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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Everyone has those research projects they're desperate to have done, but don't particularly want to add to the decade-ish of current (and fantastical) pipeline... right? Anyway, if anyone wants to research close air support in Burma.... I'd buy the book

Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Delighted to be presenting at Northamptonshire’s Western Front Association this coming Thursday (9th October) about the Battle of Jaroslawice, 21 August 1914. The talk is at 1930 at: The Lecture Theatre Church Rooms Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Church Lane off Sheep Street Northampton NN1 3NL

Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I hold it as a source of pride that the first time I am setting foot in the sports hall after five years of studying at Brunel is on graduation day

Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Back at the TNA! Different angle this week to keep things interesting

Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

My two archive highlights for the day….

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Returning to AIR 1 files after six years and realising just how much I’ve been spoiled by the WO series Take me back War Office, I didn’t mean it when I said you had inconsistent theatre categorisations

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It’s 04:22 am and this deserves a repost.

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Decided to write a few words about First World War cavalry and the latest development in Ukraine www.drjameshalstead.co.uk/index.php/20...

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Mobility, Shock, and Firepower: Motorcycles, Horses, and the Fallacies of Obsolescence – Dr James Halstead, phd

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This week I have been writing both my SWWRG paper, and a best man speech and I’m absolutely thrilled at the possibility of mixing them up

Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

If someone could make an AI that categorises, lists, and organises all my archival photos instead of me spending three working days on it, instead of making bad, plagiarised pictures then I’d be most grateful

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A fantastic week exploring the Monte Cassino battlefields.

Monte Cassino Monastery viewed from Point 593

Snakehead ridge and Monte Cassino viewed from Mont Belvedere

James Taub @taubhistory.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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In this week’s episode of NSQ, we return to a well-known battlefield, but look at it with a perspective that remains unknown in the Anglophone world. Join us as we explore the story of the French Army in the Battle of the #Somme. not-so-quiet.com/supporters/a...

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Episode 71: French on the Somme (Ad Free)

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

As I’ve now got the website set up…. I thought I’d share my first two blogs www.drjameshalstead.co.uk/index.php/20...

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Structuring complex research projects – Dr James Halstead, phd

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I was wondering what the ARC Wimbledon tickets were reminding me of then I realised… they seem to be ressurecting a bit of Austria-Hungary

Nigel Atter MSc PgCert BA(Hons) @nigatt59.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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World book day - these might be of interest to followers of FWW military history

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Excited to get stuck into this volume… although first I’ve got some more market garden research to finish off in preparation for acting as a control for stone paper scissors megagame next month

Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A fantastic weekend spent at SAHR’s Land Forces of the Crown conference in Leeds. Too many great papers to name here but a very interesting weekend. It was great to represent the Second World War in a panel on training in North Africa with @meganahamilton.bsky.social and Samuel Wallace too

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Just found a reference I searched for weeks to use on the PhD final draft while preparing my paper for this weekend… better late than never One of those ones I had to take out as I knew I remembered what it said but couldn’t find where I’d read it

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Just had one of thsoe books I enjoyed reading so much that I’m struggling to decide what to read next… mostly because I just want more of it!

George Evans @georgedevans93.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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Enjoyed a fantastic paper from @jtthalstead.bsky.social last night on doctrine within the 'Imperial Army'.

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

There's definitely a German word for the feeling of finding a killer quote for something days after submitting the corrections, right?

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Nick Drage @sonofsuntzu.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I was nodding sagely, so sagely, as I typed this out...

A picture of a statue, commonly regarded as being of the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, alongside the quote "If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him".

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Looking forward to presenting as part of this panel

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Next on the reading pile! After a few years of not reading Second World War in my free time… glad I can finally start again

Wesley Livesay @historyofthesecondworldwar.com · 15/01/2025

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Throwing this over onto the #histbookchat feed as well.

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

First book of 2025 finished: Nick Lloyd’s latest addition to his superb First World War series (having read the Western Front volume over Christmas)

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Not sure if it’s a common post-viva experience but I’ve been struck by about three different plagues / injuries / afflictions at once and wondering if maybe it’s just been stored up from writing up PhD intensely for the last year

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Dr Rory M. Butcher @rmbhistory.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

And we're going to be operating fully hybrid, so you can attend even if you're unable to get there in person!

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I’m so glad I’m not the only person that does this

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I read Wawro’s book on AH in 1914 this time last year and left me torn. On the one hand it was well-researched, but it stripped a lot of the nuance and replaced it with furious diatribes I think this smacks the nail directly on the head when it describes that for Wawro, ‘scorn is the burning guide’

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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Running this out again to see if anyone has any experience with agents and if so whether they might recommend one. Or, alternatively, if they have experience and they are a waste of time unless you’re already established in the “public history” domain.

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I’ve been reading up on the BEF in 1914 and discovering a weird quirk of the First World War literature that we could probably track each British division on the Somme in minute detail… but as soon as we go back to 1914 there’s an allergy to in-depth primary research (or even reading war diaries)

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Dr Rory M. Butcher @rmbhistory.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Well that's some fun news! My first journal article on #18thC history is now here: doi.org/10.1177/0968... I argue that the fencible relationship with authority was fundamentally shaped by their limited service, in how justice was administered *and* how the men engaged with their superiors. /1

Screenshot of an email, which reads "Dear Rory Butcher. Thank you for publishing your article with Sage Publishing and War in History . Your article “A Mutinous Disposition? Discipline and (Dis)order in the Fencible Regiments in Britain and Ireland, 1793–1802” is now published and is available"

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Getting all the self-publication out the way early…. I’ll be speaking at the IHR next month on the topic of my PhD. You can sign up to attend both in person and online here: www.history.ac.uk/events/imper...

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An Imperial Army? Learning and Development at the Operational Level in the British and Indian Armies During the Second World War

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Dr James Halstead @jtthalstead.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Last night I found a great definition in a book I’m reading, thought, ‘great this will work really well for the thesis introduction….’ and then promptly remembered i don’t need to worry about it anymore! Clearly five years of worrying about defining doctrine will take a while to untie….