Dr Aimée Fox

Age of Self? LATE What makes you ‘you’? Immerse yourself in an evening of talks, exhibits and live performances exploring how our interconnected identities are formed and celebrate the diverse experiences and values th...

I'm heading to London for @britishacademy.bsky.social The Age of Self? LATE event.

Come for an exploratory evening of talks, performances & workshops that examine the complex notion of self.

Stay for me talking about the self-improvers, the Pelman Age, & how we became restless a century or so ago.

William Rider-Rider, Maple Leaf Concert Party, September 1917, LAC MIKAN 3522026. A man dressed as a clown is applying makeup to fellow entertainer who is dressed as a woman.

It’s not a stretch to say that during the First World War, the Canadian Corps established itself as the “elite fighting force of the British Empire.”

It was also composed, sometimes, of dudes in dresses!

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

As Françoise Vergès compels us to ask (and it's one of the most important questions of all):

'Who cleans the world?'

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.

Scientists Have Been Hunting This Elusive Particle for a Decade. It Doesn’t Exist. The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions with matter.

It's the operational level of war particle.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

The history and future of women in the military The Pentagon recently launched a formal review of women in ground-combat positions. On today's episode, what lead to this review, and how could it impact the United States Armed Forces? Amy Rutenberg,...

Turns out it’s impossible to go through the history of women’s service in the US military in 17 minutes, but I had fun giving it the old college try. If anyone’s needs it, my segment (or the whole show) might make for a good lesson starter. 🗃️🗺️ www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/rive...

Submissions are coming in thick and fast, so a reminder that the deadline to submit a proposal for MBS2026 is Saturday! If you're having difficulty with the form please also email submissions to mbs2026conference@contacts.bham.ac.uk. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

Enjoyed talking about this project with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social this week, have a listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/framing-the-... @draefox.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

There's a lot going on the world, but I was glad to see an article of mine published in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
Read about Shadrack Byfield, an English War of 1812 veteran who buried his own arm, designed a custom prosthesis, and wrote multiple memoirs: doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

We couldn't have said it better, Heather! Read more on Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped A Global Conflict here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/.

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Read more about the book Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict edited by @mpmfinch.bsky.social, @draefox.bsky.social, and @dmorganowen.bsky.social here - kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/.

#modernwarstudies #militaryhistory #WorldWarI #upkansas

CFP | Empires and War
Royal Military College of Canada & University College Dublin
📍 Newman House, UCD | 🗓️ 17–18 September 2026

Papers invited on imperial war from Antiquity onwards. Panel proposals welcome.

📝 Deadline: 15 March 2026
📩 Submissions to: Doug.Delaney@rmc.ca

Details below ⬇️

90% of military history is about where the latrines are dug. You cannot make war if you have dysentery.

The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire by Mustafa Aksakal

A sweeping narrative of war, great power politics, & ordinary people caught up in the devastation, Mustafa Aksakal's The War That Made the Middle East offers new insights about the Great War & its profound & lasting consequences.

Available Jan 13 (10 Mar UK pub): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

As the owner of a very anxious Labrador, I feel your pain!

Black and white photograph of an austere looking room decorated with bunting and festive signs. The room is filled with long tables set for Christmas dinner. Rows of men in Royal Air Force uniform are sitting alongside the tables, waiting for dinner. Photo from the archives of Jack Plymen (b.1915), Scientific Officer, Royal Air Force, Operational Research Section (MSS.335/PLY/12/11).

As it is the season for Christmas dinners, we thought we'd share you this picture of an RAF Christmas Dinner from our archives - taken in December 1944.

A great reminder that even in the darkest of hours, the spirit of Christmas keeps going.

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasParty #RAF

Photo of Trinity College Dublin taken by Stefan Müller

Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members:

– Assistant Professor in Political Economy
– Assistant Professor in International Politics
– Assistant Professor in Political Science

Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
More details: jobs.tcd.ie
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an older man is holding a ring in his hand and asking why shouldn 't i . Alt: Bilbo Baggins holding a ring in his hand and asking why shouldn 't i .

me talking to friends and mentees: just SAY NO to all these unnecessary distractions and other people's projects! focus on your own book, prioritise yourself!

me every time I'm invited to contribute to conferences, edited books, talks, random events of all kinds:

“Experiencing, reporting, recording civil wars, 1917-1949” University College Dublin, 25-26 June 2025 From 1917 to 1949, Europe saw a proliferation of internal conflicts and civil wars that were often connected with global conflicts and wars of decolonization. Historians have long established the (re)founding nature of experiences such as World War I (often described as the crucible of the 20th century) and World War II. Despite the omnipresence of civil wars contemporary to these two major conflicts, their experience was almost often examined within narrow national frames. Yet , the experiences of Europe’s civil wars were both distinct and, above all, connected: many Spaniards who experienced exile during the Retirada joined the anti-fascist resistance in World War II; veterans of the Russian Civil War joined the Republicans; reporters sent to the Spanish Civil War travelled to other European conflicts to forge the narratives and images disseminated in the press and media; Greek officers who had served during the Russian Civil War featured prominently in the Greek Civil War. With time these cross-national experiences were overshadowed by one-sided national narratives, with limited archives available, and the experiences of the other side of the civil war often preserved in exile, excluded from the national community. The aim of this international conference is to examine everyday experiences in Europe’s civil wars of 1917 and 1949, and to explore how they were recorded and narrated at the time and after the conflict. We particularly welcome papers which seek to explore entanglements and interconnections between different civil wars.

Call for papers: “Experiencing, reporting, recording civil wars, 1917-1949” University College Dublin (@ucddublin.bsky.social), 25-26 June 2025.
Deadline: 13 February 2026. More info to come here: civil-wars.eu/workshops/
#CivilWar

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

Bearded naval officer sits at table with monkeys, one of which steals his food.

#OTD 14 December 1941. A Christmas party in the Ward Room of HMS Westminster, Rosyth. Photo by Lt J H Smith. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Get your copy of Framing the First World War today and receive 40% off with discount code: UPKHOLIDAY25 at checkout (kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/).

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"masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable" - now tell me again that we don't need to include gender in our political analysis 🤦

I'm honored that my article, "Policing Venereal Disease at Fort Huachuca, 1941-1945," published in the Journal of Military History, won the 2025 Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize from the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

As an aside: I did most of the work for this piece in the history library of the Università Statale di Milano and it was bloody freezing, so much than when I skimmed through my essay today I felt a sudden shiver of intense cold 🥶 😅

Ordered a copy and it arrived last week much to my delight

This looks great. Particularly looking forward to reading the brilliant Sneha Reddy's chapter.

Thanks for such a wonderful contribution, Vanda! We were delighted to include your work in #FramingFWW 🙌