Nick Webber
@doktornick.bsky.social
Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
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Just a reminder that this call is open if the overlap of history, fiction and games is your thing!
We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
Call for Contributions - Fictions | Historical Games Network
Our theme of Fictions started with a HGN | IWM panel at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival. You can read more about the event on the Historical Games Network blog and you can watch the ...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Just a reminder that this call is open if the overlap of history, fiction and games is your thing!
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Reminder that from the beginning of next year I’m available for work!
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reminder that from the beginning of next year I’m available for work!
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
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such an honor and a joy to be included in this volume, talking (inter)disciplinarity in historical game studies and the importance of putting "current" methods in context. ain't no party like a @times-new-roman.bsky.social @docrandom.bsky.social cowriting party ‼️
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
such an honor and a joy to be included in this volume, talking (inter)disciplinarity in historical game studies and the importance of putting "current" methods in context. ain't no party like a @times-new-roman.bsky.social @docrandom.bsky.social cowriting party ‼️
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Really enjoyed working on mine + @doktornick.bsky.social co-authored chapter "Autoethnography as Historical Method: A Plague Tale and Authentic Experiences of the Past" for this collection, we presented the work at DiGRA25 + loved discussing the themes + methodology. The ToC for the book looks ace!
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Really enjoyed working on mine + @doktornick.bsky.social co-authored chapter "Autoethnography as Historical Method: A Plague Tale and Authentic Experiences of the Past" for this collection, we presented the work at DiGRA25 + loved discussing the themes + methodology. The ToC for the book looks ace!
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A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
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British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive
Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’
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October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
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Yes, that was a strange noise.
No, we’re not going to check.
No, we’re not going to check.
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Yes, that was a strange noise.
No, we’re not going to check.
No, we’re not going to check.
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“A similar hammer blow has just struck @fullfact.org, the exceptionally valuable UK factchecker whose word is a gold standard for honesty. Google has pulled its £1m funding. Along with the ending of sizeable donations from Meta, the charity tells me this amounts to a loss of a third of its funding.”
Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee
Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee
The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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October 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
“A similar hammer blow has just struck @fullfact.org, the exceptionally valuable UK factchecker whose word is a gold standard for honesty. Google has pulled its £1m funding. Along with the ending of sizeable donations from Meta, the charity tells me this amounts to a loss of a third of its funding.”
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Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making.
www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...
www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...
Hell with other people
Video games are often the first and most common way that many people now encounter the classical world. Hades, a critical hit following its release in
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October 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making.
www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...
www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...
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We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
Call for Contributions - Fictions | Historical Games Network
Our theme of Fictions started with a HGN | IWM panel at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival. You can read more about the event on the Historical Games Network blog and you can watch the ...
www.historicalgames.net
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
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Creative Assembly is looking for a Principal Narrative Designer.
No affiliation. Just sharing the link...
jobs.jobvite.com/creative-ass...
No affiliation. Just sharing the link...
jobs.jobvite.com/creative-ass...
Creative Assembly is looking for Principal Narrative Designer.
Creative Assembly is one of Europe's leading games development studios, founded in 1987 and located in West Sussex, UK, Newcastle, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria.
We craft deep and detailed games that matter...
jobs.jobvite.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Creative Assembly is looking for a Principal Narrative Designer.
No affiliation. Just sharing the link...
jobs.jobvite.com/creative-ass...
No affiliation. Just sharing the link...
jobs.jobvite.com/creative-ass...
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The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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Haven't seen this shared a lot - but yes, 26 out of 30 of the scholars on the NEH Council just got axed - and surprise, what do you know about the 4 left? ⬇️
The National Council for the NEH had 26 scholars and leaders serving humanities efforts across the U.S. After today’s White House firings, it’s down to just 4 Trump-appointed White men, one terminated member told me.
From me, @travismandrews.bsky.social and @kelseyables.bsky.social:
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From me, @travismandrews.bsky.social and @kelseyables.bsky.social:
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White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities
The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency.
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October 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Haven't seen this shared a lot - but yes, 26 out of 30 of the scholars on the NEH Council just got axed - and surprise, what do you know about the 4 left? ⬇️
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I just received a response from the organizing team in Maynooth that this was indeed an oversight and that the CFP will be amended to include non-digital games. Yay!
October 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I just received a response from the organizing team in Maynooth that this was indeed an oversight and that the CFP will be amended to include non-digital games. Yay!
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Got my performance review.
September 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Got my performance review.
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$20,000 of royalty free commercial use video game music.
Available now for only $10 on: moonanagames.itch.io/80-songs-pack
Is it worth it? Don't take my word for it, just look at what the ppl have said instead.
#gamedev 🎮 #ttrpg #vtuber
Available now for only $10 on: moonanagames.itch.io/80-songs-pack
Is it worth it? Don't take my word for it, just look at what the ppl have said instead.
#gamedev 🎮 #ttrpg #vtuber
September 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
$20,000 of royalty free commercial use video game music.
Available now for only $10 on: moonanagames.itch.io/80-songs-pack
Is it worth it? Don't take my word for it, just look at what the ppl have said instead.
#gamedev 🎮 #ttrpg #vtuber
Available now for only $10 on: moonanagames.itch.io/80-songs-pack
Is it worth it? Don't take my word for it, just look at what the ppl have said instead.
#gamedev 🎮 #ttrpg #vtuber
As part of our reboot of the @videogamecultures.bsky.social conference series, we have our first book coming out, of papers from the 2023 conference in Klagenfurt, Austria. It should appear in the wild on 6 November. Details here: www.sidestone.com/books/explor...
Exploring New Horizons in Video Game Cultures @ Sidestone Press
This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 September 2023 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. An interdisciplinary col...
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September 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
As part of our reboot of the @videogamecultures.bsky.social conference series, we have our first book coming out, of papers from the 2023 conference in Klagenfurt, Austria. It should appear in the wild on 6 November. Details here: www.sidestone.com/books/explor...
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Last week we hosted a discussion panel at the @royalsoced.bsky.social Curious Festival. Our brilliant speakers (incl. @chriskempshall.bsky.social @drtimpeacock.bsky.social) explored history & fantasy in games & media. Find the recording here if you missed it!
www.historicalgames.net/recording-un...
www.historicalgames.net/recording-un...
Recording: Unreal Pasts, Playful Presents (RSE Curious Festival 2025) | Historical Games Network
On 10th September 2025, in collaboration with the Imperial War Museums Institute, the HGN hosted a panel discussion event at the Royal Society of Edinburgh‘s Curious Festival 2025, in Edinburgh, UK. ‘...
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September 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Last week we hosted a discussion panel at the @royalsoced.bsky.social Curious Festival. Our brilliant speakers (incl. @chriskempshall.bsky.social @drtimpeacock.bsky.social) explored history & fantasy in games & media. Find the recording here if you missed it!
www.historicalgames.net/recording-un...
www.historicalgames.net/recording-un...
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OASIS Lunchtime Talk: Remnants of Play
YouTube video by oasis_tuni
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September 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM