We're currently recruiting for five (yes five!) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership awards at IWM See the full list of projects and partners here, with further details of how to apply: www.iwm.org.uk/research/doc...
Of possible interest: a funded PhD project in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB897/p...
Interestingly all the focus in the UK on petrol prices in the US, despite the fact that even though they've doubled in some places in February, they're still around half of what they are in the UK
Logo including text of the organisation titles for the Imperial War Museums (IWM), University of Glasgow, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
๐จ๐Funded #PhD opportunity: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship - โ๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฟโ, with Imperial War Museums (IWM) & University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk. Supervised by Tim Peacock, Matt Barr & Ian Kikuchi. Apply by Friday 22 May, 5pm. October 2026 start. Details in next post.
Libby Jackson, the Head of Space at the Science Museum, doing a sensational job humanising this incredible event. Museums are about the now as much as the past
Well done BBC. You had a literal countdown clock and somehow you still nearly missed the moment the Artemis II mission went beyond the distance record
Enjoyed visiting the Spy Museum today and checking out the Camouflage exhibit (including IWM loans)
Intrigued? Me too. Why not come to Pentagon 1 for the Tail End Charlie session of #SMH2026 and find out more
Another great pair of papers from @abbyswhitlock.bsky.social and @edgitre.bsky.social at #SMH2026, on Army Talks and GI Roundtables, and segregation and desegregation in the SWW respectively.
Yesterday I got to enjoy @meganahamilton.bsky.social's excellent paper on learning and innovation in the SWW. Today I'm listening to @milhistcurator.bsky.social , @mhptpodcast.bsky.social and @amyjay401.bsky.social on making military history accessible and connecting people with the past #SMH2026
Really enjoying this panel on AI at #SMH2026. Lots of tools to make use of, but I'm also looking forward to sharing what IWM has managed to do so far
Would be good to meet up at some point if you had the time!
Itโs the last week to see Emergency Exits at the Imperial War Museum, which explores decolonisation in Kenya, Cyprus and Malaya and which I was lucky enough to consult on as a part of a team of imperial historians. Go and see it if you can โ itโs really great!
Very much looking forward to this! Hope to see some of you there
Excellent, much obliged! I'd drawn a blank on Sounds
Where have you found that to listen to?
What sad news. Bomber and Winter, and the Bernard Samson novels, were wonderful
I'm just back from a fantastic @lrefoundation.bsky.social conference in Arnhem where we met to discuss the future of SWW commemoration. I visited the bridge (cue "Bring up the PIAT!") but also the @cwgc.bsky.social cemetery where John Grayburn rests, a remembered Chiltern Rugby Ranger
I'm not sure the AI that made that is imagining anything. At least I hope it isn't
Say hello to Chris Warren for me!
This is a great idea for a book, congratulations. Sincerely hope the ejector seat debate between Rebel and Imperial fighters features....
In a competitive field, ski mountaineering must be one of the most lunatic sports at the Winter Olympics. The uphill zig zags through an approximation of an Elizabethan country house's formal garden. The flight of stairs mid piste. Ripping the grip tape off but having to pocket it. It's outstanding
Genuinely delighted by this for you!
That was my first thought! But I think @jim09ea63.bsky.social is right that it's 9mm Parabellum
When my eldest daughter said she wanted to go collect shells at the beach, this wasn't quite what I had in mind
Undoubtedly true. That also includes paying for the infrastructure to house an increased Army - I don't think people realise how much of the UK's Army was based in overseas garrisons, particularly Germany. The offer is also significantly worse now than it was
IWM has acquired a collection relating to Dame Vera Lynn, inc. uniform, more than 600 fan letters she received, and her diary of her 1944 tour of India and Burma. Congratulations to all my colleagues who've worked so hard to both acquire and celebrate and share this
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