Latest posts tagged with #coldwarhist on Bluesky
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a US prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said.
www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie... #coldwarhist
Valentina Gargarina: the woman who stayed on Earth
zoharesque.blogspot.com/2025/04/vale... by @drspacejunk.bsky.social #coldwarhist
Proud I've at last managed to fit the phrase, "Ich habe ein kleine Panzer, kann ich parken hier, bitte?" into an academic article that I'm currently writing on the British-German relationship during the Cold War #amwriting #milhistsky #ColdWarHist
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....
Exhibition Shines Light on Bulgaria’s Forgotten Communist-Era ‘Labour Troops’ #bulgaria #coldwarhist
balkaninsight.com/2025/01/10/e...
A plea: does anyone here have access to the most recent issues of the Journal of Modern History? My institutional access only goes up to 2019, and there’s an article from 2023 that I could really do with reading… #skystorians #historians #coldwarhist
‘Seventy-seven years later, we still don't have final clarity on the death of Jan Masaryk, which came as Communist parties seized power in Czechoslovakia and across Central and Eastern Europe’ #czechoslovakia #coldwar #coldwarhist
www.rferl.org/amp/czech-mu...
‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism #coldwarhist #coldwar #books #poland
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
BBC Archive has shared an excerpt from 'Did You See...?' (1984) on nuclear horror film Threads. Features interviews with director Mick Jackson and writer Barry Hines, plus discussions with military strategiests, CND and others. Well worth a look. #coldwarhist #coldwar www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWJj...
#OTD 27.1.1973: Friedensabkommen für Vietnam besiegelt die Niederlage der USA
#Stichtag #ColdWarHist #History #Podcast
www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/der-...
NEW EPISODE - #Bombs, #Berlin & #Peacekeeping: A #Para's #ColdWar Story
Listen here 🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode383/
#skystorians #coldwarhist #britisharmy
New museum honours Musine Kokalari, communist show trial victim and political prisoner in Albania:
balkaninsight.com/2024/12/20/m...
#coldwarhist #coldwar #albania
This sounds fascinating! @coldwarpod.bsky.social #coldwarhist #coldwar #czechoslovakia #prague
Mystery Photos Shed Light On Romania's 1989 Revolution:
www.rferl.org/a/mystery-ph...
#coldwar #coldwarhist #romania #photos
A black and white photograph. A man and a woman in West Berlin stand on top of a VW car, parked a short distance from the Berlin Wall. Light snow lies on the ground. They are waving to their relatives (unseen) on the other side of the wall in East Berlin.
#Photo of West Berliners waving to relatives in East Berlin, across the Berlin Wall, on Christmas Day in 1961 #coldwarhist #berlin #germany #coldwar
In 1981, a civil servant at the Home Office identified a surprising group who'd thrive after nuclear war: psychopaths. Their immunity from emotion led government officials to briefly consider them for post-apocalyptic leadership roles. Read more: https://buff.ly/4fNxw7k #coldwarhist #nuclearwar
A man in a uniform stands on top of a half-completed Royal Observer Corps monitoring post bunker. He's leaning against the ventilation shaft, which is yet to be buried. There's excavated earth and chalk all around. The photo looks to be from the early 1960s.
A few years ago, I came across these pics of an ROC Post under construction at Hog's Back in Surrey. These bunkers played a crucial role in the UK's civil defence strategy, but it's rare to see one being built. More images on the blog: coldwar.org.uk/building-a-b... #coldwarhist #nuclearwar #bunkers
It's publication day and *open access* on this fantastic collection of scholarship that I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to. My chapter is on British Forces Germany and their varied presence and presentation in UK museums #ColdWarHist
www.routledge.com/Cold-War-Mus...
LATEST EPISODE - An #Australian #Vietnamwar #veteran shares his story.
⬇️⬇️Listen here coldwarconversations.com/episode367
#coldwarhist #coldwar
The Golden Age of Offbeat Arctic Research
The Cold War spawned some odd military projects that were doomed to fail, from atomic subways to a city under the ice. undark.org/2024/09/06/w... #coldwarhist
Terrific job going here for a Researcher on the National Museums Scotland "Materialising the Cold War" project, helping deliver the exhibition and wider project goals. Great project, even better team to work with #ColdWarHist #museumjobs vacancies.nms.ac.uk/VacancyDetai...
#coldwarhist #ddr #berlin
Interesting aerial footage of the #berlinwall in this video
m.youtube.com/watch?si=rBH...
Oct 1962 - Heidelberger/ Elsenstrasse
Photo: Landesarchiv Berlin/ Schutz Gert
#ddr #berlinwall #coldwarhist
New on @HSciMedTech:
Check out Richard P. Suttmeier (@uoregon)’s review of @gbarrett_hist’s book _China's Cold War Science Diplomacy_ published in 2022 by @CambridgeUP
#HSTM #HistSci #ColdWarHist #China #DiploHist
Review available...
#Leseempfehlung: @SophieLange20|s Tagungsbericht zu unserem Workshop "Neue Horizonte: Deutschland und Europa in der internationalen Politik der 1990er Jahre", der im September in Kooperation mit der @RWTH stattfand. #coldwarhist #thecoldwarandbeyond
https://t.co/l1i9ouW4vl
Literaturempfehlung!
#Lesetipp #Coldwarhist
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