Four QR codes lead to the free pdf, epub and kindle, as well as the hardback. President of the AHA Suzanne Marchand endorses the book.
February 3, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Happy publication day to @claudiakreklau.bsky.social, whose book “The Making of Modern Eating” is now published in our Studies in German History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social book series! Available in open access and other formats here: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Krekla...
The Making of Modern Eating: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910 | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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hannelore14089.bsky.social
„Die Passivität, das Schweigen der anständigen Leute... [war] für den Erfolg des Nationalsozialismus ebenso wichtig wie das Gebrüll der Schwärmer" -
Fritz Stern

February 2, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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dgb-history.bsky.social
Frank Bösch über neue Einblicke aus "vertraulichen Gesprächen und geheimen Akten" im Umfeld der #NATO-Osterweiterung 1994.
➡️Besprechung des neuesten #AAPD-Bandes in der @faznet.bsky.social

@leibniz-ifz.bsky.social
@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social

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Putin wollte die Krim schon 1994
Schon Helmut Kohl fürchtete um den Fortbestand der Ukraine. Sein Außenminister sprach von einem „Obervolta mit Raketen“. Fundstücke einer neuen Aktenedition.
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February 2, 2026 at 9:56 AM
ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social
'Effingers does not explain what happened to the Germans and the Jews. Instead it captures an experience that we are increasingly familiar with today: the bewilderment of watching history go wrong without being able to understand or stop it.'
nybooks.com The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 13d
Effingers, Gabriele Tergit’s “eight-hundred-page novel took more than a decade to write, and by the time it was finished, its subject—the German Jewish bourgeoisie...had ceased to exist.” —Adam Kirsch
Things Fall Apart | Adam Kirsch
Gabriele Tergit’s Effingers chronicles how one prosperous German Jewish family struggled to answer the question: When is it time to leave?
www.nybooks.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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File under, we never quite know what's coming next.

One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
A photocopy of a letter that reads.. British Embassy EAST BERLIN The Rt Hon Douglas Hurd CBE MP Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs London SWl Sir, GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC : ANNUAL REVIEW 1989 1. I ended my last year's Review With the remark that "Accidents apart, I expect no substantive change of course in 1989"...
January 2, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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felixbohr.bsky.social
»Ick kann gar nich’ so viel fressen, wie ick kotzen möchte.«

Maler Max Liebermann zum Fackelzug der Nazis nach der Machtübergabe an Hitler am 30. Januar 1933.
January 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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And now also on the website of @humanitiesuu.bsky.social!
www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
January 30, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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glienkestephan.bsky.social
28.1.1919 Max Weber hält in München seinen berühmten Vortrag über "Politik als Beruf". Er geht darin auf die zunehmende Professionalisierung von Politikern und den damit einhergehenden Zwängen ein.

#otd #politik #geschichte
foto max weber 1918
January 28, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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leibniz-ifz.bsky.social
Neu im #FreeAccess: Der 70. Jahrgang der #VfZ ist online verfügbar und damit alle Beiträge des Jahres 2022, darunter u.a. das Podium Zeitgeschichte zu Islam und internationaler Politik sowie Texte zu Kulturen des Konservativen: www.ifz-muenchen.de/vierteljahrs... @dgb-history.bsky.social
Titelkopf der Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte
January 28, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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New year, new instalment of the Utrecht Lectures in Political History!

On Thursday 19 February 2026, @mihatsch.bsky.social (Wenzhou-Kean University), author of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social, will deliver the fifteenth Utrecht Lecture in Political History at @humanitiesuu.bsky.social!
January 27, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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January 26, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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Reinhart Koselleck: „Historie ist nicht dazu da, Identitäten zu stiften, sondern scheinbare, gewünschte, erdachte, gesuchte, gewollte Identitäten zu zerstören.“
January 24, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Wat heeft Napoleon met muziek te maken? Hoe werden zijn oorlogen in opera’s bezongen? Kom naar het @sechistnetwork.bsky.social event op 28 januari. Met Dorian Hagedoorn, Barbara Babić en Annelies Andries, plus concert op fortepiano door Lucie de Saint Vincent. Utrecht: forms.office.com/e/2hUgigqrip
January 22, 2026 at 4:53 PM
ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social
Marking one year since the publication of my book on Wilhelm I as German Emperor! And what a fantastic year it has been: reviews in leading newspapers, the first academic reviews and above all the book tour with Susanne Bauer (@bbaw.bsky.social) and @janmarkert.bsky.social (@unitrier.bsky.social)!
January 18, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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andrealoew.bsky.social
"Aber nehmen wir Zeitgenossen wirklich vollen und ständigen Anteil an den Geschehnissen? Oder vielmehr: Haben wir die Kraft, [...] um Tag für Tag, Stunde für Stunde mit aufgetaner Seele allen diesen sich überstürzenden Geschehnissen zu folgen?"

Stefan Zweig, Die Angler an der Seine, 1941.
Cover von Stefan Zweig, Die Kunst, ohne Sorgen zu leben.
January 18, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Unsere Januar-Ausgabe 2026 ist online:
www.sehepunkte.de/2026/01/
January 15, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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hsozkult.bsky.social
Konf: Der frühe Bundestag. Personal und Praktiken nach dem Nationalsozialismus

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159868

Berlin, 26.02.2026-27.02.2026, Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien e.V.; Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam; …
www.hsozkult.de
January 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM