A small story of the pain off loss, memory, and #remembrance in 1920s Seven Dials.

I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

Here's the preview of the book cover... it's not out yet, but you can now pre-order The Dum-Dum Bullet: A Lethal History, 1850-1950

"We’ve made it about individuals, because the academic research system is very focused on the individual level, and that’s something we really need to break,” she said. Yes, break the focus on individuals. After all, the system is doing its best to break individuals altogether at this time. 1/3

Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.

Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm so pleased to share this Call for Papers for a conference on Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries, organised with my colleagues Chris Batten and @rfhodge.bsky.social, kindly supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Submissions to [email protected] by 22/12/25!

Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess! Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process. Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.

When you're trying to figure out the purpose of the paper you're writing...

📣 The WFA PhD Grant Scheme is currently open to applicants! We want to hear from anyone researching the First World War as part of their doctoral thesis, no matter what the topic! #fwwhist Full details and application form can be found below ⬇️ www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...

This year one of the great joys of my work has been contributing to the advisory board for a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. And last week the exhibition officially opened!

I'm delighted to say that I have been awarded the State Library of NSW's David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship for 2026! My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition". Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.

for those of you in/near Bristol: I'll be speaking there on Dec 2 on the rise and fall of proportionality in US government military-legal thinking - please come if you're around. www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...

I am really honoured to share that I will be a keynote at this year’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium. I’ll be focusing my talk on my 2022 piece ‘Your Work Is Not International Relations’. Thank you very much to the editorial team! : millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...

I guess the countdown to publication day has well and truly begun ...

“Tim Galsworthy compellingly shows us how the thinking of Republicans, as they encountered the momentous years of the civil rights movement, was rarely far from memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction.” I'm humbled Robert Mason gave my forthcoming book "The Republican House Divided" such praise 🗃️

New bibliography entry: Framing the First World War: How divergent views shaped a global conflict ift.tt/X073b8k #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Between You and Me and the Bedpost: Gossip and the Social Life of the British Armed Forces in the First World War ift.tt/RImpWGd #FWWstudies

Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social! US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

It was two OUP books.

I wrote what became the first chapter of this great volume. It comes out in November.

Looking forward to seeing this book out very soon now!

It’s been fantastic to work with so many brilliant colleagues on this - brilliant chapters on everything from innovation to propaganda and covering great geographical range. We also hope the book speaks to qs of mil thought & organisation beyond history- check it out!

Breaking the Status Quo: What Could Empathy Mean for our Politics? Join @claireyorke.bsky.social discussing her new book, Empathy in Politics and Leadership with jennifernadel.bsky.social from @compinpolitics.bsky.social Monday 13th October, 6pm, KCL Register: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

Had great fun writing this. How a spiritualist vegetarian who believed he had found the Holy Grail convinced Churchill and 5 million Brits to pray for peace and freedom during WWII. gethistory.co.uk/articles/20t...

Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social! US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

important reflections on the colonial archive and how we might use it, from @camilleriana.bsky.social - makes me wonder how to get myself over to Eritrea!

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

At Airminded: No total war but class total war

Sorry, we can't afford to give you your real-terms pay cut.

Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War” has an official publication date of December 15, 2025! Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

🔊 Episode #3 out now! @whitproject.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) explores how the gender binary shaped the production and reception of international thought and what recovering overlooked voices means for present-day international relations. open.spotify.com/episode/76f2...

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

Last chance to sign up for tonight's free online talk on British Army officer selection. Open to members and non-members alike: my.demio.com/ref/v9oGFhpi...

The IHR War, Society and Culture seminar series is back next week! Join us as we kick off the new term with a paper on the FWW and social class from @andrewwhittaker.bsky.social 💥 ⏰ 24/09/25, 5.30pm 📌 Online via Zoom / In-person at @ihr.bsky.social Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Thrilled to see the first reviews coming in for ‘Empathy in Politics and Leadership’. A huge thank you to Emma Sky for her kind endorsement and support. 💜 @yalebooks.bsky.social #empathy #empathyinpolitics

I've written a piece about the bomber's view of the past: how aerial archaeologists of the Middle East have looked at the region's past through the eyes (and lenses) of people who bomb it in the present. In fact they're sometimes the same people. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...

The deadline for the Call for Papers for this fascinating conference on 'Women in War: France, Britain and Ireland in the early 20th century' has been extended until October 18th. It should be a fascinating conference. Come to beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/home/

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 👇🏻 www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/... #Fwwhist #phdchat

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Noch bis zum 1.9. freuen wir uns auf Einreichungen für unseren Workshop #PowerCouples im Mai 2026 an der @unihalle.bsky.social; organisiert gemeinsam mit @zoethomas.bsky.social. Die bisherigen Vorschläge versprechen ein faszinierendes & internationales Programm! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

New book arrived. @draefox.bsky.social

Re-sharing this open-access article that @medhistoryman.bsky.social and I recently published: Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: senses, spectacle and military modernity in late Victorian Britain. Check it out for the concept of emotional objects and 'prosthetic feeling'! url: academic.oup.com/histres/arti...

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

Tickets available via the link to sign up, great range of speakers on everything from slavery to remembrance and pageantry to stokers - full programme here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

An episode rendered invisible by the ‘Lest We Forget’ fixation on the Second World War in Britain. In that telling, veterans are quasi-mythical heroes, not real people with politics, nor is class really allowed to enter into it beyond a teleological narrative about the founding of the welfare state.

Join Dr David Morgan-Owen, British Academy Mid-Career Fellow, for Britain, Conflict & the Sea – a two-day conference at the National Maritime Museum (12–13 Sept), exploring how the practice, imagery, and idea of maritime conflict have shaped British history. Find out more below ⬇️