Bit late to the party, but The Horrors new album - 'Night Life' - is an absolute Darkwave banger. Highly recommended for doleful, shoe-gazy introverts out there (like me!)

One for the #HistBookChat crowd

The new and improved 2nd Edition of The Holocaust in Eastern Europe is out now, hot off the presses!!! If you're teaching about the Holocaust or just interested in the topic, please check it out!

Out yesterday with German guests from the MSC Preziosa. We did the titanic experience and a city tour including the peace wall.

Great to see our new article @hannahrwest.bsky.social Eleanor Leah Williams and @bennetthuw.bsky.social out about research experiences related to the conflict in and abouts NIreland out with Critical Military Studies journal www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Risky, but let’s try this. 1 like = 1 opinion on the First World War which might be unorthodox.

Have been really enjoying reading these two books this week. Some really interesting insights on unit culture - reviews to follow in due course #HistBookChat #Skystorians

In the arts, humanities & social sciences, unfunded does NOT imply low quality - there is zero correlation whatsoever. I could sit in the British Library for the rest of my career and produce outstanding work on zero money. But it would inevitably be much narrower. I certainly couldn’t work on art.

Think I'll be sticking to the #HistBookChat feed for the foreseeable future...

We’re always accepting submissions on current events in historical context. Please reply or DM if you’re interested in writing. We’re particularly interested this week in pitches that address political/cultural responses to assassinations or mourning controversial figures in the age of social media.

So uh there's a lot going on today. But I wrote this icct.nl/publication/... Did you know the US has added 12 *criminal groups* to the Foreign Terrorist Organization list this year? There were zero such FTOs last year. For decades, US allies have copied US terrorist designations. Not this year.

I've written a lot about disordered discourse and counterpublics, but given recent events I want to cover a key part of disordered discourse, which I call the four pillars of disordered doubt.

Look what came in the mail today! (Feat. my chapter on covert action in Mandatory Palestine.) @magslong.bsky.social @rorycormac.bsky.social @markstout.bsky.social @dvanp.bsky.social

The WFA is offering grants of up to £2,500 to support PhD researchers in advancing original First World War studies. Applications close on Monday 1 December 2025. Info: tinyurl.com/2ue2582h @primeadam.bsky.social @profgsheffield.bsky.social

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

Wes Anderson's The Witch

A story of a troopship that was bringing entertainment to the troops in time for Christmas 1943. matteatonmedia.substack.com/p/the-day-th... #skystorians

Had the chance to take the Page 99 Test for Faith and Fear. Answer below. page99test.blogspot.com/2025/09/greg...

First World War Studies is very happy to finally have arrived on Bluesky! please follow for news on our publications and activities

My big problem with the phrase “granola fascism” is that granola is delicious as hell, granola does not deserve to be catching strays like this. “Raw milk fascism” is more appropriate. Thank you.

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

#histbookchat based on the author's 2/2nd Battalion AIF experience of the Atape/Wewak campaign of 44/45 this really is a superb book

A second book review this lunchtime on what is a challenging and uncomfortable subject - "A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa" by AT Williams. Scholars of the Iraq War will undoubtedly remember this case which shook public opinion in an already deeply.. #HistBookChat #Skystorians #GWOT

Good morning - the first #HistBookChat post of the day with a very quick review of AJ Smithers "The Tangier Campaign: The Birth of the British Army". Part of Tempus' "Battles and Campaigns" series (edited by Hew Strachan no less) Smithers covers the history of the English colony of... #Skystorians

Time for another well overdue book review: @mikecarlton01.bsky.social 's "Scrap Iron Flotilla". I've enjoyed all of Mike's books and this is no exception #HistBookChat 1/

COMMISSIONS If you’ve got a story you’d like told, or a soldier you’d like to commemorate, why not consider commissioning one of my unique illustrations? If you’d like to discuss the possibility why not drop me a DM or send me a message via my website. #ww1 #ww2 #illustration

I don't think I've asked this question on here before. As we start a new month. Do you set yourself regular reading targets, or note how much you have read? With irregular shift patterns nowadays I have had to learn to accept that my daily reading time will fluctuate. #histbookchat

It's a lazy Sunday #HistBookChat folks and so I'm finally getting around to a much delayed review of "Death Before Dismount". This has been something of a tricky book to review so bear with me. Wright Snr's study focuses on US Army armoured units in Iraq. Told through five distinct.. #Skystorians

Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.

I've been enjoying a non-working day full of reading this #HistBookChat Friday, albeit the subject matter has been challenging. Reviews to follow. #Skystorians

This #BookFriday don’t forget to book your free tickets for next week’s author talk at the @AWMemorial! Join us as Michael Veitch discusses his latest 📖 on the Borneo campaigns in 1945. See: awm.gov.au/author-talk-mi… #WeHaveWaysy#WWIIII

I am giving away one *free copy* of my new book "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project". Simply repost to enter the draw. I will randomly select the lucky reader on Friday 5 September. The book can be shipped within the UK or internationally!

A pre-Friday #HistBookChat post. Radio silence over the last week or so has resulted from a surfeit of work and...a return to Bibliographic Utopia, more commonly known as Hay-on-Wye. A great long weekend of book buying follows...

One from the TBR pile that covers the lesser known battles at Alamein. Packed with veteran's own accounts and photographs which are mostly published here for the very first time. #histbookchat Please find below a link to my book review. historybookchat.blogspot.com/2025/08/chao...

Update: within the next month I hope to submit the ms of my next book to the publisher. The Age of Mammon and Mars: Money and War in the Modern World explores how the U.K. and USA found new uses for money as a weapon of war and tool of peacetime statecraft in the first half of C20th…. 1/3

allow me to introduce you to Kent from Houston, who has a TikTok account dedicated to trying restaurants from cultures he hasn’t experienced before, anywhere his commenters tell him to go:

I recently became acquainted with "Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi" 童絵解万国噺, a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861. The retelling of the revolutionary era is quite something. Here, for instance, is John Adams wielding a sword in mortal combat with a gigantic serpent.

today I am loving the UN Geneva Archives platform which hosts the complete League of Nations archives, digitised, entirely free some archive digitisation programs are very clunky & hard to use, this is immaculate & has an incredibly user friendly interface + excellent metadata

'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3

Incredible website identifying “woke” officers who need to be purged from the Army. Includes the former commander of Delta Force, a former Delta squadron commander, a 101st battalion commander from the battle of Ramadi, and an Iraq surge 2/75 Ranger company commander www.restorethemilitary.com/army/

Today marks the 110th Anniversary of the 1/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment going into action at Kuchuk Anafarta Ova & it's the subject of my next book which is out in November #WW1 #Norfolk #Gallipoli #history

Actually it's possibly the first book on the 2nd AIF I've bought since @karljames1945.bsky.social stonking "The Hard Slog"! @ernestmalley.bsky.social @alparky.bsky.social @axe99.bsky.social

Sorry for the delayed #HistBookChat - it's been a lovely week of reading, book-selling and book-buying! I was very pleased to pick up a copy of "Assault Brigade" this week. It's been a while since I've brought any Australian military history, so I'm really looking forward to this. #Skystorians

Congratulations, Eleanor Williams, Huw Bennett & Thomas Leahy! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in #WWII? How about #SOE & Intelligence history? Tickets are now available for historian Kate Reid-Smith’s free talk on Op Cleeves, an SOE operation in Southern Thailand in 1941. www.awm.gov.au/author-talk-... #WeHaveWays

No #HistBookChat this week as I've been off for the week looking at boaty-things (and also half a week in Glastonbury following Kelly round as she did New-Age'y things). #Skystorians