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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

The paperback is only £25, which is a steal for an academic book. It is available via the @universitypress.cambridge.org and other online outlets including Amazon. bit.ly/3QuLFyX

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

Other chapters cover important themes including war planning, technology and tactics, colonial experiences, command, occupation, poetry, and memory. Having had the opportunity to read the proofs, I am confident that I will be using many of these brilliant essays in my teaching next year.

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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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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thanks, James! Glad you enjoyed it / are enjoying it!

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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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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This just came up on my timeline for some reason - glad you enjoyed it, Paul.

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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

In the workshops, students were able to engage with materials spanning colonial Ireland, the First World War, Africa and the Second World War, communism in the British Empire, and decolonization in SE Asia. The adventure was kindly funded by a generous @edenlse.bsky.social Catalyst Grant.

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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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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

A brilliant piece documentary film making.

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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 · 14/02/2026

I wish I had the confidence to write the introduction to Alex Watson’s Morale in the First World War: Comparative Perspectives all the way back in 2014!

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

A student of mine recently reference a chapter by me that I never authored in a book that doesn’t exist…

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

Congratulations, David. As a lover of all things microhistory I cannot wait to read this.

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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 · 30/01/2026

Officers in particular brought a huge amount of cultural baggage to Mesopotamia (and elsewhere): their reading of the classics, portrayals of the Orient in literature, and their imperial identities. Working class soldiers interpreted the world differently. What article have you just read?

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Thanks for the question, Paul! Primarily using a mixture of ego-documents (so: letters, diaries, but also postcards, soldiers' guidebooks, memoirs, notebooks) and cross referencing this with institutional documents (unit diaries, for instance). There was certainly some with internal colonialism.

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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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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Whilst I don’t set the price - and would rather it was much cheaper - it’s now £27.59 on Amazon, which is much better than the hardback. Alas this is what one suffers when with an academic press. Either way, I hope you find some way to read it at some stage, Roger - even if it is second hand!

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Looking forward to your thoughts!

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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 amazing auto correct was part of an otherwise excellent idea for a project, but I assume any further research will be sadly lacking in space goats). If you want to find out more on the Silvertown Explosion the Museum of London produced an excellent short video about the event.

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The Silvertown explosion of 1917

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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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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

That is a shame. It’s never a very high % of the overall grade but I think it is good for students to know that choices have consequences across the academic year. Equally, we are being steered back towards in person assessment and this is one way to ensure this doesn’t simply mean in person exams.

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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Whilst I don’t like it, it has been a class participation mark - there is a consequence for non-completion of work. This combined with specific questions or tasks that require a close engagement with the readings. I am also introducing a (very small) penalty for failing to submit formative work.

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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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