Anyone interested in pursuing doctoral study in military history (broadly defined) and especially in tje strategy snd economic statecraft of tge two world wars: please drop me a line www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...

LDN: ✈️ Free Lunchtime Lecture – Tue 4 Nov, 12.00pm! Join Dr Seb Ritchie as he reveals how Air Power helped capture Walcheren Island 🇳🇱 in 1944 — a pivotal moment in the Allied campaign. 📍 In-person at RAF Museum London 💻 Livestream via Crowdcast 🎟️ Free, but registration required at: bit.ly/4nsKtql

📢 One week to go! The Next Battle of Britain: IAMD in the Age of Escalation Join us for an online panel discussion to examine the strategic, technological & organisational challenges facing the UK in defending itself from air attack. 📅7 Nov 🕰️1000 - 1130 Register 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-n...

Interesting lecture by AVM Beck, Director Capabilities and Programmes, on the future of British Combat Air Power

✈️ Discover the daring story of Elsie Mackay, who set out to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic! 🌊 Join Dr Midge Gillies for our Atlantic Furies lecture, Tues 21 Oct, 12pm, live from @RAFMuseum Midlands. 🎟️ Free in-person or online via Crowdcast. bit.ly/3KMNm7H

Good to be able to join the @rafhistorical.bsky.social seminar on the RAF and Oman. Chaired by Sit Glenn Torpy, the first paper, from Graham Pitchfork, is providing context to the relationship by exploring the early history

🌟 3 weeks left to nominate for the 2025 RAF Museum Academic Awards! Designed to inspire and reward high-quality research by up and coming scholars, the awards welcome entries that consider a variety of topics. Find out more here👇 rafmuseum.org.uk/news/raf-mus...

A lovely tribute to John Cruickshank. www.rafmuseum.org.uk/blog/flight-... Always very modest, John did not want a great fanfare made of him on his death. An extraordinary VC, but he is a man worth emulating for how he lived his life after that one moment

Great research topic for anyone looking for one: Japan's swelling wartime population of "ghost eaters" -- ie, folks who used false names/addresses to commit ration ticket fraud.

The final paper of the @rafmuseum.bsky.social 2025 conference is underway with Andy Renwick speaking on 'Offence versus defence'. You can catch up on all of the fantastic programme organised by @drmeganekelleher.bsky.social using our Crowdcast channel www.crowdcast.io/c/rafm-confe...

Sam Alberti and Holger Nehring speaking on their AHRC funded research into Materialising the Cold War including a museological view of Vulcan XM607

Lovely to see the 2024 Academic Award winners receive their prizes. Our 2025 Awards are now open with prizes of £3000, £350, and £250. A wide range of topics are eligible for BA, MA and PhDs find out more on our website www.rafmuseum.org.uk/news/raf-mus...

Gary Willis offering a new perspective on the Dam Busters by discussing it as the subject of environmental history

Interesting paper by Witali Gerber on the institutionalisation of child conscription in the Flakhelfer programme during the SWW www.crowdcast.io/c/rafm-confe...

This is excellent! A 1989 photo of a farm in Wales from one of Mark Russell's slides

Day 2 of the @rafmuseum.bsky.social conference. We're underway with Damien Accoulon discussing Airmen and the myth of the Knight of the Air in France and Germany. You can join us live and participate online via www.crowdcast.io/c/rafm-confe...

Ewen Cameron is now analysing the operations of 57 Squadron from Scampton during the time period 617 Sqdn were formed, undertook the Dam Buster raids and then moved to Conigsby in 1943 www.crowdcast.io/c/rafm-confe...

Looking forward to hearing Tom Withington discuss the use of Napalm by Bomber Command www.crowdcast.io/c/rafm-confe...

We are underway and at the moment @ac1shaw.bsky.social is discuss Slessor, and Air Power and Armies in history, theory and practice. You can watch live now www.crowdcast.io/c/rafm-confe...

Final countdown to the 2025 @rafmuseum.bsky.social conference. A fantastic 2 day programme exploring NEW PERSPECTIVES IN MILITARY AVIATION organised by @drmeganekelleher.bsky.social You can still join us online, without charge, from 10AM by using our livestream www.crowdcast.io/c/rafm-confe...

Call for Papers is closing soon! We're keen to hear from you with ideas for Aviation Cultures Spotlight 'Logbooks & AvDocs' in November, but the Call for Papers closes Sunday 31 August 2025. And see you at the free, online event - put the date in your diary now! aviationcultures.org/spotlights/l...

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

Chat so im in the production team for Ukraine’s official Burning Man installation this year, essentially it’s a black cloud in the middle of the festival, with very clear messages about ru warcrimes coming soon Grateful to anyone who helps promote it, been working and crashing out for very long

Fantastic to see Close Air Support out as an Ebook. Lots of hardwork editing with @ac1shaw.bsky.social to produce a volume covering the FWW to the present and exploring CAS inoperations beyond those usually considered. At £16 it is a steal!

The letters sent to Billy Fiske's wife, Rose Bingham, after his death are incredibly moving. Kind, compassionate, always thinking of others - they reveal the real man who was extraordinary. An Olympic gold medalist at the age of just 16, who died in the Battle trying to bring his aircraft home.

Delighted that @rafhistory.bsky.social and my 'Close Air Support' is now available as an eBook at a launch price of £16. www.helion.co.uk/military-his...

A heads up for the next issue of the BJMH! To be published online next Tuesday, 26 August this is a regular issue with topics from the American Revolution to Normandy in 1944 via East Africa in the FWW. As always, Open Access and free to all at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/

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My third and final edition of the Journal of the @rafhistorical.bsky.social as editor is in print. It's the proceedings of the RAF culture seminar at @rafmuseum.bsky.social , organised by @sophyantrobus.bsky.social , @rafhistory.bsky.social, wonderfully guest edited by @sophyhiggins.bsky.social.

It's happening! Aviation Cultures' team announce 2 Spotlight events to join the previously announced Mk.VIII Conference. The Spotlights are free and online. With topic experts on aviation writing, you don't want to miss them! Stay tuned for details, experts, and maybe YOU can contribute too? -JDK

A Japanese propaganda cartoon from 1943 ridiculing the supposed excesses of American heavy-bomber design. "What on earth is this?" "It’s the control wheel for the newly built super-heavy bomber, the B-2X type."

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Warwick - Faculty of Arts #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC350/b...

48 hours after returning from Kaduna I have just about recovered! Amazing time visiting the Nigerian Defence Academy and before then meeting one of the key figures in the most recent Nigerian Air Force doctrine

#History #SkyStorians 2025 @hisjournalha.bsky.social Research Bursary scheme is now open! Available: 1 ECR award & 1 mid-career researcher award, each worth up to £1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

The Museum's bursary and prizes are open to those from around the world and a great opportunity for those at any point in their academic research journey

Tin Fish Teasers is a top title choice. But is it as sprightly a read as AM Pamphlet 209: The history, organization, and channels of working of the R.A.F. Technical Branch collections.rafmuseum.org.uk/collection/o...

🚨 Academic job alert! We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe. Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!

Postdoc in Narrative Geopolitics @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social We're hiring a postdoc w a strong foundation in international relations, political science, or similar to study how emotionally charged narratives influence international security & great power politics. fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Having been manufactured just up the road 86 years ago this Hampden finally makes it home to @rafmuseum.bsky.social It was shot down in 1942, recovered in 1992 and has been through a mammoth restoration at our conservation centre. Huge props to the team involved in it's latest move as well

Listening to Lord Peach, with his own experiences as Chief of the Defence Staff, speaking on geopolitics, strategy and Air Power for the RAF Historical Society

Fantastic to be at the RAF Historical Society as Gus MacDonald was presented the Two Air Forces Award for his chapter in @ac1shaw.bsky.social and my work onClose Air Support www.helion.co.uk/military-his...

Change of pace to yesterday, being above the ground, hearing about current/future air power, and supporting the next generation of Air Power researchers at @fasikcl.bsky.social

Wonderful weather this afternoon, so I am in the basement of 4 Hamilton Place for an exciting afternoon/evening on the Battle of Britain www.aerosociety.com/events-calen...

🛩️ "Suddenly like cavalry..." Join us next Tuesday, 17 June, at 12pm for a FREE lecture on British Close Air Support in the Falklands Campaign with John Alexander. 📍 RAF Museum London or 🌐 Livestream via Crowdcast 🎟️ Register now at: bit.ly/3Tf1JCz #RAFMuseum #Falklands #MilitaryHistory

🎟️ Tickets now available for RAF Museum’s 2025 Conference: New Perspectives in Military Aviation Research! 📍London + Online | 📅 4–5 Sept 👥 £60 in-person (full time employed) 👥 £40 in-person (concessionary) 💻 FREE livestream via Crowdcast Book now & details bit.ly/4dQFyvU #airpower #RAFMConference

Lovely to be able to present Henry Smith with the @rafmuseum.bsky.social prize for best oil or acrylic painting of an RAF subject from the past 30 years being displayed at the GAVA exhibition.

Unfortunately outside of the RAF Museum prize criteria but what a fantastic work by Andrew Lenthall! One of 220 art works being displayed by GAVA at the Shuttleworth Collection this weekend.

Will be speaking about the Dambusters' Raid as an act of environmental warfare on the second day of the RAF Museum's annual conference in September; @rafmuseum.bsky.social www.rafmuseum.org.uk/midlands/wha...

25 years since the ban on LGBT+ people in the Armed Forces was lifted, we share Pádraigín Ní Rághillíg’s powerful story of dismissal from the RAF in 1986 after being outed. 🎖️📡 Watch her testimony as part of our latest blog: bit.ly/4k5376y #LGBTplusHistory #RAFStories

Good fun visiting the Ottawa control tower and seeing NavCanada's simulated training before heading to the amazing Canadian War Museum