A two year position in our department. Teaching - US and the World since 1776 (UG); Limited War during the Cold War (Korea and Vietnam) (PG); and Presidents and Foreign Policy (Roosevelt to Reagan). Supervision - UG and PG dissertations. Pay - minimum of £43,227. Deadline - 30th April.

Prefer to watch the presentation? The full video of the lecture, filmed on location at the National Army Museum, is available to watch on the Society’s YouTube channel: youtu.be/nP_dsoZUwrI?...

Today, we are thrilled to publish the very FIRST transcript from this prize series! Delivered by @alexmayhew.bsky.social at the @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social in London, his insightful lecture summarises his recent book on the Great War.

Yesterday I took a group of our first year UG HY120 students to the UK’s National Archives for their final optional archive trip of the year. At the TNA, we had an interactive workshop led by several of the TNA’s records specialists - including Dr. William Butler and Dr. Elizabeth Haines.

Thank you Nicoletta Gullace for this close - and positive - review of my book. '... it adds greatly to the military history of morale during the First World War, offering new insights into Englishness, subjecthood and ... belief systems ...' Available online now for £29.99, or £26-28 on Amazon!

Thank you to Justin for introducing another batch of our students to some of the fascinating materials in the National Army Museum archive! It’s become an annual feature of our first year module Historical Approaches to the Modern World.

What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research – @angecass.bsky.social & Paul Merchant for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

Alongside Dr Leo Shipp, our first-year undergraduates visited the LSE Archives as part of their module HY120: Historical Approaches to the Modern World. Dr Gillian Murphy introduced them to some of the jewels from the LSE collections. #students #fieldtrip #history #lse

Thank you Mark for this generous review. It is a relief to know that somebody has read it cover-to-cover! If anybody wants to buy it - or even better add it to their course's reading list - you can find it @universitypress.cambridge.org and online. #HistoryBooks #MilitaryHistory #FirstWorldWar

This looks like a fascinating article. I have a whole chapter on how hopes for - and visions of - peace sustained soldiers during the First World War. See below if the Clarke et al. piece sparks your interest in how perceptions of the future inflect the experience of conflict. bit.ly/3MAHZJY

It's pretty boring, but I have a new article out on the first British attempt to collect and classify the languages of South Asia: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On 26 March, I am speaking at my second IHR seminar of the academic year - this time at @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social. It is only the second time I will be presenting something from one of my new projects so please do come along as I am desperate for feedback, ideas, suggestions, and thoughts!

The gap between gloom-ridden public perception and reality in the UK has now opened up like a Grand Canyon-style chasm. I personally don't see any way of bridging it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Very much enjoying my planned reading on this snowy (fortunately in my case non-working) Friday. My first academic read of the year is a book I've been looking forward to reading for a long time. I'm a chapter in, and @alexmayhew.bsky.social's "Making Sense of the... #HistBookChat #Skystorians

I got the birthday present I really wanted. Thanks, Lili and Mark! @alexmayhew.bsky.social

Quite a forward curatorial instruction in a Portuguese archaeological museum.

We drew on the collection of @historians.org essays analysing the film by Santanu Das, Susan Grayzel, @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social, and Catherine Robson. Students were drawn to the soundscape and narrative but queried the silences and omissions. All agreed it was an impressive piece of cinema!

This week our First Years are thinking about how to build microhistories of the Silvertown Explosion in 1917. I am excited about this one: '... the Germans become a convenient, politically motivated space goat - linking to broader political trends of state and elite aversion of responsibility.' 🐐🐐

This is incredibly sad. I met Tim for the first and only time over the summer whilst doing research at the Canadian War Museum. For someone so senior (and busy) he was incredibly generous with his time: took me for a coffee, discussed his research, and enquired about mine. A real loss.

Here's the first sighting of Songs of Seven Dials in a real life actual bookshop - Foyles in Charing Cross Road. My anxiety levels just went up a notch. At this rate I'll be a complete wreck by tomorrow. #London #history #20s30s

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Join us on Tuesday 14 October for Dr Jake Subryan Richards' book release event, "The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans & the End of The Slave Trade". See here for full event details and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa... #event #slavery #slavetrade #africa #history #LSE

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social. Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

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...

Thank you @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social for publishing this detailed review of my book. Have a read and remember that you can purchase globally from Cambridge University Press (bit.ly/4l1M5Gu), Amazon (amzn.to/4mZKaEm), and other vendors. I recently saw it in the wild!

My new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London is part of @waterstones.bsky.social summer promotion this week - 25% off pre-orders by entering SUMMER25 at the checkout. www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o... #WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials

On advance access: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism" by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Well worth a read!

After several weeks in Canada, I have got my hands on my author copies of Making Sense of the Great War. Mark Jones (@mark18681918.bsky.social) was chosen at random to receive one for free! You can buy it for £23.99 using the code HIST2425: bit.ly/4mYM08h. #History #HistoryBooks #FirstWorldWar

What a wonderful day of discussion and collaboration at 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' workshops we had contributors from four continents and different disciplines talking about a wide and varied range of archives +contexts. Learned so much and I can see so much scope for future collaboration

I had a wonderful time in the archive room of the Canadian Great War Centre in Montreal yesterday. Most of my time was spent looking through their postcard collection. However, I also saw their (no longer) radioactive wrist watch collection and a painting of Arthur Currie by John Singer Sargent.

I really want to read this!!! Since I am teaching a class on the World Wars this autumn, it's high up on my reading list!!!! 🗃️📌 #firstworldwar ‪@alexmayhew.bsky.social

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

📣Out now on #firstview! Andrew Halladay (‪@lsehy.bsky.social) on 'Internationalism, Empire, and the Early Esperanto Movement in India' #Language #Community #Transnational 🗣️ 🗃️ 20thc 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you are interested, CUP have released a 20% discount code for Making Sense of the Great War. You can get it for £23.99 through their website using the code HIST2425. Find more information - and purchase it - here: bit.ly/4mYM08h #History #Military #NewBook #FirstWorldWar #MilitaryMorale

Off to Canada - well Montreal and Ottawa - for research at the end of this week. If anybody has any recommendations for things to do in both cities around my archive work then these would be very welcome!

Today is publication day for the paperback edition of my monograph Making Sense of the Great War at £29.99 (or cheaper via Amazon). Though I am yet to receive my author copies, I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and shares this. Find it here: bit.ly/4l1M5Gu

Check out this fascinating new article: Joe Robinson, "Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: The Deceleration of Crises in Late Modernity," Journal of Political Ideologies (2025) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Everyone at the International Society is hugely saddened to have heard this news.

Feeding the Mind is now available in paperback and you can get 20% off using the code HIST1925. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

I could not be prouder of our two THIRD YEAR UNDERGRADUATES for this achievement. Many scholars never publish in the Historical Journal. Pip and Noah are off to Oxford to begin their postgraduate studies next year. They are two young historians to keep an eye on!

This is a first rate lecture at the #NationalArmyMuseum by Dr Alex Mayhew. Highly recommended if you wonder how the English #Tommies stuck it out for years on the #WesternFront #fww #fwwhist #ww1

I was not particularly happy with my MA module this year. So I ripped it up and started again. The course attempts to be transnational and to balance different approaches to the FWW. Would you add or remove anything? I have a reading list, but is there any new scholarship you would recommend?

Invasions: fears and fantasies of imagined wars in Britain, 1871-1918 @manchesterup.bsky.social Out now!

Happy to be joining the team at 1914-1918 Online as the Managing Editor for Britain, Ireland, and British India. I have used the encyclopaedia extensively in teaching and hope that we can maintain it as a go-to resource for many years to come. If you have any thoughts or ideas please reach out!

'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:

This is a fantastic listen. Powerful, articulate, and inspiring response to the ongoing attacks on History and HE in this country more generally.

We have a few (unfortunately temporary) positions being advertised in our department. There are three two year career development fellowships currently open for applicants. The first is focussed on the history of the Soviet Union, Russia, and south eastern Europe.