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@mahonmurphy.bsky.social
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First World War Historian based at Kyoto University Japan. Also dabble in a bit of Popular Culture Studies on the side.

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Looking forward to reading Chima Korieh's edited volume Fighting for the Empire: Colonialism and Mobilization in Africa in the World Wars and you should too as it is open access lup.be/book/fightin...
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Fighting for the Empire | Leuven University Press
How African societies influenced the two major global conflicts of the 20th century. The First and Second World Wars were pivotal events in modern global history. Although colonial empires were involu...
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Fabrice Riceputi @campvolant.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Le site histoirecoloniale.net est sans équivalent. 4000 articles, 2 éditions par mois, une information rigoureuse sur l'histoire coloniale et ses héritages. Mais il a un coût. Pour continuer, il a besoin de vous. Abonnez-vous pour 3 euros par mois. histoirecoloniale.net/abonnez-vous...
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I'll be chipping in on the study of Global History at Oxford U's Transnational and Global History Seminar on 1 June:
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Seibu Kodo at Kyoto University knows how to throw a party
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Very pleased to recieve a copy of Christian Goeschel’s and Daniel Hedinger’s new book on Munich 1938, an excellent example of what academic collaboration born in Kyoto can produce! @drgoeschel.bsky.social @danielhedinger.bsky.social
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Timely publication on de Valera and Irish neutrality during the Second World War by Koseki Takashi who is also celebrating his retirement from Kyoto University today
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Going to be talking about punk rock and Kyoto on 16 March as part of the Kyoto lectures series. Come join me in person or online
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Just got a copy this week, one chapter in and am thoroughly enjoying it so far.
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Happy birthday to me. A mug for a mug.
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Discussing Orientalism and Nihonjinron via the medium of Street Fighter II knockout tournament with my students this morning
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
JSPS visiting fellowship to Japan?
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Ordered a copy and it arrived last week much to my delight
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Very good, was great with a guide but enough signage for it all to make sense
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Did you take the Decolonial city tour? www.dekolonialestadtfuehrung.de I did it in August, well worth a go
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Home - Dekoloniale Stadtführung
Alle Touren Komm mit auf unsere Touren in Berlin und finde heraus, wie der Kolonialismus unsere Städte und Gesellschaften bis heute prägt. Buche deine individuelle Stadtführung – als Einzelperson, im ...
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María Inés Tato @mariainestato.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
It is with great joy that I share the news of the publication of "At the Periphery of a World War?," a collective book that I coordinate with Ana Paula Pires and Jan Schmidt, under @Campusverlag More info at www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
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At the Periphery of a World War?, ein Buch von Maria Inés Tato, Ana Paula Pires, Jan Schmidt - Campus Verlag
Maria Inés Tato, Ana Paula Pires, Jan Schmidt: At the Periphery of a World War? - Urban Experiences of the First World War in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and South Europe
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Dear Bongo, no.
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Lunch time noise at the Les Rallizes Denudes exhibit
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🥂Eine freudige Nachricht! Unser Sammelband zum kolonialen Erbe der Stadt Hamburg ist nun auch als Open Access erhältlich und kann unter nachfolgender Adresse kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. 🥂 Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...
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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
We’re proud to highlight Jiang Zizheng, an early career researcher in history at Kyoto University, who has a particular interest in Japan's racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference whose work discusses how questions of race, diplomacy, shaped China’s diplomatic position.
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Former student came to my office to ask advice about studying abroad and to inform me that he and his colleagues enjoyed my popular classes last semester, except for the bits of the class where I was talking…
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Had to get the scissors and glue to make a collage for my lecture on the history of punk in Kyoto at Club Metro last night
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Some fascinating images of the involvement of Belgian colonial subjects in the East Africa campaign of the First World War. These and other images are available to consult here uurl.kbr.be/bib/16923934
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This little guy should have been in bed but he stayed up to find out about the Heimei Maru Incident at the ISFWWS conference @fwwsoc.bsky.social
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I’m planning to do a lesson on for my popular class to discuss cross over styles from anime. I very much felt the generation gap when watching it, much like people’s dads must have felt when Elvis first appeared on telly
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I’ll be speaking about the history of punk rock in Kyoto at this year’s Kyoto Experiment festival. Very pleased with the headshot they are using to advertise it kyoto-ex.jp/en/program/p...
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
He did quite a few sketches on Italy’s involvement too.
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Feels like my birthday, just got Ito Chuta’s 5 vol Book of Ashura (1921). 500 sketches of the FWW with slipcovers. As I’m going the ISFWWS conf soon, here is his impression of the French army arriving in Salonica. I’m planning to translate all captions if I live long enough. @fwwsoc.bsky.social
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
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Post-Doctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract), Department of History, Maynooth University | University Vacancies Ireland
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/7852 Nice! Here’s more pictures of Japanese Canadians for your collection! Sachimaro Morooka wrote a lengthy memoir ‘On to the Arras Front: A Japanese Canadian Soldier in the FWW’ which was republished a few years ago cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1971712...
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Lives of the First World War
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
They are surprisingly thorough which is again a plus and a minus
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
It’s great, but has sadly made it much more difficult for me to justify a trip to Geneva to my university admin!
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Can you add me please?
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Back from a trip to Germany, picked up some good reads to tide me over till next visit
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
You’ve sold at least two copies of the book here, one to me and one to our library, if you can get beyond Kyoto we might consider you nationwide
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
My reading for the weekend arrived
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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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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It exists! I finally got my unboxing moment today! A short article to introduce my book Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War. Available for pre-order now. www.linkedin.com/pulse/emigra...
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Delighted to share details of the upcoming hybrid workshop 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' to be held in Maynooth on June 25. This is part of the COLVET project funded by @erc.europa.eu You will find a draft schedule and details for registration here. Please join us on the day and share widely
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Life in 2030 E McKnight Kauffer (1930)
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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Issue 15:3 of First World War Studies is out now! Featuring four research articles (of which 2 are OA) and more than 30 book reviews covering a huge range of languages, countries & topics! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfww20/1...
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First World War Studies
Volume 15, Issue 3 of First World War Studies
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
‘The Dynamics of East Asian Politics and Diplomacy in the 1920s: The Intersection of International Cooperation and Imperial Expansion’ edited by Sogo Kazutaka, and with a small contribution by me, out now and free to download from the Aisa Japan Research Insitiute www.ritsumei.ac.jp/research/aji...
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AJI Booksシリーズ|アジア・日本研究所アジア日本研究所
アジア日本研究所ー次世代研究大学をめざして、さらなるアジア・日本研究の発展のために。
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Felicity Jensz @fjensz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
My new article is now out on various experiences of internment during WWI in German East Africa. Thanks to Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser for putting the (forthcoming) issue together academic.oup.com/gh/advance-a...
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Making Enemies: British and German Missionary Personnel in East African Internment Camps during the First World War*
Abstract. During the First World War, German and British citizens in British and German colonies in East Africa were placed in internment camps. Men, women
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
If anyone is in Tokyo on 29 May then please join me and a host of others more qualified than me at Sophia University to discuss the passing of Japan's Peace Preservation Law in 1925 in light of its centenary. See attached for details;
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
so good, I have two copies
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It's a great week for FWW research, one of our finest former PhD Students at Kyodai, (Dr since March this year!) Jiang Zizheng's article on Rethinking China's attitude towards Japan's Racial Equality Proposal is now published online in FWW Studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rethinking China’s Support for the Japanese Racial Equality Proposal at the Paris Peace Conference
The Great Powers’ rejection of Japan’s racial equality proposal to the Covenant of the League of Nations at the Paris Peace Conference set the tone for the post-First World War order. From the East...
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Wartime Internment as a Global Practice and Experience 1914-1945 (Pt 1) is online and open access in Immigrants and Minorities. It includes Marina Arcos de Perez and my paper on Germans in Cameroon during the FWW. Pt 2 coming in July! @fwwsoc.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/fimm20/4...
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Immigrants & Minorities
Wartime Internment as a Global Practice and Experience, 1914–1945. Part I: Camps in Spatial Contexts; Guest Editor Names: Arnd Bauerkämper, Dina Gusejnova and Marina Pérez de Arcos. Volume 43, Issue 1 of Immigrants & Minorities
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
That should be FWWers of course
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Attn FFWers, the archives of the European War Office in Spain are fully digitized, you probably know of them from Marina Perez de Arcos’ amazing work. They are also shortlisted for UNESCO recognition this year: archivos.patrimonionacional.es/index.php/de... @fwwsoc.bsky.social
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Oficina de la Guerra Europea - Patrimonio Nacional
Además de los expedientes generales y la correspondencia oficial y particular relacionada con la I Guerra Mundial, en el Archivo se conservan más d...
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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
You would enjoy Sven Saaler's book 'Men in Metal' (2020) on bronze statues in Japan, he dedicates quite a lot of it to how sculpt horses.
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