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Iran reportedly moves to shut Strait of Hormuz after US attacks The Iranian parliament backed a measure to close the critical shipping route in response to U.S. airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran, state media reported

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Attention @ljmuhistory.bsky.social students - this was what I was referring to when discussing "strategic choke points"

It was my pleasure today to welcome over a hundred delegates from across the globe to this year's Britain and the World Conference, hosted by LJMU's Centre for Modern and Contemporary History
#batw2025 #skystorians #conference #history
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@ljmu-ris.bsky.social

Sharing Lands: Reconciliation, Recognition, & Reciprocity An afternoon of powerful storytelling, connection, and reflection inspired by the Choctaw gift to Ireland during the Great Famine.

Thursday 4th at 1.15 the @sharinglands.bsky.social crew will be chatting about the Irish Choctaw links (and also stickball, bicycles & virtual walks) at Nano Nagle Place #Cork It's free and everyone is welcome. nanonagleplace.ie/nanoevents/s...

Our very own @kateballantyne.bsky.social was interviewed in this podcast about her most recent book on student activists in Tennessee. It's.a fascinating listen!

@merseysideha.bsky.social Hi and welcome on Bluesky!

This sounds fantastic! Our department can't wait to work with the new Merseyside Historical Association @merseysideha.bsky.social! Onwards and upwards!

We are indeed hiring! All details for this temporary post in Modern #Irish #History can be found in the link below. Come and join our friendly bunch of hisotrians!

Our colleague @gillianobrien.bsky.social has been very busy over the last couple of weeks!

As every year, our first-year students have produced some brilliant exhibitions for their research projects. A real highlight of our academic year!

More impressions from our dissertation conference today. The LMI is a fantastic venue!

We held our annual #History Dissertation Conference today. Fair to say, we were blown away by the quality of our students' #research and the buzz and atmosphere throughout the day. It's a highpoint of our #academic year! @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social has a new Substack blog for his historical musings now. Obviously, we recommend to subscribe.

🚨NEW OPPORTUNITY🚨
@imm-min-journal.bsky.social are looking for an editorial assistant for a period of 3 years starting March 2025.

📅 Deadline: 7 February 2025

🖥️ Find out more at the GHS website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/01/23/o...

That's playful pedagogy at work. Surely, our students will love it!

Such an amazing project! Great to see our students being involved as well! We can't wait to see the finished product.

a happy new year greeting card with fireworks and the year 2025 ALT: a happy new year greeting card with fireworks and the year 2025

We wish everyone a very happy 2025! We're looking forward to a year packed with events, conferences (@batw.bsky.social 2025!), book launches, and @andrekeil.bsky.social field trip to #Berlin with our second-year students.

It's fair to say that our departmental #Christmas party is always one of the cultural highlights of the year! Brilliant performance from our @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Shanty Choir yesterday.

The chapter list for my book in progress about the history of post-apocalypse role-playing games. It reads: Playing the Apocalypse: Role-playing games, Cold War, and the nuclear age Introduction 1) Gaming the Cold War: From RAND to randomisers 2) Game Time for Gonzo: Talking plants conquer the world 3) The Desert of the Real: Now calculate your bullet's penetration 4) A Very American Apocalypse: Poland is no more real than Middle Earth 5) The Paranoid Style in American Gaming: The communists have taken Muncie, Indiana 6) Apocalypse Not: Gaming while the Berlin Wall falls 7) Fallout: Post-apocalypse in a post-Cold War world Conclusion

Slowly, painfully working on my book about the history of post-apocalypse/Cold War role-playing games. If nothing else, at least I have some unfunny chapter titles to work with. I mean, someone's bound to give me a book contract for this stuff? Right? Right? Oh no!

Christmas is coming so we're extending our laptop loans!

Film poster for the movie Kelly's Heroes, showing the main characters surrounded by explosions, with a German Tiger tank in the foreground, being faced down by those characters in the film's climactic scene.

Reading through the professionally done transcripts of my post-apoc RPG oral history interviews leads to some head-scratchers.

Took ages to discern (via listening to the interview again) that "acting all careless heroes" should be "acting all Kelly's Heroes", regarding Twilight 2000 characters.

A PC screen with a PowerPoint slide of for black and white pictures of Edwardian bedrooms. The 2 images on the left have 2 people in them.

Really enjoyed* giving my paper on settlement bedrooms to the my Faculty’s Home Studies Research Cluster. This might be the only real book stuff I’ve done this semester. But I’ve decided that on Friday I’m going to do more plotting.
*(even if my cat did insist on having loads of attention during it)

Our brilliant colleague Louise Coyne has brought some festive, sugary treats to the department today. Merry Christmas to all from LJMU History!

Our very own Professor Crossland is heading to Bath today to talk about his impressive book on the #history of modern #terrorism.

📢 January 2025 exam timetables are now live 📢

The next assessment period for LJMU students will take place from Monday, 6 January to Friday, 17 January 2025.

Find out more ➡️ www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

A historic photo of the John Foster Building of LJMU. It shows a chapel, which is now used as a lecture theatre.

#ThrowbackThursday This another #historic image of our department building on Mount Pleasant in the heart of #Liverpool. The chapel is now one of our biggest lecture theatres.

Women in Blitz among topics of history Great Debate History, Liverpool, Schools, Colleges, Applicants

It was an absolute delight for us to host the regional heat of the Historical Association's "Great Debate". Young #historians from #Merseyside schools presented their research on how local #history tells global stories. We were utterly impressed by the quality and confidence of the presentations!

It's part of the initiation rites to become an LJMU historian! 😎

🚀A leader in graduate success

We are proud to be one of the best-performing universities in the UK for growing graduate earnings and helping students secure highly-skilled jobs 🎉

Find out more ➡️ www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

My department, LJMU History, is now also on #Bluesky. Give us a follow for all things #Liverpool, #history, and #highereducation!

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A photo from the 19th century shows the front of what is now the John Foster Building of Liverpool John Moores University.

To kick things off, we'll post some #historical photos of our HQ on Mount Pleasant. It used to be a Catholic convent named #NotreDame, which was used as a school and teacher training college. Now, it's more prosaicly called the John Foster Building. Next photo when we reach 50 followers! 😎