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Dr Richard Millington posting in a personal capacity from Liverpool, UK - all opinions my own. 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧 https://t.co/V0eyCDa86h
Joined August 2017
I'm no longer posting on here. Find me where skies are blue.
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Two to One screening @storyhouselive.bsky.social in Chester from 9 May: In the days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, three close friends in East Germany hatch a plan to make a fortune when they find a bunker full of soon-to-be-worthless currency. https://t.co/Ek7zzYuDqU
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.... the 'proposed changes designed to realise its ambitions and secure the University’s long-term future'. A petition has been set up, should anyone wish to sign/comment: https://t.co/817z85VbM8 2/2
change.org
Save MLANG at Cardiff University!
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Colleagues may have heard news about Cardiff University where the cessation of Modern Languages and Translation (as well as subjects and programmes in Ancient History, Music, Nursing, and Religion and Theology) and the 'reduction of 400 (FTE) academic staff' are among ... 1/2
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I am afraid I am calling it a day on this platform. I can't in good conscience continue on here given the recent politicwl actions of its owner. You can find me in that other, sunnier place. Thanks for all your support.
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I have a new article in the latest edition of History Today - this time about murder in the #GDR!
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Can anyone recommend a good example of metal music ftom the #GDR? I know there's a book about it, but I don't have immediate access to it. Thanks!
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Can Germany's Chemnitz reinvent itself through culture?
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Sad for Magdeburg, where I did all my PhD research. Sad also at the thought of what Far Right bigots and their supporters in the press and media will make of this.
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Watching 'Scrooged' from 1988 with Bill Murray and part of the Xmas TV spectacular his TV executive character produces involves a live segment of someone painting the Berlin Wall. Made me realise again: the Wall was just a fact of life back then.
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The nicest end-of-term review from my East Germany students!
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I have been looking for an East German film to test my students' expectations of what film in the GDR was like. I've settled on Apaches from 1973 - an East German Western!
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Jürgen Sparwasser: “For the GDR I was a hero, but I decided to escape to Frankfurt” https://t.co/0TnvGFZPXV
quotidiano.net
L’uomo del gol decisivo nel derby di 50 anni fa tra le due Germanie ai mondiali. “La mancanza di libertà era un peso insopportabile, la Stasi era dappertutto”
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The Dating Wall: Why A Long Reunified Germany Still Has So Few East-West Couples https://t.co/x0Uh66La0O
worldcrunch.com
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The BRIXMIS Opel Senator Was the Ride of Real Secret Agents During the Cold War
hagerty.co.uk
The Opel Senator is no fancy James Bond car, but it made for an excellent surveillance vehicle for British intelligence during the Cold War.
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Parade of Trabants Celebrates Cold-War Classics and Their Dedicated Owners https://t.co/aviyvxnsZE
caranddriver.com
At the D.C. International Spy Museum, enthusiasts gathered to reminisce, tell the backstory of their passion for the Communist-era cars, and possibly offer push-starts.
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