Neil Gregor

@neilgregor.bsky.social

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Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton. The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany (University of Chicago Press, May 2025). Things German, musical, historical, political, with some bicycles and mountains https://bit.ly/3ZwwJlM .. more

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · May 2

Well look what the postie brought!

Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 7h

Good luck to everyone who applies! Great opportunities in a great institution.

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Two Research Fellow Positions in Modern and Contemporary History – GHI Washington

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 8d

More publication news: "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by @drhelenroche.bsky.social and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social, is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social.
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Cover of Abusing Antiquity? volume showing Athena (?) portrayed in the style of Attic red-figure painting holding a sign that says "you will not replace our Classics" and a shield with Pepe the frog on it.

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StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social · 8d

📣 Join us on Tues, 2 Dec, at 5.30pm for a hybrid lecture by Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall', followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public. For details and registration see Eventbrite links👇

Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 11d

Once upon a time a chancellor would have had to resign for that. Oh for the days of Purdah.

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Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social · 15d

Die Historikerin Gisela Bock ist gestorben. In der FAZ ein Nachruf von Daniel Schönpflug
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 19d

It's a great honour to have been invited to speak about my book in Berlin again, this time in German, and this time at the @topographie.de - Topographie des Terrors - on 10 December. Details here - do come along if you are in Berlin!
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Das Sinfoniekonzert im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland

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Waveybobson @bobbybaerchen.bsky.social · 20d

Honig wach auf die @zeit.de hat einen politischen Kompass fallengelassen auf dem die Grünen links der Linken sind und die Nazipartei Mitte-rechts

Politischer Kompass aus der Mitte-Umfrage der ZEIT

Die Abstimmungen ergeben eine Pyramide, die meisten haben mittig abgestimmt.

Die Mitte befindet sich, oh Wunder, laut Zeit zwischen Union und SPD. Mitte links finden sich die Linke und links davon die Grünen. Ja, richtig gelesen, die ZEIT ordnet die Grünen linker als die Linke ein. Mitte rechts dann die gesichert rechtsextreme Nazipartei.

Mein Ergebnis besagt komischerweise, dass 99% rechter als ich abgestimmt haben.

Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 21d

This is quite worrying.

Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 21d

Well - if you out yourself as having an intimate knowledge of Bay City Rollers lyrics then you are obviously open to accusations that you are drunk as a lord in the middle of the afternoon. But I did mean that your talents deserve greater recognition!

Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 21d

Hugh you are clearly wasted here.

Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 23d

Karl Lueger dividing the spirits as ever….

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Ann D.P. 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @anadiplosis.bsky.social · 25d

Hörenswertes Interview

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Das Sinfoniekonzert in Nazi-Deutschland - Historiker Neil Gregor mit neuem Buch

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 25d

Remind me to give another lecture in Vienna sometime.

Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 26d

Huge pleasure to talk at the Uni. f. Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna this evening - thanks to the audience for stomaching my German and for their really penetrating questions.

Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 28d

You still have time to make it to Vienna for this!

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Gastvortrag | Neil Gregor: Das Sinfoniekonzert in Nazi-Deutschland: Orchester und deren Publika – Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Oct 24

Here's hoping that the @financialtimes.com is right, and that there has been a rallying around of the anti-fascist constituency to stop the far Right. An anti-Farage popular front would put the weasel back in his place.

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Labour suffers seismic by-election defeat to Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly

Loss of seat for first time in century deals blow to Keir Starmer’s leadership ahead of Welsh elections in May

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Oct 22

Certainly interesting trying to get in and out, or return back through internal doors with one-way entrances.... But thanks for coming!

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · Oct 19

Digital edition of IDS (IU Bloomington student paper, now in its 158th year) does continue to publish real news, including this shocking story: www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Jewish Studies director replacement ‘unprecedented,’ students and faculty say

Dean Rick Van Kooten later held a nomination process one faculty member called “symbolic.”

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Joël Glasman @glasmanjo.bsky.social · Oct 17

Call for Application: Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary History @unibayreuth.bsky.social

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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · Oct 12

Leseempfehlung!!

„A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa“

Von Matthew P. Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social

Oxford Studies in Modern European History

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Harald Schmid @haschmi.bsky.social · Oct 10

In der Deutung dieser reizenden Begebenheit bin ich noch unentschieden zwischen "großes Kino" und "Untergang des Abendlandes".
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Landgericht Lüneburg: Ghostwriter von Doktorandin verklagt

Eine Doktorandin verklagt ihren Ghostwriter, weil er seinen Job schlecht erledigt habe. Hat ihr niemand gesagt, dass man Qualifikationsschriften selbst schreiben muss?

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Oct 9

For Oxford colleagues - 21 October:

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The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany: Orchestras and their Audiences

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Oct 6

Interesting enough about Kuehne & Nagel but the @financialtimes.com (of all newspapers!) should know that the suggestion that German companies are only now being forced to engage with their difficult pasts is just nonsense - this has been a live topic for a good 30 years.

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German logistics billionaire faces questions over Nazi-era legacy

Klaus-Michael Kuehne has repeatedly declined to address growing evidence of his company’s wartime conduct

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StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social · Sep 26

📣 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UPCOMING STRIKE at the University of Leicester, Prof. Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social has CANCELLED his talk next week! The strike takes place in response to the threat of staff cuts with History being one of the areas affected: www.uculeicester.org.uk/information-...