Chris Kempshall

Front cover of Framing the First World War which features cover art showing CRW Nevinson's Returning to the Trenches.

Table of Contents pt 1 - see https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/ for full details

Table of Contents pt 2 - see https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/ for full details

Delighted to receive my copy of Framing the First World War, a great collection edited by @draefox.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social and @dmorganowen.bsky.social who have put together a broad range of original essays

Yeah I absolutely love it. The pattern is the same as the skylight in the Skywalker Ranch library (I didn’t get to go in on my visit but photos online are amazing).

Give the gift of Beaumont Kin this Christmas

Ah thank you!

Ah thank you!

A Christmas ornament from Skywalker Ranch

The Christmas decoration I couldn’t show people until last year as it would provoke questions about when I’d been to Lucasfilm / Skywalker Ranch and what I was doing there.

I’m afraid it doesn’t look like that’s likely to happen.

Think that’s faded into a resigned sigh now

This www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Noakes... (eBook 🆓) bringing back all the memories as Head of Remembrance at the Royal British Legion working on Lights Out, Everyman Remembered and Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red! @lucynoakes1.bsky.social @teachlearnwar.bsky.social @chriskempshall.bsky.social 👏

Turns out this year I mostly listened to Maarva Andor’s funeral address and Mon Mothma’s Ghorman Speech.

Well that and the endless screaming of my tortured subconscious.

And all you had to do to get them was push him down and steal his trousers.

It was an honour to works alongside my friends and colleagues on this new book. It appears that the PDF version is open-access and can be downloaded now for free. 🗃️

Capturing Commemoration: Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

Publication alert! A collaborative reflection on the UK’s biggest public history event - the centenary of the First World War. Thanks to @ukri.org for funding & my fellow co-authors @lucynoakes1.bsky.social @chriskempshall.bsky.social @lornahughes.bsky.social James Wallis and Emma Hanna.

You mean the 10 top wealth hoarding creeps who are destroying everything they touch. We should stop acting like accumulating wealth is 1. a good accomplishment 2. not destructive as fuck to the rest of us.

The most high energy and masculine of men. You can only dream of this kind of charisma

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Depends on which calendar we’re using…

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/most-ac...

It's new episode day! This month Ann-Marie Einhaus returns and we explore Robert Graves' short story 'Christmas Truce' and the uses of the war for anti-nuclear weapons campaigns!

Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.

I heard there was a secret verse
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya

They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.

This is who MAGA is now.

This is just the TPUSA professor watchlist in a different venue

“If you can’t win on the field you can always play quarterback for the culture war”

aka The Failing at Life-to-MAGA Influencer” pipeline LOL

An electronic sign at Wembley with ‘self esteem’ on it

Never heard of it…

An internet meme. An image ostensibly from a bible lesson about how ‘most people rejected his message. They hated Jesus because he told them the truth’ with a crowd yelling ‘shut up!’ At Jesus

Further indications that America is about to aggressively and illegally invade Venezuela

Before December officially arrives I just want to, once again, reiterate that Muppet Treasure Island is better than Muppet Christmas Carol (with a much better soundtrack) and I don’t care that some of you disagree.

I strongly support supporting indie bookstores!