My book Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War (2023) looks at four military institutions - feudal cavalry services, militias, regular armies, and war commissariats - and investigates how they evolved, mutated, stagnated, or withered in 1618-1648. Open access at hup.fi/books/m/10.3...
USA - the free rider of NATO:
This is really grim. You cannot retain and expand an economy by destroying universities!!!!
Higher Education in the 2020s, ladies and gentlemen.
No one will save us. We have to save ourselves.
We are pleased to announce the creation of six new SAHR Fellows. Edward Spiers is made a Fellow in recognition of a lifetime's work, & awards also go to to Erica Charters, Matthew Hughes, Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Spencer Jones, and Kaushik Roy. For details, see www.sahr.org.uk/fellowships....
An Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon.
Please explain what smashing an image of Jesus from a crucifix has to do with rooting out Islamic terrorism, which is the official excuse for Israel's program of bombing and destroying entire towns and villages.
Interested in interning at the GHI in Washington? We encourage students interested in 2027 internships to apply by July 31 of this year! More details are available here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/res...
The Society would like to remind our PhD and ECR members that we are accepting proposals for New Voices in First World War Studies, a virtual conference that we are hosting on 17 June.
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Opening page to the RHS guide to becoming a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. With full abstract: :Fellowship is one of several ways to join and belong to the Royal Historical Society. Fellows are elected to this position by the Society in recognition of their work for the historical discipline and profession. There are many different routes to Fellowship, just as there are different kinds of contributions and careers within the discipline of history. Today’s RHS Fellows are history practitioners from a very wide range of backgrounds (within and beyond higher education) who have contributed to historical understanding and knowledge through a body of work. These contributions take many forms: from academic publications of different formats, to editorial and curatorial work, history programming and public history. This post addresses common questions asked by those considering applying to join the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. If you are interested in making an application, we hope this helps."
The Society's Fellowship is a UK / worldwide gathering of historians who've contributed to historical understanding and knowledge through a body of work.
If you're interested in joining them, we've a brief guide to the many activities of RHS Fellows and how to apply bit.ly/3OzhoxK #Skystorians 1/2
🧵 New course I’m teaching this fall: Football, Fußball, Fútbol: Modern European History through Soccer. 28 sessions, 4 books, 4 films. Here’s the full syllabus as a thread. Comments welcome.
#savethedate #war #militaryhistory
Hope to see many of you in Limerick.
In March the Vatican's International Theological Commission published a brick of a document, Latin title and everything, critiquing looksmaxxers, tradwives, and tech bros who perform Catholicism online but have a shallow engagement with it, more or less telling them to log off and talk to people.
Have the Ukrainians regained the lead in the drone race? The Russians seem to think so. In this post I look at the evidence that there has been a step change in Ukrainian capabilities. (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/i...?
My feature for the Irish Post on the Irish writers born in Britain featured in A Hosting eg Paul Howard, Mike McCormack, Catherine O’Flynn, Martin McDonagh, Eugene McCabe and Bridget O’Connor and British-based ones such as Roy Foster and Martina Evans
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Exploring the 1926 Census of Ireland. My direct family lines left by the early 1920s, but I’m finding wider family links & exploring the changes in the areas my family had lived between 1911 and 1926. The census is free to view.
#FamilyHistory #Census #Ireland
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John Gibney, The Shadow of a Year: The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory (Wisconsin, 2013)
Teaching this fine book in my “Revolutions in Three Kingdoms” seminar next week. Good for thinking about history, myth, memory, and the political career of an archive
I just got a really lovely (& unsolicited) review of my book from @matthewrr.bsky.social. It was so flattering that I couldn't help myself but share it.
Many thanks Matthew. That made my week!
cc: @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @michaeldwyer.bsky.social
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Signing up to the WTO with its associated obligations was also a deal, and if the EU goes ahead with this illegal deal it breaks the much more important WTO deal.
Ok, my dad got me the most appropriate shirt ever
#IAPH is running an Oral History workshop on 25 April 2026 from 10am - 1pm ** ONLINE ** Excellent training for #Qualitative researchers too. Subsidised for Members. Places limited - email info@irishhistorians.ie subject heading ‘Oral History Training’. #Speirgorm #Skystorians #OralHistory #Ireland
A huge pleasure to welcome members of @thefnl.bsky.social to Cambridge today!
Seriously??? Absolutely, nobody is going to believe that!!!
Strong stuff from a Pope!!!
Next Monday evening online. All welcome. Please register to obtain the Zoom link.
