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Had to get the scissors and glue to make a collage for my lecture on the history of punk in Kyoto at Club Metro last night

Some fascinating images of the involvement of Belgian colonial subjects in the East Africa campaign of the First World War. These and other images are available to consult here uurl.kbr.be/bib/16923934

This little guy should have been in bed but he stayed up to find out about the Heimei Maru Incident at the ISFWWS conference @fwwsoc.bsky.social

I’m planning to do a lesson on for my popular class to discuss cross over styles from anime. I very much felt the generation gap when watching it, much like people’s dads must have felt when Elvis first appeared on telly

I’ll be speaking about the history of punk rock in Kyoto at this year’s Kyoto Experiment festival. Very pleased with the headshot they are using to advertise it kyoto-ex.jp/en/program/p...

He did quite a few sketches on Italy’s involvement too.

Feels like my birthday, just got Ito Chuta’s 5 vol Book of Ashura (1921). 500 sketches of the FWW with slipcovers. As I’m going the ISFWWS conf soon, here is his impression of the French army arriving in Salonica. I’m planning to translate all captions if I live long enough. @fwwsoc.bsky.social

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

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Nice! Here’s more pictures of Japanese Canadians for your collection! Sachimaro Morooka wrote a lengthy memoir ‘On to the Arras Front: A Japanese Canadian Soldier in the FWW’ which was republished a few years ago cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1971712...

They are surprisingly thorough which is again a plus and a minus

It’s great, but has sadly made it much more difficult for me to justify a trip to Geneva to my university admin!

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Back from a trip to Germany, picked up some good reads to tide me over till next visit

You’ve sold at least two copies of the book here, one to me and one to our library, if you can get beyond Kyoto we might consider you nationwide

My reading for the weekend arrived

If you are interested, CUP have released a 20% discount code for Making Sense of the Great War.

You can get it for £23.99 through their website using the code HIST2425.

Find more information - and purchase it - here: bit.ly/4mYM08h

#History #Military #NewBook #FirstWorldWar #MilitaryMorale

My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It exists! I finally got my unboxing moment today! A short article to introduce my book Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War. Available for pre-order now.
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Delighted to share details of the upcoming hybrid workshop 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' to be held in Maynooth on June 25. This is part of the COLVET project funded by @erc.europa.eu You will find a draft schedule and details for registration here. Please join us on the day and share widely

Life in 2030 E McKnight Kauffer (1930)

First World War Studies Volume 15, Issue 3 of First World War Studies

Issue 15:3 of First World War Studies is out now! Featuring four research articles (of which 2 are OA) and more than 30 book reviews covering a huge range of languages, countries & topics!

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‘The Dynamics of East Asian Politics and Diplomacy in the 1920s: The Intersection of International Cooperation and Imperial Expansion’ edited by Sogo Kazutaka, and with a small contribution by me, out now and free to download from the Aisa Japan Research Insitiute www.ritsumei.ac.jp/research/aji...

Making Enemies: British and German Missionary Personnel in East African Internment Camps during the First World War* Abstract. During the First World War, German and British citizens in British and German colonies in East Africa were placed in internment camps. Men, women

My new article is now out on various experiences of internment during WWI in German East Africa. Thanks to Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser for putting the (forthcoming) issue together
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If anyone is in Tokyo on 29 May then please join me and a host of others more qualified than me at Sophia University to discuss the passing of Japan's Peace Preservation Law in 1925 in light of its centenary. See attached for details;

so good, I have two copies

Rethinking China’s Support for the Japanese Racial Equality Proposal at the Paris Peace Conference The Great Powers’ rejection of Japan’s racial equality proposal to the Covenant of the League of Nations at the Paris Peace Conference set the tone for the post-First World War order. From the East...

It's a great week for FWW research, one of our finest former PhD Students at Kyodai, (Dr since March this year!) Jiang Zizheng's article on Rethinking China's attitude towards Japan's Racial Equality Proposal is now published online in FWW Studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Immigrants & Minorities Wartime Internment as a Global Practice and Experience, 1914–1945. Part I: Camps in Spatial Contexts; Guest Editor Names: Arnd Bauerkämper, Dina Gusejnova and Marina Pérez de Arcos. Volume 43, Issue 1 of Immigrants & Minorities

Wartime Internment as a Global Practice and Experience 1914-1945 (Pt 1) is online and open access in Immigrants and Minorities. It includes Marina Arcos de Perez and my paper on Germans in Cameroon during the FWW. Pt 2 coming in July! @fwwsoc.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/fimm20/4...

That should be FWWers of course

Attn FFWers, the archives of the European War Office in Spain are fully digitized, you probably know of them from Marina Perez de Arcos’ amazing work. They are also shortlisted for UNESCO recognition this year: archivos.patrimonionacional.es/index.php/de... @fwwsoc.bsky.social

You would enjoy Sven Saaler's book 'Men in Metal' (2020) on bronze statues in Japan, he dedicates quite a lot of it to how sculpt horses.