Alexia Moncrieff

A system already exists to over-confidently state incorrect facts to women, thanks, we don’t need another one

18.06.2025 22:06 — 👍 2360    🔁 664    💬 24    📌 7

Adding this to my reading list for my module on the body in Australian history.

18.06.2025 08:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
Excited to share a #CfP for a collaborative special issue exploring empathy during and after the #FWW!
Especially keen to hear from #PGRs & #ECAs and non-European perspectives! 🌍
Deadline for Abstracts 15 May 2025.
Please do get in touch if you’re interested/have any questions!

28.04.2025 12:00 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2

Sharing how I teach using Lego in my Level 2 module on Australian social history, ‘The Lucky Country?’

27.03.2025 19:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just added this to the reading list for the week on sexual violence in my module on the body in Australian history

07.01.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Chronologies of Coping: Veterans, Experience and Resilience in Australia After the Great War This article investigates the modes in which two Australian veterans of the First World War sought to manage their experiences of service in the decades after the war. Building on a literature that...

My new article, co-authored with Bart Ziino, was published over the break! The first from our British Academy Small Research Grant. First World War letters and post-war resilience in the lives of two Australians.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

07.01.2025 10:52 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Microsoft Word developers. ‘No-one wants to write comments on footnotes.’

PhD Supervisors. ‘?????’

Microsoft Word developers. ‘No-one WHO MATTERS wants to write comments on footnotes.’

03.04.2024 06:39 — 👍 692    🔁 129    💬 19    📌 16

Bill Granger, the chef who lit up a room like a Bondi Beach sunbeam Following the death of Australia’s superstar restaurateur, Kathy Lette bids farewell to the long-time friend she helped introduce to London society – a ‘gastronomic love god’ who single-handed...

A sad day for my fellow brunch lovers out there.

27.12.2023 13:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My examiners reports for a PhD in Australia were 1.5-2 pages (12pt font single spaced)

26.10.2023 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Some afternoon fun with a dissertation workshop in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library for students on the MA in Social and Cultural history - getting them to think about topics, sources and the research they can do without even leaving campus

13.10.2023 15:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We're new on BlueSky! Follow us for news and announcements from the International Society for First World War Studies. We've set up two custom feeds:
A first one which collects all posts with the #fwwhist hashtag bsky.app/profile/did:...

10.10.2023 16:13 — 👍 20    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 2

Aaaand the academic year is go! Just finished my first class (an introductory seminar for students on the MA in Social and Cultural History), so the semester feels properly underway.

02.10.2023 12:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Solidarity but only among managers, or the future of the university sector - Overland literary journ... The process continued during Covid. Jobs were being cut due to the threats posed by the pandemic, yet more scholars were being recruited. Nice people, good at their job. But why are we doing this, we ...

New piece by me in Overland, on university management’s solidarity and the history and politics job cuts at ACU (full disclosure, it includes my job). overland.org.au/2023/09/soli...

25.09.2023 05:23 — 👍 29    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1

Join us on October 4th for a *Virtual* Open House to learn about the MA in Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds!

9am for US West Coast | 12pm for US East Coast ZOOM LINK: zoomto.me/WDB8F

22.09.2023 18:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Historians please help us spread the word: Colgate History is hiring an Assistant Professor in History of Health, Medicine, & the Body. We will consider applicants whose research is focused on Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, or South America. Full ad here, due 10/2! https://apply.interfolio.com/130212

18.08.2023 15:12 — 👍 112    🔁 123    💬 2    📌 6