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Matilda Greig

@matildagreig.bsky.social

Historian at the National Army Museum, London. Focus on 19th century war & conflict, esp the Napoleonic Wars. www.matildagreig.com

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Napoleonic objects and their afterlives: Art, Culture, and Heritage, 1821-Present, edited by Matilda Grieg and Nichole Cochrane (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025) Not registered yet?

Delighted to get such a lovely review for ‘Napoleonic Objects & Their Afterlives’ in Napoleonica! The reviewer is spot on - “Everyone meets Napoleon somewhere.”

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23.07.2025 10:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The front cover of a book, Napoleonic art, culture, objects and heritage and their afterlives edited by Matilda Greig and Nicole Cochrane

The front cover of a book, Napoleonic art, culture, objects and heritage and their afterlives edited by Matilda Greig and Nicole Cochrane

Delighted to receive a physical copy of this today - it’s a great read! @matildagreig.bsky.social and Nicole Cochrane have produced a beautiful volume

27.05.2025 11:22 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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📚 What if world literature wasn’t just about classics, but booming book markets? #MyPhDPitch

@eui-history.bsky.social PhD researcher @isabelleriepe.bsky.social‬ traces how 18th century German publishers, print networks & historians helped shape 'world literature' as a global, commercial phenomenon.

27.05.2025 08:32 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2
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Submit your application for an SAHR Research Grant by 1 May 2025. We offer up to £1000 to university students and independent researchers. Find out more: https://www.sahr.org.uk/view-event.php?sid=1cd190caa91b3fe570acbf4db9e2c2f9&eventid=1000120

23.04.2025 10:00 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Holly Furneaux and I are featured in this exhibition talking about our work on Enemy Encounters in warfare - lovely to see it being discussed by HW! It was such a lovely experience working with Laura :)

17.04.2025 13:50 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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My 2021 article, “Tipu Sultan’s female entourage under East India Company Rule”, is now open access through @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social
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13.04.2025 19:38 — 👍 23    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Me too, archive shelf, me too x

25.03.2025 14:42 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.

As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.

But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

21.03.2025 17:04 — 👍 1339    🔁 793    💬 24    📌 91
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Happy This Guy Sucked Day to all who celebrate! 🥲🎉

So proud and excited to share our first two episodes, featuring:
- Dr. Eleanor Janega on Voltaire
- Dr. Robert Komaniecki on Jerry Lee Lewis
Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts!

20.03.2025 15:07 — 👍 47    🔁 8    💬 6    📌 0
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Very excited to announce our first COLVET workshop on April 02. The theme is New Directions in Veteran History and our keynote will be the brilliant Jelena Ɖureinović. This is a hybrid event and all are welcome to attend. Registration required. Please share widely.

03.03.2025 10:44 — 👍 28    🔁 18    💬 5    📌 9
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Burying the Enemy - Yale University Press London A fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil in the two world wars   Why do societies only remember their ow...

I am on a very mini (call it select!) London book tour in March, at @ihr.bsky.social & @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social discussing my forthcoming book on the enemy war dead: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Do come along! IHR = tinyurl.com/u479jp9j and NAM = tinyurl.com/mvpt2jrf

18.02.2025 11:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Naughty grey cat sitting in a box

Naughty grey cat sitting in a box

Stack of books

Stack of books

✨GIVEAWAY✨
Smokes has taken over my CUP delivery box so it’s time for a giveaway of 2 paperback copies of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats!

UK and EU addresses only pls (soz global pals!). RT & like for entry. Will randomly select the winners next Sat. 🩵💙🩵

08.02.2025 14:29 — 👍 75    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 2
Library full of books, old building, dark wood shelves, beautiful diffused light

Library full of books, old building, dark wood shelves, beautiful diffused light

The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply.

Please share :)

www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...

06.02.2025 18:05 — 👍 400    🔁 202    💬 11    📌 16
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Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives Two centuries after Napoleon Bonaparte's death, this edited volume brings together a diverse group of historians, art historians, and museum professionals to cr…

Today is publication day for Napoleonic Objects! 🥳 This has been such a fun journey - thank you to the wonderful chapter authors and to Dr Nicole Cochrane,
the best co-pilot for navigating the world of “weird Napoleonic stuff” I could have hoped for!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/napoleoni...

06.02.2025 12:23 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Slide with text: 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society' New fully Open Access book series from 
the Royal Historical Society and Cambridge University Press. Proposals now invited.'

Slide with text: 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society' New fully Open Access book series from the Royal Historical Society and Cambridge University Press. Proposals now invited.'

What is the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture?

We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with @cambridgeup.bsky.social - to explore this question.

Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇
#Skystorians

23.01.2025 17:42 — 👍 57    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 2

@lrbobrien.bsky.social’s chapter in this book is THE MOST FUN ever - haunted actors, identity crises and her trademark beautiful prose :)

23.01.2025 16:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cover of Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives.

Cover of Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives.

Extremely hot book cover klaxon! “Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives”, edited by @matildagreig.bsky.social and Nicole Cochrane, coming on 6 February (and featuring a chapter from me on Napoleonic performance w/Albert Dieudonné as key case study). www.bloomsbury.com/uk/napoleoni...

23.01.2025 10:50 — 👍 29    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 4
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Call for Proposals: Bloomsbury Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism — Centre for the Study of Internationalism We invite contributions to a new handbook on the Histories of Internationalism, to be published by Bloomsbury.

Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals!

More info here:
csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...

08.01.2025 12:17 — 👍 95    🔁 69    💬 1    📌 1

The WNN writing retreat returns this Friday, sign up below!

07.01.2025 16:22 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The art of the war memoir Battle Lines · Episode

I talked about my PhD research into war memoirs in a new episode of Battle Lines - thanks again to @rolandoliphant.bsky.social for the thoughtful questions. This is such a huge topic, I know we barely scratched the surface of the research and writing out there!

open.spotify.com/episode/4t0m...

06.01.2025 11:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Past & Present Fellowships Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open

Applications close on 31st Jan 2025

Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months

Please share with your network

www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

06.01.2025 08:03 — 👍 155    🔁 181    💬 1    📌 13
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Who was Napoleon's greatest general? Battle Lines · Episode

It’s some people’s Roman Empire - who was the best Napoleonic Marshal? I was kindly invited by @rolandoliphant.bsky.social to give my tuppence worth on the newest episode of the Battle Lines podcast - out now! :)

open.spotify.com/episode/02pl...

23.12.2024 17:37 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

I am really proud of this book - the chapter authors have done an amazing job of covering different asymmetries of power, experience and narrative in moments of wartime “enemy encounter”, from the Napoleonic Wars to the current war in Ukraine. Out now! 🤍

16.12.2024 14:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0