After years of calls, events, and track changes, Brian Drohan and I are excited to announce the publication of our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, with @cornellupress.bsky.social in July 2026! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Delighted to get such a lovely review for ‘Napoleonic Objects & Their Afterlives’ in Napoleonica! The reviewer is spot on - “Everyone meets Napoleon somewhere.” shs.cairn.info/revue-napole...

Delighted to receive a physical copy of this today - it’s a great read! @matildagreig.bsky.social and Nicole Cochrane have produced a beautiful volume

📚 What if world literature wasn’t just about classics, but booming book markets? #MyPhDPitch @eui-history.bsky.social PhD researcher @isabelleriepe.bsky.social‬ traces how 18th century German publishers, print networks & historians helped shape 'world literature' as a global, commercial phenomenon.

Submit your application for an SAHR Research Grant by 1 May 2025. We offer up to £1000 to university students and independent researchers. Find out more: https://www.sahr.org.uk/view-event.php?sid=1cd190caa91b3fe570acbf4db9e2c2f9&eventid=1000120

Holly Furneaux and I are featured in this exhibition talking about our work on Enemy Encounters in warfare - lovely to see it being discussed by HW! It was such a lovely experience working with Laura :)

My 2021 article, “Tipu Sultan’s female entourage under East India Company Rule”, is now open access through @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social royalasiaticsociety.org/wp-content/u...

Me too, archive shelf, me too x

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Happy This Guy Sucked Day to all who celebrate! 🥲🎉 So proud and excited to share our first two episodes, featuring: - Dr. Eleanor Janega on Voltaire - Dr. Robert Komaniecki on Jerry Lee Lewis Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts!

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.

I am on a very mini (call it select!) London book tour in March, at @ihr.bsky.social & @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social discussing my forthcoming book on the enemy war dead: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... Do come along! IHR = tinyurl.com/u479jp9j and NAM = tinyurl.com/mvpt2jrf

✨GIVEAWAY✨ Smokes has taken over my CUP delivery box so it’s time for a giveaway of 2 paperback copies of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats! UK and EU addresses only pls (soz global pals!). RT & like for entry. Will randomly select the winners next Sat. 🩵💙🩵

The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply. Please share :) www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...

Today is publication day for Napoleonic Objects! 🥳 This has been such a fun journey - thank you to the wonderful chapter authors and to Dr Nicole Cochrane, the best co-pilot for navigating the world of “weird Napoleonic stuff” I could have hoped for! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/napoleoni...

What is the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture? We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with @cambridgeup.bsky.social - to explore this question. Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇 #Skystorians

@lrbobrien.bsky.social’s chapter in this book is THE MOST FUN ever - haunted actors, identity crises and her trademark beautiful prose :)

Extremely hot book cover klaxon! “Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives”, edited by @matildagreig.bsky.social and Nicole Cochrane, coming on 6 February (and featuring a chapter from me on Napoleonic performance w/Albert Dieudonné as key case study). www.bloomsbury.com/uk/napoleoni...

Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals! More info here: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...

The WNN writing retreat returns this Friday, sign up below!

I talked about my PhD research into war memoirs in a new episode of Battle Lines - thanks again to @rolandoliphant.bsky.social for the thoughtful questions. This is such a huge topic, I know we barely scratched the surface of the research and writing out there! open.spotify.com/episode/4t0m...

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

It’s some people’s Roman Empire - who was the best Napoleonic Marshal? I was kindly invited by @rolandoliphant.bsky.social to give my tuppence worth on the newest episode of the Battle Lines podcast - out now! :) open.spotify.com/episode/02pl...

I am really proud of this book - the chapter authors have done an amazing job of covering different asymmetries of power, experience and narrative in moments of wartime “enemy encounter”, from the Napoleonic Wars to the current war in Ukraine. Out now! 🤍