It is with great joy that I share the news of the publication of "At the Periphery of a World War?," a collective book that I coordinate with Ana Paula Pires and Jan Schmidt, under @Campusverlag More info at www.campus.de/buecher-camp...

Lunch time noise at the Les Rallizes Denudes exhibit

🥂Eine freudige Nachricht! Unser Sammelband zum kolonialen Erbe der Stadt Hamburg ist nun auch als Open Access erhältlich und kann unter nachfolgender Adresse kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. 🥂 Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...

We’re proud to highlight Jiang Zizheng, an early career researcher in history at Kyoto University, who has a particular interest in Japan's racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference whose work discusses how questions of race, diplomacy, shaped China’s diplomatic position.

Former student came to my office to ask advice about studying abroad and to inform me that he and his colleagues enjoyed my popular classes last semester, except for the bits of the class where I was talking…

Had to get the scissors and glue to make a collage for my lecture on the history of punk in Kyoto at Club Metro last night

Some fascinating images of the involvement of Belgian colonial subjects in the East Africa campaign of the First World War. These and other images are available to consult here uurl.kbr.be/bib/16923934

This little guy should have been in bed but he stayed up to find out about the Heimei Maru Incident at the ISFWWS conference @fwwsoc.bsky.social

I’ll be speaking about the history of punk rock in Kyoto at this year’s Kyoto Experiment festival. Very pleased with the headshot they are using to advertise it kyoto-ex.jp/en/program/p...

Feels like my birthday, just got Ito Chuta’s 5 vol Book of Ashura (1921). 500 sketches of the FWW with slipcovers. As I’m going the ISFWWS conf soon, here is his impression of the French army arriving in Salonica. I’m planning to translate all captions if I live long enough. @fwwsoc.bsky.social

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Back from a trip to Germany, picked up some good reads to tide me over till next visit

My reading for the weekend arrived

If you are interested, CUP have released a 20% discount code for Making Sense of the Great War. You can get it for £23.99 through their website using the code HIST2425. Find more information - and purchase it - here: bit.ly/4mYM08h #History #Military #NewBook #FirstWorldWar #MilitaryMorale

My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It exists! I finally got my unboxing moment today! A short article to introduce my book Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War. Available for pre-order now. www.linkedin.com/pulse/emigra...

Delighted to share details of the upcoming hybrid workshop 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' to be held in Maynooth on June 25. This is part of the COLVET project funded by @erc.europa.eu You will find a draft schedule and details for registration here. Please join us on the day and share widely

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...

‘The Dynamics of East Asian Politics and Diplomacy in the 1920s: The Intersection of International Cooperation and Imperial Expansion’ edited by Sogo Kazutaka, and with a small contribution by me, out now and free to download from the Aisa Japan Research Insitiute www.ritsumei.ac.jp/research/aji...

My new article is now out on various experiences of internment during WWI in German East Africa. Thanks to Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser for putting the (forthcoming) issue together academic.oup.com/gh/advance-a...

If anyone is in Tokyo on 29 May then please join me and a host of others more qualified than me at Sophia University to discuss the passing of Japan's Peace Preservation Law in 1925 in light of its centenary. See attached for details;

It's a great week for FWW research, one of our finest former PhD Students at Kyodai, (Dr since March this year!) Jiang Zizheng's article on Rethinking China's attitude towards Japan's Racial Equality Proposal is now published online in FWW Studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wartime Internment as a Global Practice and Experience 1914-1945 (Pt 1) is online and open access in Immigrants and Minorities. It includes Marina Arcos de Perez and my paper on Germans in Cameroon during the FWW. Pt 2 coming in July! @fwwsoc.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/fimm20/4...

Attn FFWers, the archives of the European War Office in Spain are fully digitized, you probably know of them from Marina Perez de Arcos’ amazing work. They are also shortlisted for UNESCO recognition this year: archivos.patrimonionacional.es/index.php/de... @fwwsoc.bsky.social

Big thanks to Imai (cover artist and current SOB bassist) and Kanda from from the legendary band GREED for sharing their knowledge and making our book happen: SOB’s Don’t Be Swindle out now on 331/3 Japan www.bloomsbury.com/ca/sobs-dont... @3313books.bsky.social

Got held up in customs but finally recieved a stack o books to distribute to interviewees, and a chance to remind you that myself and Ran’s book on SOB and hardcore punk in Kyoto is still out www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sobs-dont...

Anybody fancy applying for a 5year professorship at Kyoto University through the Hakubi project? I’d be happy to sponsor First World War related research. See the website for details: www.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/recruitme...

Do you know a fantastic tool to keep up with publications about #FWW? @fheimburger.bsky.social will present it during the Society Bibliography Event @fwwsoc.bsky.social with over 20,600 references! Join us on Friday 21st March at 1pm CET ! Suscribe here : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1279469510...

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....

Wrote up a review of Jan Schmidt's Nach dem Krieg ist vor dem Krieg. Highly recommended for its discussion of the place of the FWW in Japanese media and war planning and its explanations on FWW historiography in Japan www-tandfonline-com.kyoto-u.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.... @fwwsoc.bsky.social

Very excited to announce our first COLVET workshop on April 02. The theme is New Directions in Veteran History and our keynote will be the brilliant Jelena Ɖureinović. This is a hybrid event and all are welcome to attend. Registration required. Please share widely.

Always great to see new books on the FWW coming out in Japan, particularly when one features an all star cast of contributors. Edited volume by Mori Yasuo 総力戦とは何だったの (Chilura, 2025) @fwwsoc.bsky.social

Also got a pack of memorial band-aids from the Museum for Wounded, Sick, and Retired Soldiers in Kudanshita

Received these interestingly shaped paperclips from the staff at the Museum for Japanese soldiers interned in Siberia and Repatriates from the Empire in Shinjuku. Not available for sale apparently.

My only remaining claim to any street-cred is that the students at Yoshida-dorm invite me to write for their annual fresheners’ magazine. This year I’m introducing them to Zygmunt Bauman

This coming Friday, 28 February, our first issue of 2025 will be up online. After two Special issues we have a standard issue with material showing the width and breadth of military history. Open Access and free to all at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ please check it out!

The Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem was raided today, and its owners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Mona, were arrested. The bookstore is one of the premier Palestinian cultural institutions of East Jerusalem; Mahmoud Mona is among the most inspiring figures in the city. via @nirhasson.bsky.social

Call for applications! 📢 We're delighted to host our 16th workshop on Early Modern German History on 6 June 2025 at the GHIL! 1/4

I am delighted to announce the Call for Papers of the next @fwwsoc.bsky.social Conference to be held at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki on 1-3 October 2025. We are also hosting an open online Q&A event with the organisers on Mon 3rd Feb at 5pm GMT: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-co...

Anyone know what this machine for strengthening ‘weak children’ is? From Present Day Japan 1934

The pentel energel pen, best pens by far and now getting on that late 1990s Irish trend of adding ‘Euro’ to branding to pull in the punters

Received my advance copy of myself and Ran Zwigenberg’s book length review of S.O.B.’s Don’t be Swindle, thanks to everyone we interviewed and who helped out. Big thanks to SxOxB for putting up with us. Order here www.bloomsbury.com/ca/sobs-dont... Or just listen to the album it’d save you time!

1/3 Call for applications bsky.app/profile/cr-h... Summer School 23rd to 27th June 2025 "Serving the Armies. Supply, Transport, Care during the First World War" ! Deadline for applications: 27 December 2024 1418.hypotheses.org/ecoles-dete

Finally getting around to the last volume of Hisa Masato’s 2018 manga ‘Jabberwocky 1914’ in which a race of humanoid dinosaurs are behind the First World War. Here they are planning how to get the USA into the war and spark a revolution in Russia

On Saturday, I'm joining a host of speakers, far more qualified than I, to discuss challenges faced by the Japanese New Left post 1970. I'll be adding my two cents on the contemporary music scene in Kyoto. Come and challenge me on my definition hardcore punk! www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/symposium/zi...

A recent one, published this summer I look at Paul Messi, a Cameroonian language assistant at the Colonial Institute Hamburg and his experience of being trapped in Germany during the FWW. Part of an excellent special issue Immigrants & Minorities Journal www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

A few (many) years ago I was a member of a project on European military expeditions. I wrote a few pieces on the British military occupation of Jerusalem during the FWW, such as this in the edited book Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long 19th Century link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

A couple of years ago, I wrote an article for the International History Review on Japan's involvement in the repatriation of Ottoman POWs from Siberia in 1921 with support from the League of Nations: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...