Kelly Hignett

Some ‘light’ reading at the British Library! 📚 @britishlibrary.bsky.social

The people in the photo enjoy spending time reading through kilometres of documents produced by the secret services, trying to extract any trace of meaning from them. It was a great joy to co-organise a panel on preventative policing and repression in the USSR and Czechoslovakia at #ICCEES2025

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‘Racing in the East’ - a great exhibition in Jeffrey Hall at #ICCEES2025

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Today at #ICCEES2025 : why not end the day at our panel about Preventative Policing and Repression within the USSR and Czechoslovakia? Panel 10.1, W3.01, 16.30-18.00

I’m starting #ICCEES2025 day 3 at a panel about Culture, Politics and Civil Society in the Soviet Union, including a paper by @shsslbu.bsky.social PhD student Christina Schlegel

Two great papers by Olga Polishchuk and Alina Mozolevska, related to their research project about the use of digital diaries, textual and visual, as a means of communicating and processing wartime experiences and trauma in Ukraine #ICCEES2025

I’m starting day 2 of #ICCEES2025 by attending a very interesting panel: 3.1 ‘Voices from Ukraine: War Diaries of the Russo-Ukrainian War’

This panel looks interesting 😉 Panel 2.12, 16.30-18.00, today. Come and join us! #ICCEES2025

I am sorry to miss this, but I am presenting in the same panel stream 🙁

I thoroughly enjoyed Taťjana Šarić’s fascinating paper ´Tracked Lives: Yugoslav State Security and Female Cominform Emigration’ (Panel 1.3) #ICCEES2025 👏

It’s great to be in London for #ICCEES2025

Radio politics in Czechoslovakia - CEU Review of Books In Red Tape (Stanford University Press, 2024), Rosamund Johnston shows how Czechoslovak Radio became a site of negotiation between the regime, the listeners and the people who worked there. David M. D...

New review out!

In Red Tape (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024), Rosamund Johnston shows how Czechoslovak Radio became a site of negotiation between the regime, the listeners and the people who worked there. David M. Durant reviews the books.

ceureviewofbooks.com/review/radio...

Thirteen of my publications are listed here, including my co-authored book, some journal articles and several book reviews. Years of research, all used without my knowledge or permission…

Me on Teams meetings 😂😂

This particular project is run by one of the Historians there, whose research focuses on religion in communist Eastern Europe

Keston Research Associate in Religion under Communist Regimes at Cardiff University Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Keston Research Associate in Religion under Communist Regimes on jobs.ac.uk!

This sounds like a great opportunity for someone! #history #coldwarhist #skystorians

Three-year fixed term research post working on religion under communist regimes in Central and/or Eastern Europe at Cardiff University:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMB493/k....

Centre for Culture and Humanities research seminar Join us for talk from Rafael Antonio Ortile on 'The Rock ‘N’ Roll Lord of Manila', Lord Antony “Tony” Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan of Leeds

We have a great event coming up at @shsslbu.bsky.social next Wednesday! From Leeds to Manila: come and hear former @leedsbeckett.bsky.social student Rafa Ortile speak about his research into the scandalous case of Lord Antony Moynihan

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

Exhibition Shines Light on Bulgaria’s Forgotten Communist-Era ‘Labour Troops’ An exhibition in Sofia of Garo Keshishian's black-and-white photos of communist-era compulsory labour units delves into a little-remembered aspect of Bulgaria's repressive past.

Exhibition Shines Light on Bulgaria’s Forgotten Communist-Era ‘Labour Troops’ #bulgaria #coldwarhist

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We went from “what good are the humanities?” to “suddenly, no one can read” in about a year, and the answer to the first question is the disinformation and lack of critical thinking you see all around you. *That* is why you need the humanities. This is what they prevent.

New event in the History on the Edge series:
“Women in Serbia during the Second World War (1941-1945)” by Ljubinka Škodrić.
WHEN? Wednesday, 12 March 2025 at 13:00
WHERE? at the INZ premises (Privoz 11) or at the ZOOM link: us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378

a traditional British red public telephone box in my local village, decorated with the Ukrainian flag and the message ‘Stand With Ukraine’

A photograph showing the display inside the red telephone box, with Ukrainian flags and printed sheets saying ‘Stand with Ukraine’, free for the public to take away.

Photograph of my hand holding a free printout in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag, with two white doves and the message “Stand With Ukraine” printed on the front.

Nice to see the latest installation in my local village phone box showing support for Ukraine today #SlavaUkraini #standwithukraine

I’m going to go out on a limb and say the Nazis were very problematic even before the invasion of Poland and the genocides.

A small tabby cat is lying stretched out on my things, as I sit at my desk working.

It’s Monday, and my research assistant is sleeping on the job! #cats #lapcat #rescuecat

Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit Stop Trump Coalition

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I tell my cat “I know” when she meows at me but if I’m being honest? I don’t always know

Thanks so much for trying!

Thanks Martin! I’m after: “Undone from Within: The Downfall of Rudolf Slánský and Czechoslovak-Soviet Dynamics under Stalinism,” by Chad Bryant, Kateřina Čapková and Diana Dumitru, Journal of Modern History 95, no. 4 (December 2023): 847-886.

A plea: does anyone here have access to the most recent issues of the Journal of Modern History? My institutional access only goes up to 2019, and there’s an article from 2023 that I could really do with reading… #skystorians #historians #coldwarhist