CfP: The First World War in the Middle East: Aftermath and Legacies

The precarious geopolitical balance in the contemporary Middle East cannot be understood without considering the circumstances of Ottoman collapse during and immediately after the First World War. The dramatic implosion of this age-old imperium that, during the long nineteenth century, had uneasily struggled to ward off foreign imperial intrusion and lessen its dependence on European capital, was accompanied by unprecedented levels of (genocidal) violence, both on and off the battlefields.

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Online talk 'The nurse who became a spy: Madge Addy's war against fascism in Spain and France'

This Wednesday, 2 March at 2pm we welcome Chris Hall to speak on his new book The nurse who became a spy, about the remarkable Nurse Addy, who fought fascism in Spain and France 1937-1944. He will tell us about the life of Manchester's Madge Addy and how a truly international effort led to the uncovering of her hidden life story.

CfP: Impacts of Communism in Western European Democracies since 1945

5th Hermann Weber Conference for the Historical Research on Communism
Berlin, March 15-17, 2023

Organizers: Dr. Claudia Gatzka (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) and Dr. Dominik Rigoll (Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam) in cooperation with the Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung, funded by the Gerda-und-Hermann-Weber-Foundation in the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany

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