Dr Aimée Fox

Orchestrating Power by Nathan K. Finney | Hardcover | Cornell University Press Orchestrating Power explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. This wartime state expansion is examined through the creation, structure...

Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War” has an official publication date of December 15, 2025!

Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

🔊 Episode #3 out now!
@whitproject.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) explores how the gender binary shaped the production and reception of international thought and what recovering overlooked voices means for present-day international relations.
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It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.

The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.

How? 1/

Last chance to sign up for tonight's free online talk on British Army officer selection. Open to members and non-members alike: my.demio.com/ref/v9oGFhpi...

Seminar title: Perceptions and realities of First World War experiences and legacies in the context of social class

A longitudinal study of the lives of the cohort of predominately lower middle-class men who attended a locally-endowed grammar school in south-east London and were potentially eligible for service in the First World War finds that, in terms of overall context, the war tended to be an interlude rather than a rupture with the survivors largely and uneventfully resuming their pre-war life trajectories. For many, pre-war education and pre- and post-war migratory movements seem to have had a more significant influence in shaping life outcomes than war experiences, which themselves did not necessarily follow accepted patterns and perceptions. Against this background it is argued more generally that assumptions which may (and, in some cases, have) been made about British men’s war experiences and their legacy take insufficient account of socio-geographic background and pre-and post-war trends in some social groupings. Dr Andrew Whittaker is an Honorary Research Fellow of Goldsmiths, University of London.

The IHR War, Society and Culture seminar series is back next week! Join us as we kick off the new term with a paper on the FWW and social class from @andrewwhittaker.bsky.social 💥

⏰ 24/09/25, 5.30pm
📌 Online via Zoom / In-person at @ihr.bsky.social

Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Thrilled to see the first reviews coming in for ‘Empathy in Politics and Leadership’.

A huge thank you to Emma Sky for her kind endorsement and support.

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@yalebooks.bsky.social

#empathy #empathyinpolitics

The Bomber's View of the Past Discover the influence of Antoine Poidebard on aerial archaeology and his complex role in French colonial history.

I've written a piece about the bomber's view of the past: how aerial archaeologists of the Middle East have looked at the region's past through the eyes (and lenses) of people who bomb it in the present. In fact they're sometimes the same people.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...

The deadline for the Call for Papers for this fascinating conference on 'Women in War: France, Britain and Ireland in the early 20th century' has been extended until October 18th. It should be a fascinating conference. Come to beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/home/

We at The WFA have launched our PhD Grant Scheme for 2025.

The grant is open to doctoral students researching ANY aspect of the First World War.

Where will our grant take you?

See website for full details 👇🏻

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#Fwwhist #phdchat

The Colonial Way of War Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Noch bis zum 1.9. freuen wir uns auf Einreichungen für unseren Workshop #PowerCouples im Mai 2026 an der @unihalle.bsky.social; organisiert gemeinsam mit @zoethomas.bsky.social. Die bisherigen Vorschläge versprechen ein faszinierendes & internationales Programm! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

New book arrived. @draefox.bsky.social

Awesome! 🙌🏻

Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: senses, spectacle and military modernity in late Victorian Britain Abstract. This article considers the conjunction of senses, emotions and objects in the Royal Military Exhibition of 1890 to deepen our understanding of po

Re-sharing this open-access article that @medhistoryman.bsky.social and I recently published: Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: senses, spectacle and military modernity in late Victorian Britain. Check it out for the concept of emotional objects and 'prosthetic feeling'! url: academic.oup.com/histres/arti...

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

Tickets available via the link to sign up, great range of speakers on everything from slavery to remembrance and pageantry to stokers - full programme here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

An episode rendered invisible by the ‘Lest We Forget’ fixation on the Second World War in Britain. In that telling, veterans are quasi-mythical heroes, not real people with politics, nor is class really allowed to enter into it beyond a teleological narrative about the founding of the welfare state.

Join Dr David Morgan-Owen, British Academy Mid-Career Fellow, for Britain, Conflict & the Sea – a two-day conference at the National Maritime Museum (12–13 Sept), exploring how the practice, imagery, and idea of maritime conflict have shaped British history.

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Official release date in less than two weeks! ‪@oxfordacademic.bsky.social‬

Burma Day Join us for a special day of talks and activities to celebrate the opening of our exhibition, ‘Beyond Burma’, and to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.

There are a few tickets left for my talk & book signing at NAM on 20 September. This is my unofficial book launch as I won’t be having a proper do due to other commitments so would be great to see all my pals there to enjoy a fab line up of speakers and the new exhibition!

Swedish Defence University advertises two postdoc positions focused on narrative geopolitics, or how emotional and widely circulated narratives shape international security, great power relations & geostrategic rivalry.

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Deadline: 31 Aug

Friends, my book HOTEL LUX is currently available for £0.99 on the Kindle Store. An intimate view of the revolution that changed the world, based on 7 years of research in archives across the globe.

Please do check it out! www.amazon.co.uk/Hotel-Lux-In...

I'm thrilled to share that I've received a £1,000 grant from the V&A/Bunnett-Muir Musical Theatre Archive Trust to write a new article: ‘From Fo’c’sle to Footlights: Maritime Imaginaries in British Musical Theatre’. Can’t wait to dive into the archives! ⚓ #VandA #TheatreStudies #CulturalHistory

Home | Gertrude Bell Archive Browse and search photographs, letters, and diaries from the archive of archaeologist and political diplomat Gertrude Bell, comprising over 12,000 unique records.

Lovely to hear about the new Gertrude Bell Archive wesite, and that it was a collaboration between Library, Humanities, and Research Software Engineers. Bravo @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social! gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk #DCDC25

Front cover of book; civilian men queuing to become soldiers

Delighted to see that my book Joining Up is published today, a mere 11 years after I started writing it. You can read it for free here: doi.org/10.7765/9781...
@manchesterup.bsky.social