Hold up Have I heard this story before but with phrases like “ship money” and “long parliament”? Calm down it’s a joke

President Trump: "we have found the answer to autism, we won't let it happen anymore" Me, back to the wall, gripping my rifle, sitting on a throne of historical uniform books next to my pile of accurately painted historical miniature soldiers: "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ"

My latest in War on the Rocks.

“Indeed, a spectacular and unexpected victory can build up expectations in a way that makes the usual reality of attritional warfare seem almost like a defeat.” Excellent insights from @kabinettskriege.bsky.social

I am but a poor shadow of Christopher Duffy's wit

Thanks, Ike!

It’s never been more INDOPACover

@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social- thinking of you during this difficult time

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

A belated birthday present arrived this morning, based on an @kabinettskriege.bsky.social recommendation. The library section on the American Revolution is building up nicely… 📚 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 #histbookchat

Just finished editing an epic episode 118 of Battlechat, which I’ll call ‘The Director’s Cut’, because when @kabinettskriege.bsky.social and I made a first attempt earlier in the week, technical gremlins nixed the whole thing! But this one’s a corker, out very soon for patrons first.

Very pleased to be on Battlechat with Henry!

It is crazy how as academics we can form emotional attachments to universities, and this can drive us to enter a villain era. Years back I was rejected for a full-time teaching post by my undergrad institution and literally had a 40k Warmaster Horus "Let the Galaxy Burn" reacc

tf whenever an undergraduate asks: "Well if the job market was so bad, why did you go to grad school in History?"

OH WOW www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

it me

Academics: are there ethical concerns with this model, or is this the exciting future? "I started researching a new book...I then had OpenAI’s Deep Research [write] a slew of essays of 4,000–10,000 words, all well-sourced. I then asked the AIs to recommend the best source material for each theme...

Delighted to be on with these guys: an enjoyable conversation.

Latest episode of The Citizens to Soldiers Podcast is up! @ethan-w.bsky.social and @bonenberger.bsky.social talk with historian and professor @kabinettskriege.bsky.social about training and mobilization in 18th century militaries. Give it a listen!

Wait are we here

Conflicting Sources: It now appears that the Partisan Alliance is asserting a role in the attack. OSINT analysts assert that Anto Kreegr, long believed killed at Spellhaus, played a major role in the attack.

Breaking News: I am prepared to report that the Ghorman Front has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack on X.

I see we're already reaching the "wreckers and saboteurs" phase of this authoritarian economic mismanagement catastrophe.

Taras Shevchenko, "Zapovit" When I am dead, bury me In my beloved Ukraine, My tomb upon a grave mound high Amid the spreading plain, So that the fields, the boundless steppes, The Dnieper's plunging shore My eyes could see, my ears could hear The mighty river roar.

Statue accounts on twitter are now posting about how we need to return to the Great Man Theory of history, which as been destroyed by an overemphasis on social history. I'm trying to motivate myself to write a thread about it and I just can't. Social history has been in decline for a while

@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social, this bud's for you

If you'd like a signed copy of my book, and won't be seeing me at conferences/conventions this year, you can find them here. www.ebay.com/itm/25680398...

My grandfather served (briefly, and did not deploy overseas) in the WW2-era Canadian Army. My great uncle flew a Lancaster in the RCAF over Germany, was shot down and became a POW. We might have differences, we may (mutually) annoy each other, but Canadians are not the enemy.

My author copies arrived, so I had to do a photoshoot! 3 years of hard work condensed into 378 pages 📖 'Queen Charlotte: Family, Duty, Scandal' is now available from @routledgehistory and all good booksellers! #historysky #royalhistory #18thcentury #skystorians #queencharlotte

Obligatory author receiving stock of their book photo

On Thursday, my book Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783, released. Why should you care? It changes the story of 18th century battles by telling the experiences of enlisted and NCOs, not just the officers. Battle looks different when you are enlisted. A thread for the infantrymen. 1/20

Men, it is vitally important to dress for the job that you want. I'll do some examples. Are people going to address you with the respect your blood demands & realize that you are "an appetite and nothing more" if you shop at Men's Wearhouse? You need to get serious abt this

Just saw Robert Eggers' Nosferatu. As a historian, more than any other director, I trust Eggers to capture the "vibes" of a historical setting, even a fantasy one like this. From the standpoint of capturing the 1830s in Germany, this film is great. 🧵 1/25

My Christmas gift to you this year: A guide to identifying Revolutionary War infantry uniforms. Over the next ~9 years, there are going to be a lot of "250th Remembered" accounts and posts. If you are doing that, use this guide to share accurate visual/material culture. 1/23

"I heard you the first time, the British are coming, but did you sell the wool at the market in Lexington like I asked?"

Cover and table of contents for Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783. It's a labor of love project I worked on alongside my dissertation and also while completing Christopher Duffy's festschrift. You can register interest below: www.helion.co.uk/military-his...

Very excited to see this coming together!

I think I can be more ecstatic here than on twitter. I have concerns about the future of Syria, but as someone who first thought about the problem of evil seriously in connection to the Ghouta chemical attack, this is absolutely one of the best days of my life.

I dream of a world where I will be able to write something about the experience of combat in the eighteenth century and not have everyone in the replies ask: "good, have you read Dave Grossman, tho?"

I've worked as a military historian for 10 years, teaching undergrads and ROTC cadets. The thing that many students get wrong about war is focusing on a tactic or piece of technology. Single technologies rarely revolutionize war overnight. You have to take a broader look. 🧵1/25

For the sake of posterity, the reading lists I made for military theory and war related literature.

The discipline is dying, historians can't find work in the field, and the multiple scholars who graduated from a top 5 program in my department delight in fighting about the exact formatting requirement (subscript numbers, exact spacing settings) of footnotes in student papers.

1 Kings 12:10a,11 “...These people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter. Now tell them... ‘My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.’”