Lauren Cochrane
@laurencochrane.bsky.social
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PhDing at University of Exeter. Studying imagery & colonial violence during the Kenya Emergency. Editor (Book Reviews) at Midlands Historical Review.
laurencochrane.co.uk
SWWDTP.
PhDing at University of Exeter. Studying imagery & colonial violence during the Kenya Emergency. Editor (Book Reviews) at Midlands Historical Review.
laurencochrane.co.uk
SWWDTP.
This year's @sochistorywar.bsky.social conference was a real joy!
Very grateful for the insightful questions and feedback on my paper about atrocity photography during the Kenya Emergency.
Roll on Limerick next year. 🇮🇪☘️
Very grateful for the insightful questions and feedback on my paper about atrocity photography during the Kenya Emergency.
Roll on Limerick next year. 🇮🇪☘️
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This year's @sochistorywar.bsky.social conference was a real joy!
Very grateful for the insightful questions and feedback on my paper about atrocity photography during the Kenya Emergency.
Roll on Limerick next year. 🇮🇪☘️
Very grateful for the insightful questions and feedback on my paper about atrocity photography during the Kenya Emergency.
Roll on Limerick next year. 🇮🇪☘️
The Traumatic Histories workshop I co-convened at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy yesterday was such an insightful experience. I’m grateful to everyone for sharing their experiences, and for contributing to discussions of how researchers and institutions navigate difficult material.
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The Traumatic Histories workshop I co-convened at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy yesterday was such an insightful experience. I’m grateful to everyone for sharing their experiences, and for contributing to discussions of how researchers and institutions navigate difficult material.
The scariest thing I could think of carving this year...
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The scariest thing I could think of carving this year...
Reminder that the deadline for my workshop with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy is this Friday!
October 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Reminder that the deadline for my workshop with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy is this Friday!
Love that during the Mau Mau rebellion the colonial government’s warning signs were less “war zone” and more “your picnic might be disrupted by terrorists.”
A very settler-colonial kind of danger.
A very settler-colonial kind of danger.
October 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Love that during the Mau Mau rebellion the colonial government’s warning signs were less “war zone” and more “your picnic might be disrupted by terrorists.”
A very settler-colonial kind of danger.
A very settler-colonial kind of danger.
I'm thrilled to be hosting a workshop with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
on working with traumatic histories!
📅Tuesday 11th November
📍The National Archives
The workshop offers a space to reflect critically on how we work with traumatic histories in the archives and beyond.
Please share!
on working with traumatic histories!
📅Tuesday 11th November
📍The National Archives
The workshop offers a space to reflect critically on how we work with traumatic histories in the archives and beyond.
Please share!
September 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I'm thrilled to be hosting a workshop with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
on working with traumatic histories!
📅Tuesday 11th November
📍The National Archives
The workshop offers a space to reflect critically on how we work with traumatic histories in the archives and beyond.
Please share!
on working with traumatic histories!
📅Tuesday 11th November
📍The National Archives
The workshop offers a space to reflect critically on how we work with traumatic histories in the archives and beyond.
Please share!
First seminar taught this week. Thought I’d combust from nerves, but instead I just talked about history for an hour - which is basically my natural habitat anyway.
September 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
First seminar taught this week. Thought I’d combust from nerves, but instead I just talked about history for an hour - which is basically my natural habitat anyway.
Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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July 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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A reminder that an annual salary on minimum wage is now £25,396.80
💼 Job spotlight of the week:
Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict at the Imperial War Museum, London (FT, £31-34k, Permanent)
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Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict at the Imperial War Museum, London (FT, £31-34k, Permanent)
imperialwarmuseums.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict - IWM
Title: Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict . Location: IWM London. Application Deadline: 11/08/2025, 09:00
imperialwarmuseums.tal.net
July 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A reminder that an annual salary on minimum wage is now £25,396.80
I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to present my research and co-chair our panel on colonial counterinsurgencies at #ECAS2025.
Such an awesome experience and I can't wait for the next one! 🇨🇿
Such an awesome experience and I can't wait for the next one! 🇨🇿
June 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to present my research and co-chair our panel on colonial counterinsurgencies at #ECAS2025.
Such an awesome experience and I can't wait for the next one! 🇨🇿
Such an awesome experience and I can't wait for the next one! 🇨🇿
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Please repost folks! Deadline is fast approaching!
📢 FINAL CALL 📢
🚨Abstracts due tomorrow!!🚨
SHoW's heading to Potsdam!
📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June
Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk
🚨Abstracts due tomorrow!!🚨
SHoW's heading to Potsdam!
📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June
Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk
Society for the History of War
Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.
www.show.org.uk
June 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Please repost folks! Deadline is fast approaching!
It's almost like Brexit was a terrible idea...
UK-EU deal moves on from Brexit rows, Starmer says
The deal covers defence, trade, fishing, and a possible youth scheme, in the first big reset since Brexit.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It's almost like Brexit was a terrible idea...
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@jich.bsky.social We have launched a new 'Current Debates' section, edited by Dr Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social! If you are interested in contributing, please see the CfP for more information, and please share with your networks:
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A New ‘Current Debates’ Section in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History | H-Net
We are happy to announce that from January 2025 the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (JICH) will feature a section devoted to current debates. This will include opinion pieces and comment...
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October 23, 2024 at 9:50 AM
@jich.bsky.social We have launched a new 'Current Debates' section, edited by Dr Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social! If you are interested in contributing, please see the CfP for more information, and please share with your networks:
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I opened my masters dissertation on Kenya in WWII to look for some references... boy was that a humbling experience.
At least I can now 100% say the quality of my writing has dramatically improved. 👌
At least I can now 100% say the quality of my writing has dramatically improved. 👌
May 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I opened my masters dissertation on Kenya in WWII to look for some references... boy was that a humbling experience.
At least I can now 100% say the quality of my writing has dramatically improved. 👌
At least I can now 100% say the quality of my writing has dramatically improved. 👌
A few days in Belgium 🇧🇪
May 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A few days in Belgium 🇧🇪
Today marks my first earnest use of suncream this year, and the smell has restored my will to live. 🌞
April 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Today marks my first earnest use of suncream this year, and the smell has restored my will to live. 🌞
Adding this to my email signature.
April 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Adding this to my email signature.
I'm puppysitting my cousin's 14 week old golden retriever, and I've lost count of how many times I've said 'stop putting your paws on my laptop'.
Might let him write my thesis at this rate. 🐶
Might let him write my thesis at this rate. 🐶
April 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm puppysitting my cousin's 14 week old golden retriever, and I've lost count of how many times I've said 'stop putting your paws on my laptop'.
Might let him write my thesis at this rate. 🐶
Might let him write my thesis at this rate. 🐶
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SHoW's heading to Potsdam!
📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June
How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it?
All details can be found below! ⬇️
📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June
How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it?
All details can be found below! ⬇️
March 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
SHoW's heading to Potsdam!
📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June
How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it?
All details can be found below! ⬇️
📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June
How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it?
All details can be found below! ⬇️
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57 years ago, on March 16, 1968, US troops killed 504 Vietnamese civilians - mostly older people, mothers, and children. I am spending the day at the My Lai memorial with Ron Haeberle, the photographer, and got to meet the last of the survivors, of whom just a handful are still alive.
March 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
57 years ago, on March 16, 1968, US troops killed 504 Vietnamese civilians - mostly older people, mothers, and children. I am spending the day at the My Lai memorial with Ron Haeberle, the photographer, and got to meet the last of the survivors, of whom just a handful are still alive.
Reposted by Lauren Cochrane
Time for another Paper Trails interview...
This month, we spoke to Khushboo Jain, a curator, writer and researcher about decolonising Indian miniature art.
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/paper-trails...
This month, we spoke to Khushboo Jain, a curator, writer and researcher about decolonising Indian miniature art.
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/paper-trails...
Paper Trails: Khushboo Jain | MBC
Andrea Potts spoke with Khushboo Jain, an independent curator, writer and researcher, about decolonising Indian miniature art. Andrea: What is […]
museumofbritishcolonialism.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Time for another Paper Trails interview...
This month, we spoke to Khushboo Jain, a curator, writer and researcher about decolonising Indian miniature art.
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/paper-trails...
This month, we spoke to Khushboo Jain, a curator, writer and researcher about decolonising Indian miniature art.
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/paper-trails...
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March 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Give this blog a read - where I explore an interesting bit of correspondence between Julius Nyerere and the pro-Western International Confederation on Free Trade Unions on the future of trade unions in Africa.
We're happy to announce we've posted our next blog - authored by Project Post-doc @nielsboender.bsky.social - a spotlight from our archival research on Trade Unions, Labour Rights and Tanzania: medium.com/@glosoc/docu...
Document Highlight: When Julius Nyerere broke with Western Trade Unionism
[Author: Dr Niels Boender (University of Edinburgh)]
medium.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Give this blog a read - where I explore an interesting bit of correspondence between Julius Nyerere and the pro-Western International Confederation on Free Trade Unions on the future of trade unions in Africa.