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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 4d

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Sep 4

Excellent 🤩

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29

I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Aug 1

Incredible photographs from WWII have just been published online by UN archives.
Creator: the United Nations Information Organization (UNIO)

You can view over 3k photographs here: search.archives.un.org/informationo...

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Aug 1

Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congratulations, Lena, I hope you had a great time!

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jul 29

Arguing with a historian is a lot like wrestling in the mud with a pig. After a couple of hours, you realize the pig likes it.

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jul 26

#iccees2025
@royalhistsoc.org

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jul 25

Closing plenary
#iccees2025

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jul 22

Marking the end of school and the beginning of summer for many students in the UK, a piece from the archive by Sorcha Thomson.

In the summer of 1969, 120 European students travelled to a camp in Jordan to learn from Palestinians about the Palestinian Revolution.

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Solidarity and the Summer Camp

What might the story of a summer camp tell us about the practice and politics of solidarity? Sorcha Thomson on the 'Friends of Palestine' camp of 1969.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jul 20

Indeed ☂️

Konstantin Tarasov @ktarasov.bsky.social · Jul 19

How to say you're going to a conference in London without saying you're going to a conference in London
#iccees2025

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jul 19

Next you’ll tell us to stop overthinking and use footnotes responsibly.

Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jul 19

"Keep comments short and on topic, avoid grandstanding, be responsible. Do not engage in harassment or judgemental rudeness." But that's endangering our way of life as academics. Without grandstanding, we're just underpaid hobbyists with library cards.
#iccees2025

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jul 18

Central European History Convention, University of Vienna
#cehc
@univie.ac.at

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jul 14

London, ICCEES 2025, join us for the roundtable on global archives in researching the history of Eastern Europe and the USSR:

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jul 11

My article on the Vatican archives🇻🇦🏛 in the latest issue of New Eastern Europe:

🔎 For years to come, these immense multilingual archives will be a vital resource contributing to writing a new transnational history of the Cold War East

neweasterneurope.eu/2025/07/08/t...

The Vatican and the Eastern Bloc: what the Vatican archives can reveal about Cold War Europe - New Eastern Europe

Five years after the Vatican unsealed its archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, historians are only beginning to uncover the depth of insight they offer into the post-war transformation of Eas...

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jul 9

#EuARe2025

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Jul 3

Our great thanks to Prof Peter Gatrell who yesterday evening gave the 2025 RHS Prothero Lecture on ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’: bit.ly/3GmcpN6

Thank you to all who attended in person and online. Video & audio recordings of the lecture will be available shortly #Skystorians

Image of Professor Peter Gatrell delivering the 2025 RHS Prothero Lecture at Mary Ward House, London, 2 July 2025.

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jun 15

These just reached me!! You can request your free inspection or review copy here: global.oup.com/academic/hel...

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · Jun 2

Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · May 20

22 May 2025, 6:30 pm, Zeitgeschichte Library (Campus, Altes AKH), University of Vienna: Book Launch: A History of Displaced Knowledge Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia, by Philipp Strobl 📚

Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · May 15

Book Launch 📚 Join @PeterGatrell and me on 25 May 2025 at 6pm at Hotel Regina in Vienna for a conversation about "Refugee Voices in Modern Global History. Reckoning with Refugeedom"
global-displacement-and-resettlement.univie.ac.at/internationa...

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Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social · May 7

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · May 7

CONCLAVE! 🗝️

As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave

Detail of two of the [Four voting slips for the election of a Pope]. [Rome?: Reverenda Camera Apostolica?, 16--?], National Library of Scotland, Crawford.B.41(15). Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · May 7

CONCLAVE! 🗝️

As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave

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