Kelly Hignett

The photos shows two tabby cats lying asleep on a bed, their sleeping positions mirror each other

Mirror image cats! Saturday morning snoozing …

we’ve just had endless February rain here…

Photo showing a small group of white crocuses, viewed from above.

Spring!

Love stories of the Berlin Wall – couples reunited via tunnels, hot air balloons and zip wires Many couples were forced to undertake dangerous, daring escape attempts to overcome their separation.

Many couples were forced to undertake dangerous, daring escape attempts to overcome their separation.

I wrote this short piece for The Conversation, out in time for Valentine’s Day!

Photo view looking down at my laptop, with my tabby cat sitting on my knees

Today, I‘m working on a short article. Current WFH set up:

Today I’m attending (via Zoom) some of the conference ‘Literature of Socialist Trauma: Results and Prospects’

Today is the first official day of my sabbatical. My automatic email replies are on, and my cat is happy!

Some ‘light’ reading at the British Library! 📚 @britishlibrary.bsky.social

The people in the photo enjoy spending time reading through kilometres of documents produced by the secret services, trying to extract any trace of meaning from them. It was a great joy to co-organise a panel on preventative policing and repression in the USSR and Czechoslovakia at #ICCEES2025

New badge! From #ICCEES2025

‘Racing in the East’ - a great exhibition in Jeffrey Hall at #ICCEES2025

This starter pack is an experiment on our part, we've added everyone we can find posting under the conference hashtags #ICCEES2025 & #ICCEES25

If you would like to be added, just add to the conversation using #ICCEES2025 or #ICCEES25
go.bsky.app/Hb5CnBQ @basees.bsky.social

Today at #ICCEES2025 : why not end the day at our panel about Preventative Policing and Repression within the USSR and Czechoslovakia? Panel 10.1, W3.01, 16.30-18.00

I’m starting #ICCEES2025 day 3 at a panel about Culture, Politics and Civil Society in the Soviet Union, including a paper by @shsslbu.bsky.social PhD student Christina Schlegel

Two great papers by Olga Polishchuk and Alina Mozolevska, related to their research project about the use of digital diaries, textual and visual, as a means of communicating and processing wartime experiences and trauma in Ukraine #ICCEES2025

I’m starting day 2 of #ICCEES2025 by attending a very interesting panel: 3.1 ‘Voices from Ukraine: War Diaries of the Russo-Ukrainian War’

This panel looks interesting 😉 Panel 2.12, 16.30-18.00, today. Come and join us! #ICCEES2025

I am sorry to miss this, but I am presenting in the same panel stream 🙁

I thoroughly enjoyed Taťjana Šarić’s fascinating paper ´Tracked Lives: Yugoslav State Security and Female Cominform Emigration’ (Panel 1.3) #ICCEES2025 👏

It’s great to be in London for #ICCEES2025

Radio politics in Czechoslovakia - CEU Review of Books In Red Tape (Stanford University Press, 2024), Rosamund Johnston shows how Czechoslovak Radio became a site of negotiation between the regime, the listeners and the people who worked there. David M. D...

New review out!

In Red Tape (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024), Rosamund Johnston shows how Czechoslovak Radio became a site of negotiation between the regime, the listeners and the people who worked there. David M. Durant reviews the books.

ceureviewofbooks.com/review/radio...

Thirteen of my publications are listed here, including my co-authored book, some journal articles and several book reviews. Years of research, all used without my knowledge or permission…

Me on Teams meetings 😂😂

This particular project is run by one of the Historians there, whose research focuses on religion in communist Eastern Europe

Keston Research Associate in Religion under Communist Regimes at Cardiff University Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Keston Research Associate in Religion under Communist Regimes on jobs.ac.uk!

This sounds like a great opportunity for someone! #history #coldwarhist #skystorians

Three-year fixed term research post working on religion under communist regimes in Central and/or Eastern Europe at Cardiff University:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMB493/k....

Centre for Culture and Humanities research seminar Join us for talk from Rafael Antonio Ortile on 'The Rock ‘N’ Roll Lord of Manila', Lord Antony “Tony” Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan of Leeds

We have a great event coming up at @shsslbu.bsky.social next Wednesday! From Leeds to Manila: come and hear former @leedsbeckett.bsky.social student Rafa Ortile speak about his research into the scandalous case of Lord Antony Moynihan

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

Exhibition Shines Light on Bulgaria’s Forgotten Communist-Era ‘Labour Troops’ An exhibition in Sofia of Garo Keshishian's black-and-white photos of communist-era compulsory labour units delves into a little-remembered aspect of Bulgaria's repressive past.

Exhibition Shines Light on Bulgaria’s Forgotten Communist-Era ‘Labour Troops’ #bulgaria #coldwarhist

balkaninsight.com/2025/01/10/e...

We went from “what good are the humanities?” to “suddenly, no one can read” in about a year, and the answer to the first question is the disinformation and lack of critical thinking you see all around you. *That* is why you need the humanities. This is what they prevent.

New event in the History on the Edge series:
“Women in Serbia during the Second World War (1941-1945)” by Ljubinka Škodrić.
WHEN? Wednesday, 12 March 2025 at 13:00
WHERE? at the INZ premises (Privoz 11) or at the ZOOM link: us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378