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📣 New article online!
'Blood Knows No Borders: Blood Donation and Transfusion Systems in Yugoslavia', by Ivan Simic | @ivansimic.bsky.social
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📖 New article online!
'The Return of the Renaissance on the Eve of the Maastricht Treaty: The European Community Pavilion at Expo 92', by Anastasia Remes | @eui-eu.bsky.social
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📣 CEH is now on LinkedIn!
Head on over and give us a follow for the journal's latest updates and long-form posts!
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📣 New article online!
'Out of Bounds: Israel, European Football, and the Making of Continental Belonging', by Daniel Mahla
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I've got an article for that! This 2020 article from @conteurohistory.bsky.social explored the process as it was practiced in the south: ‘Uprooting identity: European Integration, political realignment, and the wine of the Languedoc (1984-2014)’
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
#skystorians 🗃️
📣 New Spotlight essay, now online:
'Europe as Scaffolding: On the Future of Holocaust History', by Jan Burzlaff
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Are you an emerging scholar seeking to share your research with a wider audience? @conteurohistory.bsky.social has a new blog called "New Voices" that highlights research by advanced grad students + early career on European history 1914-present. Submit your work! tinyurl.com/2s45996j
Finally, @laurenstokes.bsky.social selected Máté Rigó and José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas's Spotlight essay, 'Global History Wars': an exploration of writing global history "in an era when the approach is under attack from both the left... and the right". [7/7]
tinyurl.com/3mrjdvc5
Julià Gómez Reig's article from September 2025, 'The Regia Nave Italia: Race, Migration and Fascist Colonial Diplomacy in Latin America', was chosen by @michellelkahn.bsky.social as "a model of how to study transatlantic mobility". | @jgomezreig.bsky.social [6/7]
tinyurl.com/58nyfwbz
@npapadogian.bsky.social chose Christos Triantafyllou's 'The Afterlives of Eleftherios Venizelos', an exploration of "the overlapping ways in which national myths are constructed in historiography, political discourses, and public history". [5/7]
tinyurl.com/vzt2rw88
Choosing Elena Serina's 'Catholic Humanitarianism, Displaced Persons and the Making of Post-War Europe', @siobhanhearne.bsky.social noted it "lucidly shows how a transnational network of Catholic humanitarians helped to shape the emergent international refugee regime" [4/7]
tinyurl.com/yc82tkhp
@liabrazil.bsky.social's 'Transnational Appeals for Humanitarian Intervention in Europe’s Civil - and Imperial - Wars' was chosen by @emile-chabal.bsky.social for its "original interpretation of the relationship between civil wars and the emergence of humanitarianism". [3/7]
tinyurl.com/56463xt2
@estefwright.bsky.social has chosen Coreen Anne McGuire's review article, 'Disability History Gets to Work' - a "beautifully written piece [which] reflects on the broader social significance of this blossoming field" | @coreenanne.bsky.social [2/7]
tinyurl.com/yu93k7ua
🧵CEH's second digest is out now, detailing our latest special issues, journal news, and more.
And once again our six editors have each highlighted a recent article they've enjoyed - read on to see which ones they picked, and why! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ [1/7]
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We at @conteurohistory.bsky.social have just published our latest editorial digest for Jul-Dec 2025, including details of new special issues + our favourite articles. Give it a read! www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Calling our early career historians of contemporary Europe - submit blog posts for the journal’a New Voices blog!
Are you an emerging scholar excited to share info about your research? @conteurohistory.bsky.social has a new blog called "New Voices" highlighting research by advanced grad students + early career on any aspect of European history 1914-today. Submit your work! www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...
Check out the latest @conteurohistory.bsky.social digest for journal news and editors' picks. I chose Elena Serina's excellent article on transnational Catholic humanitarianism and the making of postwar Europe. Hot off the press & a must read for historians of humanitarianism! tinyurl.com/mbu92vx2
My review essay on "The Work That Never Ends" has been published open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It reviews an edited volume on #emotions and #work, two books on #NS concepts of work and a monograpgh on a #GDR enterprise. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#skystorians
We are advertising another two postdoctoral positions as part of our ERC Synergy Project BLOCKADE! The positions will be at Hamburg University, working with (the truly amazing) Alan Kramer - pls share! @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @conteurohistory.bsky.social
To propose a blog idea, get in touch with us at cehnewvoices@gmail.com.
January may be dry, but your research output needn't be!
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And in December, Lewis Willcox explored the unlikely connection between the Scottish Farm Servants' Union and the 1920 Kapp Putsch in Berlin. [6/7]
@loadaigh99.bsky.social
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In October, Rosie Charles wrote about her research into the manufacture of superphosphate by the British and French empires, charting the impact of fertiliser production on imperial expansion and agricultural practices. [5/7]
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In September, Benjamin Pfannes explored a unique experiment in military co-operation and integration, analysing the historical context and contemporary challenges of the Franco-German Brigade. [4/7]
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In July, Samuel Kramer brought the complex history of the interwar 'Little Entente' into dialogue with contemporary French diplomatic goals in Eastern and Central Europe. [3/7]
@samkra.bsky.social
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In March, Emma Flanagan wrote about the links between the communist movement and women's anticolonial resistance in post-war French North Africa [2/7]
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New Year, New Voices! 📣
Get your research out there in 2026 with the help of CEH's blog. New Voices offers a platform for postgrads and ECRs in our field to engage a wider audience with their work.
Here's a reminder of everything we published in 2025 (contact details at the end!) [1/7]
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📖 Out on FirstView!
'Performing (Gender) in 1930s Spain: La Barraca, University Theatre and Women’s History', by Maria Bastianes
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📖 New article online!
'Decadents and Saboteurs: Homosexuals on Trial in Post-War Socialist Yugoslavia', by Franko Dota
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