Dr Aimée Fox

Bronze statue of kneeling ww1 soldier in cap, with rifle and fixed bayonet

Steel helmeted bronze statues of two WW1 soldiers, one of whom is an officer with field glasses

Bronze figures of Lewis gunners firing skywards

Bronze sailors, with a pointing officer and matelot shielding his eyes with his hand

Port Sunlight War Memorial. Commissioned from sculptor Goscombe John by Lord Lever while the Great War was in progress. It commemorates the employees of Lever Brothers killed in the war; its bronze statues are amongst the most dynamic and detailed to be seen anywhere. Its detail is breathtaking

⚠️ Time is running out! ⚠️

🗓️ The deadline for applications for The WFA PhD Grant Scheme is 1 December.

📣 No topics are off limits, ANY First World War research considered!

#FWWHist #PhDchat

War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital examines the war economy from feminist perspectives, bringing fresh thinking in the context of heightened geopolitical tensions. The book challen...

What better gift for the festive season for your loved ones than a comprehensive feminist analysis of the global war economy? Edited by the fabulous @hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True and with a chapter by yours truly - www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by ERC - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - RHS PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by European Research Council Call for Applications, deadline - 1 March 2026 This is a call for expressions of interest for a European Research Council-fund...

An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...

A page from Matt Houlbrook’s book Songs of Seven Dials which describes the experience of losing loved ones for those who lived in the Dials.

A small story of the pain off loss, memory, and #remembrance in 1920s Seven Dials.

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/...

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

"We’ve made it about individuals, because the academic research system is very focused on the individual level, and that’s something we really need to break,” she said.

Yes, break the focus on individuals. After all, the system is doing its best to break individuals altogether at this time. 1/3

Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain | Events at The University of Manchester Department of History Guest Seminar

Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.

Capital, Agents and Absentees: Port Phillip Pastoralism and the Profits of Slavery This article reveals that British-based merchants invested capital made from the Atlantic slave complex in the early Port Phillip District’s pastoral sector. It traces the capital that underpinned ...

Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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!

Militarizing Marriage Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962...

Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess!

Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.

Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.

When you're trying to figure out the purpose of the paper you're writing...

📣 The WFA PhD Grant Scheme is currently open to applicants!
We want to hear from anyone researching the First World War as part of their doctoral thesis, no matter what the topic!
#fwwhist
Full details and application form can be found below ⬇️
www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...

Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus At the end of the Second World War, a wave of independence movements swept the British Empire. Emergency Exits focuses on three often overlooked independence movements. These were brutal conflicts bet...

This year one of the great joys of my work has been contributing to the advisory board for a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. And last week the exhibition officially opened!

A photo of the facade of the State Library of New South Wales, bathed in the glow of sunset.

A photo of the Mitchell Library Reading Room through the entry doors, on an angle. The doors are in the foreground, with desks in the reading room, and the glass ceiling visible at the top.

I'm delighted to say that I have been awarded the State Library of NSW's David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship for 2026!

My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition".

Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.

for those of you in/near Bristol: I'll be speaking there on Dec 2 on the rise and fall of proportionality in US government military-legal thinking - please come if you're around.

www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...

I am really honoured to share that I will be a keynote at this year’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium. I’ll be focusing my talk on my 2022 piece ‘Your Work Is Not International Relations’. Thank you very much to the editorial team! : millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...

I guess the countdown to publication day has well and truly begun ...

Cover of my book "The Republican House Divided", which you can order here: https://uscpress.com/The-Republican-House-Divided

“Tim Galsworthy compellingly shows us how the thinking of Republicans, as they encountered the momentous years of the civil rights movement, was rarely far from memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction.” I'm humbled Robert Mason gave my forthcoming book "The Republican House Divided" such praise 🗃️

New bibliography entry: Framing the First World War: How divergent views shaped a global conflict ift.tt/X073b8k #FWWstudies

New bibliography entry: Between You and Me and the Bedpost: Gossip and the Social Life of the British Armed Forces in the First World War ift.tt/RImpWGd #FWWstudies

Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!

US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

It was two OUP books.

I wrote what became the first chapter of this great volume. It comes out in November.

Looking forward to seeing this book out very soon now!

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!

Book Talk - Breaking the Status Quo: What Could Empathy Mean for our Politics? | King's College London In this event, Dr Claire Yorke will speak about the core ideas of her new book ‘Empathy in Politics and Leadership: The Key to Transforming our World

Breaking the Status Quo: What Could Empathy Mean for our Politics?

Join @claireyorke.bsky.social discussing her new book, Empathy in Politics and Leadership with jennifernadel.bsky.social from @compinpolitics.bsky.social

Monday 13th October, 6pm, KCL

Register:
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

The Silent Minute What do you do when your army has retreated, your ally has capitulated, and you face invasion? You pray.

Had great fun writing this. How a spiritualist vegetarian who believed he had found the Holy Grail convinced Churchill and 5 million Brits to pray for peace and freedom during WWII.

gethistory.co.uk/articles/20t...

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