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🎉 We are delighted to announce that Dr Sofya Anisimova (@sdanisimova.bsky.social) has been elected President of the International Society for First World War Studies starting in January! 🧵

Fall of Eagles How did the First World War bring down Europe’s great dynasties, and how did the BBC retell that story on screen? In this episode of Oh What a Lovely Podcast, we look at Fall of Eagles, ...

How did the #FWW bring down Europe’s great dynasties, & how did the BBC retell it in 1974?

We watched Fall of Eagles, which charted the decline of the Romanovs, Hohenzollerns, & Habsburgs. We evaluate the strengths & weaknesses of this ambitious show. 🗃️

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📢 🧵 This year the International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social is hosting a conference in the University of Macedonia! If you can't attend in person, you can still take a look at the work that has been published in First World War Studies by some of this week's speakers.

Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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After more than a year in the making, it is finally here! Check out the programme of the bi-annual Society conference dedicated to naval aspects of the First World War

The Program for our 11th conference, to be held at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki on 1-3 October 2025, is now available!

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We’re very excited to share that First World War Studies Volume 16, Issue 2 was recently published and is now available from Taylor & Francis (tag). This new issue brings together fresh perspectives and critical reviews that push forward the study of the Great War.

📝Articles include: ⬇️⬇️⬇️

We're excited to say that we have an excellent lineup and are actively working on finalising the programme today! Registration will be open to the public very soon - keep an eye out for updates here 👀

A call for papers for a conference 'Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World, 30-31 October, 2025 University of Exeter.

Conflict War and Violence in the #EarlyModern World.

30-31 October 2025, Uni of Exeter.

Two day in person conference, speakers include Prof Mark Stoyle (Southampton) and Dr Jo Esra (Exeter).

Follow @earlymodernwar.bsky.social for programme updates & email the organisers if you wish to attend.

TONIGHT is the NIGHT!

The Hell Tor Festival begins tonight at the Exeter Phoenix! Join us for a weekend of all things GHOSTLY - classic films, illuminating lectures and very special guests.

FESTIVAL TICKETS: exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/hell-t...

Poster for the Hell Tor Festival at Exeter Phoenix 26-28 September, showing a spooky horned figure and the question 'Do You Love Ghost Stories?'

The Hell Tor Festival kicks off at the Exeter Phoenix tonight, with a chilling start - a reading of Lost Hearts followed by a screening of The Changeling...

Over the weekend we'll have more classic ghost movies, special guests, lectures & performances

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Our brand new @folkloresociety.bsky.social
website was launched today! Going strong since 1878. Keep a look out for new content and become a member!

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The ABCs of British propaganda towards the United States in the First World War

Upcoming hybrid lecture by member David Monger at the University of Canterbury.

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2026 - 20 Years of BATW Events Page — Britain and the World

🚨THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨
#batw2026 is celebrating two decades over two weeks!

Join us online 18-19 April 2026 or in person in Boston 24-25 April 2026!

Check out and share the CFP. You won’t want to miss it! britainandtheworld.org/2026-20-year...

Centre for Imperial and Global History - ‘This country had a great empire’: The Nuances and Limits of the Rhetorical Premiership in Using the Imperial Past
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When Free Trade First Faltered Globalization’s first age some 200 years ago sheds light on today’s turn toward economic nationalism

The historical precedents for today's tension between global free-trade and economic nationalism are unpacked by historian Dr Marc Palen @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social. Read his article on the IMF website👇

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PhD/ECR Event: German Job Market Hosted by PhD Rep Allison Bennett, ECR Rep Dr. Julia Thomaz and P&D Officer Dr. Nina Régis with guest Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Piller

The next event designed for our PhD/ECR members will take place on Sept 23rd at 5pm GMT. It will focus on the academic German Job Market with members Dr. Elisabeth Piller, Allison Bennett, and Dr. Nina Régis. Register at the following link:

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The WFA is offering grants of up to £2,500 to support PhD researchers in advancing original First World War studies. Applications close on Monday 1 December 2025. Info: tinyurl.com/2ue2582h @primeadam.bsky.social @profgsheffield.bsky.social

Check out Peter Gatrell, John Horne and my (I know, I know, how did that happen?) article on European civil wars and the dialectic of humanitarianism 1914-1949, + the entire special issue edited by @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwarth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It’s finally publication day for our ed. volume on Conservatism and Christian Democracy in North-West Europe! I don’t have my own copies yet but when they arrive I plan to post more about the book. I’d be grateful if you would recommend it to your university libraries. We hope to achieve a paperback

Don't forget to book your free tickets to our Bill Douglas Memorial talk for Heritage Open Days by Geoff Brown - 'From Silent to Sound'! 👉
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See you there! 🎬🎥
#heritagesky #museumsky @museumsandheritage.com #heritageopendays #billdouglas #filmsky #silentfilmsky

Delighted to see this announcement of the forthcoming Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, a prize awarded annually by @fwwsoc.bsky.social and eventually to be published in our journal

Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War 5.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University What did the First World War do to poetry? What did poetry do during the First World War? In this lecture, Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz will explore a brand new corpus of war poets to interrogate not what is a good or bad war poem nor what war poems say about the war, but rather the social and cultural functions accomplished by poetry in 1914-1918: inventing itself, creating social links, anchoring the war in relation to a poetic past and multiple imagined futures, mediating the experience of war, and producing knowledge about the conflict. She will explore how the expansion of our definition of war poetry allows us to ask new questions about the First World War, as well as future possibilities to continue broadening our understanding of what war poetry was and, above all, what it did and continues doing for those writing and reading it. Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz is a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Lille. She completed her doctorate, on French poetry of the First World War, at Université Paris Nanterre. Julia has already published widely in academic journals, and is a Fellow of the International Society for First World War Studies. This lecture continues the annual series of Remembrance lectures at Edinburgh Napier University, marking the historical significance of Craiglockhart as a War Hospital during the First World War, famously the meeting place of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. We also remember our late colleague Catherine Walker, who was for many years curator of the War Poets Collection. Funding comes from the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture and the Centre for Military Research, Education & Public Engagement.

This year the event is also the Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, selected by the International Society for First World War Studies. Named after Dennis Showalter, the leading historian of Germany during the war and a longtime friend and supporter of the Society it is delivered each year by a leading early career researcher in First World War Studies. The event is held in the Rivers Suite at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart Campus (Google map | travel info). There will be a wine reception from 5.30pm; the lecture will start around 6pm. The event will also be streamed online via Zoom. If you have any queries about the event, please contact Dr Andrew Frayn (a.frayn@napier.ac.uk). This event is both in person and online. If you wish to attend online, please buy an 'online Ticket'. Zoom information will be found in the email confirmations.

We are delighted to share the details for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War' to be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social on 11th Nov 2025

You can book to attend in person or online:

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First World War Studies is very happy to finally have arrived on Bluesky! please follow for news on our publications and activities

The official Bluesky account for our journak has arrived!

Venice in absentia: A linguistic landscape of San Francesco della Vigna

Campo San Francesco, San Francesco della Vigna Hualing Zhai[1], Quinten Heymans[2], Bartolomeo Perazzoli[3], Sophie Paynter[4], Alice Wadsworth[5] Students of 'Linguistic Landscapes', Venice International University Summer…

Join us at Barnstaple Library to discover how tourism in North Devon flourished after the First World War. With the railways at their busiest and road transport opening the area to new visitors, the region became a much-loved destination. Lynton was even celebrated as ‘Little Switzerland’! 🌲 🌊 🚂

This looks like a wonderful potential opportunity

61 - War-Time In Our Street What can a 1917 short story collection tell us about life on the British home front during the First World War? In this episode of Oh! What a Lovely Podcast, Angus, Chris, Jessica, and r...

What can a 1917 short story collection tell us about the British home front during the #FWW?

This month Ann-Marie Einhaus discusses War-Time in Our Street by J. E. Buckrose.

These stories capture everyday resilience and humour amid wartime hardships. 🗃️

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