Very pleased to say that our edited collection has won the Norman B. Tomlinson Prize 2025!

David Morgan-Owen@dmorganowen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Had some wonderful news yesterday - the WW1 Historical Association awarded Framing the First World War the Norman B. Tomlinson Prize for 2025! Very grateful to our wonderful contributors and their hard work, series editor Bill Allison and the team at @univpressofkansas.bsky.social -

Had some wonderful news yesterday - the WW1 Historical Association awarded Framing the First World War the Norman B. Tomlinson Prize for 2025! Very grateful to our wonderful contributors and their hard work, series editor Bill Allison and the team at @univpressofkansas.bsky.social -

Red pen time … #amediting

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

I don't make the rules: see Tom Holland's Lip Sync Battle, re-post Tom Holland's Lip Sync Battle.

WacoTaco@wacothekid.bsky.social · last wk.

Y’all. This was the moment it all went down. 😅 m.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

“The architect of the German V-2 rockets, Werner von Braun, entitled his autobiography ‘I Aim for the Stars’. Londoners, however, will remember that he usually hit London” Easily the most stone-cold zinger I’ve encountered all year.

Is there anyone out there who knows about Naval supply/armament relating to Operation OVERLORD who could answer a couple of questions for me? #navalhistory #historians #military

The Harvard system is an abomination (Saunders 2026). It's like space junk (Lucas 1978) clattering around the beautiful cosmos of one's prose.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 4w ago

Increasingly coming to the view that the Harvard referencing system is the death of stylish academic writing. Flow as a reader is impossible when the text is littered with regular occurrences of (Boggins and Zuglinsky 2022).

Really enjoyed doing this, thanks to @kensingtons.bsky.social for hosting! @univpressofkansas.bsky.social you can see the book here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/

Framing the First World War

This innovative approach to the history of World War I looks at ways in which military actors saw and perceived war, and how that exerted a significant influ...

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Dr Tom Thorpe MCIPR @kensingtons.bsky.social · last mo.

Ep386 – Framing the Great War – @draefox.bsky.social, MikeFinch and David Morgan-Owen discuss their edited volume on how the First World War was perceived and interpreted by those who experienced it. Pub by Uni Press of Kansas kensingtons.org.uk/podcast/ep38...

ICYMI: @briandrohan.bsky.social and @drmargottudor.bsky.social's impressive volume, "Military Humanitarianism" is shipping now! It's ready for you! Are you ready for it? No worries - you can prepare (and order) at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Read more of the @tandfresearch.bsky.social review of Framing the First World War edited by @mpmfinch.bsky.social, @draefox.bsky.social, and @dmorganowen.bsky.social: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2026.2661510 #WWI #MilitaryHistory #UPKansas

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Call for Applications: Writer in Residence - Blooming Bloomsbury and the Modernist Archives Publishing Project -Creativity and Community Co-Curation (2026)  | Museums and Collections

The selected writer will spend the summer months (June—September 2026) drawing inspiration from MAPP to develop new creative work. From September to December, they will build on this...

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In July IWM London opens Childhood in War. This free exhibition shares children's view of war from more than 100 years. 450 million children live in conflict zones worldwide; their stories have never been more important. Read more here: www.iwm.org.uk/events/child...

What have Hertfordshire historians done for industry? Well, Prof. Morris's collaborations with international partners from the coffee industry have facilitated capacity building through staff development & ' achieved a documented media reach in excess of 13 million'. 5/9 @david-batty.bsky.social

What's lost to the UK research base when we lose the academics who teach these subjects? Hertfordshire's case reminds us (yet again) of the breadth of what's at stake. We're sleepwalking into an erosion of the UK's first-rate research base. Or, are we eroding by design? @chionwurah.bsky.social

We know for SHAPE subjects what's lost to UK higher education by current HE policy. (No one seems to be minding the STEM shop by the way). Cold spots for SHAPE subjects now abound. The data are clear: this disproportionately affects disadvantaged students. 8/9 @helenhayes.bsky.social

Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education

This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...

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“what happens at the BL is, mostly, the wrong kind of research. It’s about the dull old humanities, not the cutting-edge sciences. It mostly looks backwards, not forwards. So it’s regarded, not least by our political leaders, as a backwater.”

Graham Macklin@grahammacklin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Shhh! The British Library is in crisis. Still struggling with the impact of a devastating cyberattack, striking staff and a lack of leadership have left the institution in disarray

This thread is an excellent demonstration of the shortcomings of US Air Warfare Theory and Doctrine We can all mark our own homework and give ourselves 10/10

Institute for the Study of War@thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW | Applying US Air Warfare Theory and Doctrine to Evaluate the Campaign Against Iran The US-Israel combined force achieved meaningful operational and strategic successes vis-à-vis the Iranian ballistic missile program before the ceasefire. (1/10) Read the report: isw.pub/IranianMissi...

Higher education in the UK just got much lower. How much lower will it sink before your MP notices and speaks out?

University of Hertfordshire UCU@uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close

and immediately useful.' Thanks Jesse! You can read the review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @univpressofkansas.bsky.social @draefox.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social

Framing the First World War: how divergent views shaped a global conflict

Published in Intelligence and National Security (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Great to see another positive review of Framing the First World War come out in. Jesse Tumblin writes that the book 'takes on this task from helpful and surprisingly original angles' and highlighted that 'that several quite distinctive types of readers will find this volume directly

@draefox.bsky.social @dmorganowen.bsky.social and my edited collection is available now! (I hate to listen back to myself, so I can only hope I said something sensible)

University Press of Kansas@univpressofkansas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Framing the First World War explores how military leaders and political figures understood the conflict, and how those interpretations influenced their decisions. Pair your reading with a podcast. Framing the First World War: https://tinyurl.com/r76hn2tr #WorldWarI #MilitaryHistory #WWI #UPKansas

Prompted by 1SL’s lecture @rusi.bsky.social yesterday, @dmorganowen.bsky.social offers interesting historical critique on RN’s tendency to mobilise Jackie Fisher as “disruptor in chief” and innovator par excellence 👇🏻

David Morgan-Owen@dmorganowen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Reading 1SL speech from yesterday - www.gov.uk/government/s... - I'd be interested to know via what means Fisher became coded within the military mind as equating to 'innovation', 'technology', 'disruption' etc. This is not entirely new and was evident within PME. Nor is it especially surprising in

Morning! I wrote about having my charity-shop-bargain suit (Paul Smith, £20) visibly mended and what it taught me about taste, power and masculinity, and transgressing all of the above as.ft.com/r/642b5c9d-2...

What mending a suit taught me about masculinity

If business wear is a way of projecting success and power, what does a visible repair suggest?

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Happy to announce the publication of my article on international volunteers in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social. Thanks to @sdanisimova.bsky.social & Robert Gerwarth for their support and to the reviewers for their advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Commissars for the ‘world civil war’: recruiting and educating internationalists in the Russian Civil War, 1918–1920

Nearly 18,000 people enlisted in international volunteers’ units in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. With many of them being former prisoners of war and foreign workers, the technical and...

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⏳ Still time to apply! Our Research Bursary (£500) is open to master’s students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians working on women’s and gender history (especially Scottish themes). 🗓 Deadline: 31 May 2026 Details here 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

To accompany his new book, Rowan also writes today for the RHS blog on the impact of the Navy and Air Leagues in maintaining militarism in Britain after 1918: bit.ly/3OJ53as The NHP series is supported by @ihr.bsky.social and @echistsoc.bsky.social. All 26 books are available OA bit.ly/4sBmIyC

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 4mo ago

Published today: 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain' by Rowan Thompson bit.ly/4syLgIz Rowan's new book is the 26th title in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series for early career historians, published. Available Open Access and p/back print @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians

Thursday is also publication day of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson: bit.ly/474AbHq Next in the RHS 'New Historical Perspectives' book series. Published free OA & in p/back @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2