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We at The WFA have launched our PhD Grant Scheme for 2025.

The grant is open to doctoral students researching ANY aspect of the First World War.

Where will our grant take you?

See website for full details 👇🏻

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We're recruiting for a Curator in our Second World War team at IWM. Details here! #museumjobs

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Cynthia Erivo & Jools Holland - God Only Knows (Later... with Jools Holland) YouTube video by BBC Music

Wow! 😮
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Really classy Daily Mirror front page on the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945

Starmer needs to unequivocally tell the British people that Brexit has made them immeasurably poorer and that Farage has been the chief advocate of their losses .

British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding

The US president accused other nations, including allies, of “looting, pillaging, raping and plundering” the US, as he announced tariffs on economic rivals including 20% on the EU and 34% on China.

I know I'm a terribly tedious war bore, but it is utterly nauseating that - within living memory of the Second World War and innumerable other wars - for the president of a country as territorially secure as the US to speak like this.

META BOOK THIEVES - They Must Do The Write Thing The Society of Authors are protesting Meta’s HQ today This image shows illustrations of authors holding placards saying “make it fair” and “do the write thing”

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”

Theft is not a valid alternative.

We are hugely excited to launch this new prize. The International Society for First World War Studies is absolutely dedicated to supporting ECRs and we view this as an amazing opportunity to start inspiring the next generation of scholars examining the First World War! 🗃️

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.

As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.

But what can authors do? Read here:
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Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Paging @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.

"So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks Where I categorise 76 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks and show how they align with the authoritarian playbook

"So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks
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Society Bibliography Event Discussion with Franziska Heimburger and Nina Régis about the Society Bibliography

Do you know a fantastic tool to keep up with publications about #FWW? @fheimburger.bsky.social will present it during the Society Bibliography Event @fwwsoc.bsky.social with over 20,600 references! Join us on Friday 21st March at 1pm CET ! Suscribe here : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1279469510...

I'm pretty sure this is called the discipline of history.

Dear everyone! The CfP for the 2025 conference of @fwwsoc.bsky.social is still ongoing. The deadline for proposals is 1 May.
This year's conference will take place in Thessaloniki and the theme will be 'Seas' (interpreted as broad as possible) www.firstworldwarstudies.org/conferences....

I can't let this reality-inverting BS go. The US was a proponent and architect of the EU—in particular, its antecedent the ECSC—because Europe caused massive wars that killed millions (including hundreds of thousands of Americans) and integrating their economies would prevent another.

A big success

Absolutely excellent piece and resonates with my experiences at a post-92 institution too. We are at the frontline of what's going to happen to our sector, but it's happening at supposedly "safer" institutions too. Some key points to pull out:

The UK university sector is on fire. This is happening virtually everywhere -- job cuts, hiring freezes, department closures, PhD funding programmes... full blown crisis

ColliderFest is right around the corner 👀

From getting hands-on with Supercomputers to visiting our simulated crime scene, there's so much to see and do.

🗓️ 13th - 16th March
📍 Across Hull, including some events on our campus

Find out more and book your tickets: events.colliderfest.co.uk

U.S. military removes words 'history,' 'respect,' 'dignity' from digital presence as part of DEI review The Department of Defense issued a Digital Content Refresh document to comply with DEI removal from the armed services. TPR obtained a document laying out the guidance of what to remove.

For those historians keeping track, esp #milhist folks, “history” is now a flagged word bc of its apparent connection to #DEI. Canary in a coal mine, indeed. @smh-historians.bsky.social 🗃️ www.tpr.org/military-vet...

More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach 26th February 2025

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

Chanak and the Memory of Gallipoli: A British Crisis of Cultural Demobilisation The Chanak crisis of September-October 1922 brought the British government to the brink of international warfare. Although Britain observes 11 November 1918 as the end of the First World War, perha...

My new article was published today: Chanak and the Memory of Gallipoli: A British Crisis of Cultural Demobilisation

Open access

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It links British imperial and political history into the idea of a Greater War which finished at Lausanne.

The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.