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Dr Aimée Fox

@draefox.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in IR at University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.

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Helen McCarthy@historianhelen.bsky.social · 21h ago

The Applied History Fellowship would suit a historian of interwar international relations. And you get to hang out with the FCDO Historians, who are super-lovely people.

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The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our Innovation Fellowships Scheme – Route B: Policy-led (FCDO) are one-year fellowships for UK-based researchers embedded in Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office or the Cabinet Office, enabling close interaction with policymakers. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3Vi5StQ

Innovation Fellowships Scheme – Route B: Policy-led (FCDO).
Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · last wk.

Something very striking about it being 2026, all the talk of AI and super intelligence and tech competition and here we are talking about diesel inventories. A useful reminder that these two books are a useful frame for understanding the world.

Material World by Ed Conway The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton
Stephen Collins@stephencollins.bsky.social · 2w ago

#TBT to this from 2012 in honour of Michael Gove starring as an invasion-battling leader in Sky's new show The Wargame. If you don't know what or who this comic is about... just count yourself lucky and scroll on, no worries.

[Opening scene is WESTMINSTER, LONDON. Over Downing Street a huge ALIEN SPACECRAFT hovers, silent, still, filling the whole sky a la Independence Day]. [Cut to INSIDE 10 DOWNING STREET. The (then) prime Minister DAVID CAMERON is looking out of his office window at the ship.] VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE, BEHIND CAMERON: Prime Minister… CAMERON [addressing the person behind him, still keeping his eyes fixed ahead in dread at the spaceship]: Yes? [We see the speaker is MICHAEL GOVE, then Education Secretary]: GOVE: Let me do it. CAMERON: For God's sake, Michael, you're the Education Secretary! You've never flown a fighter plane in your life! GOVE: But I know I could do it, David. I could fly a fighter plane into the big space- ship... ...and shoot all the aliens. CAMERON: But you have no military training! GOVE: David I haven't told you this, but... I used to be a journalist. For The Times. [Cameron reacts, turning to look at Gove with awe and respect, as if only now truly seeing him for the first time]. GOVE: I wrote two articles about planes, David. I've got strong opinions about aliens. I know I can do this job. [Cut to a title card panel]: AND SO: [Then cut again to Cameron on the roof of Number 10, watching a Michael Gove pilot a fighter jet up towards the spacecraft, and then completely miss it, careering towards Earth, as Cameron buries his face in his hands]. [Ends]
Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · last mo.

Gilbert Spencer once said that after witnessing hand-to-hand fighting during WW1 he tried to build about him 'a little globe of ease.' Painting this work of laundry drying gave him great contentment and peace of mind.

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Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · last mo.

The "Bulgarian Horrors" would bring Gladstone roaring out of retirement to renew his long struggle with Disraeli. It's an amazing story, in which war with Russia, the future of India, the safety of the British constitution and the souls of the British people were all at stake. Hope you enjoy it!

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · last mo.

"There is not a criminal in a European gaol, there is not a cannibal in a South Sea island whose indignation would not arise & overboil at that which has been done!" 150 years ago, Gladstone published one of the bestselling pamphlets in history. We tell its story... www.ppfideas.com/episodes/now...