Ned Richardson-Little
@historyned.bsky.social
Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal
Whenever I see my nationality highlighted in connection to my work as a historian, I start of triple guess why it's there. Is this just a point of information, a way to invoke an "outside" authority, or a kind of othering, especially when some scholars are just listed as people without national ID?
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Whenever I see my nationality highlighted in connection to my work as a historian, I start of triple guess why it's there. Is this just a point of information, a way to invoke an "outside" authority, or a kind of othering, especially when some scholars are just listed as people without national ID?
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📆 Die #TuesdayTalks begrüßen morgen (25.11.) unseren ehemaligen Kollegen @historyned.bsky.social um 18 Uhr zum Vortrag "Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present". Welcome back 😉 www.uni-erfurt.de/universitaet...
Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present
Vortrag von Ned Richardson-Little (Potsdam) im Rahmen der Tuesday Talks. Eine Veranstaltung des Forschungskollegs Transkulturelle Studien / Sammlung Perthes in Kooperation mit verschiedenen Partnern. ...
www.uni-erfurt.de
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
📆 Die #TuesdayTalks begrüßen morgen (25.11.) unseren ehemaligen Kollegen @historyned.bsky.social um 18 Uhr zum Vortrag "Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present". Welcome back 😉 www.uni-erfurt.de/universitaet...
Saying you cant judge if the Holocaust is the worst of humanity because you don’t have a comprehensive listing of atrocities to make a definitive judgement is one of those coy statements that is never just someone being excessively pedantic.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Saying you cant judge if the Holocaust is the worst of humanity because you don’t have a comprehensive listing of atrocities to make a definitive judgement is one of those coy statements that is never just someone being excessively pedantic.
I just signed!
Not sure how I’m just seeing this now — a succinct, smart open letter, so far signed by over 1100 professional educators, which articulates the key rationales of those of us who refuse the unsupported-by-facts pressure to adopt GenAI anywhere in the educational process. Read & consider signing.
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I just signed!
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Happy three month bookaversary!
The German Democratic Republic by @historyned.bsky.social provides a succinct and comprehensive history of East Germany and its people, from its early Cold War foundations to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Publishing today! bit.ly/4kaEnJf
Publishing today! bit.ly/4kaEnJf
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Happy three month bookaversary!
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Wir gedenken heute Bahide Arslan, Yeliz Arslan und Ayşe Yılmaz. Sie wurden vor 33 Jahren, in der Nacht vom 22. auf den 23. November 1992, bei den rassistischen Brandanschlägen von #Mölln ermordet. Weitere Mitglieder der Familie wurden zum Teil schwer verletzt.
#KeinVergessen
#KeinVergessen
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Wir gedenken heute Bahide Arslan, Yeliz Arslan und Ayşe Yılmaz. Sie wurden vor 33 Jahren, in der Nacht vom 22. auf den 23. November 1992, bei den rassistischen Brandanschlägen von #Mölln ermordet. Weitere Mitglieder der Familie wurden zum Teil schwer verletzt.
#KeinVergessen
#KeinVergessen
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Happy three month bookaversary!
The German Democratic Republic by @historyned.bsky.social provides a succinct and comprehensive history of East Germany and its people, from its early Cold War foundations to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Publishing today! bit.ly/4kaEnJf
Publishing today! bit.ly/4kaEnJf
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Happy three month bookaversary!
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20Nov45, Int'l Mil. Tribunal #Nuremberg. Judge Lawrence: "The Trial which is now about to begin is unique in the history of the jurisprudence of the world & it is of supreme importance to millions of people all over the globe." Punch conjures Lady #Justice, by EH Shepard (also drew Winnie the Pooh).
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
20Nov45, Int'l Mil. Tribunal #Nuremberg. Judge Lawrence: "The Trial which is now about to begin is unique in the history of the jurisprudence of the world & it is of supreme importance to millions of people all over the globe." Punch conjures Lady #Justice, by EH Shepard (also drew Winnie the Pooh).
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The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
uncpress.org/978146969484...
uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
uncpress.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
uncpress.org/978146969484...
uncpress.org/978146969484...
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Das Bild einer Entfremdung: Die Stipendiaten der Deutschlandstiftung Integration verlassen bei der Rede des Bundeskanzlers den Saal.
Viele wollen es nicht verstehen oder wahr haben, aber die Äußerungen des Kanzlers haben enorme Kränkungen verursacht.
Viele wollen es nicht verstehen oder wahr haben, aber die Äußerungen des Kanzlers haben enorme Kränkungen verursacht.
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Das Bild einer Entfremdung: Die Stipendiaten der Deutschlandstiftung Integration verlassen bei der Rede des Bundeskanzlers den Saal.
Viele wollen es nicht verstehen oder wahr haben, aber die Äußerungen des Kanzlers haben enorme Kränkungen verursacht.
Viele wollen es nicht verstehen oder wahr haben, aber die Äußerungen des Kanzlers haben enorme Kränkungen verursacht.
My hot take is that if you get to a place where you hate the students you are teaching, then yes, you should quit your fancy job as a history professor.
The Lepore interview boils down to her saying that despite better pay, research support, & resources than 99.9% of historians working today, she wanted to quit because some students - whom she barely has to teach given the low load - were too woke. These are not the advocates the discipline needs!
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My hot take is that if you get to a place where you hate the students you are teaching, then yes, you should quit your fancy job as a history professor.
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These paragraphs together are really weird.
Paragraph 1: “Cartrels do terrorism.”
Paragraph 2: “It’s not good to call them terrorists.”
Paragraph 1: “Cartrels do terrorism.”
Paragraph 2: “It’s not good to call them terrorists.”
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
These paragraphs together are really weird.
Paragraph 1: “Cartrels do terrorism.”
Paragraph 2: “It’s not good to call them terrorists.”
Paragraph 1: “Cartrels do terrorism.”
Paragraph 2: “It’s not good to call them terrorists.”
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Book-Release-Day!
In meinem Buch zeichne ich Entwicklungen seit ‘45 nach, die den heutigen Umgang mit der extremen Rechten in eine lange Tradition stellen. Ein Beispiel: Schon 1980 fühlten sich Frankfurter Neonazis durch den scharfen Anti-Asyl-Kurs des OB bestätigt - rassistische Gewalttaten folgten
In meinem Buch zeichne ich Entwicklungen seit ‘45 nach, die den heutigen Umgang mit der extremen Rechten in eine lange Tradition stellen. Ein Beispiel: Schon 1980 fühlten sich Frankfurter Neonazis durch den scharfen Anti-Asyl-Kurs des OB bestätigt - rassistische Gewalttaten folgten
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Book-Release-Day!
In meinem Buch zeichne ich Entwicklungen seit ‘45 nach, die den heutigen Umgang mit der extremen Rechten in eine lange Tradition stellen. Ein Beispiel: Schon 1980 fühlten sich Frankfurter Neonazis durch den scharfen Anti-Asyl-Kurs des OB bestätigt - rassistische Gewalttaten folgten
In meinem Buch zeichne ich Entwicklungen seit ‘45 nach, die den heutigen Umgang mit der extremen Rechten in eine lange Tradition stellen. Ein Beispiel: Schon 1980 fühlten sich Frankfurter Neonazis durch den scharfen Anti-Asyl-Kurs des OB bestätigt - rassistische Gewalttaten folgten
Podiumsdiskussion: Rechte Hochburgen in West- und Ostdeutschland — Geschichte und Gegenwart
Mit
Julia Reuschenbach (FU Berlin)
Sabine Volk (Universität Tübingen)
Gideon Botsch (Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam)
Moderation: Frank Bösch (ZZF Potsdam)
11. Dezember 2025
#il_liberal
Mit
Julia Reuschenbach (FU Berlin)
Sabine Volk (Universität Tübingen)
Gideon Botsch (Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam)
Moderation: Frank Bösch (ZZF Potsdam)
11. Dezember 2025
#il_liberal
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Podiumsdiskussion: Rechte Hochburgen in West- und Ostdeutschland — Geschichte und Gegenwart
Mit
Julia Reuschenbach (FU Berlin)
Sabine Volk (Universität Tübingen)
Gideon Botsch (Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam)
Moderation: Frank Bösch (ZZF Potsdam)
11. Dezember 2025
#il_liberal
Mit
Julia Reuschenbach (FU Berlin)
Sabine Volk (Universität Tübingen)
Gideon Botsch (Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam)
Moderation: Frank Bösch (ZZF Potsdam)
11. Dezember 2025
#il_liberal
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In Germany, historians are wrapping up a 20-year project to investigate the Nazi involvement of postwar West Germany government officials. Samuel Miner writes about what the project did and what future work could include in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
The End of an Era? – AHA
A 20-year project delving into the postwar history of West German federal ministries and their Nazi pasts is wrapping up.
www.historians.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In Germany, historians are wrapping up a 20-year project to investigate the Nazi involvement of postwar West Germany government officials. Samuel Miner writes about what the project did and what future work could include in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
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Nazi Germany, 1939 👇🏻
Refugees can take their wedding ring and a watch, but other jewellery was forfeit to the state.
Either on leaving, or on relatives’ deportation a couple of years later.
Apropos nothing much, in current UK politics…
Refugees can take their wedding ring and a watch, but other jewellery was forfeit to the state.
Either on leaving, or on relatives’ deportation a couple of years later.
Apropos nothing much, in current UK politics…
On leaving Nazi Germany
10) The inclusion of jewellery & valuables is prohibited
With the exception of:
Wedding ring of the emigrant
Pocket watch value to 100 RM
Used cutlery – silver 1 set pp for a family of 3, 1 extra set for family of 5. Each piece total weight 40 gm
👇🏻 translation & original
10) The inclusion of jewellery & valuables is prohibited
With the exception of:
Wedding ring of the emigrant
Pocket watch value to 100 RM
Used cutlery – silver 1 set pp for a family of 3, 1 extra set for family of 5. Each piece total weight 40 gm
👇🏻 translation & original
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Nazi Germany, 1939 👇🏻
Refugees can take their wedding ring and a watch, but other jewellery was forfeit to the state.
Either on leaving, or on relatives’ deportation a couple of years later.
Apropos nothing much, in current UK politics…
Refugees can take their wedding ring and a watch, but other jewellery was forfeit to the state.
Either on leaving, or on relatives’ deportation a couple of years later.
Apropos nothing much, in current UK politics…
Just maybe, free childcare is not a wild luxury but the way you make it possible for people to both have children and hold down a job in sectors that don’t pay an upper middle class salary.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just maybe, free childcare is not a wild luxury but the way you make it possible for people to both have children and hold down a job in sectors that don’t pay an upper middle class salary.
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
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In association with the @ghilondon.bsky.social - the GHS is pleased to invite papers for the 2026 'Medieval Germany Workshop'
Workshop date: 29 May 2026
Submissions due: 15 February 2026
www.germanhistorysoc...
Workshop date: 29 May 2026
Submissions due: 15 February 2026
www.germanhistorysoc...
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In association with the @ghilondon.bsky.social - the GHS is pleased to invite papers for the 2026 'Medieval Germany Workshop'
Workshop date: 29 May 2026
Submissions due: 15 February 2026
www.germanhistorysoc...
Workshop date: 29 May 2026
Submissions due: 15 February 2026
www.germanhistorysoc...
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Der dt. Medienstaatsminister Weimer über das Agitprop-Volabel „Zwangsgebühren“.
Mit dieser Argumentation spräche allerdings auch nichts gegen die Verwendung von „Remigration“, des N-Worts oder von Sätzen wie „Arbeit macht frei“.
Natürlich gibt es auch gute Gründe, manche Begriffe nicht zu verwenden.
Mit dieser Argumentation spräche allerdings auch nichts gegen die Verwendung von „Remigration“, des N-Worts oder von Sätzen wie „Arbeit macht frei“.
Natürlich gibt es auch gute Gründe, manche Begriffe nicht zu verwenden.
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Der dt. Medienstaatsminister Weimer über das Agitprop-Volabel „Zwangsgebühren“.
Mit dieser Argumentation spräche allerdings auch nichts gegen die Verwendung von „Remigration“, des N-Worts oder von Sätzen wie „Arbeit macht frei“.
Natürlich gibt es auch gute Gründe, manche Begriffe nicht zu verwenden.
Mit dieser Argumentation spräche allerdings auch nichts gegen die Verwendung von „Remigration“, des N-Worts oder von Sätzen wie „Arbeit macht frei“.
Natürlich gibt es auch gute Gründe, manche Begriffe nicht zu verwenden.
Given the flimsy legal justifications for the murderous attacks on boats across the Caribbean in the name of fighting narcoterrorism, this essentially provides the same legal basis to launch drone strikes against Leipzig-Connewitz.
The Trump administration moved to designate antifa groups abroad as foreign terrorists — setting up the prosecution of their U.S. allies.
Marco Rubio Wants to Imprison You on Terror Charges for Supporting Nazi Punchers
Rubio moved to designate antifa groups abroad as foreign terrorist organizations — setting prosecution for their U.S. allies.
interc.pt
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Given the flimsy legal justifications for the murderous attacks on boats across the Caribbean in the name of fighting narcoterrorism, this essentially provides the same legal basis to launch drone strikes against Leipzig-Connewitz.
Just dropped off copies of my book to all the East Berlin Kita teachers I thanked in the Acknowledgements and I’ve never been so stressed out about peer review in my life.
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Just dropped off copies of my book to all the East Berlin Kita teachers I thanked in the Acknowledgements and I’ve never been so stressed out about peer review in my life.