Dr Aimée Fox

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

A first-rate piece of scholarship, chock full of fantastic research and provocative arguments. Lots in #HoldingOut about command culture, learning, patronage / social networks in the #FWW German Army. As @tonycowan5.bsky.social says: don’t delay, buy today!👇🏻

British ‘Spy Fever’ in the First World War An exploration of how British society experienced 'spy fever' during the First World War. Following the declaration of war in 1914, German spies were sighted ac…

Pleased to announce that my first book, British 'Spy Fever' in the First World War, will be published in September with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. Pre-order a copy here:

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Imagined War / 1.0 / handbook - 1914-1918-Online (WW1) Encyclopedia How war was imagined before the outbreak of conflict in 1914 has been an ongoing source of interest to historians. Ideas about future war have been explored as a potential explanation for the willingn...

Delighted to see a new essay on the 1914-1918 Online Encyclopedia by @dmorganowen.bsky.social on the subject of Imagined War:
encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/imag...

If you haven't done so, check out @originstorypodcast.bsky.social. Not sure it fits into any of your categories (!), but I love it.

I have updated my website! Now with section on consultancy. If you are looking for some consultancy/workshops/facilitation on communication anxiety within your workplace, group, students, please get in contact. Also available for media on the topic too. rachelabynoth.wixsite.com/misshistorian

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

It's now been confirmed: my book The Colonial Way of War will finally come out in early August! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Check out our new publication. This one is an intersensory and intermaterial approach to popular militarism. It's Open Access too!!

If you are headed to ICCEES in London this week, come join us today at the panel on narratives of Russian Revolution at 14h25. I will be talking about whether we should use the term ‘intervention’ in connection with the Russian Civil War and if yes, then how.

pages from a journal with a paragraph of childish handwriting in French and eight photos pasted in, all labeled with names (Jean, grand mere) or descriptions (soldats francais). One photo is a little boy, presumably Jacques

What an amazing document: a four-volume journal/sketchbook/scrapbook kept by Jacques Gogois, a French child in Amiens, during the First World War.

The first volume begins in 1914, when Jacques is seven years old.

@sommecourt.bsky.social

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Our friends at the Army Records Society have launched another round of their fellowship programme, which offers funding over three years to create a volume in their long-running primary source series. Details at www.smh-hq.org/opps/jobs.html.

Britain, Conflict, and the Sea conference This conference seeks to explore the ways in which modern Britain has been shaped by ideas and practices of maritime war

Conference at the National Maritime Museum, London, 12 September 2025, 'Britain, Conflict, and the Sea'. It explores the ways in which ideas and practices of maritime war have shaped modern Britain.

Britain, Conflict, and the Sea conference This conference seeks to explore the ways in which modern Britain has been shaped by ideas and practices of maritime war

This conference looks excellent

www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

Ep364 – Boredom in Salonika – Dr Jake Gasson explores the distinct psychological challenges faced by the men of the 60th (2/2nd London) Division while serving in Salonika between December 1916 and June 1917. Listen here: kensingtons.org.uk/podcast/ep36... or via your favourite platform.

Not Soldiers from a Soldier’s Point of View: The British Army Service Corps and the Boundaries of Martial Masculinities, 1914–1918 Historians of Britain and its empire have explored how the First World War’s violence and scale of mobilisation could transform cultural hierarchies. They have debated the impact of many white wome...

My first peer-reviewed article is in print! "Not Soldiers from a Soldier’s Point of View: The British Army Service Corps and the Boundaries of Martial Masculinities, 1914–1918." www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UDQRH...

Give it a read if you like #fww history, British history, or gender history.

"Camps were instruments for empire-building, sites of performative violence, and central elements of utopian schemes of social and racial transformation." (esp., but not exclusively, in NS Germany). I highly recommend reading "Concentration Camps. A Global History" by Alan Kramer (Dublin/Hamburg)

It's official! Beyond Black Hawk Down is now available! Wouldn't be possible without the support of so many at
@tamu.bsky.social @tamuartsci.bsky.social @smh-historians.bsky.social and of course @univpressofkansas.bsky.social and especially @kansasjoyce.bsky.social 1/

🚀 We’re #hiring a PhD student to join our research project – “Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)” 🇬🇧 – funded by the Carlsberg Foundation!
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📅 4 Sep 2025

Country diary: Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | Nicola Chester North Wessex Downs, Hampshire: Predators are increasingly drawn by the shooting-season escapees. But, miserably, other ground-nesting birds and their eggs are being taken, too

The folk horror is real, where there’s a shoot. It brings the predators in. A gruesome & strange danse macabre for my @theguardian.com Country Diary today. ‘A jewel-bright partridge’s head, tops the beads of its neck vertebrae like an umbrella handle’ & someone is playing curious games..

Thanks, Aimee. Dear readers, get your copy at www.littlegully.com

A copy of Orlo Williams' diary on a grey bookshelf. Behind the book is a poster advertising the British Army's "Trooping the Colour". Williams' diary has a picture of Orlo on the front cover in his First World War khaki uniform. Across the picture of Orlo is the title of the book, Inside GHQ.

'The history of the Gallipoli campaign, rich in military lessons, should also serve as a general warning to all who at crises place undue confidence in Cabinets'. O.C. Williams 1929.

HUGE congratulations to my good friend Rhys Crawley & his co-editors on their edition of @orlowilliams.bsky.social's Gallipoli Diary! A vital source on the Gallipoli campaign & an incisive account of the personalities & politics of Gen Sir Ian Hamilton’s HQ. @stevejchambers.bsky.social

Female labour at Bletchley Park: reality and (romantic) fiction The growing importance of Bletchley Park in the cultural memory of Britain’s Second World War – its deployment by political and media commentators as a symbol of British exceptionalism – has been n...

In the last decade, Bletchley Park has become the site of dozens of works of romantic fiction. Dr Thomas Knowles and I wrote about it here.

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#intelstudies #bletchleypark #history

#OTD in 1915, GHQ’s staff officers were discussing the prospects of a future #Gallipoli offensive. Read more, buy my diary at www.littlegully.com @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social @stevejchambers.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social @gallipoli15.bsky.social @draefox.bsky.social @militaryhistory.bsky.social