'Gallipoli: Ottoman Fronts' by @blackmillgames.bsky.social releases on 21st May. Watch the release date trailer below and see the blog to catch up on everything we've announced about the game so far. 🗃️
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Advertising 2 more positions (doc/postdoc) as part of BLOCKADE. PhD cand to examine the heroization of blockade runners in the era of the world wars; postdoc to explore the transatlantic dimension of blockades. 4 year positions in beautiful Freiburg. Please SHARE! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
For PhD/ECR members of @fwwsoc.bsky.social - the Society has a call for papers out for 'New Voices in First World War Studies' - a virtual conference planned for June.
It's a great opportunity for members to showcase their amazing new research. See here for more:
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In the wake of Lord Roberston’s report, a quick reminder that spending on #defence v. #welfare has never been a zero sum game: historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...
New on the blog!
@nickbhattacharya.bsky.social explores the gendered nature of parish welfare in Devon #womenshistory
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Fully funded four year AHRC PhD project @swanseahistory.bsky.social on 'Rethinking Reparations: A Cultural and Social History of Post-First World War Compensation to Civilians in Britain and its Empire, 1918-25.' Closing date 22 May. Get in touch if you are interested!
The Beautiful Game Exhibition has now opened at The National WW1 Museum and Memorial in Kansas City.
The Beautiful Game is an extraordinary exhibition revealing the profound connections between the world's most beloved sport and the Great War.
More information @ www.theworldwar.org/exhibitions/...
Society Member Dr. William Rennie has just published Germany's First World War Aviators The Lives of Fliers, with Routledge Studies in First World War History. Find out more and order your copy below:
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Happy Easter! A trip back into the archives of my PhD research for today’s article, looking at how a WW1 soldier might experience and relate to the Easter story, with help from the YMCA.
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We’re delighted to announce our keynote speaker for our upcoming conference, Prof. Elaine Murphy (Plymouth) @plymprivateer.bsky.social, who will deliver a paper on how 17c sailors and their wives navigated wartime separation ⚓
Please see our full CfP below, and send your abstracts by 22 May!
110 years of the clocks going forwards. Make up for your hour’s lost sleep by reading my latest substack for who to blame:
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** Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction ** is officially published today! Happy to have this new little book out in the world.
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Cover for the journal "first world war studies" with promotion for the newest issue: Volume 16 Issue 3
At last! 😅 Volume 16, Issue 3 of First World War Studies is finally here! This new issue highlights our journal's interdisciplinary focus, bringing together diverse perspectives to examine the global conflict and its aftermath.
#History #Skystorians New blog drop! Jayne Gifford, @allenpackwood.bsky.social and @richardtoye.bsky.social on their special issue on Winston Churchill www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
With the kerfuffle about Churchill on a bank note and Trump banging on about how Starmer isn’t anything like him, we really do need to have a second edition of this.
Professor @richardtoye.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio 4 about what makes a great political speech and the art of oratory
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Delighted to be part of GWG online Conf on 26.4.26. Talking about Cockneys in the Trenches in the London TF, 1914–18 based on the volume London Pride that I edited with @parhistory.bsky.social & Charles Fair. Book conf here: greatwargroup.com/product/onli... London Pride tinyurl.com/54ex98e3
Venturing beyond the Victorian Commons, here's my short article on PMs in the 19th century Lords.
Photograph of piles of Australian unit war diaries during taken during the First World War.
Hello! During the pandemic, I compiled a collection of digitised Great War primary sources for student research essays. Going through them just now for my current class, loads of those links are now dead. Does anyone have any favourite online source collections (that work)? Will share new list!
Talking about London Pride with @parhistory.bsky.social and Charles Fair at @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social on 26.6.26 at noon. We talk about the formation, composition and wartime contribution of the London Territorial Force. Tickets here www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/lon...
Listen in to Exeter academic @richardtoye.bsky.social's podcast @finesthalfhour.bsky.social about Winston Churchill.
1/2 With Trump invoking Churchill to belittle Starmer, this, from Churchill expert
@RichardToye
, is worth reading:
"Churchill once observed that war, once unleashed, rarely follows the tidy paths imagined by those who start it."
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"Churchill was well aware that wars and interventions could produce unintended consequences. Reflecting on his experiences as a young officer during the Boer war, he later wrote that once the signal for conflict was given, statesmen lost control of events. War became subject to “malignant Fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations”. This was not the sentiment of a pacifist. But it was the observation of someone who had seen how quickly political decisions could unleash forces that no government could fully control."
"Churchill observed that war, once unleashed, rarely follows the tidy paths imagined by those who start it. That warning may be as relevant as any of his more famous phrases."
Good piece by @richardtoye.bsky.social on Churchill analogies and Trump's war on Iran.
"The historical record reveals a more complicated figure: a strategist who believed in strength, certainly, but also in diplomacy, alliances and the careful management of great-power rivalries" - @richardtoye.bsky.social on #Trump and #Churchill
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Did you catch our latest #podcast episode?
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What does the #FWW look like when it arrives as an invasion of home, family, & childhood?
We discuss 'My Soul, A Shining Tree', by Jamila Gavin that explores the war's opening months through the experiences of children, civilians, & young soldiers. 🗃️
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cover for the book "British First World War Propaganda: From A to Z"
William Mulligan & Troy Paddock present new reviews on the 1914 outbreak and British propaganda.
