Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...

Are you a full professor in Security Studies with a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, Political Science, Public Policy, History (Intelligence or National Security), or a related field? Please consider applying for or sharing this vacancy. We're a super team! utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

Pretty sure this content is what they had in mind when they invented the internet cc @redunley.bsky.social

Home from Britain, Conflict & the Sea conference @National Maritime Museum. Thanks to @dmorganowen.bsky.social for organising! Portsmouth had a great showing, with 7 attendees, and papers by @drmelbassett.bsky.social, Jayne Friend, former MA student, Zara Money, and myself. #NavalHistory

Pleased to be at the National Maritime Museum for the first day of this event, looking forward to hear a great range of papers

Delighted to see this announcement of the forthcoming Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, a prize awarded annually by @fwwsoc.bsky.social and eventually to be published in our journal

Final few days to sign up for this event at the National Maritime Museum next Friday/Saturday (day tickets available). Fantastic range of speakers and subjects including some great emerging scholars. Join in for what will be a fascinating conversation

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...

Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

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...

Our new book is now available for order @stanfordpress.bsky.social We examine legislative oversight of the armed forces in fifteen countries. If you care about parliaments, democratic accountability, and civil-military relations, this is the book for you! www.sup.org/books/politi...

Swedish Defence University advertises two postdoc positions focused on narrative geopolitics, or how emotional and widely circulated narratives shape international security, great power relations & geostrategic rivalry. fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/... fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: 31 Aug

Thanks, @vandawilcox.bsky.social - really enjoyed working on this. Subject of enduring interest for me in terms of reconciling expectations w/experience. Might be of interest to @christianmelby.bsky.social

If you are interested in strategy & intellectual history, read this extended essay on the New Makers of Modern Strategy by @mpmfinch.bsky.social - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

While #ISHPSSB2025 is underway, I'd just like to draw attention to an opportunity at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at for international researchers: senior & early-career fellowships at the new #Vienna Center for Advanced Studies #ViCAS vicas.univie.ac.at Deadline: Sept 1, 2025. Please apply!

Conference at the National Maritime Museum, London, 12 September 2025, 'Britain, Conflict, and the Sea'. It explores the ways in which ideas and practices of maritime war have shaped modern Britain.

Our friends at the Army Records Society have launched another round of their fellowship programme, which offers funding over three years to create a volume in their long-running primary source series. Details at www.smh-hq.org/opps/jobs.html.

This conference looks excellent www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

We're recruiting for a Curator in our Second World War team at IWM. Details here! #museumjobs share.google/mj114pWBQfsG...

Really insightful piece this, highly recommended

Some people say the biggest gap in research funding is at mid career level. So here is our new call for our mid career fellowship programme which provides buyout for 6 to 12 months to devote to the completion of a major piece of research. Spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/mid-...

Excited that *Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688*, edited by Steve Broadberry and me, and forthcoming in November, is already up on the @universitypress.cambridge.org website www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... with a terrific cover page

🚀 We’re #hiring a PhD student to join our research project – “Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)” 🇬🇧 – funded by the Carlsberg Foundation! 👉 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 📅 4 Sep 2025

Applications now open (until 27 June 2025) for the Institute of Historical Research's non-stipendiary IHR Fellowships. Ideal for active, non-affiliated historians who would benefit from a period embedded in @ihr.bsky.social 's community of public, local & academic historians, archivists, curators.

Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

CFA: fellowships of 6-12 months at global dis:connect Munich 2026-7. Centre explores inter- and disconnectedness, entanglements&disentanglements in historical&contemporary globalisation(s). For Humanities&Soc.Sciences, esp. history&theatre studies&art history www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...

🚨🚨JOB CLAXON🚨🚨 Come work with us at UNSW Canberra. Full time continuing position Lecturer - International and Political Studies - specialising in politics, political philosophy, international relations, security studies, or a related discipline. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Seldom has a project been exported from Scrivener so misleadingly early AND NOW IM STUCK IN WORD FOREVER

"A welcome addition to our understanding of the British Army during the #FWW" & "a vital source for deeper understanding of the officer corps & its handling of that conflict". Delighted to read Martin Samuels' @fwwsoc.bsky.social review of my edition of Major General Guy Dawnay's correspondence.

Exciting times indeed. Get in touch if you have a monograph on astropolitics in mind! Thanks to @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social for getting behind the idea of an Astropolitics book series!

Issue 15:3 of First World War Studies is out now! Featuring four research articles (of which 2 are OA) and more than 30 book reviews covering a huge range of languages, countries & topics! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfww20/1...

I’ll be answering questions at the House of Lords later today for the Committee on UK Engagement with Space, around 16:30 BST. You can tune in to the livestream from the Parliament website. committees.parliament.uk/event/24252/...

Sign-up now open for the conference on 'Britain, Conflict & the Sea' that I am running with RMG this September: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

Starmer's language was deplorable. It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy. But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵

🚨 Students and lecturers, there is still time to apply to The Western Front Association’s Masters Grant Scheme! 🚨 If you, or your students, are researching and writing a dissertation relating to the First World War as part of your masters degree then we want to hear from you! #fwwhist

Pleased to say that my book - Ulster's Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920 - is available to pre-order in Paperback (delivery from 22 May) via Cambridge University Press. www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

What a fantastic looking book! This deserves to be widely read and will be a major contribution, off to order a copy now

excellent opportunity for aspiring historians of Japan - focusing on blockade and WWII. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.

Something’s on the way from the Society for the History of War… The CFP for our annual conference is dropping VERY soon! Watch this space 👀

Dear everyone! The CfP for the 2025 conference of @fwwsoc.bsky.social is still ongoing. The deadline for proposals is 1 May. This year's conference will take place in Thessaloniki and the theme will be 'Seas' (interpreted as broad as possible) www.firstworldwarstudies.org/conferences....

🚨 #JobPosition #PostDoc 4-year full-time postdoctoral position under the supervision of @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social, part of the European Research Council project “The Hidden Weapon. Blockade in the Era of the Two World Wars (BLOCKADE)” Deadline: April 18, 2025 #ERC uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Come join @tanjabueltmann.net and I at Strathclyde for a funded PhD on built heritage and Glasgow’s slaving links, centred around Tobacco Merchant’s House. Excellent ops to engage with heritage industry via co-supervision by Scottish Civic Trust! Details below! Any questions - get in touch!

Absolutely delighted about the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY (Cambridge University Press): www.cambridge.org/.../globaliz... via @cambridgeup.bsky.social

My piece for History Workshop looks back at what feels, I'm sure to me and so many other academics in the UK, like a decade-long crisis in universities. A crisis of politics, of a particularly venomous form of "education as market" ideology, and now a crisis of desperate, annihilating job cuts. 1/2

Another excellent piece by another UCU Commons member. Let me tell the same story from Exeter. I’ve been here as long as Dave’s been at CCCU. Exeter is a net beneficiary of the removal of student caps. Steve Smith, the ruthless VC in 2013 paid £1m over five years to join the Russell Group too. 1/3

CFP: Military History Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, February 2026 phanza.org.nz/call-for-pap... #militaryhistory #history #CFP

So you'd like a research grant from @britishacademy.bsky.social but you've got an additional need that makes that difficult? Well we still believe in equality, diversity, inclusion, and so there is a fund you can apply to for help with that www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/addi...