Contemporary European Historians
A starter pack for academics, journals, etc working on, and/or posting about, the history of contemporary Europe and its overseas empires (c. 1914 - present)
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@conteurohistory.bsky.social
@germancambridge.bsky.social
Official account of the German Section of the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics at the University of Cambridge https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/german
@camukrainistyka.bsky.social
Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, an academic centre at the University of Cambridge. Advancing new approaches to teaching and researching Ukraine since 2008. www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org Posts by Rory Finnin
@richardivanjobs.bsky.social
Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
@historyned.bsky.social
Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal
@dacretu.bsky.social
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, Habsburg Empire, WWI
@queerstorian.bsky.social
Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
@rkpejsova.bsky.social
East Central European, Modern Jewish, and Human Rights History at Purdue U. Shofar journal. Bard, CEU Budapest, Columbia alumna. Displacement, Dispersion, Diaspora. coffee, black. 🖤🧿 #skystorians 🗃
@dpbred.bsky.social
Historienne, Prof, l'Université de Montréal, Allemagne/Europe moderne, Journalism, Gender, Violence, Memory. Director DAAD Centre for German/ European St. https://utorontopress.com/9781487547219/writing-and-rewriting-the-reich/?srsltid=AfmBOoqjMhygdSvs0Y
@sebboo.bsky.social
Historian (Berlin/Flensburg) 🏳️🌈 First book: global / German / queer history, memory studies. Present project: history of European hiking associations. He/Him. Grufti 🦦 Nerd & 🩰. Born in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke
@aluckmann.bsky.social
PhD candidate, German & US modern architecture @ UCSB | religion, preservation, environment | he/him With jazz and conversation From the foot of Mount Belzoni
@astridme.bsky.social
Historian of modern Germany, Europe, and the environment | author of West Germany and the Iron Curtain (OUP, 2019) + Zonenrandgebiet (Ch. Links, 2022) | Atlanta, Moabit | I wish I were in Greifswald
@stevejtaylor.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, long suffering Spurs fan, occasional guitarist
@ostrovdoktora.bsky.social
Professor of History, University of Oslo| global social policy| working conditions| ILO |humanitarianism| Quaker relief| New book: The Politics of Service. American Quakers and international humanitarian relief 1917-1945 (2024)
@christianjacobs.bsky.social
Social Movements and Ideas | Current project: Feminist, Far-right, and Postmigrant Concepts of Culture in Postcolonial France @ Freie Universität Berlin and Centre Marc Bloch | He/him
@historianhelen.bsky.social
Cambridge Historian, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
@ilotem.bsky.social
Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
@jessicareinisch.bsky.social
Modern historian at Birkbeck, working on UNRRA, relief & humanitarianism, internationalism. I edit the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series & direct the Centre for the Study of Internationalism.
@erhochman.bsky.social
Historian of modern Germany/Austria (especially the interwar period), politics, nationalism. Views are my own.
@clemensvillinger.bsky.social
The Past, The Present, The Future Historian (he/him) @ghilondon.bsky.social | Review Editor for @hsozkult.bsky.social Working on a German-British History of Normality PhD in East German Economic History: https://shorturl.at/zoVIt Skeets in German&English
@mdkerry.bsky.social
Historian of modern Spain at Oxford. Currently thinking about sound and politics.
@garylove.bsky.social
Professor of British History & Culture @NTNU, Trondheim. Researching history of British Conservatism & centre-right internationalism in Europe/ the world; Genres of political writing in Modern Britain; & women in British politics
@deezed.bsky.social
Post-Doc Research Fellow @Bham.ac.uk East German history Lefty centrist & anti-populist. Passionate EU rejoiner #FBPE Life-writing newbie. (Grand)-dad jokes - QPR
@playingcleo.bsky.social
Historian of modern 🇫🇷. Gender, celebrity, beauty. Professor at the University of Alabama. Friend to all creatures furry and feathered.
@carotaratko.bsky.social
historian | food security, autarky, and environment in modern german and international history | emmy noether research group leader @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social
@eseh.bsky.social
News from the European Society for Environmental History. http://www.eseh.org Next conference in Uppsala, 18–22 August 2025. Also check out https://bsky.app/profile/esehnextgate.bsky.social
@jich.bsky.social
A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism. EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social AE @yiannicart.bsky.social BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
@arturbanaszewski.bsky.social
• PhD Researcher in Intellectual History, European University Institute • 20th century, Cold War, Marxism, Liberalism, Eastern Europe • Convenor @inthiseui.bsky.social • Graduate Associate @gpolthought.bsky.social • Formerly @jhideas.bsky.social
@inthiseui.bsky.social
The Intellectual History Working Group at the European University Institute. Posts by @laurelinm.bsky.social and @arturbanaszewski.bsky.social.
@rekakrizmanics.bsky.social
Historian, PhD. Akad. Rätin a.Z./Asst. Prof. @unibielefeld Writing a book on women│global│solidarity│state socialism. Posts on events, lit, job calls, and ongoing research. Parttime feminist killjoy, fulltime foodie. Runner, biker, overthinker.
@mtaval.bsky.social
Postdoc Researcher, Eurostorie, Centre for European Studies, Uni of Helsinki #GATEproject: #Deportation in Finland/Nordic countries, ~1950-2025: https://shorturl.at/flvJL Publications: https://t.co/4aI
@emmaelinor.bsky.social
Historian of 20th-century political activism; writes/rants about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; live on Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö. http://www.emmalundin.co.uk https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
@stellaghervas.bsky.social
Eugen Weber Chair in European History at @UCLA. Author of CONQUERING PEACE, by @Harvard_Press (2021), http://tinyurl.com/5fuz4w2u. 2023 Laura Shannon Prize for the best book in European studies. Lover of peace and chocolate.
@annmariewilson.bsky.social
Historian at Leiden University College. Environmental history, Dutch history, gardens, birds, city parks. Oh and lots of dusty old nature guides.
@euroreviewhistory.bsky.social
The European Review of History - Revue européenne d’histoire is an international journal covering European history of all centuries and subdisciplines. It aims to create a forum for ideas across Europe and to assist exchanges between young historians.
@colmpm.bsky.social
Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
@irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. An interdisciplinary research institute for all aspects of Irish culture, history, politics and society. See 'Lists' for more info. Find us at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/
@robdale.bsky.social
Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cyclist, marathon runner, train traveller. Based in Newcastle and York.
@chriscampbell1.bsky.social
History PhD student, St John's College, Cambridge | Gender, class and race in twentieth-century British cultural diplomacy
@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Publisher Éd. Codex & Éd. Plein Jour Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)
@jkoranyi.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Durham University, co-editor of European History Quarterly, east-central Europe, minorities, memory. Fußballnostalgiker. Author of Migrating Memories (CUP) https://bit.ly/3GmvNUt
@stergarr.bsky.social
Historian of the Habsburg Empire in the long 19th century; also WWI and history of nationalism. Professor in Modern History, University of Ljubljana.
@tudzarovska.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in European Politics, Charles Uni| Research Fellow, Academy of Science, CZ| Form.Vis.Fellow, Cambridge Uni, CRASSH|MSCA Fellow, EU Democratic Legitimacy| ARENA🇳🇴 Previously: FCO, 🇬🇧Embassy MKD Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
@harrylegg.bsky.social
PhD @ Uni of Edinburgh, Scotland | Researching non-Jews classified as "Jewish" in Nazi Germany & Austria. Holocaust history. https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/harry-legg
@ghilondon.bsky.social
The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the Max Weber Foundation. https://www.ghil.ac.uk
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
French History is an international forum for major new articles on the entire range of French history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.
@emile-chabal.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe (especially politics & ideas), intellectual history, Marxism, Hobsbawm. Editor of Contemporary European History. More about me: https://emilechabal.com/
@siobhanhearne.bsky.social
Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).
@quinnslobodian.com
Historian of bad ideas. Out now: HAYEK'S BASTARDS: https://bookshop.org/p/books/hayek-s-bastards-race-gold-iq-and-the-capitalism-of-the-far-right-quinn-slobodian/21814849?ean=9781890951917 quinnslobodian.com
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
Published by Cambridge University Press. Edited by Emile Chabal, Siobhán Hearne, Michelle Lynn Kahn, and Nikolaos Papadogiannis. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history