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Kate Imy
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Writer/cat lover. Author of FAITHFUL FIGHTERS and LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS. Outfest Lab, WGF Veterans Writing Project, AFF screenwriting winner. Rutgers PhD, UT historian.
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PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.

Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.

Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
January 22, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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It’s feeling very real!!!

Publication date: June 16, 2026.

@pennpress.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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"Bearing Witness, Challenging Myth: Imperial Pasts and Fascist Presents".The Forty-Eighth Annual Susman Conference, March 27, 2026, Rutgers University – New Brunswick
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2026. Please contact susmanconf@history.rutgers.edu with any questions.
December 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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#OpenAccess! CAPTURING COMMEMORATION: Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain by Noakes, Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social, Hanna, Hughes @lornamhughes.bsky.social, Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social & Wallis has now been published!

Find out more : bit.ly/47FiHAL

#WWIStudies
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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We are in the final stretch of our sale! Don't miss the chance to get 40% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide* before it shuts down at 11:59 PM tonight (12/8).

#ReadUP #BookSky
We're having a cyber week sale! Take advantage of 40% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide* starting today, 12/1, through Monday, 12/8.

For details: www.sup.org/about-our-cy...
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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This month is UK Disability History Month. You can learn more about the history of disability in the UK and Ireland through the Bibliography of British and Irish History's (BBIH) free reading list, which includes more than 450 recent publications in the history of disability buff.ly/OK5HSbu
December 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Both “Faithful Fighters” and “Losing Hearts and Minds” are just $12 each during SUP’s site-wide sale, ending December 8th! Punish your loved ones with reading this holiday season! 😉

www.sup.org/books/histor...
Losing Hearts and Minds | Stanford University Press
Losing Hearts and Minds explores the loss of British power and prestige in colonial Singapore and Malaya from the First World War to the Malayan Emergency. During this period, British leaders relied o...
www.sup.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Spotted Losing Hearts and Minds at NACBS! 😺 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Happy Halloween! Here's a thread of some of my monstery essays, and a link to register for my next book talk, hosted by the Linda Hall Library:
Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST)
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💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH

events.lindahall.org/humansamonst...
events.lindahall.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.

There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
30% off tons of great works (and Faithful Fighters)!
Did you miss us at the 2025 Annual Conference on South Asia? You can still enjoy our virtual exhibit: receive a 30% discount on the books listed using the discount code S25CSA at checkout, good between 10/15/2025 - 11/25/2025.
Conference on South Asia: A Virtual Exhibit | Stanford University Press
Please enjoy this Virtual Book Exhibit and receive a 30% discount on the books listed below using the discount code S25CSA  at checkout, good between 10/15/2025 - 11/25/2025.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Great opportunity for graduate students working on South Asian Studies projects! Housing provided for out of state students: “Historicity, Futurity and Materiality in South Asia” at UT: liberalarts.utexas.edu/southasia/ev...

@uclacisa.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @historians.org
South Asia Graduate Student Conference: Historicity, Futurity, and Materiality in South Asia   
The South Asia Graduate Student Conference will take place on April 17–18, 2026 (Friday–Saturday) at the University of Texas at Austin. This conference is open to graduate students (master's and docto...
liberalarts.utexas.edu
October 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies.

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This call for applications for a First Book Workshop from @toynbeeprize.bsky.social looks like a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars working on "global, imperial, comparative, world, or transnational history": toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f.... Deadline is November 2, 2025.
Call For Applications: Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition 2025-26 | Toynbee Prize Foundation
toynbeeprize.org
September 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Just a reminder that the deadline of this Friday is fast approaching for two postdoc positions on the COLVET project, a 23 month position on veterans in British colonies in Southern and/or Eastern Africa and an 18 month positon on veterans among Indigenous/colonized populations in the USA.
🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Specified Purpose, Department of History and the Arts and Humanities Institute | University Vacancies Ireland
universityvacancies.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Video and audio recordings of last week's RHS Lecture by Prof. Yasmin Khan - 'Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare' - are now available: bit.ly/4pw5B15

Yasmin's is one of many lectures available to watch or listen to again via our Events Archive bit.ly/3IaWtOG #Skystorians
Video and audio recordings of Yasmin Khan's RHS Lecture now available - RHS
Video and audio recordings of Professor Yasmin Khan's recent RHS Lecture -- 'Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare' -- are now available. Yasmin’s lecture, given on 12 September 2025...
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September 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Stansky Book Prize for best book in British Studies dealing with the period since 1800.

www.nacbs.org/news/stansky...

@uchicagopress.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 John Ben Snow Book Prize for best book in British Studies dealing with the period prior to 1800.

www.nacbs.org/news/snow-bo...

@yalepress.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @melkatrey.bsky.social @asheeshksi.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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We at The WFA have launched our PhD Grant Scheme for 2025.

The grant is open to doctoral students researching ANY aspect of the First World War.

Where will our grant take you?

See website for full details 👇🏻

www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...

#Fwwhist #phdchat
September 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
@stanfordpress.bsky.social is running an end-of-summer sale—

Huge discounts for Losing Hearts and Minds ($16) and Faithful Fighters ($15) until Sept 8.

www.sup.org/books/histor...
Losing Hearts and Minds | Stanford University Press
Losing Hearts and Minds explores the loss of British power and prestige in colonial Singapore and Malaya from the First World War to the Malayan Emergency. During this period, British leaders relied o...
www.sup.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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If any film, documentary of video game types need a historical monster consultant, know that I am here. #sff
August 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM