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Moritz Föllmer

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Historian of Twentieth-Century Germany and Europe at the University of Amsterdam https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/f/o/m.foellmer/m.foellmer.html new book: The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History https://www.cambridge.org/nl/u

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Crime fiction and multi­cul­tu­ra­lism. A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir on Bradford A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir are known for their crime novels set in Bradford, a postindustrial city in Northern England with a large British Asian population. Their fiction reflects local stories of immi...

I wrote a brief piece on 'Crime fiction and multiculturalism', focusing on the novels of A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir. These are set in Bradford, where I did some urban walking last September and took pictures, some of which are included as images.

geschichtedergegenwart.ch/crime-fictio...

21.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Try Joachim Häberlen. He is no longer in academia but I could get you in touch.

06.02.2026 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Try Mark B. Smith at Cambridge

06.02.2026 16:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network

I had a conversation with the stimulating scholar Morteza Hajizadeh about my book The Quest for Individual Freedom, which has now appeared as a podcast on the New Books Network.

newbooksnetwork.com/the-quest-fo...

10.01.2026 08:44 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Sam, yes, I'd like to review this. m.foellmer@uva.nl, Moritz Föllmer, MyPup, Kuiperbergweg 32, 1101 AG Amsterdam, Netherlands (odd address, but I use this in case people go via a delivery service rather than classical mail). Thanks! Moritz

13.11.2025 21:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations, Gianamar!

03.11.2025 15:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

excellent article, Kieran!

12.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Cover of the latest volume of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society.

Cover of the latest volume of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society.

Dénes's new article is available free Open Access, as is all content published in Transactions bit.ly/486BF5d

The journal's editors welcome submission of research articles and comment pieces, on historical practice and debate, from historians working within and outside education 2/2 #Skystorians

23.09.2025 11:01 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, it has been very useful!

09.09.2025 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Everyone: we have a cover. I repeat--the cover has landed, and it is glorious!

19.06.2025 09:02 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.

16.07.2025 09:50 — 👍 103    🔁 48    💬 2    📌 1
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Moritz Föllmer's "The Quest for Individual Freedom" Moritz Föllmer is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. He has particular interests in Weimar and Nazi Germ...

What does p. 99 say or not say about a book? I applied this test to my own one and incidentally tried to make a broader point on the relationship between social democracy and individual freedom.

page99test.blogspot.com/2025/07/mori...

10.07.2025 13:56 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm very happy to see my 'second book' on the uses and meanings of silence in 19th century politics now officially published.

Many thanks to all who made this moment possible.

More information on the publisher's website: www.droste-verlag.de/buecher/tite...

04.07.2025 08:28 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Five Questions with Neil Gregor, Author of “The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany” – The Chicago Blog

Five questions you were absolutely desperate to ask but now don't have to because your friends at @uchicagopress.bsky.social got there first -

09.06.2025 15:29 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

You certainly demonstrated the required perseverance!

25.05.2025 19:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Tom, Christine Brocks is excellent, very experienced and thorough. Has PhD in history. christine.brocks@web.de. Best Moritz

19.05.2025 20:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Negative Freedoms in Twentieth-Century Europe How can individual freedom be historicised in the context of twentieth-century Europe? When setting out to answer this question I found myself grappling with the following problem: on the one hand, co...

This essay summarises the approach and key arguments of my recently published book The Quest for Individual Freedom. It also argues for the usefulness of Isaiah Berlin's famous concept of negative freedom, but in the plural rather than the singular.

cambridgeblog.org/2025/05/nega...

09.05.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Danke! Exemplar wird bald bei Dir eintrudeln.

09.04.2025 19:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The Quest for Individual Freedom | Twentieth century European history

My book on the quest for individual freedom in twentieth-century Europe is now out. Click on 'look inside' and 'marketing excerpt' to read the introduction.

www.cambridge.org/nl/universit...

09.04.2025 18:21 — 👍 22    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 1

Guter Text!

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