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Tony Cowan

@tonycowan5.bsky.social

I write about the German army before and during the First World War. PhD, FRHistS. www.tonycowan.com

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Many congratulations Jonathan!

20.09.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Indeed! And don't get me started on 'may' and 'might'...

09.09.2025 06:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Picture of the cover of the British Journal for Military History, Volume 11, Issue 2, August 2025. Cover picture is from the German East African Campaign. Kavirondo (BEA) porters of the 2nd Road Corps. Chikukwe Swamp, January 1918. Photo © Imperial War Museum, IWM (Q15625)

The new issue of the BJMH is now online at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ As always Open Access and free to all! Appropriately in the 80th anniversary of VE & VJ day we have 3 articles on the SWW. 1/7

26.08.2025 07:13 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1

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09.08.2025 07:08 — 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1

Thanks Jonathan!

30.07.2025 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Aimée!

30.07.2025 18:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hurray! The paperback edition of my book ‘Holding Out’ has just been published. It’s flying off the shelves, so don’t delay, buy today!

30.07.2025 18:17 — 👍 34 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 2

Hastings 'Pug' Ismay spent the whole of the First World War, and longer, in Somaliland - there's a lot of detail in John Kiszely's fine biography of him.

13.07.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Leo Amery's amazing networks Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery (1873-1955) lead a remarkable career; the son of a father who was a forestry official in Imperial India and a mother who descended from Hungarian Jews, he ended ...

Leo Amery and his amazing networks
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05.06.2025 14:40 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

In an alternate universe the chief representative of the only major German company operating in Micronesia in the late nineteenth century did not keep his diary in fading lead pencil but in an easy to decipher format.

24.04.2025 13:37 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Includes a review by me of John Kiszely's excellent biography of General Hastings 'Pug' Ismay.

28.02.2025 09:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I support the decision by the IWM not to renew the 15-yr loan of the Ashcroft Victoria Cross collection. The taxpayer has indemnified & funded the costs of security & exhibition of his investment in a prestigious national museum, increasing its value & probably recouping his £5 million. 1/

27.02.2025 10:01 — 👍 63 🔁 12 💬 9 📌 5

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Retired minor deep state functionary. Fossicker in archives.

Jonny Dyer
@kaiserjonny

TV legal chap. First World War MA (Wolverhampton MAfia) and PhD candidate. Studying the performance of 6 BEF divisions on the Western Front 1917-1918. It’ll be mostly that on here, just so you know. Plus some general nonsense. And a bit of the Chels too.

Professor Nutella
@jpnudell

Pizza appreciator, ancient historian, reader, writer, baker. In some order. Blogging here: https://joshuapnudell.com/blog/

Neville Morley
@nevillemorley

Classics & Ancient History at Exeter, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.

Mick Ryan
@warinthefuture

Dr Rich Willis
@willisrm73

Interests: #2ndMarne 1918: THE turning point of the Great War, Machine Gun Corps. French Xe Armée & Charles Mangin. Proud Yorkshireman. Views my own.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
@bretdevereaux

Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Blogs at acoup.blog

Sofya Anisimova
@sdanisimova

Early career historian. Post-Doctoral Fellow at University College Dublin. Working on First World War and Russian Civil War.

Brian Curragh MA
@briancurragh

Ph.D candidate at University of Birmingham - looking at Patronage & The Rings in the late Victorian British Army MA British First World War Studies - dissertation on the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars: a military elite or agricultural cavalry?

Suzanne Raine
@suzanneraine

Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge; Visiting Professor KCL; Trustee of IWM, RUSI and IBCC Lincolnshire. Before that the FCO.

Mark Jones
@mark18681918

PhD student @cardiffuni.bsky.social/Prifysgol Caerdyd. Critical historian researching regimental identity, organisational culture & learning processes within the British Army during the Cold War. https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/jonesma19

British Journal for Military History
@britjnlmilhist

The British Journal for Military History is the scholarly journal of the British Commission for Military History. Website: https://journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/

Richard Dunley
@redunley

Naval & diplomatic historian with a side gig in maritime strategy | Senior Lecturer at UNSWCanberra | #PomInOz

Matt Fitzpatrick
@kilderbenhauser

Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.

Jonathan Boff
@jfb1066

Military Historian. Writing a book on Economic Statecraft and Money as a Weapon of War (OUP, 2026). Strategy. Author of 2 award-winning books on the First World War. Professor at University of Birmingham.

David Morgan-Owen
@dmorganowen

Senior Lecturer in IR @ St Andrews | Historian of War | next book strategy & seapower in the FWW | own views

Simon Jones
@simonjones

Writes about the First World War. FRHistS. Late museum curator. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/

Dr Aimée Fox
@draefox

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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