Looking for a Christmas present about Irish Americans in the American Civil War and the songs written about them? Then head to the @lsupress.bsky.social holiday sale where you can pick up my book on discount!! lsupress.org/978080717793... Perfect holiday reading! 🇮🇪🇺🇸☘️🎶🗃️

New bibliography entry: Baghdad dispatches: the city of peace in World War One ift.tt/zr4TmHX #FWWstudies

New episode is out! “Fighting the Kaiser’s War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914/1918” Folks, Christmas is here and we all know that books make the best gifts. So, here’s a discussion about a book you should pick up for that history lover you know! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

this is insane

A real shame 😂👇

If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.

Battle of Loos with Peter Doyle: in the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social we are joined by @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social to discuss the offensive of September 1915. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/10/25/b...

Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners) www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Plus the WD gives map references!

Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello…. “The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.” www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...

Hey! Peeps interested in 2/5 South Staffs WO/95/3021/7 is rich with data about ordinary soldiers wounded or KIA, which is unusual for a War Diary

Recently digitised - at RAF Digby in Lincolnshire, after a Spitfire of No.611 Squadron test fires its machine guns, ground crew work to rearm the aircraft. Shot by Harry Rignold for the War Office Film Unit, July 1940. #filmcataloguing #ww2 Full film: IWM AYY 28-2 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

UK National Archives to raise fees and introduce new Request A Military Service Record service scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/12/uk-n... #genealogy #military #archives

The fighting at Cambrai was reaching a peak #OTD in 1917, especially around the village of Gouzeaucourt. Discovered more on the @oldfrontline.bsky.social Channel: youtu.be/D_RrLJ4uirA

Trip to Hinckley guided by my friend Greg. The Greyhound is excellent and great VFM. Also these chaps - All from Hinckley … That’s a VC, three DCMs, MC, Croix de Guerre, Belgian Militaire and the best soldier in the Leicestershire Regt amongst them

Cracking line from 2/5 North Staffordshire war diary, ‘A company which had been left behind comes up and billets in MISERY’.

Trip to Hinckley guided by my friend Greg. The Greyhound is excellent and great VFM. Also these chaps - All from Hinckley … That’s a VC, three DCMs, MC, Croix de Guerre, Belgian Militaire and the best soldier in the Leicestershire Regt amongst them

📣 Last 📣 📣 Few 📣 📣 Days 📣

Your Friday commuting listen: youtu.be/k_1TRDhcQnw?...

The Chemin des Dames and the Spring Offensive of 1917, plus Spencer Jones and I take on the topic of the ‘mutinies’ in this episode! #WWI #History #Podcast youtu.be/tzsXvlGvjp8?...

📢Applying for a PhD?📢 My excellent colleagues are running a Zoom masterclass next Weds 3 December on how to write a successful PhD proposal and how to apply for funding. Free, register below - choose from: - 10am: lnkd.in/eUPhAXHc - 4pm: lnkd.in/e_U79jUt 🗃️ #PhDChat #Humanities

Interesting piece of kit. Thoughts please.

The Yarkshire Gamers Reet Big Wargames #Podcast tipped over 200,000 downloads this week which is rather nice. The Big Game Is alive and well and the tightly packed Pike Block is a joy to behold (even in Bradford City kit) #wargaming #hobby #tabletopgames #history

Delighted to have sent my pre publication off to Helion - all being well for publication this time next year. Title: Under Most Trying and Difficult Circumstances - The Actions of the 59th (2nd North Midland) Division 1914 - 1918.

I did this, and that meant it stopped dividing my inbox into 'important/not important' and christ I don't know how to say this but... it turns out that that little bit of so-called 'smart help' was making my inbox much harder to manage?

Today we remember Henry Moseley, the Oxford physicist whose X-ray spectroscopy work reshaped our understanding of the elements. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915, aged just 27. 🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays

a useful @theguardian.com graphic

Here at Exeter we are offering three AHRC-funded PhD scholarships in humanities subjects. Please contact us if you'd like to come and research archaeology or history? Apply by 23 February: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Latest addition to the Long, Long Trail is an article on the South Midland Divisional Cyclist Companies. #ww1 #genealogy See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/south-midlan...

Friday. IWM (H 38302), Sgt Wooldridge, AFPU

🚨GWG Free Talk Thursday 20 November at 20:00 UK time. We'll be joined by Nick Higham whose talk is based on his book Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War 1 Link below us02web.zoom.us/j/85381585115?… Meeting ID: 853 8158 5115 Passcode: 161943

Get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage! Use code FIFTY at checkout at: yalebooks.co.uk/history Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in Nov Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25 Not available N/S America & Aus/NZ #Skystorians #history

The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social many thanks for the follow

And some 'Loch Lomond' as a chaser: youtu.be/r3Rz42eaCAk?...

Do find 3 minutes to listen to the Polish Army Choir singing 'The Road to the Isles' from 1941 🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 youtu.be/uug_tyCE-xI?si… via @YouTube

@cwgc.bsky.social This needs a serious and proper response. It shouldn’t take one man to make something happen, but anger is building and a great many people are watching to see what happens next. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My uncles their duty done, RIP

Remembering the fallen and those who served and returned from my family on this day.

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social #FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

Although this chapter was published in 2015, the publisher recently let me share it. So here it is www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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...

Latest addition to The Long, Long Trail is "The location of 4th Stationary Hospital at Arques". See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-location...

New bibliography entry: The Battle of the Lys: The Uncovered History ift.tt/CSnWDjF #FWWstudies

@fourteeneighteen.co.uk seen this Chris? Cheers N

Great article

Bringing this post on the IWM website to people’s attention (in case you haven’t seen it) www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

My latest addiion to the Long, Long Trail is an article on a Western Front place you may never have heard of: Quinconce. #ww1 #genealogy See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/gazetteer-of...

OTD 1914 my GG Uncle Pte John William Ellis was KIA at First Ypres, serving in 1st Leicesters. He is remembered at Plugstreet Memorial. He left a wife and child behind. Your duty Jonny done, RIP.