Peripheral Histories? is a collaborative digital history project focused on peoples and regions of Eastern Europe and Eurasia that have been perceived as geographically, politically, or culturally “peripheral"
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We are heading to Georgia for our latest post. Stefan Applis examines the changing architecture of Tusheti mountain villages in the north of the country www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/the-cha...
We have an interesting new post up on the website by Giorgi Meladze on Soviet legal legacies in Georgia and democratic decline www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/why-his...
We have a fascinating new post from @isadesisto.bsky.social examining the impact of Soviet repressions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia on the political behaviour of victims and their descendants www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/remembe...
New post alert! This week we have Stanisław Edward Boridczenko on interwar Polish memoirs and the power of irony www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/peasant...
We have a new author interview up on Peripheral Histories? This time, we spoke with Aleksandra Pomiecko about her fascinating new book 'Bound By Exclusion and Violence: A History of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/bound-b...
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For all those interested in the history of the Second World War and Latvia, we have a new author interview for you. Check out our conversation with @harrymerritt.bsky.social on his recently-published book 'Latvian Soldiers of World War II' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/latvian...
A call for papers that may be of interest to our readers - The 'Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern Eurasia' conference will be held at the University of Szczecin in October networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
I was interviewed about my book, Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service. My thanks to @peripheralhist.bsky.social for the thoughtful questions and the chance to share my thoughts!
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We have a brand new author interview up on @peripheralhist.bsky.social. This time, we spoke with @harrymerritt.bsky.social about his brilliant new book 'Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/latvian...
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In Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service (Oxford University Press, 2026), Harry C. Merritt explores the wartime experiences and postwar legacies of the...
I interviewed Adelina Stefan for @peripheralhist.bsky.social about her book on international tourism in communist Romania and Franco's Spain. Take a look here! www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/vacatio...
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In Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service (Oxford University Press, 2026), Harry C. Merritt explores the wartime experiences and postwar legacies of the...
In Bound by Exclusion and Violence: A History of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century (published by University of Toronto Press, 2025) Aleksandra Pomiecko follows a group of Belarusian n...
Isabelle DeSistoValentina[1] was born in exile in Krasnoyarsk, the second-largest city in Siberia, to an ethnic German father and a Moldovan mother, both of whom had been deported from their homes und...
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Stefan ApplisTusheti is a historic region in the Caucasus. To the north,t is separated from the Republic of Chechnya within the Russian Federation by a mighty mountain range. To the west, another moun...
For all those interested in the history of the Second World War and Latvia, we have a new author interview for you. Check out our conversation with @harrymerritt.bsky.social on his recently-published book 'Latvian Soldiers of World War II' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/latvian...
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In Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service (Oxford University Press, 2026), Harry C. Merritt explores the wartime experiences and postwar legacies of the...
Adelina Stefan talks to Peripheral Histories about researching and writing a transnational history of tourism in two peripheral postwar European dictatorships (Romania and Spain).
Stanisław Edward Boridczenko Writing from the MarginsIn much of Eastern Europe, as elsewhere, contemporary national histories have traditionally been written from the perspective of elites, with a fe...
Giorgi MeladzeMore than three decades after independence, Georgia continues to confront a persistent paradox of rule of law reform. In recent years, as concerns about democratic decline and institutio...
Conference Call for Papers: Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern EurasiaPlace and Date: 28–29 October 2026, University of Szczecin, PolandConveners: Stanisław Boridczenko (University of Sz...
