I’ve never seen a Victorian organisation run a ‘Father’s Club’ before. But, St Hilda’s East did because lots of ‘quiet middle-aged…rather tired men’ were not being served by the too active men’s clubs. Instead, they invited Shoreditch’s older men to sing a few songs in their garden. Strangely, cute.

Our @malcolmcraig.bsky.social always talks about the most cheerful of subjects. In this case, you can hear him discussing World War Three, the work of General Sir John Hackett, games, and much more with @breakfastruins.bsky.social.

The departmental account is under new management! Definitely worth following if you want to stay in the loop about what's going on at @ljmuhistory.bsky.social!

We also have cats! Well, Reader in Victorian History @luciejones83.bsky.social has lovely cats.

Our very own Professor @jamescrossland.bsky.social discussing the "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet (who some of you may recognise from the comedy series Our Flag Means Death) with @lhistorienne.bsky.social.

Very exciting to see Senior Lecturer in American History Malcolm Craig's history-based role-playing games out in the wild. Watch out for a special launch event when the new academic year starts in September! FYI @ljmuimpact.bsky.social, @ljmuresearch.bsky.social, and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

We're back! After lying fallow for a few months, the @ljmuhistory.bsky.social account is back up and running! We'll be talking much more about all the exciting research, public engagement, and events happening in our lively little department.

Brilliant to see the exciting work of our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social receiving such interest. Surely, the downloads will be in the 100s now!

Congratulations to our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social on the publication of this exciting #research paper on tabletop role-playing games during the #ColdWar. It's open access, so everyone interested can read it for free!

This Wednesday, 12 November, our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social will be talking about his current #research project on the #history of domestic #intelligence in #Britain. Everyone interested is very welcome to attend.

This is what we call research-led teaching! 👍💪👏

We're very much looking forward to celebrating the publication of @andrekeil.bsky.social's new book #emergency #powers in #Britain and #Germany during the First World War. The launch event is next Tuesday (28.10.), at 4.30 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend!

The left: earnest public speaker, telling the story of Robert Bruce Lockhart to a full ballroom of #history lovers at the @iowlf.bsky.social The right: devil incarnate summoning the dark legions to do my bidding I like both of these. #booksky @ljmuresearch.bsky.social @ljmuhistory.bsky.social

A packed audience for our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social talking about his favourite (flawed) spymaster Robert Bruce Lockhart. #history #spy

This is an exciting conference happening in #Liverpool next year. We're proud to support it via our Centre for Modern and Contemporary #History here at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social! Please find all information in the link below.

Some brilliant public-facing research here by our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social!!!

Maybe something for @malcolmcraig.bsky.social and the students on the @ljmuhistory.bsky.social Cold War module?

My department @ljmuhistory.bsky.social is hosting a series of talks this semester, including a launch event for my book that came out in April. Everyone's very much welcome to these events!

And here we are! The latest, greatest issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social, incorporating an article on the Cold War and RPGs by...me! @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @ljmuhistory.bsky.social

We're so very proud of our recent graduate Karin. Well done!

We have an exciting seminar series at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social this semester. These events are free and everyone's welcome to attend.

This will be interesting for our students!

Today kickstarts induction. My life long uni friends emerged from a chance encounter in the welcome desk queue where I ended up befriending the girl ahead of me& subsequently her flat mates. Looking around the lecture room I’ll be thinking about all the friendships to be made & that’s exciting.

One of our brilliant graduates this year, Aliyah Kerr, has turned her dissertation on anti-#apartheid #activism in #Liverpool into a Substack article. It's a brilliant read, and really showcases the quality of the research our students do for their dissertations. Give it a read!

My @ljmuhistory.bsky.social colleague Nick White with the art’s organisation Bluecoat’s are recruiting a PHD student to research the global &imperial history of Liverpool’s Blue Coat Charity School. They want someone who can develop a community strand #skyhistorian www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

www.politico.eu/article/iran... Attention @ljmuhistory.bsky.social students - this was what I was referring to when discussing "strategic choke points"

It was my pleasure today to welcome over a hundred delegates from across the globe to this year's Britain and the World Conference, hosted by LJMU's Centre for Modern and Contemporary History #batw2025 #skystorians #conference #history @ljmuhistory.bsky.social @ljmu-ris.bsky.social

Thursday 4th at 1.15 the @sharinglands.bsky.social crew will be chatting about the Irish Choctaw links (and also stickball, bicycles & virtual walks) at Nano Nagle Place #Cork It's free and everyone is welcome. nanonagleplace.ie/nanoevents/s...

Our very own @kateballantyne.bsky.social was interviewed in this podcast about her most recent book on student activists in Tennessee. It's.a fascinating listen!

@merseysideha.bsky.social Hi and welcome on Bluesky!

This sounds fantastic! Our department can't wait to work with the new Merseyside Historical Association @merseysideha.bsky.social! Onwards and upwards!

We are indeed hiring! All details for this temporary post in Modern #Irish #History can be found in the link below. Come and join our friendly bunch of hisotrians!

Our colleague @gillianobrien.bsky.social has been very busy over the last couple of weeks!

As every year, our first-year students have produced some brilliant exhibitions for their research projects. A real highlight of our academic year!

More impressions from our dissertation conference today. The LMI is a fantastic venue!

We held our annual #History Dissertation Conference today. Fair to say, we were blown away by the quality of our students' #research and the buzz and atmosphere throughout the day. It's a highpoint of our #academic year! @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social has a new Substack blog for his historical musings now. Obviously, we recommend to subscribe.

🚨NEW OPPORTUNITY🚨 @imm-min-journal.bsky.social are looking for an editorial assistant for a period of 3 years starting March 2025. 📅 Deadline: 7 February 2025 🖥️ Find out more at the GHS website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/01/23/o...

That's playful pedagogy at work. Surely, our students will love it!

Such an amazing project! Great to see our students being involved as well! We can't wait to see the finished product.

We wish everyone a very happy 2025! We're looking forward to a year packed with events, conferences (@batw.bsky.social 2025!), book launches, and @andrekeil.bsky.social field trip to #Berlin with our second-year students.

It's fair to say that our departmental #Christmas party is always one of the cultural highlights of the year! Brilliant performance from our @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Shanty Choir yesterday.

Slowly, painfully working on my book about the history of post-apocalypse/Cold War role-playing games. If nothing else, at least I have some unfunny chapter titles to work with. I mean, someone's bound to give me a book contract for this stuff? Right? Right? Oh no!

Christmas is coming so we're extending our laptop loans!

Reading through the professionally done transcripts of my post-apoc RPG oral history interviews leads to some head-scratchers. Took ages to discern (via listening to the interview again) that "acting all careless heroes" should be "acting all Kelly's Heroes", regarding Twilight 2000 characters.

Really enjoyed* giving my paper on settlement bedrooms to the my Faculty’s Home Studies Research Cluster. This might be the only real book stuff I’ve done this semester. But I’ve decided that on Friday I’m going to do more plotting. *(even if my cat did insist on having loads of attention during it)

Our brilliant colleague Louise Coyne has brought some festive, sugary treats to the department today. Merry Christmas to all from LJMU History!

Our very own Professor Crossland is heading to Bath today to talk about his impressive book on the #history of modern #terrorism.

📢 January 2025 exam timetables are now live 📢 The next assessment period for LJMU students will take place from Monday, 6 January to Friday, 17 January 2025. Find out more ➡️ www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

#ThrowbackThursday This another #historic image of our department building on Mount Pleasant in the heart of #Liverpool. The chapel is now one of our biggest lecture theatres.