New bibliography entry: The First World War and Shanghai ift.tt/0RVS5re #FWWstudies

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New bibliography entry: Where News, Social Diversity and World Views Conflict. Perceptions of World War I in Florianópolis, Brazil ift.tt/QM7zKab #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: The Echoes of the Great War on a Distant Horizon: Santa Fe, Argentina ift.tt/iDLw0Yg #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Buenos Aires: A Cosmopolitan City at War ift.tt/7VMAuUz #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Ponta Delgada in the Azores: Centrality, War and Logistics in the Midst of Western Civilizations ift.tt/Zref8Bb #FWWstudies

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New bibliography entry: Barcelona at War ift.tt/KXy8h6Q #FWWstudies

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New bibliography entry: Cape Town at War: 1914–1918 ift.tt/ncTBLiS #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Capital Transformations: Pretoria at War, 1914–1918 ift.tt/WorBe3x #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Introduction: Urban Experiences of the First World War in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and South Europe ift.tt/PxaH7nX #FWWstudies

This Memorial Lecture will be published in full in a future issue of First World War Studies, for now you can watch online!

If you didn't catch last week's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, it is now available on Youtube!

Call for Statements of Interest - open now! In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist

2026 MWHN Conference - call for papers! Join us in Romania next June to discuss all things military welfare and civil society. Deadline: 28 Feb 2026. CfP attached and full details at militarywelfarehistory.com/2026-confere... #milwelfhist #civilsociety #charity #philanthropy @vahs.bsky.social

New bibliography entry: At the Periphery of a World War? Urban Experiences of the First World War in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and South Europe ift.tt/VPSUH2c #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: The war for Anatolia and the remaking of international order: Greece, Turkey and the end of WWI ift.tt/x6bva9O #FWWstudies

Last week's wonderful Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture by @juliarsct.bsky.social on the subject of 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War', is now available to watch on the Society YouTube Channel: youtu.be/yoaRVrmjDLw?...

New bibliography entry: A Series of Unfortunate Events: 'First Battles' of the Nigerian Contingent in the Cameroon Campaign (1914–1916) ift.tt/4vaprby #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: The Social Science of the Great War: A Historiographical Essay on North African and Indian Soldiers in Palestine and Syria ift.tt/CkzxefD #FWWstudies

The whole event was wonderful. Everyone at the Society is incredibly proud of @juliarsct.bsky.social and have no doubts that Dennis Showalter would have found her lecture fascinating. Details of next year’s awards and grant opportunities will be forthcoming in 2026!

Tomorrow! This is pretty much the last chance to book to attend through the eventbrite in the original message!

There's 60 booked for this in person, and more than that again online - we'd still like to see even more of you by either means!

Final preparations for Tuesday's lecture! I am so lucky that I get to deliver this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture - and at Craiglockhart (and online) out of all places! If you are in Edinburgh, do come say hello - you can sign up via the link below

New bibliography entry: Essays on Italian history (1911-1920): The nation who wanted to become a power ift.tt/sDaPY1g #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and its Aftermath (1908–1923) ift.tt/kb5GaPh #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: The Making of a World Order: Global Historical Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles ift.tt/0NdhmMu #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Prisoners of war and military honour, 1789–1918 ift.tt/WdA5Upi #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Turkey and India in the Shadow of the Great War. An Imperial War ift.tt/F7EbLui #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: The Forgotten Man: Walter Hines Page, New South Visionary ift.tt/PuOMB92 #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Uniform fantasies: Soldiers, sex, and queer emancipation in imperial Germany ift.tt/tahO1oR #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Communities under fire: urban life at the Western Front ift.tt/kUvo90n #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: The Great War in the Alps: Archaeology of the Isonzo / Soča Front ift.tt/M9GQ3gU #FWWstudies

Almost the final call if you want to attend the Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture by @juliarsct.bsky.social nect week on Tuesday 11th November! There are a few tickets left for either in person or online attendance and you can access them through the eventbrite in the message below. 🗃️

Just finished my first full rehearsal for this and I am buzzing! There are still some tickets left for both online and in-person attendance, just use the link below. And if you're joining us in Edinburgh, let me know and we can organise a FWW meet-up ahead of the lecture? I'd love to meet more ECRs!

New bibliography entry: The First World War’s significance for contemporary Russia: Acknowledging the war’s heroes and re-evaluating its final years ift.tt/p8yroPs #FWWstudies

The Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture will be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social next week! There are still some tickets left available to attend either in person or online. So if interested, check out the Eventbrite link in the quoted message. 🗃️

🎉Congratulations to Alexandra Doménech (University of Edinburgh), who recently won the inaugural International Society for First World War Studies President’s Undergraduate Essay Prize for her essay, “Flirting with the Front: The Marraines de Guerre and the Unofficial Intimacies of the Great War.”

New bibliography entry: I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton ift.tt/IrXglJb #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Meaning making with picture books: world war I and other contested spaces ift.tt/qJnfghV #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Rome bleue : Colette reporter de guerre ift.tt/ZVzv4gb #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s career as a colonial officer: learning the ‘colonial way of war’? ift.tt/kzM7Goj #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Open source intelligence: newspapers and the ottoman intelligence department in the first world war ift.tt/fitW7ag #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Mobilization processes against the backdrop of total war: the experience of Russian refugeedom in 1914–1917 ift.tt/CpYvUeZ #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Publier durant la grande guerre en Pologne autour du cas Zygmunt Janiszewski ift.tt/a3GVdYx #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: The Activities of Japanese military attachés dispatched to Russia during the First World War ift.tt/ngNVlBh #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: The First World War’s significance for contemporary Russia: acknowledging the war’s heroes and re-evaluating its final years ift.tt/PIpAfLT #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: La fuga dei prigionieri austro-ungarici dai campi italiani tra percezione e problemi reali ift.tt/d16Klm9 #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Guglielmo Marconi nella grande guerra tra patriottismo e intuizioni innovative ift.tt/8WsyKX4 #FWWstudies