Fredrika Larsson

Explains the new war.

Still stands

Looked at CDG yesterday. To quote my brother-in-law: there’s a lot of dads here.
(I facetimed my dad so he could join all the dads virtually).

Följ med ombord på franska jättefartyget Charles de Gaulle Här bakas 1 800 baguetter – varje dag.

France is hitting on Sweden for real: it wants to buy up to 4 Saab GlobalEye planes, hoping that Sweden will choose Naval Group‘s FDIs for its new frigate in exchange.

Now aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is visiting Malmö. A local newspaper reports ”1800 baguettes are baked on board every day”

Details of the @oralhistoryie.bsky.social annual meeting have been released. Send us your ideas on Oral History and Movement, and come join us in Tralee, County Kerry in June! Details below

Grattis Dr Brabazon! We’ll open some champagne with my sword next time we’ll meet!

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

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CfA: 2026 Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge

We invite applications for the seventh annual Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge: Lund University, 17–20 August, 2026. Deadline for applications: 15 March.

More information: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/02/03/c...

On Wednesday 4th February, Dr Sebastian Graf (Visiting IMH Researcher) will give the paper

“War, Memorialisation, and Digitality: Mnemonic Practices of Ukrainian Virtual Museums in the Russian War against Ukraine"

📆 4 Feb 2026
🕝 15:00 CET
📍RAAB or Zoom (dm for link)

I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...

Many of the reports of those murdered by the Islamic Republic in Iran this month include the note that the protester/freedom fighter was shot from behind, which suggests they were likely gunned down by the regime while fleeing.

This makes these crimes by the regime even more egregious.

Alex Pretti was the best of us.

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.

Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.

Source: dr.dk

Just occurs to me the Epstein files are probably in that Mar a Lago bathroom. And the files that were there earlier? A hoarder’s delight. “All mine” is his motto. This is the image that always leaps to mind when I think of him (really, he’s just a few Big Macs away)

It's now been 44 hours of complete black out. The Iranian government has cut off all communication channels for the people of #Iran. We can't contact our families inside. We have seen what has happened the last time such a #DigitalBlackoutIran happened: 1500 people were slaughtered in three days.

Lawrence of Yugoslavia - THE SOE, COVERT ACTION, AND THE BRITISH CULTURAL IMAGINARY Guy Woodward on imperial echoes in accounts by SOE agents of their experiences in the Balkans Prior to parachuting into occupied Yugoslavia in May 1943, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent Ja...

NEW blog post - Guy Woodward on imperial echoes in accounts by SOE agents of their experiences in the Balkans: soeandbritishculture.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2026/01/09/l...

Much much more on this in Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing, out now from Oxford University Press

NEW book by Guy Woodward: Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing

features chapter on special forces memoirs including accounts by Fitzroy Maclean and Jasper Rootham of their time in occupied Yugoslavia.

Published today by OUP: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

What in the Epstein files is so perilous that you need to invade a country for it?’

Hvis det skal være med den på.

We and the #EU should sleep with our boots on. Among other things Katie Miller has been employed as a spokesperson for the American efficiency unit DOGE #dkpol #Greenland

I went to bed in 2026 and woke up in 1898.

I do not want to live in interesting times. Would like to live in uneventful times, thank you.

Some thoughts on what Trump has done in Venezuela and what it might mean for US national security. Caveat: not a Latin America scholar so this is focused on US policy. Clearly huge consequences for Venezuela that others can address.

First, despite the buildup, I didn't think Trump would do it.

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7 years ago (+ 1 day) I met my best friend for the first time. You _can_ get a puppy for Christmas, you just have to be in your thirties.

There is no consent. It's digital rape, not porn.

Tror den reservofficern är rätt ensam om den åsikten.

*gestures in all directions* That “may you live in interesting times” curse really stuck the landing, didn’t it?