David Morgan-Owen

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Stocking filler for the war history enthusiast in your life - come for the excellent cover, stay for outstanding chapters on everything from inter-theatre learning to maritime law and strategy to patriotic propaganda. Featuring chapters from @sdanisimova.bsky.social

Quite aware. The KC report was absolutely devastating.

Not entirely the result of the Army either (link: committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...)

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Front cover of Framing the First World War which features cover art showing CRW Nevinson's Returning to the Trenches.

Table of Contents pt 1 - see https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/ for full details

Table of Contents pt 2 - see https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/ for full details

Delighted to receive my copy of Framing the First World War, a great collection edited by @draefox.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social and @dmorganowen.bsky.social who have put together a broad range of original essays

The 2025 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List It wouldn’t be the holidays without our annual War on the Rocks book roundup. Check off your gift list or pick a book to enjoy by the fire. Happy reading.

Eclectic mix of recommendations here but great to see @timbenbow.bsky.social on the list, especially making arguments that clearly bear re-stating : warontherocks.com/2025/11/the-...

"What message does it send when the EU can’t even agree to a mutually beneficial partnership with the UK?", writes @pimlicat.bsky.social following talks for UK to join EU defence fund collapsing.

Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/europe-must-get-its-act-together

Very fortunate to benefit from one of these in 2025 and it would hard to recommend them highly enough: wonderful support, incredible archival resources, reasonable application, very friendly and collegiate experience. Apply!

Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

Get 44% off the book if you order now!

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Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships

Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.

What connects labor and military history? The new LABOR Up for Debate, “The Wages of War,” tackles that question head-on. This WHOLE ROUNDTABLE is FREE to read for the next 3 months.
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The Dum-Dum Bullet | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Here's the preview of the book cover... it's not out yet, but you can now pre-order The Dum-Dum Bullet: A Lethal History, 1850-1950

I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

CALL FOR PAPERS Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries 16-17 April 2026 We welcome papers with a historical focus on a range of food and nutrition-related topics, including, but not limited to: Technological and productive innovations in food production in war Food and nutrition as a site of technocratic and bureaucratic developments Food and nutrition science in wartime Turning points in the development of bureaucratic, legal, social, political, etc approaches to food management e.g. the impact of the First World War blockade on the Second World War or wartime rationing on subsequent wars Social, cultural and legal perspectives on feeding of civilian, combatant and incarcerated/prisoner populations in war. Civilian, individual and/or community responses to food shortages. Survival strategies for populations facing difficulties accessing food and malnutrition in war, including generational and demographic cohort effects e.g. the elderly, marginalised and minority populations, such as those living in asylums, etc. Humanitarian interventions; including logistics, organisations, distribution on the ground and the use of humanitarian aid for religious, social or political aims. The weaponisation of food and nutrition in war in colonial and civil war contexts. The changing uses of food and nutrition in local, regional, national or international contexts over the period. Proposed panels (submissions do not need to be limited by these themes): Feeding incarcerated populations in wartime. Wartime occupations. Humanitarian interventions. Feeding fighters and civilians during asymmetric warfare, civil wars, guerrilla wars and/or anticolonial wars. Please submit a paper title and abstract of no more than 300 words to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by Monday 22 December 2025, 5pm (UK time). Informal enquiries may be sent to foodandwarconf@gmail.com.

CALL FOR PAPERS Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries 16-17 April 2026 We welcome papers with a historical focus on a range of food and nutrition-related topics, including, but not limited to: Technological and productive innovations in food production in war Food and nutrition as a site of technocratic and bureaucratic developments Food and nutrition science in wartime Turning points in the development of bureaucratic, legal, social, political, etc approaches to food management e.g. the impact of the First World War blockade on the Second World War or wartime rationing on subsequent wars Social, cultural and legal perspectives on feeding of civilian, combatant and incarcerated/prisoner populations in war. Civilian, individual and/or community responses to food shortages. Survival strategies for populations facing difficulties accessing food and malnutrition in war, including generational and demographic cohort effects e.g. the elderly, marginalised and minority populations, such as those living in asylums, etc. Humanitarian interventions; including logistics, organisations, distribution on the ground and the use of humanitarian aid for religious, social or political aims. The weaponisation of food and nutrition in war in colonial and civil war contexts. The changing uses of food and nutrition in local, regional, national or international contexts over the period. Proposed panels (submissions do not need to be limited by these themes): Feeding incarcerated populations in wartime. Wartime occupations. Humanitarian interventions. Feeding fighters and civilians during asymmetric warfare, civil wars, guerrilla wars and/or anticolonial wars. Please submit a paper title and abstract of no more than 300 words to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by Monday 22 December 2025, 5pm (UK time). Informal enquiries may be sent to foodandwarconf@gmail.com.

I'm so pleased to share this Call for Papers for a conference on Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries, organised with my colleagues Chris Batten and @rfhodge.bsky.social, kindly supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Submissions to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by 22/12/25!

Did you know that the North American Society for Oceanic History has book awards for maritime & naval history & archaeology? If your book on a topic in those categories has a 2025 original copyright, you’re probably eligible for consideration for this year. Give me a shout if you want to know more!

I was delighted to speak to Alan Finlayson for the @lrb.co.uk's On Politics. We take on the digital right (and online left), the champions of inegalitarianism, print and social democracy, Farage as influencer and... whether the internet is just right-wing.

🚨 JOBS!!! 🚨

2 lots of jobs advertised in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra

2.5 FTE positions in War Studies related disciplines - external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

1 FTE in Indo-Pacific Studies - external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

It’s been fantastic to work with so many brilliant colleagues on this - brilliant chapters on everything from innovation to propaganda and covering great geographical range. We also hope the book speaks to qs of mil thought & organisation beyond history- check it out!

The 1 needs to be a capital letter ‘i’ I believe

Cool job opportunity 🕵🕵️‍♂️ PhD in Modern History, Political Science, or International Relations or related field required.

Palantir do those

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

🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field.

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granted as obvious. Often I was struck that the value seemed most meaningful and accessible to students who were precluded from following their interest due to 'defined-by-the-hierachy' 'relevance' making those choices for them.

'lethality' or similar. Being continually challenged on that point does have considerable benefit in that it requires you to constantly test, sharpen or re-define ways of articulating why thinking has value in ways that doesn't come naturally/frequently in some HE contexts where it is taken for

This is a really perceptive point that has an interesting analogue in military education contexts, where varying doctrines of 'relevance' shape learning. It takes some courage to embrace the premise that learning has worth in ways that cannot be measured in terms of 'operational output',

The Impact Of AI Tools On The Next Decade Of Education Innovation Education technology is more of a commitment to shaping a future where every learner has the tools to succeed.

Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...