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A shelf of books on the Nuremberg Trials in the Parkes Library.
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the first of the Nuremberg Trials, which led to the conviction of 19 of the most influential Nazi leaders. Southampton's collections include books on the trials and papers from the subsequent Nuremberg Military Tribunals.
20.11.2025 13:38 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0📢There is still time to apply for the EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships! Deadline 30 November 2025 📅 Please share within your networks. @ehri-project.eu @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
20.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Happening tomorrow!
19.11.2025 09:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our Behind the Scenes tour will include a chance to visit our conservation studios and hear about the amazing work the team to to preserve and conserve our collections.
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Post text: Interested in starting a PhD at the Parkes Institute in 2026-27? Join a hybrid panel and Q&A session on Wednesday 3 December, 16.00-17.30 (Avenue Campus and Teams). A panel of PhD students and staff will share advice and answer all your questions on the application process, available funding, the joys and challenges of doing a PhD, and things to consider when applying. To receive the link/detail, contact Claire Le Foll c.le-foll@soton.ac.uk. Logo of the Parkes Institute at the bottom of the picture.
18.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0There's still time to register!
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Handwritten letter. Creamy buff coloured paper with brown black ink sent from 68 Paradise Street, Liverpool on 28 April 1864
Letters regarding loss of ship Lord Raglan, departed from Liverpool in 1863, & regarding a passenger, Mark Bernstein. Mrs Bernstein wished to remarry and the synagogue required proof of the death of her first husband
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Contact us to tell us about the wonderful collections you hold!
13.11.2025 23:02 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Handwritten letter. Very dark brown ink on cream buff paper. The letter starts: University College, Jan 12 1872. Dear Mr Elkin
Some really interesting correspondence found among the papers of the West London Synagogue respecting Mosaic Law and the proposed marriage of Mr Drucquer and Miss de Meza in 1872.
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Call for Papers: Crossing Borders – Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents
University of Southampton, 14 April 2026
Submit by 31 Dec 2025
Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute).
More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
📣One week to go until our webinar!
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Poster advertising The Interfaith Lecture 2025 Our Palestine Question: A History of American Jews and Palestinian Rights, A Talk with Geofrrey Levin, Thursday 20 November, 6 PM, Avenue Campus & Online. The image shows two women and a woman boarding a plane with Arabic writing on the plane. Logos of the Parkes Institute and the University of Southampton are at the bottom of the poster.
Please join us for our annual Interfaith Lecture, delivered this year by Geoffrey Levin
📅Thursday 20 November, 6pm GMT
📍Avenue Campus & Online
🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-palestine-question-a-history-of-american-jews-and-palestinian-rights-tickets-1754138408199?aff=bluesky
Poster advertising the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage at the University of Southampton. It shows two students looking at a Holocaust memorial next to a forest and says "Join a webinar with members of the Parkes Institute on 20 November at 4pm (GMT) to find out more about the course." The poster displays a QR code to register
Interested in deepening your knowledge of the Holocaust? Want to find out more about the MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage and about the scholarships we offer?
🔗 www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...
Find us in Room 1001 of Sir James Matthews Building, where Anoushka Alexander-Rose @anoushka-ar.bsky.social is running a collage workshop about her travelling exhibition The Wandering Jew
www.southamptonartshumfest.co.uk/artshumday/w...
It's a great honour to have been invited to speak about my book in Berlin again, this time in German, and this time at the @topographie.de - Topographie des Terrors - on 10 December. Details here - do come along if you are in Berlin!
www.topographie.de/veranstaltun...
it was the end of a long day ...
05.11.2025 22:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A very important EHRI person metamorphosing into a trex to conclude a rich day of discussions
what happens at EHRI meetings, stays at EHRI meetings 🤔🤔🤔
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Audience and panelists at the annual EHRI lecture at the university of southampton
Very nice to see so many people showing up for the annual European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Lecture at the University of Southampton!
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Call for Papers: Crossing Borders – Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents
University of Southampton, 14 April 2026
Submit by 31 Dec 2025
Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute).
More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
See you this afternoon!
04.11.2025 10:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please spread the word
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CFP
Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives of Life-Writing and Ego-Documents (April 2026)
Deadline: 31 December 2025
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
"He's half murdered two people...He's not very good at murdering people"👌😂
29.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0You still have time to make it to Vienna for this!
oegmw.at/veranstaltun...
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28.10.2025 09:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image with EHRI logo and text reading "EHRI-UK Annual Lecture: Transnational Holocaust Research in a Digital Age, a roundtable with Michal Frankl, Veerle Vanden Daelen, Michal Brandl & Rachel Pistol, Tuesday 4 November, 5:30 pm, Avenue Campus"
Please join us for the Annual EHRI-UK Lecture with speakers Michal Frankl, Vanden Daelen Veerle, Michal Brandl and Rachel Pistol!
🗓️ Tuesday 4 November, 5:30 pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ehri-uk-an...
The Second Call for EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships is live 📅 Apply by 30 Nov 2025
Find out more 👇
www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell...
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @hgrporg.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @biahs1.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
Happening tomorrow!
27.10.2025 14:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1📣CfA for a PhD position on Jewish Literary Legacies of Colonialism after Decolonisation, as part of "Ambivalent Pasts: On Jewish Colonial Experiences," a new joint research project of the Institute for Jewish History and Culture, the Institute for European History and the Centre Marc Bloch
27.10.2025 13:57 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026
We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton!
Please share!!
