George Evans
@georgedevans93.bsky.social
Historian of the British Empire, Ireland and the Second World War, University of Edinburgh.
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Looking forward to presenting my paper: 'High, Open, Bleak and Boggy: How Scotland's Environment Shaped Its Involvement In The Second World War' at the 'Scotland and World War Two' conference at Perth UHI on Friday 7 November, 9am to 3pm. Contact Lars Cook at Lars.Cook.Perth@uni.ac.uk for more info.
October 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Looking forward to presenting my paper: 'High, Open, Bleak and Boggy: How Scotland's Environment Shaped Its Involvement In The Second World War' at the 'Scotland and World War Two' conference at Perth UHI on Friday 7 November, 9am to 3pm. Contact Lars Cook at Lars.Cook.Perth@uni.ac.uk for more info.
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I had a mid-career fellowship and it was exactly what I needed to finish my book. The BA application forms are far simpler than you might expect if you’ve only ever seen forms for other funders. So, if you’re eligible, do explore further. Best of luck if you apply.
We’ve opened a call for our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships which enable established scholars to have the time to complete a significant piece of humanities or social sciences piece of research, through a one year period of leave
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships
The British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships are intended to enable established scholars, needing relief from teaching and administration, to have the time to bring to completion a signi...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I had a mid-career fellowship and it was exactly what I needed to finish my book. The BA application forms are far simpler than you might expect if you’ve only ever seen forms for other funders. So, if you’re eligible, do explore further. Best of luck if you apply.
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Delighted to have signed a contract with @edinburghup.bsky.social to produce a scholarly edition of Fred Urquhart’s war-time letters. Urquhart, an accomplished writer, was a lover of men and admirer of flamboyant women. His letters offer a Rabelaisian account of the British #SWW home front.
September 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Delighted to have signed a contract with @edinburghup.bsky.social to produce a scholarly edition of Fred Urquhart’s war-time letters. Urquhart, an accomplished writer, was a lover of men and admirer of flamboyant women. His letters offer a Rabelaisian account of the British #SWW home front.
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This piece on the distribution of aid in Gaza paints a picture so awful it is hard to conceive
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Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’
A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back
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July 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This piece on the distribution of aid in Gaza paints a picture so awful it is hard to conceive
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The right wants us to think Britain is on the verge of ethnic conflict. The truth is worse than that | John Merrick
The right wants us to think Britain is on the verge of ethnic conflict. The truth is worse than that | John Merrick
In blaming problems on migrant ‘outsiders’, prophets of decline are paving the way for harder borders and mass deportations, says John Merrick, deputy editor of the Break-Down
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July 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Page proofs time … plus slight tweak of subtitle (in UK edition). Out November 6 in Britain and late November in N America. #AdvanceBritannia
June 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Page proofs time … plus slight tweak of subtitle (in UK edition). Out November 6 in Britain and late November in N America. #AdvanceBritannia
Great to see the Policy Histories series, which I worked on when I was at the British Academy, in the New Statesman.
We must "look to history to sharpen decision-making,” writes British Academy Public Policy Adviser Harriet Thompson in @newstatesman.com. But politicians, trapped in 24-hour news cycles and crisis management, lack time to consult the history books.
Read more: www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
Read more: www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
Learning from the past makes better policy
Harold Wilson and Gordon Brown both looked to history in their plans for government. Today's politicians should do the same.
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June 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Great to see the Policy Histories series, which I worked on when I was at the British Academy, in the New Statesman.
Hugely enjoyed speaking on this panel last week!
A lovely UG student sent me this 'academics in action' shot from our #SWW colloquium @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social. From our AHRC panel on UK service personnel in colonial spaces.
May 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Hugely enjoyed speaking on this panel last week!
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80 years ago a bus strike meant many people had to walk to central London for #VEDay. A potent marker of how Churchill had fought a Tory War but the peace would belong to Labour.
Read more in my book:
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Read more in my book:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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May 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
80 years ago a bus strike meant many people had to walk to central London for #VEDay. A potent marker of how Churchill had fought a Tory War but the peace would belong to Labour.
Read more in my book:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Read more in my book:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Then Historiographies panel with @georgedevans93.bsky.social Geoff Hicks and David Thackeray - these pics from David illustrating Māori women and parliament in 1890s #QMCBS 🗃️
May 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Then Historiographies panel with @georgedevans93.bsky.social Geoff Hicks and David Thackeray - these pics from David illustrating Māori women and parliament in 1890s #QMCBS 🗃️
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Our free festival of ideas - the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase - is on 20/21 June. With workshops, panels, film, research exhibits and more. I’ll pick out a few highlights on this occasional thread, but you can see the programme and book here
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...
April 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Our free festival of ideas - the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase - is on 20/21 June. With workshops, panels, film, research exhibits and more. I’ll pick out a few highlights on this occasional thread, but you can see the programme and book here
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...
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Great news! I am recruiting a(nother) PhD student!
'Ulster Americans' is a collaborative PhD with National Museums NI, specifically the Ulster American Folk Park, and is open to home and international students so please spread the word! More details in the link.
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Ulster Americans' is a collaborative PhD with National Museums NI, specifically the Ulster American Folk Park, and is open to home and international students so please spread the word! More details in the link.
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: CDP01 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
April 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Great news! I am recruiting a(nother) PhD student!
'Ulster Americans' is a collaborative PhD with National Museums NI, specifically the Ulster American Folk Park, and is open to home and international students so please spread the word! More details in the link.
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Ulster Americans' is a collaborative PhD with National Museums NI, specifically the Ulster American Folk Park, and is open to home and international students so please spread the word! More details in the link.
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Since it's Commonwealth Day, here's my 2020 article on "Brexit and Empire", on free-access in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
Quite a lot in here on the hopes and fears vested in the Commonwealth, and their relationship with the Brexit debate.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Quite a lot in here on the hopes and fears vested in the Commonwealth, and their relationship with the Brexit debate.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Brexit and Empire: ‘Global Britain’ and the Myth of Imperial Nostalgia
In the wake of the 2016 referendum, the idea that ‘imperial nostalgia’ motivated the Leave vote became a staple of academic commentary. Yet such claims suffer from four important flaws. They are us...
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March 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Since it's Commonwealth Day, here's my 2020 article on "Brexit and Empire", on free-access in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
Quite a lot in here on the hopes and fears vested in the Commonwealth, and their relationship with the Brexit debate.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Quite a lot in here on the hopes and fears vested in the Commonwealth, and their relationship with the Brexit debate.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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North American / UK and rest of Commonwealth covers, out November 2025
March 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
North American / UK and rest of Commonwealth covers, out November 2025
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Fixed-term post: Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History at The University of Edinburgh
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February 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Fixed-term post: Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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For the @newstatesman.com i wrote a profile of the historian Correlli Barnett, which charts the perils of self-loathing nationalism and the rise of Britain's new right
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
The prophet of the new right
In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism.
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January 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
For the @newstatesman.com i wrote a profile of the historian Correlli Barnett, which charts the perils of self-loathing nationalism and the rise of Britain's new right
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
Enjoyed a fantastic paper from @jtthalstead.bsky.social last night on doctrine within the 'Imperial Army'.
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...
You can sign up to attend both in person and online here: www.history.ac.uk/events/imper...
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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January 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Enjoyed a fantastic paper from @jtthalstead.bsky.social last night on doctrine within the 'Imperial Army'.
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I'm delighted to share the advert for a collaborative PhD which I'll be co-supervising with Dr Paddy Fitzgerald of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (Omagh). This project, 'Finding "home" in a cultural landscape of migration & belonging' has a deadline of 10 March
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: CCS01 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
January 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I'm delighted to share the advert for a collaborative PhD which I'll be co-supervising with Dr Paddy Fitzgerald of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (Omagh). This project, 'Finding "home" in a cultural landscape of migration & belonging' has a deadline of 10 March
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Honoured to be reviewed by Richard Evans (and to be called a young historian!). I’m glad he found it enjoyable and that it “provides a stimulating and thought-provoking reassessment of Tory thinking in the war years.”
Some of the critiques are fair but I want to push back against the main one (1)
Some of the critiques are fair but I want to push back against the main one (1)
Richard J Evans asks: Did the Tories create modern Britain?
A revisionist history claims the postwar consensus was shaped by Conservative visions.
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A revisionist history claims the postwar consensus was shaped by Conservative visions.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Did the Tories create modern Britain?
A revisionist history claims the postwar consensus was shaped by Conservative visions.
www.newstatesman.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Honoured to be reviewed by Richard Evans (and to be called a young historian!). I’m glad he found it enjoyable and that it “provides a stimulating and thought-provoking reassessment of Tory thinking in the war years.”
Some of the critiques are fair but I want to push back against the main one (1)
Some of the critiques are fair but I want to push back against the main one (1)
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I'm pleased to formally announce the new Editorial Team and International Editorial Board of 'The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History'. @jich.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social @jonasgjerso.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @helengilmour.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/journals/fic...
Learn about The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Learn about The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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January 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I'm pleased to formally announce the new Editorial Team and International Editorial Board of 'The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History'. @jich.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social @jonasgjerso.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @helengilmour.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/journals/fic...
Interesting thread and paper.
Important & meticulous corrective by Staffan Lunden on Dan Hicks' much-praised 2020 book _Brutish Museums_ about the 1897 looting of the Benin bronzes. I am among the many who uncritically accepted Hicks' unsubstantiated claims about the staggering ... 1/3 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Distorting history in the restitution debate. Dan Hicks’s The Brutish Museums and fact and fiction in Benin historiography | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core
Distorting history in the restitution debate. Dan Hicks’s The Brutish Museums and fact and fiction in Benin historiography
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January 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Interesting thread and paper.