Today three years of work come to fruition with publication of Steve Broadberry's and my book, Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... @cagewarwick.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social @cepr.org @britishacademy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org 1/4

Winces in 'historian re-opening files containing a 75% edited book manuscript that have not been opened in over 6-months'

Its release-eve! “Orchestrating Power” is officially released tomorrow. Today is the last day to get in your pre-order…please consider grabbing your copy (or a copy for your history nerd friends and family) to ensure they arrive before Christmas! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

If you're a university-based historian needing advice and inspiration on how to tackle that tricky second book project, this event is for you www.history-uk.ac.uk/2025/12/08/h...

Stocking filler for the war history enthusiast in your life - come for the excellent cover, stay for outstanding chapters on everything from inter-theatre learning to maritime law and strategy to patriotic propaganda. Featuring chapters from @sdanisimova.bsky.social

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Delighted to receive my copy of Framing the First World War, a great collection edited by @draefox.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social and @dmorganowen.bsky.social who have put together a broad range of original essays

Eclectic mix of recommendations here but great to see @timbenbow.bsky.social on the list, especially making arguments that clearly bear re-stating : warontherocks.com/2025/11/the-...

"What message does it send when the EU can’t even agree to a mutually beneficial partnership with the UK?", writes @pimlicat.bsky.social following talks for UK to join EU defence fund collapsing. Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/europe-must-get-its-act-together

Very fortunate to benefit from one of these in 2025 and it would hard to recommend them highly enough: wonderful support, incredible archival resources, reasonable application, very friendly and collegiate experience. Apply!

Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

Get 44% off the book if you order now! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... (CODE: 09WINTER)

Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.

What connects labor and military history? The new LABOR Up for Debate, “The Wages of War,” tackles that question head-on. This WHOLE ROUNDTABLE is FREE to read for the next 3 months. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

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

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/...

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!

Did you know that the North American Society for Oceanic History has book awards for maritime & naval history & archaeology? If your book on a topic in those categories has a 2025 original copyright, you’re probably eligible for consideration for this year. Give me a shout if you want to know more!

I was delighted to speak to Alan Finlayson for the @lrb.co.uk's On Politics. We take on the digital right (and online left), the champions of inegalitarianism, print and social democracy, Farage as influencer and... whether the internet is just right-wing.

🚨 JOBS!!! 🚨 2 lots of jobs advertised in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra 2.5 FTE positions in War Studies related disciplines - external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53... 1 FTE in Indo-Pacific Studies - external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

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!

Cool job opportunity 🕵🕵️‍♂️ PhD in Modern History, Political Science, or International Relations or related field required.

Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social

🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field. Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free! go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb

This is a really perceptive point that has an interesting analogue in military education contexts, where varying doctrines of 'relevance' shape learning. It takes some courage to embrace the premise that learning has worth in ways that cannot be measured in terms of 'operational output',

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