Professor of Modern History, President of ICCEES @icceesorg, Head of School of History @uea_history, Norwich City FC 💚💛 & FC Energie Cottbus ❤🤍
Norwich, England
Joined October 2011
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Feels odd to publish an article on 'Peace and Friendship' at the famous Pioneer Camp Artek in these terrible times, but in my view there is no question that youth exchanges have been a force for good in history and are important in building a better world doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhac019
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A stimulating @EastCentreUea talk by Jovo Miladinović titled "Heroes, Traitors, and Survivors"
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The July 2026 issue (#47) of the BASEES Newsletter is now available to download and read:
basees.org/newsletter/2026/7…
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📢 Call for Papers: #BASEES2027 Annual Conference
BASEES invites proposals for panels, roundtables, papers, book discussion roundtables, and thematic colloquia.
📍 Robinson College, University of Cambridge (9–11 April 2027)
🗓️ Deadline: 5 Oct 2026
baseesconference.org
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Two full-time researcher jobs available in the UK, working on our Leverhulme project *The 101st kilometre: Soviet marginalization, migration, memory and mapping*. Please spread the word, encourage recent PhDs in Slavic studies and in Soviet history to apply! Links in comments.
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Next East Centre talk is going to be a real treat! Andrey Kurkov will be discussing his latest book, The Lost Soldiers, and reflecting on what it means to be a writer in times of war.
📅 Wednesday 29 April, 2pm
📍 Council Chamber, University of East Anglia @UEA_History @uealdc
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As much a cultural and political history as a technological one— illustrating how collective dreams can challenge geopolitical ambitions and inspire world-changing technologies.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
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@UWiscPress @BASEES
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Winner: The Stephen White Prize For The Best First Book In Slavonic And East European Studies 2026
Reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East.
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@BASEES @stanfordpress
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Discussions about changing of the field continue at @BASEES. Now, about teaching approaches
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Offers the first comprehensive history of French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the Confederate States of America during the conflict.
Browse more titles⬇️
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Shortlisted for the EHS First Monograph Prize, Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor.
📚Browse the full MNGUP EHS virtual exhibit here:
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@stanfordpress @EcHistSoc
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Investigates the political project of "Europe" as it oscillates between the extremes of expectations of an ever-wider integration and fear of disintegration.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here: mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-202…
@BASEES @CornellPress
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Traces the practices, networks, migrations, and lives of Russian IT professionals, showing how they function as key figures in the tense environment of technological innovation in post-Soviet Russia
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@DukePress @BASEES
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Meet the Routledge Books Editor @LouiseIngham at #BASEES2026 to talk about publishing your book.
👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: routledge.com/BASEESRoutledg…
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Featuring lost work by Vasily Grossman alongside texts by luminaries such as Konstantin Simonov and Ilya Ehrenburg, Stalingrad Lives offers a literary perspective on the Soviet Union at war.
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Chronicles the journey of the Bosnian global corporation Energoinvest and its workers from its Yugoslav socialist ideals through decades of post-socialist transformation.
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@iupress @BASEES
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A fascinating piece by Dr David Gilks for @OUPAcademic's blog on his superb new book Quatremère de Quincy: Art and Politics during the French Revolution. blog.oup.com/2025/10/quatrem…
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Thrilled to kick off our autumn East Centre Research Seminar with Olga Khomenko (University of Oxford)! “Forgotten Allies: Ukrainian–Japanese Cooperation in East Asia (1918–1945).” @UEA_History
