Neil Gregor
@neilgregor.bsky.social
Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton. The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany (University of Chicago Press, May 2025). Things German, musical, historical, political, with some bicycles and mountains https://bit.ly/3ZwwJlM
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Good luck to everyone who applies! Great opportunities in a great institution.
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Two Research Fellow Positions in Modern and Contemporary History – GHI Washington
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November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Good luck to everyone who applies! Great opportunities in a great institution.
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More publication news: "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by @drhelenroche.bsky.social and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social, is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
More publication news: "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by @drhelenroche.bsky.social and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social, is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social.
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📣 Join us on Tues, 2 Dec, at 5.30pm for a hybrid lecture by Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall', followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public. For details and registration see Eventbrite links👇
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
📣 Join us on Tues, 2 Dec, at 5.30pm for a hybrid lecture by Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall', followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public. For details and registration see Eventbrite links👇
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Die Historikerin Gisela Bock ist gestorben. In der FAZ ein Nachruf von Daniel Schönpflug
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November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Die Historikerin Gisela Bock ist gestorben. In der FAZ ein Nachruf von Daniel Schönpflug
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It's a great honour to have been invited to speak about my book in Berlin again, this time in German, and this time at the @topographie.de - Topographie des Terrors - on 10 December. Details here - do come along if you are in Berlin!
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Das Sinfoniekonzert im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland
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November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It's a great honour to have been invited to speak about my book in Berlin again, this time in German, and this time at the @topographie.de - Topographie des Terrors - on 10 December. Details here - do come along if you are in Berlin!
www.topographie.de/veranstaltun...
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Honig wach auf die @zeit.de hat einen politischen Kompass fallengelassen auf dem die Grünen links der Linken sind und die Nazipartei Mitte-rechts
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Honig wach auf die @zeit.de hat einen politischen Kompass fallengelassen auf dem die Grünen links der Linken sind und die Nazipartei Mitte-rechts
Karl Lueger dividing the spirits as ever….
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Karl Lueger dividing the spirits as ever….
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Das Sinfoniekonzert in Nazi-Deutschland - Historiker Neil Gregor mit neuem Buch
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October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Remind me to give another lecture in Vienna sometime.
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Remind me to give another lecture in Vienna sometime.
Huge pleasure to talk at the Uni. f. Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna this evening - thanks to the audience for stomaching my German and for their really penetrating questions.
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Huge pleasure to talk at the Uni. f. Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna this evening - thanks to the audience for stomaching my German and for their really penetrating questions.
Here's hoping that the @financialtimes.com is right, and that there has been a rallying around of the anti-fascist constituency to stop the far Right. An anti-Farage popular front would put the weasel back in his place.
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Labour suffers seismic by-election defeat to Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
Loss of seat for first time in century deals blow to Keir Starmer’s leadership ahead of Welsh elections in May
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October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Here's hoping that the @financialtimes.com is right, and that there has been a rallying around of the anti-fascist constituency to stop the far Right. An anti-Farage popular front would put the weasel back in his place.
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In case this was TLDR: Distinguished Professor (co editor of Cambridge History of the Holocaust) and exemplary colleague abruptly replaced with an Associate Professor without consultation.
Digital edition of IDS (IU Bloomington student paper, now in its 158th year) does continue to publish real news, including this shocking story: www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
Jewish Studies director replacement ‘unprecedented,’ students and faculty say
Dean Rick Van Kooten later held a nomination process one faculty member called “symbolic.”
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October 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
In case this was TLDR: Distinguished Professor (co editor of Cambridge History of the Holocaust) and exemplary colleague abruptly replaced with an Associate Professor without consultation.
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Leseempfehlung!!
„A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa“
Von Matthew P. Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
Oxford Studies in Modern European History
„A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa“
Von Matthew P. Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
Oxford Studies in Modern European History
October 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Leseempfehlung!!
„A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa“
Von Matthew P. Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
Oxford Studies in Modern European History
„A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa“
Von Matthew P. Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
Oxford Studies in Modern European History
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In der Deutung dieser reizenden Begebenheit bin ich noch unentschieden zwischen "großes Kino" und "Untergang des Abendlandes".
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Landgericht Lüneburg: Ghostwriter von Doktorandin verklagt
Eine Doktorandin verklagt ihren Ghostwriter, weil er seinen Job schlecht erledigt habe. Hat ihr niemand gesagt, dass man Qualifikationsschriften selbst schreiben muss?
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October 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
In der Deutung dieser reizenden Begebenheit bin ich noch unentschieden zwischen "großes Kino" und "Untergang des Abendlandes".
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The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany: Orchestras and their Audiences
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October 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Interesting enough about Kuehne & Nagel but the @financialtimes.com (of all newspapers!) should know that the suggestion that German companies are only now being forced to engage with their difficult pasts is just nonsense - this has been a live topic for a good 30 years.
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German logistics billionaire faces questions over Nazi-era legacy
Klaus-Michael Kuehne has repeatedly declined to address growing evidence of his company’s wartime conduct
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October 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Interesting enough about Kuehne & Nagel but the @financialtimes.com (of all newspapers!) should know that the suggestion that German companies are only now being forced to engage with their difficult pasts is just nonsense - this has been a live topic for a good 30 years.
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📣 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UPCOMING STRIKE at the University of Leicester, Prof. Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social has CANCELLED his talk next week! The strike takes place in response to the threat of staff cuts with History being one of the areas affected: www.uculeicester.org.uk/information-...
September 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
📣 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UPCOMING STRIKE at the University of Leicester, Prof. Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social has CANCELLED his talk next week! The strike takes place in response to the threat of staff cuts with History being one of the areas affected: www.uculeicester.org.uk/information-...
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Hello there! Could I possibly ask you to share this CfC on Masculinities in Weimar Cinema? :)
Hello there! Could I possibly ask you to share this CfC on Masculinities in Weimar Cinema? :)
WEIMAR CFC
WEIMAR CFC
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September 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Hello there! Could I possibly ask you to share this CfC on Masculinities in Weimar Cinema? :)
Hello there! Could I possibly ask you to share this CfC on Masculinities in Weimar Cinema? :)
Very much looking forward to speaking at the Stanley Burton Centre on 1 October - do come along and support the brilliant work of our colleagues in the Department of History at the University of Leicester.
Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany : Thoughts from the Concert Hall
Stanley Burton Centre hosts Prof. Neil Gregor on Nazi Germany, music & society. Free talk, open to historians, students & the public.
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September 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Very much looking forward to speaking at the Stanley Burton Centre on 1 October - do come along and support the brilliant work of our colleagues in the Department of History at the University of Leicester.
Your periodic reminder that the 'hostile environment' was pioneered by the previous Labour government.
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ID cards are an idea whose time has finally come
The case for introducing digital authentication has become irresistible
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September 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Your periodic reminder that the 'hostile environment' was pioneered by the previous Labour government.
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‘Prejudice against the disabled was still so widespread that in 1980 a Frankfurt court ordered the reimbursement of the cost of a hotel to a tourist who had been upset by the presence of a group of guests with cerebral palsy.’
Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard J. Evans · Alien to the Community: Eugenics in Germany
In Hitler’s mind, eugenics was part of Germany’s long-term preparation for victory in the struggle between races....
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September 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
‘Prejudice against the disabled was still so widespread that in 1980 a Frankfurt court ordered the reimbursement of the cost of a hotel to a tourist who had been upset by the presence of a group of guests with cerebral palsy.’
Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...