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D. Anca Cretu
@dacretu.bsky.social
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Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. My first book available now: https://www.sup.org/books/history/foreign-aid-and-state-building-interwar-romania . Currently writing on refugees, Central Europe, WWI
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · 9d
Back to school!
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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 13d
Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · 13d
The multilayered question is why many eastern Europeans vote for Farage's allies in loco: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage falsely accuses eastern European migrants of eating swans from royal parks
Nigel Farage has been accused of ‘peddling wild conspiracy theories’ with critics saying his latest claims are a ‘direct lift from the Trump song book’
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · 15d
Many thanks to Grant Harward for the kind review of my book! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an Ideal
Published in First World War Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 20d
Shoutout to my good friend and collaborator, Dagmar Hájková, who knows way more about TGM than anyone should have to. 🥰https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/europe/tgm-letter-czech-republic-scli-intl
Czechs agog as national archive prepares to open mysterious envelope sealed for 20 years | CNN
Citizens of the Czech Republic are waiting with bated breath for a longstanding mystery to be solved: What were the last words of the country’s revered first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk?
www.cnn.com
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · 21d
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Sep 7
Of course! I screamed like my life depended on Charles and Lewis passing by our stand haha . Forza Ferrari no matter what!
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Sep 7
I lost my voice. The Tifosi effect.
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Sep 7
Escaping to Italy and checking a bucket list must since I was 8: F1 Grand Prix at Monza.
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Sep 3
Baffling to say that the "lottery" system was kind to me, but super grateful to have received a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant...Time to finish research for project #2 and spend some time back in Central Europe next year (if all goes well). #birthdaypresent
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Sep 2
Times are grim, but at least Great British Bake-Off is back.
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Sep 1
Fueling racism in Romania like there's no tomorrow as well.
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 1
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
Curtis Yarvin being incapable of understanding that the Roma are not Romanians
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 1
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
Curtis Yarvin being incapable of understanding that the Roma are not Romanians
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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · Sep 1
The kind of good news we have been waiting for far too long:
👇👇👇

"UK preparing for Erasmus reunion"
www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...
Research Professional Sign-in
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Aug 29
Good time as any to announce that I have joined the Contemporary European History team as a Reviews Editor. Holler at me if you'd be interested in putting a review essay together...I have already started a list.😎 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Editorial board
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Aug 27
The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps.

"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"

archive.ph/78dcP
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Aug 25
We have launched a series highlighting the positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland 💙

Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇

#refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere
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SCORE @rebellionuhh.bsky.social · Aug 22
🎺 Job alert! 🎺
Durham University is advertising for an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern), permanent and full-time!
Great department, lovely colleagues, beautiful historic city! Deadline for applications is 28/09/25!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...
Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern) at Durham University
Discover Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Aug 18
Sure! I will make a mental note to send you a message in DMs by end of the week (fine-tuning to adapt to a certain model for my university), but if you don't hear from me, do write! :)
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 18
refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Aug 18
a woman sitting in front of a microphone with the words internally screaming below her
ALT: a woman sitting in front of a microphone with the words internally screaming below her
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Aug 18
Finalizing my new module on "History of Refugees in Modern Europe" and am both nervous and SO very excited to get this going.
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Aug 18
robert downey jr. is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .
ALT: robert downey jr. is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .
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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · Aug 17
„The ‚deal’ being proposed for 🇺🇦 could very well be the pivot which decides what the new Europe will be. Will it be one of validated conquest, of war crimes covered up, of abducted children and normalization with butchers.“ @phillipspobrien.bsky.social
Is that the Europe you would like to live in?
Weekend Update #146: A Deal To Destroy Ukraine
Europe Will Have To Choose Soon; The Pokrovsk "Collapse" Was Nothing Of The Sort
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · Aug 15
Jake Tapper was painful. But this is what happens when your president cannot string three coherent sentences together and use punctuation. He was also exhausted and weak. How painfully embarrassing. Nauseating.
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