Dear Henry Brown, I am delighted to inform you that at its last meeting on 6 February 2026, the Council elected you an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) in recognition of your contribution to History.

Proofs for forthcoming chapter: ‘The sad fate of Abyssinia’: Internationalism, Race and Anti-colonialism in the Republican Military Press (1936–9)

Two bits of good news in otherwise bleak times - RHS Associate Fellowship and proofs on a chapter I am very excited about

And now it's a clear blue sky so it feels like I am being gaslit by Cardiff weather

Opening my emails on my way to work only to find a fellowship rejection before immediately having my umbrella snapped in half by a stiff breeze. New term is going great.

Applying for post docs in the UK this academic year:

When you don’t get put in relevant starter packs

It's a real problem that HE is led and represented by people who don't understand what we do or the value of it

This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.

Covid response of ‘toxic’ UK government was ‘too little, too late’, inquiry finds [FREE TO READ] Report criticises culture in Downing Street during Boris Johnson’s tenure

What a shit show

on.ft.com/4pqrC0s Covid response of ‘toxic’ UK government was ‘too little, too late’, inquiry finds

In another grim racial twist, the Republicans occasionally called the German of the Condor Legion “moros rubios” (blonde moors)

Yeah a bunch of other “Republican” battle hymns were also just repurposed from the Rif Wars too.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A few tech-oligarchs are clearly influencing electoral processes. We’ve seen it in the UK, Germany, France, Hungary…and I’m sure we will see it in Spain.” (El Pais)

The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically | NOEMA To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.

'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'

“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.

The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

The new Lindsay Ellis video is a must watch if you're shocked and tired about the evolving state of the world and the indifference of those in power to do anything about it. It is a long hard look at how the stage is set to ensure suffering continues unchallenged.

youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Psst! Psst! Wanna hear some von Clausewitz ish? Then tune into lat week's episode "On War" with guest @hdabrown.bsky.social ! Find it on anchor.fm/theoryish

War is a continuation of podcast by other means…
Had a blast talking with @paolamedgonz.bsky.social and @hannahva390.bsky.social about CvC and Crimson Tide among other things!

WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely this week's new episode! We were joined by @hdabrown.bsky.social to discuss "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz . We discuss politics, Napoleon, and Battlestar Galactica! Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish

One Special Forces officer blocked 1,585 Afghans from settling in UK Documents shown to court by MoD show the officer rejected every application referred to him in the summer of 2023.

Hundreds of former Afghan commandos & their families were refused relocation by a UK Special Forces officer with possible links to a war crimes enquiry where they could’ve been witnesses.

At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.

The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.

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I'm expecting a revision of employment statistics so that every one lusty, upright industrial job will be worth three snivelling woke Smart Alec jobs

We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.

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This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.

Imagine if ALL THIS BOLLOCKS about scrounging, skiving disabled people and their existential threat to the UK was based on THE WRONG NUMBERS.

Imagine...

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Como sabéis estoy haciendo una tesis sobre el consumo de heroína en Madrid (años 80 y 90). Ahora estoy realizando entrevistas a personas que vivieron ese momento histórico: consumidores/as, voluntarios/as en diferentes centros y proyectos, vecinos/as...

When we launched the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War, it had 130 objects in five galleries with texts in Spanish and English. Now it has 480 objects in 11 galleries. All texts are in French as well, and some galleries are in Basque, Catalan, and Galician.
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