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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Book review editors monitor new publications, select important new books to review, commission reviewers and liaise with publishers to procure review copies, as well as supervising the publication of the finished review.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We are now recruiting two Book Review Editors! Together they will oversee the publication of circa 90 reviews each year, covering multiple languages, to ensure that First World War Studies keeps its readers up to date on all the important international scholarship

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We are recruiting new Associate Editors! First World War Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the International Society for First World War Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, is seeking to expand its editorial team.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A full position description is available here: www.linkedin.com/posts/first-... If you would like additional information, or to have an informal chat about the role, please contact Vanda Wilcox at vwilcox AT johncabot DOT edu Please circulate widely!

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We also aim to promote diversity in both geographical location and research expertise. Therefore, we would particularly welcome applications from with expertise on regions currently underserved in our team such as the Ottoman Empire or Asia.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

but qualified non-native speakers are very welcome to apply. We seek to maintain a diverse and international editorial team with a range of scholarly interests. We welcome applications from scholars who work in the arts, cultural studies, or social sciences as well as from historians.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Associate editors oversee the peer-review process, liaising with reviewers and authors under the guidance of the Editors-in-Chief. The usual term of service is three years, renewable once. As the journal is published in English, editorial work requires a high level of linguistic competence,

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At present the journal has two Editors-in-Chief – Daniel Steinbach and Vanda Wilcox – who work alongside a team of Associate Editors and Book Review Editors. We are currently seeking to recruit three new Associate Editors.

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John Paul Newman @johnpaulnewman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A pleasure to watch this great research come to fruition! A major intervention into disability history in East-Central Europe 👏

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm organising a Remembrance Lecture on Mon 9 November at Edinburgh Napier's Craiglockhart Campus- as a War Hospital, this was where Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon met. This year David Goldie will talk about Scottish Poetry of the First World War. Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MTEHXf41Mf

The ubiquitous photo of the staff, nurses and patients of the Craiglockhart War Hospital on the lawn outside the historic front of the building, from 1917. The men are in their khaki uniforms, with hats, and the women are in their nurses's uniforms and headdresses, flowing white.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

if you teach the FWW regularly - and actually whatever area of history, literature or cultural studies you teach in - you will find inspiration, practical suggestions, thoughtful reflections & ideas for rejuvenating your syllabi and your teaching practice here #HigherEd #Teaching #Academia

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

ranging from secondary/high school teaching to PME, this collection explores 21st teaching of the First World War in a huge range of contexts and approaches (theatre and dance, poetry, literature, humour, cinema; but also politics, strategic decision-making local history, digital methods)

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Our huge double Special Issue, 17:1/2, is out now! Teaching the First World War for the Twenty-First Century – Pedagogies in Dialogue, eds Susan Grayzel, Ann-Marie Einhaus & @teachlearnwar.bsky.social has no fewer than 10 paired explorations of teaching the FWW www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfww20/c...

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Teaching the First World War for the Twenty-First Century – Pedagogies in Dialogue; Guest editors: Ann-Marie Einhaus, Susan R. Grayzel and Catriona Pennell. Volume 17, Issue 1-2 of First World War Studies

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Damien Accoulon @daccoulon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Happy to share my reading of Robert Rennie's "Germany's First World War Aviators" for @fwwsjournal.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social 👉 [the first 50 clicks are free!] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Germany’s First World War Aviators: The Lives of Fliers

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Fogarty commends Tinsley's sophisticated analysis, showing how the past often defies conventional expectations of who actually belongs to the nation. Read the full review here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1947... #WWI #Histodons #MemoryStudies #ColonialHistory

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Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary: Making Melancholia

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Conversely, "melancholia" refuses to ignore the exploitation inherent in colonialism, destabilising the notion of the nation itself by highlighting both historical and present racism.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Fogarty explores Tinsley’s taxonomy of recent centenary commemorations in Britain and France: mourning, mobilisation, and melancholia. He notes that "mourning" and "mobilisation" often obscure colonial violence to support dominant national narratives.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How do we remember colonial soldiers? In today's featured book review, Richard S. Fogarty reviews Meghan Tinsley’s "Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary: Making Melancholia".

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The review highlights fascinating contrasts, noting that rebuilding the German community was harder in France than in Britain due to deep-seated hostility dating back to 1870. Read the full review here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1947... #WWI #Histodons #MigrationHistory #BookReview

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Deutsche Minderheiten in Frankreich und Großbritannien: Im Niemandsland der Identität zwischen 1914 und 1924

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Rather than relying on government archives, the study brilliantly utilizes diaries, correspondence and personal narratives to capture the individual experiences of internees and civilians navigating a hostile environment.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Panayi praises the book for extending its timeline to 1924, allowing it to explore the continued marginalisation of these communities and their struggles with accelerated integration and post-war rebuilding.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

What happens to migrants when their homeland becomes the enemy? In today's book review, Panikos Panayi reviews Mathis J. Gronau’s Deutsche Minderheiten in Frankreich und Großbritannien, a comparative look at German minorities during and after WWI.

The book cover for "Deutsche Minderheiten in Frankreich und Großbritannien: Im Niemandsland der Identität zwischen 1914 und 1924" by Mathis J. Gronau. The top half features the author's name and the title in bold blue text against a light blue background. The bottom half features a sketchy, watercolor-style illustration of a figure standing behind a barbed-wire fence, looking out over a green landscape under a cloudy sky. Cursive handwriting is scrawled across the bottom right, and the De Gruyter Oldenbourg publisher logos appear in the corners.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Finkelstein calls the richly illustrated book a beautiful "cross between an exhibit catalogue and a traditional scholarly book". Read her full review here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1947... #WWI #Histodons #WomensHistory #BookReview #GenderStudies

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Cutting a New Pattern: Uniformed Women in the Great War

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Importantly, the review highlights the book's focus on civilian women who served outside the official armed forces; a key demographic when so many were still "barred from official admittance into the military".

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Finkelstein praises this "transnational history and analysis" for exploring how uniforms "both catalyzed and symbolized" the massive transformation of women's societal roles across the globe.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

How did women's uniforms reshape society during the Great War? In today's featured book review, Allison S. Finkelstein reviews the interdisciplinary "Cutting a New Pattern Uniformed Women in the Great War", edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining.

The book cover for "Cutting a New Pattern: Uniformed Women in the Great War". The top half features a historical black-and-white photograph of three women in military-style uniforms. One woman is driving a motorcycle with a sidecar, while the woman seated in the sidecar aims a large mounted gun towards the sky. The bottom half features a black background with the main title "CUTTING A NEW PATTERN" in gold text, the subtitle "UNIFORMED WOMEN IN THE GREAT WAR" in smaller white text, and the authors "BARTON C. HACKER AND MARGARET VINING" in small gold text at the bottom.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The article highlights striking double standards. British leaders viewed Italian politicians as "devious" for pursuing national interests, and generals frequently dismissed Italian intelligence as "alarmist" only to have it proved correct.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In "The problematic ally", Mockaitis examines how British statesmen and generals held Italy in "low regard because of racial attitudes" and a profound ignorance of the harsh conditions under which Italian soldiers fought.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The 26th of April marks the anniversary of the Treaty of London, which brought Italy into the First World War. But was the alliance truly an equal partnership? @drmockaitis.bsky.social explores this fraught dynamic in this featured article.

A promotional graphic. The background features a muted, historical photograph of four men in formal attire standing outside a building, with the two men on the left engaged in conversation. At the top, a dark banner reads "The Problematic Ally" with the subtitle "Italy, Britain and the Entente" directly below it. In the bottom right corner, a brown rounded text box reads "By Thomas R. Mockaitis".

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Yanıkdağ contextualises these deportations—which ultimately resulted in a "genocide through cumulative radicalisation"—within an era where the "state of 'exception' was not the exception but the norm."

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Rather than just detailing the timeline, the article focuses on legal frameworks and state necessity. The state was able to "conflate internal and external threats in order to collectively punish a significant portion of its population during the war."

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Yanıkdağ examines how the Ottoman leadership proceeded against Armenians "under cover of the exigencies and emergengies of the First World War," and how the population was "constructed as an internal threat to the survival of the state."

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Today marks the anniversary of the events of 24 April 1915, when the arrest of Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul triggered the onset of the Armenian Genocide. But how were such actions justified in law? @yanikdag.bsky.social explores this in our latest issue.

A promotional graphic for First World War Studies. The background features a muted, antique map of the Ottoman Empire. At the top, a dark grey banner with white text reads the main title: "Ottoman and Turkish Exception(alism)", with a subtitle below it reading "States of Exception in Turkey, 1909–1927". In the bottom left corner, a rounded grey box reads "By Yücel Yanıkdağ".

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The article notes that this poor diet "depleted the immune systems of previously healthy men," leaving the vast majority of the Anzacs highly vulnerable to the "infectious diseases spread by the plague of summer flies."

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

In "‘As fit as fiddles’ and ‘as weak as kittens’", Wishart details the "logistically complex" provision of sustenance on the peninsula, exploring the "physical and psychological effects of a monotonous, un-nutritious diet."

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Today marks the anniversary of the Gallipoli landings. While much debate focuses on military strategy, Alison Wishart’s article in First World War Studies examines a frequently overlooked factor in the campaign: the role of food and water.

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Damien Accoulon @daccoulon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It is my pleasure to share with you my reading of Rémy Cazals' "Écrire… Publier… Réflexions sur les témoignages de 1914–1918" for @fwwsjournal.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Écrire … Publier … Réflexions sur les témoignages de 1914–1918

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The article traces how official responses shifted from initial "shock and condemnation to acceptance and development," placing the nation under "constant pressure to justify its actions" in using a highly contentious weapon.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Mellodew argues that the "British fighting character was shaped by the use of poisonous gas." He explores how British soldiers came to see themselves in a "vastly different light" following their own adoption of a "demonised 'German' weapon."

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Second Battle of Ypres marked the introduction of poisonous gas to the Western Front. We mark the anniversary of this event, with Joseph Mellodew's "Searching for morality: British justifications for poisonous gas on the Western Front, 1915−18".

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Concluding that it is a "refreshing, insightful and much-needed monograph," Heath highly recommends the book for those interested in the intersections of religion and conflict. Read his full review here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1947... #WWI #Histodons #MilitaryHistory #ReligiousHistory

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A Church at War: MacKay Presbyterian Church, New Edinburgh, and the First World War

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