Chris Campbell
@chriscampbell1.bsky.social
History PhD student, St John's College, Cambridge | Researching the British Council and soft power in the twentieth century
This is a fantastic piece about UCL from Georgina Brewis, which made me reflect on my own four years as a student there. Lots of parallels with exploring London and engaging with topical issues - less so with the bawdy entertainment in taverns...
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
The Godless Students of London University
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February 13, 2026 at 5:41 PM
This is a fantastic piece about UCL from Georgina Brewis, which made me reflect on my own four years as a student there. Lots of parallels with exploring London and engaging with topical issues - less so with the bawdy entertainment in taverns...
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
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Very happy to announce my article is now out with the @historicaljnl.bsky.social! It reviews the current literature on family networks in the British Empire and biographical approaches to writing imperial history
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Imperial Family Biographies and New Approaches to the Family in Histories of the British Empire, c.1650–c.1950 | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
Imperial Family Biographies and New Approaches to the Family in Histories of the British Empire, c.1650–c.1950
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February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Very happy to announce my article is now out with the @historicaljnl.bsky.social! It reviews the current literature on family networks in the British Empire and biographical approaches to writing imperial history
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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“Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable.”
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
The AI Takeover Is Not Inevitable: Now Is the Time to Resist
"Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable."
www.nacbs.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:59 PM
“Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable.”
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
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🇺🇸 The U.S. is actively dismantling its own soft power
“.. a poll of Germans found nearly two-thirds said they wanted to avoid US brands. .. an astounding 83 per cent of Swedes said they were no longer buying US brands.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/3276...
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/3276...
February 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM
🇺🇸 The U.S. is actively dismantling its own soft power
Media outlets are still giving airtime to that Microsoft report on AI and the workplace, even though its methods and conclusions are so crude... and they're also not balancing it with any of the report's critiques.
This was published yesterday:
fortune.com/article/what...
This was published yesterday:
fortune.com/article/what...
Microsoft researchers have revealed the 40 jobs most exposed to AI—and even teachers make the list | Fortune
Sorry, Gen Z: AI is coming for safe and secure teaching jobs, as well as grad roles.
fortune.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Media outlets are still giving airtime to that Microsoft report on AI and the workplace, even though its methods and conclusions are so crude... and they're also not balancing it with any of the report's critiques.
This was published yesterday:
fortune.com/article/what...
This was published yesterday:
fortune.com/article/what...
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This week we also published its latest article in the Society's journal 'Transactions'.
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social
explores what it means to be a historian, and why historical skills and craft need to defended and understood bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social
explores what it means to be a historian, and why historical skills and craft need to defended and understood bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
December 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This week we also published its latest article in the Society's journal 'Transactions'.
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social
explores what it means to be a historian, and why historical skills and craft need to defended and understood bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social
explores what it means to be a historian, and why historical skills and craft need to defended and understood bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
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What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
If anyone remembers that list which said historians were second in line to be replaced by AI, I've had some thoughts about it... and how it relates to some aspects of public history and the current climate facing historians.
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The Historian in the Age of AI | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
The Historian in the Age of AI
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December 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If anyone remembers that list which said historians were second in line to be replaced by AI, I've had some thoughts about it... and how it relates to some aspects of public history and the current climate facing historians.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Well that’s embarrassing
December 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Well that’s embarrassing
Archival find:
Here's Churchill exploiting his diplomatic connections to maintain his usual supply of whisky, despite French import quotas.
Here's Churchill exploiting his diplomatic connections to maintain his usual supply of whisky, despite French import quotas.
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Archival find:
Here's Churchill exploiting his diplomatic connections to maintain his usual supply of whisky, despite French import quotas.
Here's Churchill exploiting his diplomatic connections to maintain his usual supply of whisky, despite French import quotas.
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🚨 Job Alert!
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
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We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Managing Editor – Call for Applications
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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November 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🚨 Job Alert!
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social
See the full vacancy text here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD position - Benign Blockades? Blockades and sanctions, 1919-1939
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, wh...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social
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🧵 In CEH's first digest (tinyurl.com/38p3yxky), our six editors each highlighted a recent article they have particularly enjoyed working on.
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
September 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🧵 In CEH's first digest (tinyurl.com/38p3yxky), our six editors each highlighted a recent article they have particularly enjoyed working on.
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
Dubai seems to be to the current Right as the early Soviet Union was to the interwar Left - presentationally utopian, but highly choreographed and hiding a darker truth.
Both examples of how soft power can shape a place's image and influence political discourse.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Both examples of how soft power can shape a place's image and influence political discourse.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The populist right wants to remake the UK in the image of Dubai. We should all be careful what they wish for | Jonathan Liew
Politicians and influencers eulogise the emirate as a place of cleanliness, convenience and low crime. The truth is far darker, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Dubai seems to be to the current Right as the early Soviet Union was to the interwar Left - presentationally utopian, but highly choreographed and hiding a darker truth.
Both examples of how soft power can shape a place's image and influence political discourse.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Both examples of how soft power can shape a place's image and influence political discourse.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"A Global Mission of Faith and Freedom", a new exhibition opens tomorrow at Killerton House, Devon, including some findings from my PhD research. Free entry this weekend as part of Heritage Open Days!
@researchnt.bsky.social
Find out more here: www.instagram.com/reel/DOLKZAk...
@researchnt.bsky.social
Find out more here: www.instagram.com/reel/DOLKZAk...
September 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"A Global Mission of Faith and Freedom", a new exhibition opens tomorrow at Killerton House, Devon, including some findings from my PhD research. Free entry this weekend as part of Heritage Open Days!
@researchnt.bsky.social
Find out more here: www.instagram.com/reel/DOLKZAk...
@researchnt.bsky.social
Find out more here: www.instagram.com/reel/DOLKZAk...
Today is the last day to sign up for this! ⬇️⬇️
Delighted to share details about registration for a conference I'm co-organising on women's work in WWII.
Papers will explore Bletchley Park, the Women's Land Army, wartime medicine, the British Council and more!
Deadline 31st July!
Papers will explore Bletchley Park, the Women's Land Army, wartime medicine, the British Council and more!
Deadline 31st July!
July 31, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Today is the last day to sign up for this! ⬇️⬇️
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📣 We're delighted to announce that CEH is now Gold Open Access!
All articles accepted to the journal will be published #OpenAccess, regardless of the author's funding situation.
More information and FAQs about this change below! ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/open-re...
All articles accepted to the journal will be published #OpenAccess, regardless of the author's funding situation.
More information and FAQs about this change below! ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/open-re...
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Welcome to Cambridge Core
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July 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
📣 We're delighted to announce that CEH is now Gold Open Access!
All articles accepted to the journal will be published #OpenAccess, regardless of the author's funding situation.
More information and FAQs about this change below! ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/open-re...
All articles accepted to the journal will be published #OpenAccess, regardless of the author's funding situation.
More information and FAQs about this change below! ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/open-re...
🚨 Just a couple of weeks left to sign up!
Delighted to share details about registration for a conference I'm co-organising on women's work in WWII.
Papers will explore Bletchley Park, the Women's Land Army, wartime medicine, the British Council and more!
Deadline 31st July!
Papers will explore Bletchley Park, the Women's Land Army, wartime medicine, the British Council and more!
Deadline 31st July!
July 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🚨 Just a couple of weeks left to sign up!
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What did nineteenth-century British public school students think about Islam and the British Empire? Find out in my blog post, written as part of my doctoral internship with the excellent Schools of Empire research project: www.schoolsofempireproject.org/islam-and-em...
Islam and Empire — Schools of Empire
www.schoolsofempireproject.org
June 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
What did nineteenth-century British public school students think about Islam and the British Empire? Find out in my blog post, written as part of my doctoral internship with the excellent Schools of Empire research project: www.schoolsofempireproject.org/islam-and-em...
Delighted to share details about registration for a conference I'm co-organising on women's work in WWII.
Papers will explore Bletchley Park, the Women's Land Army, wartime medicine, the British Council and more!
Deadline 31st July!
Papers will explore Bletchley Park, the Women's Land Army, wartime medicine, the British Council and more!
Deadline 31st July!
June 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Delighted to share details about registration for a conference I'm co-organising on women's work in WWII.
Papers will explore Bletchley Park, the Women's Land Army, wartime medicine, the British Council and more!
Deadline 31st July!
Papers will explore Bletchley Park, the Women's Land Army, wartime medicine, the British Council and more!
Deadline 31st July!
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@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site "New Voices" for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post in English on any aspect of European history (and its empires) since 1914? Contact cehnewvoices@gmail.com or see: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...
May 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site "New Voices" for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post in English on any aspect of European history (and its empires) since 1914? Contact cehnewvoices@gmail.com or see: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...
A wonderful few days last week at the Gender and Diplomacy Conference in Sweden, where I presented my research on the British Council's gendering of diplomatic accreditation. Missing the fika already! ☕🍰
May 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A wonderful few days last week at the Gender and Diplomacy Conference in Sweden, where I presented my research on the British Council's gendering of diplomatic accreditation. Missing the fika already! ☕🍰
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Looking forward to presenting my PhD research at the 'Britain, Conflict, and the Sea' conference this September - book tickets below!
Sign-up now open for the conference on 'Britain, Conflict & the Sea' that I am running with RMG this September: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...
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.
www.rmg.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Looking forward to presenting my PhD research at the 'Britain, Conflict, and the Sea' conference this September - book tickets below!
What an incredible legacy to have coined two words which describe so fully and so neatly such a hugely complex, important, and frequently misunderstood part of international relations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
Joseph Nye, Political Scientist Who Extolled ‘Soft Power,’ Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
What an incredible legacy to have coined two words which describe so fully and so neatly such a hugely complex, important, and frequently misunderstood part of international relations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...