‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...

Yesterday 142 academic staff at the University of Lincoln were put at risk of redundancy including the entire Politics and International Relations team. This follows cuts since 2024 which have already seen over 500 people leave the university. This is the 'University of No Regrets'.

👀 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Really enjoyed doing this, thanks to @kensingtons.bsky.social for hosting! @univpressofkansas.bsky.social you can see the book here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/

Can you help push the petition numbers over 20k? www.change.org/p/stop-redun... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With 3 history degrees from Exeter I can hardly not sign this. Doesn’t imply Exeter and its staff deserve support not extended to other fantastic departments facing unfair treatment and coercive management practice, but please consider signing: c.org/LWCJY75MZj

🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️

Never has your ticket to an international political history of the Space Age and military space strategy come at greater value!

I have it on good authority that the paperback edition is out and starting to ship! Order my book 'Original Sin: Power, Technology, and War in Outer Space' direct from @hurstpublishers.bsky.social and use ORIGINAL20 for a 20% discount. www.hurstpublishers.com/book/origina...

“An empire in decline is always at its most dangerous - and we’re seeing that already.” On the new episode of The BREAK–DOWN podcast we're joined by author and Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, Laleh Khalili

If you can’t come to the book launch on 17 July, you can still find a copy of the book at the link below! @historyworkshop.org.uk @milwelfhist.bsky.social @occupationstudies.bsky.social @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @bisawarstudies.bsky.social @sochistorywar.bsky.social

🚨ONE MORE WEEK till our book launch for Military Humanitarianism!🚨 @briandrohan.bsky.social 5.30pm — 17th June — Bristol We’ll be joined by fantastic speakers to celebrate, @asobocinska.bsky.social, Grace Huxford and @bennetthuw.bsky.social 🙌 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/military-h...

What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful. isrf.org/blog/what-do...

Read more of the @tandfresearch.bsky.social review of Framing the First World War edited by @mpmfinch.bsky.social, @draefox.bsky.social, and @dmorganowen.bsky.social: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2026.2661510 #WWI #MilitaryHistory #UPKansas

Re-upping in case anyone is in London on 28 May - come along to hear about maritime business, the state, and British war-making 1914-1918

Check out our call for papers.

Princeton University Press has a 50% off sale, lasting until the 9th of June. It covers most of their catalogue. If anyone is interested, it includes a few of my own books:

The @royalhistsoc.org Funded Book Workshops are now open for applications for 2026-27! I honestly cannot recommend these enough: the workshop it facilitated for my second book was among the most positive and affirming days of my career. If you're thinking about it, do it! #skystorians

Great to see another positive review of Framing the First World War come out in. Jesse Tumblin writes that the book 'takes on this task from helpful and surprisingly original angles' and highlighted that 'that several quite distinctive types of readers will find this volume directly

This is a bizarre contribution, really. Whom, precisely, does Tugendhat imagine was in government when many of the decisions/non-decisions he criticizes occurred?

@draefox.bsky.social @dmorganowen.bsky.social and my edited collection is available now! (I hate to listen back to myself, so I can only hope I said something sensible)

Reading 1SL speech from yesterday - www.gov.uk/government/s... - I'd be interested to know via what means Fisher became coded within the military mind as equating to 'innovation', 'technology', 'disruption' etc. This is not entirely new and was evident within PME. Nor is it especially surprising in

Advertising 2 more positions (doc/postdoc) as part of BLOCKADE. PhD cand to examine the heroization of blockade runners in the era of the world wars; postdoc to explore the transatlantic dimension of blockades. 4 year positions in beautiful Freiburg. Please SHARE! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

As my maternity leave comes to an end, a reminder that I’m now offering an archive photography service primarily for museums/archives in the south east England (IWM, TNA, BL etc etc) to help make ends meet. Details below: lucybetteridgedyson.com/archive-rese...

Really pleased that this is now out (available both in print and Open Access)!

Pleased that my latest article, 'The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance', is now out (open access) in History: The Journal of the Historical Association (@hisjournalha.bsky.social): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Looking forward to talking about my current project on seapower & the FWW at @kcllnucsc.bsky.social on 28 May. Link here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-w...

Go download a free chapter of my book…then order a copy! Look forward to sharing the book at SMH this weekend!

Nominations are open for the next Prize Lecture! Eligible scholars are postgraduates or within 5 yrs of their PhD. Nominees are assessed on research innovation, public speaking, & collegiality. Deadline is June 1st. Learn how to nominate a scholar: firstworldwarstudies.org/dennis-showa...

Call for Papers: To Fight and Win and Sea - 125 Years of Australian Naval History seapower.navy.gov.au/news-and-med... ⚓

Hearing word of a complex new form of hybrid weapon operating in the UK, combines integrated forms of sleep denial, financial devastation, emotional trauma and hypersonic barking to utterly destroy the equilibrium of those who come to own it. Recent pic here @draefox.bsky.social

This is excellent, bracing and well argued - and free to access!

Framing the First World War explores how perceptions shaped military decisions. On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6lqHGPVUv7NS0ykwvb4Xgt Learn more: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/ #WorldWarI #MilitaryHistory #UpKansas @mpmfinch.bsky.social @draefox.bsky.social

Great to speak to the World War I podcast about Framing the FWW, check it out here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f... @draefox.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

Without doubt the most significant development of the last few days: BOFFINATION. Thanks for the kind words, @jfb1066.bsky.social very lucky to have worked with some wonderful authors on this @univpressofkansas.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social @draefox.bsky.social

Deadline approaching (9 March) for two exciting postdoctoral positions within the BLOCKADE project at @uni-hamburg.de!

Want to work for @britishacademy.bsky.social? We are hiring several roles at the moment including 3 policy roles at different levels, a Deputy Head of Research Funding and several more. We are a lovely place to work. Take a look www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/about/jobs/

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

My review of Odd Arne Westad’s The Coming Storm, out in @thespectator1828.bsky.social today: spectator.com/article/lear...

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Pre-order this, you will not regret it @smh-historians.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

Now that only the final proofs/indexing remains, it is probably a good time to mention that my first book, Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain, is coming out in April (open access) with @uolpress.bsky.social as part of the @ihr.bsky.social / @royalhistsoc.org New Historical Perspectives series.

New open access article by @fabiodeninno.bsky.social and I available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It focuses on the impacts of blockade on Sicily and Sardinia, 1940-43. It links 3 themes that, in our view, have too often been siloed in the historiography of the SWW (esp Italy). 1/ 🗃️

Delighted to have talked about “Uncivil War”, my book on the British Army in Northern Ireland, at the National Army Museum. If you missed it, here’s a recording:

Of all the wealth of content produced on the subject this week none is better than this, very insightful, nuanced and trenchant

Get in kids, it’s hot take Thursday. My latest⬇️

Our team at Centre for Joint Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College is looking for new Assistant/Associate Professors candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

2 jobs in contemporary war and conflict and international security: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

1/10. Tory peer Daniel Hannan has posted a potted history of slavery that demonstrates how historical understanding is being twisted by politicians. I’ll examine it in light of historians’ research.