Siobhán Hearne

It's part of a special issue on socialist humanitarianism that I edited with contributions on China, Mozambique, Angola, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, & Latin America. I'll hold off on posting about it until everything is out, but I am very excited to share the rest of the articles soon!

I have a new article out in the Journal of Contemporary History: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It examines Soviet humanitarianism by focusing on Soviet Red Cross hospitals in Tehran, Addis Ababa, and Phnom Penh.

📷 Soviet Red Cross hospital in Addis Ababa, ICRC Audiovisual Archives

Congratulations!

Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond This collaborative monograph presents a deeply researched, inclusive history of women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe, Austria, Turkey and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late twen...

I am so excited to share the news that after many years of research & writing the collaborative monograph of the project #ZARAH #Women'sLabourActivism is out today with @uclpress.bsky.social ! It is available in print and online (open access).
uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...

Manchester University Press - Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe by Doina Anca Cretu

Our volume is finally out! Open access to boot! Personal thanks to Michal Frankl for his patience and trust ...and, of course, to our authors for powering through the long production process. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189929/

I agree, this is a wild. It’s fine to disagree about the utility or value of ChatGPT without being incredibly insulting

Yep, it gives me bad wedding speech vibes

No, not dismissing entirely. I am not a fan myself but I know that I am in the minority. My gripe is with lazy framing and people assuming that others automatically care what ChatGPT has to say!

Agreed, but even still, I'm grumpy and I find it annoying, especially in academic settings. Why do we care what ChatGPT pulls up? Why not just present the research?

This is a good coping strategy and I should practice it myself. I have noticed it being used more frequently by people presenting academic work at conferences and I just don't understand why people think this is a good entry point into a topic.

Because I find it to be an overused framing device and I care far more about what the person has to say about the topic, rather than what ChatGPT has generated. You can hook in readers/listeners in better ways, imo.

My review of Francesca Piana’s book is out! networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Nothing makes me stop paying attention quicker than hearing or reading 'I asked ChatGPT...'

Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Please meet Azazello, hippie, poet, artist and narkoman, who is sadly no longer with us but whose papers found their way to The Wende Museum in LA and have been digitalised and contextualised by a team of scholars. It is an unusual ride into an exotic and marginalised world: azazello-archive.com/en/

A Laboratory of Economic Reform: Estonian Experiments with Agro-Industrial Associations in the Era of Late Socialism Donald MorardIn 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle, in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for t...

We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...

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Applications are due by 30 November 2025.

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We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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We have a new author interview up on @peripheralhist.bsky.social We were lucky enough to speak to Isaac McKean Scarborough about his excellent book 'Moscow's Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/moscow-...

Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain | Events at The University of Manchester Department of History Guest Seminar

Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.

Looking forward to it!

Can’t wait to read it!

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973* Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported

I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

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Glad you enjoyed! Beatrice’s book is fantastic

Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan Beatrice Penati’s new book Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan (published with Brill, 2025) provides a comprehensive account of early S...

Peripheral Histories? has just published a new author interview with Beatrice Penati about her excellent book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' @peripheralhist.bsky.social www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...

🧵 In CEH's first digest (tinyurl.com/38p3yxky), our six editors each highlighted a recent article they have particularly enjoyed working on.

This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]

I've been reading the Russian Red Cross's magazine lately and the back covers perfectly encapsulate the whiplash of the 1990s. In one issue - a cute dog calendar, in another - an advert for a US-manufactured antibiotic to treat gonorrhoea

Excited to share my short piece on Soviet Lithuanian priests studying at the Vatican and their role in religious and diplomatic policy of the early 1960s! Thank you to @peripheralhist.bsky.social as well for the platform to do so. t.co/OOUz7xtn6U