Nothing better than a project where you get to collaborate with smart friends. This roundtable was fun! Thank you, @lucatrenta.bsky.social, Michael J. Ard, @cindystorer.bsky.social, @paulmcgarr.bsky.social, and the one-and-only @tim-weiner.bsky.social

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Westmeath Heritage Office invitation to quote. Westmeath County Council invitation to quote and quotation response document for an Oral Historian to identify and enhance relevant extracts from two recently digitised oral history collections to pro...

Westmeath County Council is inviting quotations for an #OralHistorian to identify and enhance relevant extracts from two recently #digitised oral history collections to promote engagement and learning.

📅 Deadline: 20th April 2026

💻 oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/noticeboard-...

#OralHistory

👀 We're looking for a full-time, permanent Assistant Professor in Political Science to join us @ School of Politics and IR.

We're fairly open on specialism (DM if interested in security), applicants must have experience teaching and using "R" for our quants work.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...

Screenshot of the MRC's 50th anniversary exhibition. The document (partly) on view is a photograph of a painting of Tom Mann, shown in heroic pose as an engineering worker. Tom Mann sent the photo to his wife, with a letter from the Soviet Union.

#Archive30 starts today! Use the hashtag throughout April to find posts of varying levels of tenuousness on the themes of the day

For #YourArchive we're introducing ourselves with the MRC in 58 documents (should have been 50 but we got overexcited)
warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Given the scale of the Iran story I’ve been mobilised as a co-host for the @channel4news.bsky.social podcast and recorded this episode today with Matt Frei t.co/UqxCYmquGO

Grantham Loop | Walking Tour Around the Jewel of South Lincolnshire YouTube video by Walking With Llama Paws - Country Walks & More

Good news! Now you too can experience taking a trip right around the fringes of that jewel of the Lincolnshire landscape: Grantham.

Yes, it's my latest hiking video of course!

youtu.be/CRZpdcJ1bxM

👀 Delighted to see Nottingham's Centre for the Study of Subversion, Unconventional Interventions & Threats cited in the Foreign Affairs Committee report on "Disinformation Diplomacy".

The report, and our evidence, is below:

🔗 committees.parliament.uk/publications...

The new issue of our University Press newsletter is at the proofing stage & coming soon. Don't forget to subscribe if you're a Warwick community member (staff or student, all are welcome!)

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Very good opportunity for a fully funded PhD on the Northern Ireland Troubles. Deadline: 22 May 2026!

📣 Opportunity: Oral History PhD Research Project w/t Imperial War Museums & University of Strathclyde.

An #oralhistory of women paramilitaries during ‘The Troubles’ in Ireland and Britain.

For more information visit: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

#Postgraduate #NorthernIreland #TheTroubles

My book - “Purges” - has a release date (August 15) and a front cover. I started work on this as my PhD dissertation at the end of 2017 - excited for it to finally be coming out!

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

In recognition of CSIS’s 40th Anniversary, SIH is proud to announce a C$3,400 travel award for Canadian students researching Canadian intelligence.

In recognition of CSIS’s 40th Anniversary, SIH is proud to announce a C$3,400 travel award for Canadian students researching Canadian intelligence. To be considered, note this in your submission. If already applied, email to confirm candidacy.

Submit to SIH2026Conf@gmail.com by March 23

@kcsi.uk

The US government providing intelligence and military support to a local ally in the hunt for an important political figure?!

No, it’s not Iran. It’s Bolivia, in 1967. New article with Thomas Field in @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social.

Here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When there are no sources: an English Historical Review symposium The EHR is hosting a one-day symposium in St John's College, Oxford, to celebrate the recent publication of the journal's 600th issue.

Please share! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'.
Further details and how to sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...

#HIRING

We’re recruiting a Senior Research Fellow, European Security at the Royal United Services Institute.

Lead research on Europe’s security architecture, transatlantic relations, and the UK’s role in European defence.

Apply by March 26, 2026: https://bit.ly/4b5mWaN

Submissions Want to write for War on the Rocks? Start here.

Want to write for War on the Rocks?

What 'special relationship'? Ten other occasions when the US and UK fell out Arguments over Iran between London and Washington follow similar disputes during the decades about Vietnam, the Suez Crisis, Libya and Kosovo

What 'special relationship'? Ten other occasions when the US and UK fell out - www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/special-relat...

Excited to be talking at the University of Warwick on Monday 23 March, regarding CIA’s adoption of social science into intelligence analysis in the early Cold War. #theintelligenceintellectuals warwick.ac.uk/about/strate...

Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei Israel spent years hacking Tehran’s traffic cameras and monitoring bodyguards ahead of the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader

Some interesting detail here about the intelligence picture (esp. SIGINT) in the run-up to the assassination. We’ll be talking about surveillance and algorithms in tomorrow’s seminar on my secrecy & accountability module.

Just under 2 weeks left to get your submissions in for SIH’s 2026 conference, hosted at King’s College London with the 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴’𝘀 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 kcsi.uk and the 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @warstudieskcl.bsky.social

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 15, send proposals to: SIH2026Conf@gmail.com

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

New article out with Iker Erdocia ‘The politics of abstentionism: Comparing Sinn Féin’s Westminster abstentionism to Basque Nationalist Left’s engagement with the Spanish Parliament’ with @bjpir.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

thanks reviewers, colleagues, interviewees.

Join us on Tuesday March 3rd for the launch of @kbclarke.bsky.social's 'Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed', published by @universitypress.cambridge.org.

Find out more and register to attend: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...

IHR Internships IHR Internships support new researchers to develop their skills and broaden their experience within and beyond the historical research community.

We have just launched our IHR 2026 internship with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), focusing on environmental histories. For more information and to apply visit: buff.ly/Vzpz6G3 (application deadline 15 April 2026, 11:59 pm BST).

Publishing at ECPR Open access from 2026

✒️ Removing barriers for authors is central to our #OpenAccess transition 🔓️

With our publishing partners, we offer:
✅ Funding routes for all authors in EJPR, EPS & EPSR
✅ APC waivers for ECPR Member authors in PRX

@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
@tandfresearch.bsky.social

👇️ Discover our journals

Open Research Week 2026 A week‑long programme uniting universities to strengthen transparent, collaborative and impactful research culture.

Open Research Week '26 (Midlands Innovation) (w/b 16th March)

A week of interesting events and talks, some of whom hosted by my fabulous colleagues here at Warwick.

midlandsinnovation.org.uk/latest/event...

UKRI's funding changes explained The latest on UKRI's great grant pause and changes at STFC

'It is expected that the change to UKRI’s new bucket model, and the subsequent reopening of grant funds, will be in April 2027. Of course, this means that between now and then academics who would have bid for funding cannot'.

#security #intelligence #professionalism #highereducation #worldofwork #sipsi | Dalene Duvenage (DSyRM) I'm building the Security and Intelligence Professional Studies Initiative (SIPSI) because I keep meeting practitioners and educators who care deeply about doing this work well, and I think we can do ...

Here's a super initiative for intelligence scholars: www.linkedin.com/posts/dalene...

2026 BrANCH Conference — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

📣 Call for Papers and Panels!

BrANCH 2026 Conference at the University of Warwick (October 9-11) 📌 🗓️❗️

We welcome proposals on all aspects of North American history through to the end of the ‘long nineteenth century’

Deadline for Proposals: Friday, April 10

See more details below ⬇️

Vibrant collection of books on shelves for reading, research, and education.

Refer someone to BISA today! 🎉

We are running our referral scheme in which for every new member you refer you will receive 3 MONTHS FREE MEMBERSHIP 🌟

Just make sure they put your name in the referral box here and do not miss out today: https://ow.ly/ZXjQ50XBHh4

@julietdryden.bsky.social

Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966-75 Join historian Huw Bennett as he examines the interactions between the British Army and paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during the most violent phase of the Troubles.

Uncivil War, my book about the British Army and the Troubles in the early 1970s, is out in paperback on 15 January. Come and hear me talk about it at the National Army Museum on 13 February:

www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/unc...