Contemporary European History

Contemporary European History digest, no. 1, January to July 2025 « News# « Cambridge Core Blog As we - like many other journals - transition towards digital-only publication, we have become acutely aware of how difficult it can be to find out what is happening with Contemporary European History...

You can now keep up with the latest CEH news through our new series of digest blogs! The first edition includes:

🥇 CEH's move to Gold #OpenAccess
📖 Highlighted articles from each of our editors
💻 News about our move to digital-only publication

And more! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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📢JOB ALERT: Childers Professorship of Irish History

We are seeking an outstanding scholar, an inspiring teacher and an academic leader to further the study of Irish History at Cambridge. Deadline: 25 October 2025

🔗More info and apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52202/

📖 New article online!

'Expanding the Pool of Knowledge: Learning from the Soviet Economy at the UN Regional Commission for Europe and Beyond', by Elizabeth Banks | @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

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French European Diplomacy post-2024 – the Little Entente Revisited? « History# « Cambridge Core Blog French president Emmanuel Macron outlined his new vision for French foreign policy in a speech on 5 March 2025. He argued that the Russian invasion of Ukraine posed a threat to all of Europe. Europe h...

In our latest New Voices blog, Samuel Kramer (@samkra.bsky.social) brings the complex history of the interwar 'Little Entente' into dialogue with contemporary French diplomatic goals in Eastern and Central Europe.

Read all about it here! ⬇️

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Oa journal flip faqs Welcome to Cambridge Core

📣 We're delighted to announce that CEH is now Gold Open Access!

All articles accepted to the journal will be published #OpenAccess, regardless of the author's funding situation.

More information and FAQs about this change below! ⬇️

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Are you looking to publish your research in an academic journal? Then this ICCEES roundtable is for you! Featuring the editors of @conteurohistory.bsky.social sky.social @europe-asia.bsky.social, Diaspora, & Journal of Baltic Studies www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...

Reminder: The CEH Prize 2025 is open to PhD students and ECRs, and is accepting submissions until 12 September.

Full details below!

Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out A book launch for Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out, a festschrift in honour of Prof. Peter Mandler

Book launch and panel discussion in Cambridge, 26 September at 6PM. (If you miss the launch, not to worry, the book will be available to purchase from the University of London Press and also published open access).

📖 New article online!

'The Quest for the Language of Socialist Modernisation: (Re)writing Ukrainian Scientific Language in the Long 1920s', by Jan Jakub Surman

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Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs

#History #AcademicSky History PhDs/ECRs: working on an article? We are running a workshop on 'Writing History Articles' @histassoc.bsky.social in London on 19 Sept. See below for details, deadline 20 Aug. Some (limited) travel support available.
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Lovely historians, please do share this opportunity with MA students interested in contemporary British history :) @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @conteurohistory.bsky.social

If you'd like to learn more about the Belarusian intelligentsia in the interwar period, you can also check out Stanisław's excellent article that was recently published in @conteurohistory.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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'Search for Leadership and Fear of Hegemony: Italy’s Perspective on West Germany in the 1970s' by Lucrezia Ranieri.

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'The Red Cross and the Lessons of the Russian Civil War, 1918–26', by Kimberly A. Lowe

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📖 Out now - a new Special Issue on the Diplomacy of Gratitude!

Articles on transatlantic relations after WWI, Belgian higher education, and misperceptions of Italy.

ft. @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social, @dariofazzi.bsky.social, @lmebroch.bsky.social and more! ⬇️

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🚨 The Contemporary European History Prize 2025 is now open for submissions!

PhD students/ECRs working on post-1914 European history are eligible. Entries are max 8,000 words. Winner receives publication and £400 of CUP books!

Deadline 12 Sept 2025. More details ⬇️

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Are you a PhD student/ECR working on contemporary European history? If so, consider submitting to the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize. Deadline 12 September. I strongly encourage submissions from those working on Central/Eastern Europe & the USSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In 2018 Matthew Frank + I published the @conteurohistory.bsky.social "Soviet Famines" forum with some of the most exciting scholars of the Soviet world in response to Applebaum's book "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine." See why it's topping the readership charts: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very happy to see this piece officially out - the special issue on the diplomacy of gratitude @conteurohistory.bsky.social could hardly be more topical. "Have you said thank you once?" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Is Europe's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) a neoliberal project? In this new article in @conteurohistory.bsky.social, I examine this (hotly) debated question.

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'Ludwig Noé, Shipping and the Economic Opportunities of International Zones after the First World War', by Anna Ross | @ajeross.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

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📖 New #review article online!

‘Death is Not the End’: Thanatology Today' by Claire Nally

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@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site "New Voices" for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post in English on any aspect of European history (and its empires) since 1914? Contact cehnewvoices@gmail.com or see: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...

“Nous les mamans“: ‘European’ Communism, Cross-Cultural Encounters, and Women’s Anticolonial Resistance in French North Africa « History# « Cambridge Core Blog Mention the words “women” and “Algeria” and the remarkableness of their role in armed resistance during the War of Independence (1954-1962) will often come to mind. Accounts of women planting bombs an...

Our New Voices blog continues with a post from Emma Flanagan.

Drawn from her PhD research at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, Emma explores the links between the communist movement and women's anticolonial resistance in post-war French North Africa.

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'A Provincial Pandemic: European Ignorance of the 1918 ‘Spanish’ Influenza as a Shared Event', by John P.R. Eicher

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'Time to Smile: Ill-Defined Work Practices of Saleswomen in West German Retail' by Manuela Rienks

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'Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery (1918–1947)' by Tereza Juhászová

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New 📚 review online! Our colleague Andreas Greiner’s essay “On the Road: New Approaches to Infrastructure and Society” looks at recent titles by Dirk van Laak, Andrew Denning, and Thomas Zeller for @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Available in #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📖 New article online!

'Working on Principles: Changing Concepts of ‘Labour’ before the European Court of Justice, 1972–1988', by Mala Loth

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