LJMU History

Some brilliant public-facing research here by our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social!!!

Maybe something for @malcolmcraig.bsky.social and the students on the @ljmuhistory.bsky.social Cold War module?

My department @ljmuhistory.bsky.social is hosting a series of talks this semester, including a launch event for my book that came out in April. Everyone's very much welcome to these events!

The cover of Wyrd Science magazine issue 7, with the magazine opened to show the first pages of my article titled 'Playing Games in the Bomb's Shadow'.

And here we are! The latest, greatest issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social, incorporating an article on the Cold War and RPGs by...me!

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We're so very proud of our recent graduate Karin. Well done!

We have an exciting seminar series at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social this semester. These events are free and everyone's welcome to attend.

Our pleasure, Aliyah! 🙂

This will be interesting for our students!

Today kickstarts induction. My life long uni friends emerged from a chance encounter in the welcome desk queue where I ended up befriending the girl ahead of me& subsequently her flat mates. Looking around the lecture room I’ll be thinking about all the friendships to be made & that’s exciting.

Liverpool 8 and the Fight Against Apartheid How Toxteth's Struggle Became a Global One

One of our brilliant graduates this year, Aliyah Kerr, has turned her dissertation on anti-#apartheid #activism in #Liverpool into a Substack article. It's a brilliant read, and really showcases the quality of the research our students do for their dissertations. Give it a read!

About the Project Liverpool John Moores University invites applications for a fulltime, funded PhD researcher to work on a collaborative doctoral project with the Bluecoat, Liverpool's contemporary arts centre. The project will explore the global and imperial history of Liverpool's Blue Coat Charity School in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It will focus on the extent to which the growing globalisation of the port of Liverpool, and associated colonial connections and structures, were reflected in the people involved in the charity school - its trustees, supporters, pupils and staff - and the School's wider activities. The period covered is from the formal end of the slave trade and slave ownership in the early-nineteenth century to the purchase of the Bluecoat's city-centre buildings - significantly by Merseyside philanthropist and imperialist William Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) — in the Edwardian era. As well as the completion of a PhD thesis, the project will involve the co-production of a contemporary arts programme, reflecting upon the Bluecoat's imperial connections and legacies.

My @ljmuhistory.bsky.social colleague Nick White with the art’s organisation Bluecoat’s are recruiting a PHD student to research the global &imperial history of Liverpool’s Blue Coat Charity School. They want someone who can develop a community strand #skyhistorian www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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

www.politico.eu/article/iran...

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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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!