Tomás Irish

Hey... our July titles in Modern History are all #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓

Available from 29 July, these books are new in our @sshmedicine.bsky.social & Cultural History of Modern War series.

Feat. @sarahcrook.bsky.social, Joel Morley & more.

Ground-breaking research, completely free.

Congratulations @simonajohn.bsky.social, @tomasirish.bsky.social, Hannah Lyons, and the contributors! We're looking forward to seeing the volume when it's in print.

Submitted to the publisher this morning: 'Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments', edited by myself, @tomasirish.bsky.social and Hannah Lyons. Could also have been titled 'Colston Five Years On' @swanseahistory.bsky.social

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Delighted with the latest review of Feeding the Mind, this time by Daniel Gorman in the Journal of Modern History who calls it 'an impressive work of transnational history.'

doi.org/10.1086/735207

doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs

#History #AcademicSky History PhDs/ECRs: working on an article? We are running a workshop on 'Writing History Articles' @histassoc.bsky.social in London on 19 Sept. See below for details, deadline 20 Aug. Some (limited) travel support available.
www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Worldwide interest expected as 19th-century Irish census records recovered and put online Almost all 19th-century census records were destroyed but some have been recovered as part of the Virtual Treasury project

Worldwide interest expected as 19th-century Irish census records recovered and put online

At what point can I say that I'm big in Japan?

My reading for the weekend arrived

We do have a 1798 Street in Wexford (often called 98 Street) which has, according to local lore, apparently confused American tourists in the past who were wondering where 97th street was.

I'm thrilled with Michael Barnett's generous review of Feeding the Mind in the June issue of the American Historical Review which you can find here: academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

I'm thrilled with Michael Barnett's generous review of Feeding the Mind in the June issue of the American Historical Review which you can find here: academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

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...

Thanks so much for the kind words, Adrienn!

I couldn't wait, so I grabbed the hardback when it was out. For everyone else who's looking into the post WWI intellectual life, it's a must.

This undergradute essay prize is still open for applications! We strongly recommend any academics who are supervising students on work that relates to the First World War, take a look at the details and pass them on!

New online resources on the diplomatic conference that led to the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions in 1977 (in various languages!) #ArchivesAreAccessible #Archivesweek2025

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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)

Feeding the Mind Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Feeding the Mind

Feeding the Mind is now available in paperback and you can get 20% off using the code HIST1925.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Feeding the Mind Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Feeding the Mind

Feeding the Mind is now available in paperback and you can get 20% off using the code HIST1925.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Children, young people and the League of Nations in interwar Britain* Abstract. This article asks how the League of Nations, and its supporters in Britain, sought to mobilize young people c.1918–39. How did children and young

Myself and Susannah Wright have a new article out published open access about children, young people and the League of Nations. It explores how the League sought to appeal to young people and sources that suggest how young people experienced their contact with the League doi.org/10.1093/hisr...

@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site "New Voices" for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post in English on any aspect of European history (and its empires) since 1914? Contact cehnewvoices@gmail.com or see: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...

Exciting news: Feeding the Mind is now available in paperback for £29.99 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social !

Read more about it here: cambridgeblog.org/2023/10/rebu...

www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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

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...

@susannahwright.bsky.social

Children, young people and the League of Nations in interwar Britain* Abstract. This article asks how the League of Nations, and its supporters in Britain, sought to mobilize young people c.1918–39. How did children and young

Myself and Susannah Wright have a new article out published open access about children, young people and the League of Nations. It explores how the League sought to appeal to young people and sources that suggest how young people experienced their contact with the League doi.org/10.1093/hisr...

Congratulations!