Photo taken yesterday at the venue, Senate house, which I am told was the the inspiration for the ministry of truth in the book 1984!

Fantastic day yesterday at the 'Popular Culture and World Politics: Portraying War, Conflict, & Political Violence' one day symposium. I learnt so much from 'dresses and drones' to 'weaponizing music' concluding with discussion on some fantastic low budget films in 'Wakaliwood, Uganda'.

Excellent keynote today from @maddipow.bsky.social - Everything she said made pure sense and even included a little history lesson in open science 🧬 (and bropen science 😂) There is more than one way to be scientific! 🧪 #QRS2025

Excited to be at #QRS2025 for two days nerding out 🤓 (do we use hash tags here?)

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

Term one teaching complete! As exhausted as we always are by this point, London is very pretty and I know I am lucky to work in such beautiful buildings (excluding strand building, if you know you know 😂) with wonderful colleagues. Now to steam on w PhD before signing off for a rest 🎄🤶🎅🦌

Great photo, H10 was a summer tour right? He must have been hot in his suit 😁

Thank you so much! I loved doing them, it’s a real privilege to hear people’s stories. They went well thank you, currently wading through my data and writing up 😁

This is one of my favorite, low-tech, ways of visualizing the past! Doesn't oversell the reconstruction, shows possible past and present in same view, works, rain or shine and without power.

Thank you so much, was great to meet you last week!

Thank you for your kind endorsement Mary 😁

Do follow @chlocake.bsky.social. I, like many veterans of the conflict in Afghanistan, contributed to this study and I found doing so personally very cathartic. I’m also pleased it has led me on the quest I now find myself on in critically analysing veteran testimony in other historical interests.

I am so glad you enjoyed it Ally, and even more that it has promoted your own study which I look forward to hearing about in the future! Thank you for such a kind endorsement as I try to find my feet over here on blue sky 😁

PhD overview: After Afghanistan — Chloe Storer Between 2010 and 2014, the War Story project at Imperial War Museums (IWM) worked with the UK Ministry of Defence and others to document the UK's involvement in the conflict in Afghanistan (Operation ...

Like most historians, I ought to blog a lot more than I do - here is a brief outline of my PhD for the ‘general reader’ with methods and findings to follow in greater detail over the coming months. Let me know what you think 🤓

www.chloestorer.com/history-blog...

Quite a lot of pressure for the first post - thought I’d introduce myself - hello I’m Chloe, I’m in my final year of my PhD on Operation Herrick and I’m interested in war, the experience of war, oral history and history in general 🤓