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Vacancy — PhD position - Benign Blockades? Blockades and sanctions, 1919-1939

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Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · 6d

Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social

Samuël Kruizinga @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social · 6d

See the full vacancy text here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, wh...

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 6d

Starter Pack 2:

go.bsky.app/GX3v293

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 6d

🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field.

Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free!

go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 8d

Peripheral Histories? has just published a new author interview with Beatrice Penati about her excellent book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' @peripheralhist.bsky.social www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...

Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan

Beatrice Penati’s new book Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan (published with Brill, 2025) provides a comprehensive account of early S...

www.peripheralhistories.co.uk

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 8d

New Voices offers a space for postgraduate students working in our field to write short public-facing blogs about their original research on the contemporary history of Europe and its overseas empires (c.1914-present).

Email [email protected] to find out more or submit an idea.

Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 8d

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New Voices continues with a blog from Benjamin Pfannes, @unipotsdam.bsky.social.

Benjamin's blog explores the historical context and contemporary challenges of the Franco-German Brigade, a unique experiment in military co-operation and integration.

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

The Franco-German Brigade: A Mirror of Integration—and Its Limits « History# « Cambridge Core Blog

When the Franco-German Brigade (FGB) was established in 1989, it was hailed as a unique experiment in postwar Europe. Never before had soldiers from two former enemies served permanently under a share...

‘Death is Not the End’: Thanatology Today | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 9d

Finally, @estefwright.bsky.social chose Claire Nally's review article on thanatalogy, 'Death is Not the End', for offering "an impressive synthesis of the emerging field of death studies" with "profound implications for how we think about grief". [7/7]

tinyurl.com/2m6dmtee

‘Death is Not the End’: Thanatology Today

‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 9d

Harry Legg's article, 'I Hid for Days in the Basement' was chosen by @npapadogian.bsky.social for its use of autobiographical narrations, "[highlighting] the complexities of this hitherto understudied moment of discovery in the years before the Holocaust". [6/7]

tinyurl.com/4k86mvh2

‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria - Volume 34 Issue 2

Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 9d

@laurenstokes.bsky.social selected Dónal Hassett's Spotlight piece, 'Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War', describing it as 'an incisive overview of a scholarly field that has grown to daunting proportions'. [5/7]

tinyurl.com/5es9h7k2

Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War

Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery (1918–1947) | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 9d

Highlighting 'Teachers in Power' from April 2025, @siobhanhearne.bsky.social notes that Tereza Juhászová's article "aptly demonstrates how schools became contested sites of power and ideology against the backdrop of wars and regime change" in Central Europe. [4/7]

tinyurl.com/4s3d2rdr

Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery (1918–1947)

Prostitution as Profession: Histories of ‘Work-Shy’ Labour in a Welfare State, West Germany between 1949 and 1974 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 9d

@michellelkahn.bsky.social chose Annalisa Martin's 'Prostitution as Profession', which "compellingly examines commercial sex as an unrecognized form of labour... [making] an important case for the need to consider prostitution as a legitimate profession". [3/7]

tinyurl.com/yc6btkss

Prostitution as Profession: Histories of ‘Work-Shy’ Labour in a Welfare State, West Germany between 1949 and 1974

Negotiated Filtration: The Surprising Fate of Poland's Postimperial Civil Servants | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 9d

@emile-chabal.bsky.social selected Keely Stauter-Halsted's 'Negotiated Filtration', describing it as a "beautifully written examination of civil servants" in postimperial Poland, "this terrific article tells us an awful lot about how states change (and how they don’t).” [2/7]

tinyurl.com/2sft4fe5

Negotiated Filtration: The Surprising Fate of Poland's Postimperial Civil Servants

Not-Working in Western Europe, 1950-2000: Practices, Policies, and Experiences

Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 9d

🧵 In CEH's first digest (tinyurl.com/38p3yxky), our six editors each highlighted a recent article they have particularly enjoyed working on.

This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 16d

The second, 'That Ain’t Working: Practices, Policies and Experiences of Non–Work in Western Europe, 1950–2000', spotlights habits of not-working and other forms of wageless life beyond unemployment in late C20th Europe.

(ed. Kim Christian Priemel)

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Welcome to Cambridge Core

Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949

Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 16d

📖 Read our two latest special issues online:

The first, 'Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949', connects civil conflict across Europe to the evolution of humanitarian practices.

(eds. @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwath)

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Welcome to Cambridge Core

Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

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Anna Lively @annalively.bsky.social · 21d

Delighted to have an article on the Irish Save the Children Fund and the Volga famine campaign as part of this special issue of
@conteurohistory.bsky.social Available open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social · 22d

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction

The Contemporary European History Prize

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 27d

The deadline for the CEH Prize is tomorrow⌛

Polish those abstracts and get uploading!

Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · Jun 17

🚨 The Contemporary European History Prize 2025 is now open for submissions!

PhD students/ECRs working on post-1914 European history are eligible. Entries are max 8,000 words. Winner receives publication and £400 of CUP books!

Deadline 12 Sept 2025. More details ⬇️

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A prize aimed at encouraging, recognizing and promoting high-quality research among postgraduate and early career historians.

Health Crusaders: Childhood and Public Health in the First World War | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 27d

📖 New article online!

'Health Crusaders: Childhood and Public Health in the First World War', by Sara Elizabeth Black

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Health Crusaders: Childhood and Public Health in the First World War

The Contemporary European History Prize

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · Aug 26

Just three weeks left until the deadline for the CEH Prize. We can't wait to read all the submissions!

Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · Jun 17

🚨 The Contemporary European History Prize 2025 is now open for submissions!

PhD students/ECRs working on post-1914 European history are eligible. Entries are max 8,000 words. Winner receives publication and £400 of CUP books!

Deadline 12 Sept 2025. More details ⬇️

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A prize aimed at encouraging, recognizing and promoting high-quality research among postgraduate and early career historians.

Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · Aug 26

📖 New review article online!

'Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century', by Anaïs Faurt

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century

Under Vernacular Bushels: Language as Science Policy in the Reorganisation of Nordic Scientific Publication, 1960–1980 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · Aug 18

📖 New article online!

'Under Vernacular Bushels: Language as Science Policy in the Reorganisation of Nordic Scientific Publication, 1960–1980', by Jenny Beckman

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Under Vernacular Bushels: Language as Science Policy in the Reorganisation of Nordic Scientific Publication, 1960–1980