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.

SHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it? All details can be found below! ⬇️

Constantly find myself turning back to this. Definitely one of my favourite books on the Global Great(er) War.

This weekend I was excited to discover that the WW1 Historical Association awarded Making Sense of the Great War ‘Honourable Mention’ in their 2024 Tomlinson Prize for the best work of history in English on World War One. A gentle reminder, that the paperback is soon to be released at £29.99!

🚨Check out the Call for Papers for the Irish Conference of Historians to be held in Maynooth 12-13 September 2025 on the theme of 'Inner Lives and Outer Realties'. Deadline 31 March. We have two wonderful keynotes, Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne (TCD) and Prof M'hamed Oualdi (EUI)🚨

If you want to hear about soldiers' fantasies of the past (and the future) a digital copy of Making Sense of the Great War is now £29.99 on CUP's website. The paperback to follow at the same price in May / June. I am not sure many books are worth £100 and the new price feels more appropriate!

On Monday afternoon, some of my students were lucky enough to attend a fascinating (and bespoke) workshop in the archives of the National Maritime Museum led by @dmorganowen.bsky.social. We encountered a number of interesting sources that provided varied perspectives on the First World War.

Growing Up and Going Out is released with @manchesterup.bsky.social TODAY! If you're interested in histories of youth, leisure, drinking, urban space, and oral history then please do consider ordering a copy for your libraries. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

Thanks @cambridgeup.bsky.social for my reviewer's haul, including this beautiful book by @alexmayhew.bsky.social

Another (thankfully positive) review of my book was published today by Elizabeth Stice who found it 'highly readable.' 'Those who want to know how and why English soldiers endured the Great War ought to read Making Sense of the Great War.' Find out more below - Stice read very closely!

As part of our UG module Historical Approaches to the Modern World, I took a group of students on an archive visit to @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social. Justin Saddington, one of the fantastic curators, discussed the challenges of interpreting some of the fascinating items in the NAM's collection.

Following, and ahead of, a couple of book talks I am delivering over this month and next @cambridgeup.bsky.social are kindly providing a discount code for Making Sense of the Great War. It is still £70, though, so if interested you might want to wait until April / May for the paperback version.

We have two really exciting public talks coming up next month in the Department of International History. First, on 6 February, Laurence Rees will discuss his new book The Nazi Mind: 12 Warnings from History - an event chaired by @davidmotadel.bsky.social. Read more and sign up below.

Time left to submit to this event running in September - if you're interested in histories of the relationship between Britain/Britishness and maritime conflict and have any questions about submitting please let me know! cc @rnssc.bsky.social @smh-historians.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social

Happy to see the first review of Making Sense of the Great War in the Journal of Military History. If interested, I will speak about the book at a Western Front Association event (online - 13 Jan) and at the National Army Museum (hybrid - 7 Feb). It is due to be released in paperback come spring!

One of my dissertation supervisees has asked me for tips for reading handwritten sources. I have lessons from my research, and some go-to guides, but I am interested to know what advice others give students? (He is working on the Great War, but I would welcome ideas for earlier documents, too!)

I missed this when it came out. An eloquent, and insightful, review of Perry Anderson's Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War by Christopher Clark. A highly recommend read that will be useful for students studying historiography (and the origins of the Great War).

Quick reminder about our conference, 'British History Today, 1-2 May 2025. Further details will appear on projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/. Deadline for papers is 24 January 2025. There have been many great ideas for panels, papers and novel formats already

‘The Universal War 1914-1918.’ I am not sure that I have come across this terminology before. An interesting conceptual framing of the Great War found on a post-war postcard printed in Paris for a multi-lingual audience. Has anyone seen this elsewhere?

I was really pleased to pick up my LSE Excellence in Education Award yesterday evening. I love teaching and it is great that the LSE - and the EDEN Centre in particular - take the time to recognize the effort that we all put into the education of our students.

The favorite family lore: My great-grandfather Rodolphus left his wife, children, and thriving tailoring business in Ashton under Lyne to run away with another woman and become a magician. It did not go well.

📘New issue out now! Special issue on 'Global Social History: Class and Social Transformation in World History', edited by Christof Dejung (University of Bern) & David Motadel (@davidmotadel.bsky.social) #Global #World #Class #International 🌏🌐 👉Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...