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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If you are interested in purchasing a copy of The Cambridge Companion to the Western Front then the code LLOYD2026 will get you a 20% discount via the CUP website - meaning it is a steal at £20. bit.ly/3QuLFyX #History #FirstWorldWar #WesternFront

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I am very excited that the Cambridge Companion to the Western Front - edited by Nick Lloyd - will be published in July. My contribution covers morale and the experience of the trenches. It was a (rewarding) challenge to try and synthesise such a complex topic across multiple armies.

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Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Advertising 2 more positions (doc/postdoc) as part of BLOCKADE. PhD cand to examine the heroization of blockade runners in the era of the world wars; postdoc to explore the transatlantic dimension of blockades. 4 year positions in beautiful Freiburg. Please SHARE! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

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LSE Department of International History @lsehy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

On Wednesday 1 April, @alexmayhew.bsky.social took a group of our students from the HY4C1 course on a walking tour of various war memorials in central London. Many thanks to Dr Mayhew for taking the time out - the students certainly appreciated the outing. #students #history #lse

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

A two year position in our department. Teaching - US and the World since 1776 (UG); Limited War during the Cold War (Korea and Vietnam) (PG); and Presidents and Foreign Policy (Roosevelt to Reagan). Supervision - UG and PG dissertations. Pay - minimum of £43,227. Deadline - 30th April.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Prefer to watch the presentation? The full video of the lecture, filmed on location at the National Army Museum, is available to watch on the Society’s YouTube channel: youtu.be/nP_dsoZUwrI?...

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Dennis Showalter Lecture 2023 by Alex Mayhew: 'The First World War and the Experience of Crisis'

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Today, we are thrilled to publish the very FIRST transcript from this prize series! Delivered by @alexmayhew.bsky.social at the @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social in London, his insightful lecture summarises his recent book on the Great War.

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Yesterday I took a group of our first year UG HY120 students to the UK’s National Archives for their final optional archive trip of the year. At the TNA, we had an interactive workshop led by several of the TNA’s records specialists - including Dr. William Butler and Dr. Elizabeth Haines.

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Thank you Nicoletta Gullace for this close - and positive - review of my book. '... it adds greatly to the military history of morale during the First World War, offering new insights into Englishness, subjecthood and ... belief systems ...' Available online now for £29.99, or £26-28 on Amazon!

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Making Sense of the Great War

Cambridge Core - Military History - Making Sense of the Great War

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Thank you to Justin for introducing another batch of our students to some of the fascinating materials in the National Army Museum archive! It’s become an annual feature of our first year module Historical Approaches to the Modern World.

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

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York History Department - Academic Jobs

Uncover the past to define the future. We are seeking research-led historians to join our world-class, collaborative community. Discover career-defining opportunities within one of the UK’s most disti...

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LSE Department of International History @lsehy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Alongside Dr Leo Shipp, our first-year undergraduates visited the LSE Archives as part of their module HY120: Historical Approaches to the Modern World. Dr Gillian Murphy introduced them to some of the jewels from the LSE collections. #students #fieldtrip #history #lse

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Thank you Mark for this generous review. It is a relief to know that somebody has read it cover-to-cover! If anybody wants to buy it - or even better add it to their course's reading list - you can find it @universitypress.cambridge.org and online. #HistoryBooks #MilitaryHistory #FirstWorldWar

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Making Sense of the Great War

Cambridge Core - Military History - Making Sense of the Great War

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This looks like a fascinating article. I have a whole chapter on how hopes for - and visions of - peace sustained soldiers during the First World War. See below if the Clarke et al. piece sparks your interest in how perceptions of the future inflect the experience of conflict. bit.ly/3MAHZJY

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Hoping for Peace (Chapter 5) - Making Sense of the Great War

Making Sense of the Great War - April 2024

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

On 26 March, I am speaking at my second IHR seminar of the academic year - this time at @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social. It is only the second time I will be presenting something from one of my new projects so please do come along as I am desperate for feedback, ideas, suggestions, and thoughts!

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Sensemaking and Violence in Britain’s Mesopotamia Campaign during the First World War

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The gap between gloom-ridden public perception and reality in the UK has now opened up like a Grand Canyon-style chasm. I personally don't see any way of bridging it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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London’s murder rate drops to lowest in more than a decade

Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world

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Mark Jones @mark18681918.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Very much enjoying my planned reading on this snowy (fortunately in my case non-working) Friday. My first academic read of the year is a book I've been looking forward to reading for a long time. I'm a chapter in, and @alexmayhew.bsky.social's "Making Sense of the... #HistBookChat #Skystorians

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Nick Jenkins @nickjhistorian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I got the birthday present I really wanted. Thanks, Lili and Mark! @alexmayhew.bsky.social

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Quite a forward curatorial instruction in a Portuguese archaeological museum.

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We drew on the collection of @historians.org essays analysing the film by Santanu Das, Susan Grayzel, @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social, and Catherine Robson. Students were drawn to the soundscape and narrative but queried the silences and omissions. All agreed it was an impressive piece of cinema!

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This week our First Years are thinking about how to build microhistories of the Silvertown Explosion in 1917. I am excited about this one: '... the Germans become a convenient, politically motivated space goat - linking to broader political trends of state and elite aversion of responsibility.' 🐐🐐

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This is incredibly sad. I met Tim for the first and only time over the summer whilst doing research at the Canadian War Museum. For someone so senior (and busy) he was incredibly generous with his time: took me for a coffee, discussed his research, and enquired about mine. A real loss.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Here's the first sighting of Songs of Seven Dials in a real life actual bookshop - Foyles in Charing Cross Road. My anxiety levels just went up a notch. At this rate I'll be a complete wreck by tomorrow. #London #history #20s30s

A row of books on the shelves at Foyles bookshop in Charing Cross Road, London. there are six copies of Matt Houlbrook's latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London on the top shelf.

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles

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LSE Department of International History @lsehy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Join us on Tuesday 14 October for Dr Jake Subryan Richards' book release event, "The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans & the End of The Slave Trade". See here for full event details and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa... #event #slavery #slavetrade #africa #history #LSE

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social. Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

An advertising banner for Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials: An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London. The banner includes an image of the front cover of the book (a blue map on a pink background) and a blurb from the historian Julia Laite, which describes Songs of Seven Dials as 'a poetic exploration of London's most iconic neighbourhoods'.

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Tickets available via the link to sign up, great range of speakers on everything from slavery to remembrance and pageantry to stokers - full programme here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

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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

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Thank you @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social for publishing this detailed review of my book. Have a read and remember that you can purchase globally from Cambridge University Press (bit.ly/4l1M5Gu), Amazon (amzn.to/4mZKaEm), and other vendors. I recently saw it in the wild!

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

My new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London is part of @waterstones.bsky.social summer promotion this week - 25% off pre-orders by entering SUMMER25 at the checkout. www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o... #WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials

Waterstones' promotional flyer for Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London. The flyer includes an image of the book and the discount code you can use to preorder it on the Waterstones website: SUMMER25

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

After several weeks in Canada, I have got my hands on my author copies of Making Sense of the Great War. Mark Jones (@mark18681918.bsky.social) was chosen at random to receive one for free! You can buy it for £23.99 using the code HIST2425: bit.ly/4mYM08h. #History #HistoryBooks #FirstWorldWar

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

What a wonderful day of discussion and collaboration at 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' workshops we had contributors from four continents and different disciplines talking about a wide and varied range of archives +contexts. Learned so much and I can see so much scope for future collaboration

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I had a wonderful time in the archive room of the Canadian Great War Centre in Montreal yesterday. Most of my time was spent looking through their postcard collection. However, I also saw their (no longer) radioactive wrist watch collection and a painting of Arthur Currie by John Singer Sargent.

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I really want to read this!!! Since I am teaching a class on the World Wars this autumn, it's high up on my reading list!!!! 🗃️📌 #firstworldwar ‪@alexmayhew.bsky.social

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Bradley Busch @handle.invalid · 18/06/2025

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

📣Out now on #firstview! Andrew Halladay (‪@lsehy.bsky.social) on 'Internationalism, Empire, and the Early Esperanto Movement in India' #Language #Community #Transnational 🗣️ 🗃️ 20thc 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Off to Canada - well Montreal and Ottawa - for research at the end of this week. If anybody has any recommendations for things to do in both cities around my archive work then these would be very welcome!

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Today is publication day for the paperback edition of my monograph Making Sense of the Great War at £29.99 (or cheaper via Amazon). Though I am yet to receive my author copies, I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and shares this. Find it here: bit.ly/4l1M5Gu

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International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Everyone at the International Society is hugely saddened to have heard this news.

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Tomás Irish @tomasirish.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Feeding the Mind is now available in paperback and you can get 20% off using the code HIST1925. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

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Feeding the Mind

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

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I could not be prouder of our two THIRD YEAR UNDERGRADUATES for this achievement. Many scholars never publish in the Historical Journal. Pip and Noah are off to Oxford to begin their postgraduate studies next year. They are two young historians to keep an eye on!

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I was not particularly happy with my MA module this year. So I ripped it up and started again. The course attempts to be transnational and to balance different approaches to the FWW. Would you add or remove anything? I have a reading list, but is there any new scholarship you would recommend?

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