Huw Bennett

...with the option to defer by 11 months without back pay.

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: three current programmes - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with a closing date of 5 September 2025. For further i...

5 September deadlines for 3 Royal Historical Society programmes: Martin Lynn Scholarship (PhD research) in African History (£1,500); Early Career Fellowships (up to £2,000) and Open Research Support (£500-1,000). #Skystorians

These are trying times.

Talent Development Awards 2025-26 The Talent Development Awards are available to promote the acquisition and advancement of skills in relevant areas by UK-based researchers, promoting innovative research methods, be that through skill...

We are offering up to £10k for researchers to upgrade their skills - e.g. in AI/machine learning; or a language; or something else! Think about it over the summer and apply by early October
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/tale...

Book Review: The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Hal Brands - Michael P.M. Finch, 2025

If you are interested in strategy & intellectual history, read this extended essay on the New Makers of Modern Strategy by @mpmfinch.bsky.social - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Call for applications 📢

The GHI London-India Research Programme and the @mwfdelhi.bsky.social invite applications for their joint fellowship for early career scholars whose research is situated in the broad field of the British Empire and the History of Colonialism!
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You forgot "lethality".

Happy Birthday Rory!

I recently had to justify taking a taxi to a place without public transport links, for a research trip that had already received pre-travel financial authorisation (with details of the taxis)...

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.

We are the only guests here.

Image shows: The RAF Museum 2024 MA Prize and PhD Bursary Winners, Jane Lowes and Michael Terry.

🎓 Applications are now OPEN for the RAF Museum Academic Awards 2025! ✈️

💷 £3,000 PhD Bursary
💷 £350 Master’s Prize
💷 £250 Undergraduate Prize

Research in RAF history, air power, strategy, museology & more welcome.

🗓️ Deadline 24 Oct
📧 Questions? megan.kelleher@rafmuseum.org
🔗 Apply: bit.ly/4lz46wa

Watching the Welsh rain out the window while London radio advises me how to stay cool in the heat wave.

Fascinating times today at the Staffordshire Regiment Museum. Excellent displays, a rich archive collection and knowledgeable staff.

OHNI's training programme will start in mid-September 2025. Find out more about the training and exploring OHNI membership at info@oralhistorynetworkireland.ie or visit www.oralhistorynetworkireland.ie

Want to learn how to capture amazing stories? 🎤

OHNI's training programme will start in mid-September 2025.

Find out more and explore OHNI membership at info@oralhistorynetworkireland.ie

Or visit www.oralhistorynetworkireland.ie

#OralHistory #SharedStories #OralHistoryNetworkIreland #Training

Join @sochistorywar.bsky.social in Potsdam for our annual conference.

This time Prof Beatrice de Graaf will give the keynote and the theme of the conference is “Cultures of War and Violence”.

Here's a strange idea: the national leadership of public research funding in the UK have a moral duty to defend research, not find excuses for cutting it.

There is an attempt to get every NATO member state to view the threat in the same terms, and to get a completely universal response. This is understandable, that's what alliances do. But it is also not happening, and not going to happen. Those nearest the threat are more alarmed and will pay more.

I do not think it is realistic to expect all NATO members to spend 5% on defence, nor is there necessarily a need for it to reach that level. But I do think the current level is inadequate.

This also prompts another observation: do all other NATO members need to spend 5% of GDP on defence? Perhaps not.

Society for the History of War Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.

SHoW's heading to Potsdam!

📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June

Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk

#SHoW2025 #HistoryOfWar #CallForPapers #MilitaryHistory
#WarStudies #CFP

The separation of research results and cash from actual researchers in REF2029 means that universities can enter all the staff, and then once they get your taxpayer cash sack everyone who won that money and keep all the dosh. An absurd ignorance of second order unintended consequences.

Panel Discussion and Book Launch for War in the Smartphone Age Join us for a lively discussion about war in the smartphone age.

Book launch event: War in the Smartphone Age.
Panel discussion on how smart tech & civilian comms reshape warfare.
In collaboration with @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social

🗓️ 2 July 2025, 18:00 BST
📍 Nash Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, KCL
🎟️ shorturl.at/QC8bE
#WarStudies #KCL #DigitalWarfare

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford.

One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods

We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

Sir Ken Bloomfield was a titanic figure who helped reshape NI in ways unthinkable for our sorry civil service In Northern Ireland’s 104-year history, no bureaucrat had so much influence for so long. It’s unlikely that anyone will ever exert such enduring authority again.

If you live in Northern Ireland & don’t know about Sir Ken Bloomfield, you should – because you live in what he substantially shaped. His lot was to play on a tough wicket, but he racked up runs. Sir Ken's record now reproaches a floundering civil service.

📣 ‼️ REMINDER ‼️ 📣

Abstracts are due 30 June!

All the details are below ⬇️

British Academy announces 5million investment from Wellcome to turbocharge support for early career researchers The British Academy welcomes an investment of £5million from Wellcome, to launch a unique Leadership and Advancement SHAPE programme for researchers in the early stages of their careers. The funding s...

Large and richly appreciated rays of sunshine for UK SHAPE (Arts, Humanities & Social Science disciplines) at a time when grim news in our sector has become normative.

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OUP's new AI editorial assistant will help in the 'assessment' of manuscripts, apparently. This strikes me as a very bad idea. Peer review is something academics do for free as a service to their discipline, and last time I checked 'Alchemist Review' is not my scholarly peer.

Monday morning.

The paperback version of my book has arrived, is now available. 🙌 😮‍💨

www.cambridge.org/es/universit...