Neil Gregor

Landgericht Lüneburg: Ghostwriter von Doktorandin verklagt Eine Doktorandin verklagt ihren Ghostwriter, weil er seinen Job schlecht erledigt habe. Hat ihr niemand gesagt, dass man Qualifikationsschriften selbst schreiben muss?

In der Deutung dieser reizenden Begebenheit bin ich noch unentschieden zwischen "großes Kino" und "Untergang des Abendlandes".
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The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany: Orchestras and their Audiences

For Oxford colleagues - 21 October:

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German logistics billionaire faces questions over Nazi-era legacy Klaus-Michael Kuehne has repeatedly declined to address growing evidence of his company’s wartime conduct

Interesting enough about Kuehne & Nagel but the @financialtimes.com (of all newspapers!) should know that the suggestion that German companies are only now being forced to engage with their difficult pasts is just nonsense - this has been a live topic for a good 30 years.

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📣 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UPCOMING STRIKE at the University of Leicester, Prof. Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social has CANCELLED his talk next week! The strike takes place in response to the threat of staff cuts with History being one of the areas affected: www.uculeicester.org.uk/information-...

Menzies Campbell, politician and sportsman, 1941-2025 Politician brought up in Glasgow tenement was key figure in Liberal Democrats’ success in 2000s

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German far-right cellist in hot water over trips to Moscow The AfD’s Matthias Moosdorf says music should be free from ‘political crap’

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Meldung von WELT: Auch die EU soll Antifa als „Terrororganisation" einstufen, fordert Ungarns Außenminister to.welt.de/SWF31Ar

Eine Organisation, die gar nicht existiert, soll überall verboten und ihe nicht existierenden Mitglieder verhaftet werden. Bis vor wenigen Jahren wäre solches politisches Personal ausgelacht und zum Psychiater geschickt worden. Heute bekleidet es Präsidenten- und Ministerämter.

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@weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social
Hello there! Could I possibly ask you to share this CfC on Masculinities in Weimar Cinema? :)

You can wear one pair on your nose, and the other on your forehead, and just call it a tribute to the Two Ronnies?

Had ‘em for two years and never really liked them, I have to say. It took 2-3 weeks to adjust, after a fashion, but…..

Very much looking forward to speaking at the Stanley Burton Centre on 1 October - do come along and support the brilliant work of our colleagues in the Department of History at the University of Leicester.

ID cards are an idea whose time has finally come The case for introducing digital authentication has become irresistible

Your periodic reminder that the 'hostile environment' was pioneered by the previous Labour government.
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Richard J. Evans · Alien to the Community: Eugenics in Germany In Hitler’s mind, eugenics was part of Germany’s long-term preparation for victory in the struggle between races....

‘Prejudice against the disabled was still so widespread that in 1980 a Frankfurt court ordered the reimbursement of the cost of a hotel to a tourist who had been upset by the presence of a group of guests with cerebral palsy.’

Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Today we’re remembering the remarkable historian Dr Edgar Feuchtwanger, who passed away aged 100. Edgar was once Hitler’s neighbour in Munich before fleeing Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee. He… | Un... Today we’re remembering the remarkable historian Dr Edgar Feuchtwanger, who passed away aged 100. Edgar was once Hitler’s neighbour in Munich before fleeing Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee. He later...

A nice post from @unisouthampton.bsky.social remembering Edgar Feuchtwanger, whose generosity to me as his rather less illustrious replacement as tutor in Gernan history i remember well www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...

A Farewell to the Thucydides Trap: The ‘Anglo-German Antagonism’ as History and International Relations Paradigm* Abstract. Prefacing a series of articles in the Special Issue examining the imperial and colonial dimensions of Anglo-German relations prior to and during

My new article on Anglo-German relations prior to 1914 (the introduction to a special issue) has just come out online for the journal 'German History'. academic.oup.com/gh/advance-a...

The @royalmusical.bsky.social is honouring me with a roundtable to discuss the implications of my book both for scholarship and for the contemporary musical world at its annual conference next week - very much hope to see musical friends there! Listing below:
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If you weren't planning to be in Vienna on 30 October you still have time to change your schedule - looking forward to sharing a few thoughts with colleagues there:

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If you believe there’s no such thing as too many books, here’s a wonderful opportunity for a bargain, including titles in our “Studies in German History” series… www.berghahnbooks.com/series/studi...

So it IS a documentary after all.

For me it's about working to ensure that the machine-like character of universities doesn't reproduce itself in our individual working habits. The downside: it takes a long time to produce books (or it does for me, at least).

I like the inbuilt inefficiency of it all - it's part of what creates the space for slow thinking.

This is a pretty good combo.

Seeing the reactions is most entertaining though.

Glad you are enjoying it,
Leonie!

I would so love to see a similar initiative in the UK, but it just feels unthinkable.

The cordon sanitaire (which was always a bit of a myth, recall Alan Clark and the Monday Club crowd) between the Tories and the far right is now well and truly gone. But our media can't bring itself to acknowledge this disturbing fact.

‘I’m proud to have made this stand’: over-60s arrested at Palestine Action ban protest explain their decision From a retired British colonel to a Catholic priest, half of the 532 people arrested in Parliament Square were 60 or older. Many believe they had a greater share of responsibility to take in defending...

This is well worth 10 minutes of your time -
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Gute Heimreise! Und herzlichen Dank.

Es ist wirklich bitter, wenn Vertreter*innen der vorgeblichen Parteien der Mitte, rechtsextreme Talking Points wiedergeben. Hier aus der Hamburger FDP. Die Merz-Union macht es doch gerade vor, dass man durch Übernahme rechter Ideen, die Rechten nicht halbiert, sondern stärkt

The penny seems finally to be dropping for a managerial class that bought into the fetischisation of Darwinian competition as the key organising principle of the sector - with all the predictable consequences. Sadly, it's probably too late to reverse much of the damage.