I am very pleased to announce the publication of a book that I had the privilege of editing with Daniel Laqua on the history of intellectual cooperation at the League of Nations! 🖥️ More about the book: www.martingrandjean.ch/intellectual... 📙 Read online: doi.org/10.18356/978...

I’ve seen some oddities on the Belfast antique auction sites — spooky porcelain dolls, eyebrow raising WW2 memorabilia, etc — but this is by far the most inexplicable:

Are you working on literature and culture in the First World War? have you considered submitting to First World War Studies? meet our Associate Editor @afrayn.bsky.social who is keen to receive more submissions in these fields!

I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

📢 Ed. with @capandgown.bsky.social A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry was published by Bloomsbury today! Many thanks to the series eds & all contributors www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-... #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @ische-news.bsky.social

Really excited to see this volume published! My contribution is called 'communities' and explores 19th century universities as sites of inclusion and exclusion in real and imagined ways.

We are recruiting again. Come join the Trondheim team of BLOCKADE as a 4 year, fully funded postdoc in Modern Economic History - you'll be working with Prof. Jonas Scherner and in one of the most beautiful university towns in Europe (evidence from last visit below)! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

Eighty years after the end of World War II and in view of the numerous conflicts worldwide, urgent questions about the nature and history of postwar times once again arise. The FRIAS project group "Post-war periods" organizes an international conference on the topic. uni-freiburg.de/frias/the-af...

Very much looking forward to this great conference about Post-War Times next week in Freiburg!

[SAVE THE DATE] We are organising a conference on neutrality and humanitarianism (1914–1920s), taking place April 15–17, 2026. Deadline for proposals: December 1 > www.casadevelazquez.org/news/the-com... Thanks to @casadevelazquez.bsky.social, FIES, @fwwsoc.bsky.social, @uc3m.es for your support !

We're so looking forward to talking to everyone at the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social History and Heritage Fair at the National Waterfront Museum later this month! Come find our stall, we'd love to meet you.

Do you have research you would like to share in the field of history of education? Consider submitting to our academic journal! Find out more about it, and check out our submission site: www.tandfonline.com/journals/the... #histed #academia #edusky

From the latest issue of 'History' (@hisjournalha.bsky.social): a roundtable on 'US Universities and the State: Perspectives from the Twentieth Century' w/ contributions from @kateballantyne.bsky.social, @tomasirish.bsky.social, @charle.bsky.social, and Christopher P. Loss. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Delighted to be part of this roundtable on US 'Universities and the State' now available open access with @hisjournalha.bsky.social History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century - History onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I started a #Substack on #AI and #HigherEd. This is #4, on how we grade in an era of AI. Happy back to school!: michaelneiberg.substack.com/p/a-return-o... Are there #AI starter packs out there? Thanks.

Hey... our July titles in Modern History are all #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 Available from 29 July, these books are new in our @sshmedicine.bsky.social & Cultural History of Modern War series. Feat. @sarahcrook.bsky.social, Joel Morley & more. Ground-breaking research, completely free.

Congratulations @simonajohn.bsky.social, @tomasirish.bsky.social, Hannah Lyons, and the contributors! We're looking forward to seeing the volume when it's in print.

Submitted to the publisher this morning: 'Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments', edited by myself, @tomasirish.bsky.social and Hannah Lyons. Could also have been titled 'Colston Five Years On' @swanseahistory.bsky.social

We’re hiring: Membership Administrator Join the HA team in our London office as a full-time Membership Administrator Check out the full job description and application details: www.history.org.uk/membership/news/4310/membership-administrator-job-opportunity

Just over a week to go until the closing date for this...

Delighted with the latest review of Feeding the Mind, this time by Daniel Gorman in the Journal of Modern History who calls it 'an impressive work of transnational history.' doi.org/10.1086/735207 doi.org/10.1017/9781...

#History #AcademicSky History PhDs/ECRs: working on an article? We are running a workshop on 'Writing History Articles' @histassoc.bsky.social in London on 19 Sept. See below for details, deadline 20 Aug. Some (limited) travel support available. www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Worldwide interest expected as 19th-century Irish census records recovered and put online

My reading for the weekend arrived

I'm thrilled with Michael Barnett's generous review of Feeding the Mind in the June issue of the American Historical Review which you can find here: academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

I'm thrilled with Michael Barnett's generous review of Feeding the Mind in the June issue of the American Historical Review which you can find here: academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

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...

I couldn't wait, so I grabbed the hardback when it was out. For everyone else who's looking into the post WWI intellectual life, it's a must.

This undergradute essay prize is still open for applications! We strongly recommend any academics who are supervising students on work that relates to the First World War, take a look at the details and pass them on!

New online resources on the diplomatic conference that led to the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions in 1977 (in various languages!) #ArchivesAreAccessible #Archivesweek2025 blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/...

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

Feeding the Mind is now available in paperback and you can get 20% off using the code HIST1925. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Feeding the Mind is now available in paperback and you can get 20% off using the code HIST1925. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Myself and Susannah Wright have a new article out published open access about children, young people and the League of Nations. It explores how the League sought to appeal to young people and sources that suggest how young people experienced their contact with the League doi.org/10.1093/hisr...

@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site "New Voices" for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post in English on any aspect of European history (and its empires) since 1914? Contact [email protected] or see: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...

Exciting news: Feeding the Mind is now available in paperback for £29.99 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social ! Read more about it here: cambridgeblog.org/2023/10/rebu... www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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

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...

Myself and Susannah Wright have a new article out published open access about children, young people and the League of Nations. It explores how the League sought to appeal to young people and sources that suggest how young people experienced their contact with the League doi.org/10.1093/hisr...

This week @fwwsoc.bsky.social launched the brand new 'President’s Undergraduate Essay Prize'. This award has a cash prize and the opportunity for publication in the Society Journal. 🗃️ You can find the details here: tinyurl.com/4wyjvxmf And the cover sheet here: tinyurl.com/4pxafxdz

Delighted to finally get my hands on a copy of this important volume featuring an excellent contribution from Swansea MA graduate Rob Laker (which I will be citing immediately). Edited by @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social and Thomas Bottelier.

Delighted to announce an exciting collaborative PhD studentship at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and the Imperial War Museum in London. The project is entitled "Lithographs of the First World War: printmaking, propaganda and mobilisation" and funded by the AHRC. 👇👇👇 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... 🗃️

The website for our new Research Group on Contested Histories at the Arts and Humanities Institue has gone live. We are open to all collaborations so if you're interested get in touch. ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/contested-hi...

A reminder that you have a week left to apply for the Irish Conference of Historians which will take place in Manyooth in September on the theme of Inner Lives, Outer Realities. Remember you don't have to live in or work on Ireland to participate! www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

My new #book on #emergency powers during #WW1 in #Britain and #Germany is now published online. The official print release will be on 3 April! I hope it will be of interest to some of my friends here on Bluesky. (More self-promotion to follow! 😁)

Now in @enghistrev.bsky.social my article on efforts - led largely by women - to obtain intervention from the ICRC during the Irish civil war. On how republicans navigated international law, the complications posed by women prisoners, and Geneva's lukewarm response. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Just found out that Neville Wylie and my edited collection will be out in paperback this June. Excellent news

The first Freiburg-based job of BLOCKADE (@erc.europa.eu synergy grant) is out. A 4-year postdoc to research the world war blockades & their impact on women's mobilisation, vulnerability and resilience. Hoping to put together an amazing team in Freiburg. Please share! uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Exciting news: 'Feeding the Mind' will be available in paperback in May for £29.99 - more affordable than the hardback version. It may be of interest to anyone working on 20th century humanitarianism, post-war reconstruction, internationalism and intellectual life. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...