PhD Funding! University of Leeds The School of History invites applicants from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups who wish to study for a PhD commencing in the academic year 2026/27 to apply for the School of History Access to Research Scholarship. phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/387-...

Feeling very much like I'm "To the Manor Born" at a #Christmas party yesterday. Bring on the champagne 🍾🥂

Excellent weekend including a visit to Round Chimney's Farm near Howell for their Lambing Event and Woolly Workshops hosted by Millie at The Slipped Stitch. The farm's café is excellent as is their home-bred Aberdeen Angus beef. #Farm #ShopLocal

If you are buying books this Holiday Season, make sure to support university presses. Lots of great deals. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Grateful for reposts!

YES INDEED

The contempt that university managers have for their academic staff here in the UK is *off the scale*.

A warm festive stocking of Yuletide nostalgia, with a little "Bah, Humbug," this Christmas on #TPTV The nation's favourite channel with #TommyCooper #DavidNixon #ManFromUncle #DameEdna #Scrooge and so much more!

Fantastic to see The Old Front Line featured and reviewed in this weeks Radio Times!

Thank you @georgewalkley.com for this, but surely it's not just novelists who should be concerned. Writers in all disciplines will almost certainly be impacted by AI, if not now then in the future. I am a writer of History non-fiction and pretty sure I'm not alone in being concerned.

I seem to have acquired almost 50 new followers this week. Welcome everyone. I'll give you a book recommendation for the weekend. It's Tim Bouverie's Allies at War & it's won a place as one of my top 5 books of 2025. As stunning an account of the diplomatic history of #WW2 as you could ask for.

Today’s article is up, and it’s a look at some French satire/humour from the First World War achurchill.substack.com/p/photo-arti...

In her new book, People Without History are Dust, Dr Anna Hájková explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors. Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:

A terrific book. #histbookchat

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Thomas More wasn’t just a statesman — he was a devoted dad. @drjoannepaul.bsky.social shares how he championed his daughters’ education in a world that didn’t. 🎧 History Rage tells the untold story. pod.fo/e/34939e #ThomasMore #JoannePaul #TudorWomen #WomensHistory

This is so wrong, utterly heartbreaking.

Superb day at the IWM for their first Podcast Live event. So good to catch up with some of the greatest historians today. @tessadunlop.bsky.social @claremulley.bsky.social @historywithjackson.bsky.social Ian Pegg, Oliver Webb Carter, Jack Bowsher

An amazingly beautiful place. #Dresden #Frauenkirche

It's all true! Go if you can. The hotel in Poland is gorgeous & serves an excellent Negroni.

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

Superb talk @YeovilLiteraryFestival last night by the wonderful @garethrussell.bsky.social Thank you for a totally awesome look into the life of James VI and I. Look for Gareth's book 📚, Queen James, in all good bookshops.

photos.app.goo.gl/JZc2LLhaqEbi... At 9.40 pm, 83 years ago a barrage of900 guns opened the 2nd Battle of El Alamein. This is my father. L/Vpl Ron Smith, 104th Regt, Royal Horse Artillery, who was there. May we remember all those who carried the scars of that battle, or made the ultimate sacrifice.

🔺 BREAKING: Trump announces new raft of sanctions against Russia The development comes amid reports that the US has green-lit Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles — which Trump has denied 🔗 Tap the link for updates

Set a PB at #ParkRun this morning. #10DaysOf5k for @cancerresearchuk.org Chilly but felt good going round this morning. #LoveParkRun

📍This year we launched a new digital archive putting significant collections from our archive at the hands of researchers worldwide For the past 8 months we have continued to add new collections to the site, now totalling 215,000 pages of crucial evidence from the Holocaust and the Nazi era...

#Free on KindleUnlimited To the Gestapo, she was enemy No. 1. To her husband, she was everything. In war-torn France, Nancy must outwit the Nazis—or lose it all. "An incredible story!" 5-Stars mybook.to/madamefiocca #histfic #Booksky #womensfiction

Perfect #Polish toadstool 🍄

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185

I can't beat this one!

People get so weird about blocking, as though it's punishment for something. And I understand. But also: People have the right to curate their spaces. If someone needs to NOT have me in THEIR space for their peace, good for them! I don't have the right to be in someone else's space.

It’s Bookshop Day! Go and support your local bookshop and help them resist the dominance of Amazon And if you want personally signed and dedicated copies of any of my books, buy from the lovely Kirstie at @foxlanebooks.bsky.social

After finding out hubby is eligible but not me I thought I'd investigate paying for a Covid-19 vaccine... Not at these prices though! I'll just have to risk it.

This is getting beyond silly.

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨 Roger Moorhouse joins us to reveal why the U-Boat War was nowhere near the close-run thing we’re told – by 1943 the tables had turned dramatically. 🎙️⚓️ 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/339dda 📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... #WWII #NavalHistory #Podcast @wmcollinsbooks

Thanks to the peerless scholarship of Dr Jürgen Matthäus, we now know the identity of the murderer in this most notoriously iconic picture of the Holocaust. His name was Jakobus Onnen. He was a teacher. My piece in the Independent: www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

Thanks @danellin.bsky.social ! Really looking forward to giving this lecture at the wonderful International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln in March. See you there !

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg... Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of Rivals dies aged 88 after fall - BBC News Excellent tribute from HMTQ 👑 to her late friend. 👇

A valuable work space for scholars now open at the Bishopsgate Institute - I used the archives here while researching for my PhD. A positive development.

This #BHM, learn about Mollie Hunte—educational psychologist from British Guyana, and a driving force in the Black Education Movement in the UK from the 1970s onwards. A true champion of Caribbean communities. womenshistorynetwork.org/mollie-hunte... #GenderHist #WomensHistory

The next in our series about standout articles from the journal's history, as chosen by members of of our editorial board, is Yihong Zhu's selection of Ellie Miles's 2013 article ‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London' as her particular favourite. 🧵

"We live at a time of considerable uncertainty and peril. We believe this future will be easier (if never easy) to navigate with recourse to the skills and temperaments integral to a historical approach to life." RHS President, Lucy Noakes, writes on the Society's blog bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians. Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Please let us know if there are gaps. #Skystorians 1/2

Going to read on the strength of this review.

Maybe, just maybe, it's time to realise that WW2 shouldn't be treated as a foundation for defining nationhood. History should never be forgotten, but I would prefer to define Britishness through values and not victories, friendliness and not flags, and harmony rather than heroes.

Many years ago I put out my historical journalism as an ebook. If you want to dip into pieces about the likes of Adolf Eichmann, Donald Maclean, Francis Drake and Simon Wiesenthal when you're on a train, then consider Nazis, Spies & Fakes for just £1.99! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EXPB7HI

A thingI thought I would do once. Walk 100km, climb 7500ft, raise 1000s for a GREAT cause. But a mate insisted that I do it again. Once more, I shall march to help the Gurkhas. What will make it bearable is that my fine friends will have donated a few £s... trailwalker.enthuse.com/pf/guy-walters

Absolutely delighted to have been awarded the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar medal by the @royalsociety.org for my research on science, race, and empire, including my book Vanished. An enormous thanks to everybody who made this possible, especially the Royal Society. royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

Looking for a reasonably spacious book-lined space in central London in which to shoot some TV interviews on Monday. Suggestions and offers very welcome! Will pay, obvs.

Don't think anything is going to top that today! (Letter in the FT)