Mahon
@mahonmurphy.bsky.social
First World War Historian based at Kyoto University Japan. Also dabble in a bit of Popular Culture Studies on the side.
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🥂Eine freudige Nachricht! Unser Sammelband zum kolonialen Erbe der Stadt Hamburg ist nun auch als Open Access erhältlich und kann unter nachfolgender Adresse kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. 🥂
Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt
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Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt
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November 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🥂Eine freudige Nachricht! Unser Sammelband zum kolonialen Erbe der Stadt Hamburg ist nun auch als Open Access erhältlich und kann unter nachfolgender Adresse kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. 🥂
Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt
www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...
Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt
www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...
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We’re proud to highlight Jiang Zizheng, an early career researcher in history at Kyoto University, who has a particular interest in Japan's racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference whose work discusses how questions of race, diplomacy, shaped China’s diplomatic position.
November 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We’re proud to highlight Jiang Zizheng, an early career researcher in history at Kyoto University, who has a particular interest in Japan's racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference whose work discusses how questions of race, diplomacy, shaped China’s diplomatic position.
Former student came to my office to ask advice about studying abroad and to inform me that he and his colleagues enjoyed my popular classes last semester, except for the bits of the class where I was talking…
October 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Former student came to my office to ask advice about studying abroad and to inform me that he and his colleagues enjoyed my popular classes last semester, except for the bits of the class where I was talking…
Had to get the scissors and glue to make a collage for my lecture on the history of punk in Kyoto at Club Metro last night
October 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Had to get the scissors and glue to make a collage for my lecture on the history of punk in Kyoto at Club Metro last night
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Some fascinating images of the involvement of Belgian colonial subjects in the East Africa campaign of the First World War. These and other images are available to consult here uurl.kbr.be/bib/16923934
October 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Some fascinating images of the involvement of Belgian colonial subjects in the East Africa campaign of the First World War. These and other images are available to consult here uurl.kbr.be/bib/16923934
This little guy should have been in bed but he stayed up to find out about the Heimei Maru Incident at the ISFWWS conference @fwwsoc.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This little guy should have been in bed but he stayed up to find out about the Heimei Maru Incident at the ISFWWS conference @fwwsoc.bsky.social
I’ll be speaking about the history of punk rock in Kyoto at this year’s Kyoto Experiment festival. Very pleased with the headshot they are using to advertise it kyoto-ex.jp/en/program/p...
September 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I’ll be speaking about the history of punk rock in Kyoto at this year’s Kyoto Experiment festival. Very pleased with the headshot they are using to advertise it kyoto-ex.jp/en/program/p...
Feels like my birthday, just got Ito Chuta’s 5 vol Book of Ashura (1921). 500 sketches of the FWW with slipcovers. As I’m going the ISFWWS conf soon, here is his impression of the French army arriving in Salonica. I’m planning to translate all captions if I live long enough. @fwwsoc.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Feels like my birthday, just got Ito Chuta’s 5 vol Book of Ashura (1921). 500 sketches of the FWW with slipcovers. As I’m going the ISFWWS conf soon, here is his impression of the French army arriving in Salonica. I’m planning to translate all captions if I live long enough. @fwwsoc.bsky.social
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🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
Post-Doctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract), Department of History, Maynooth University | University Vacancies Ireland
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August 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
Back from a trip to Germany, picked up some good reads to tide me over till next visit
August 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Back from a trip to Germany, picked up some good reads to tide me over till next visit
My reading for the weekend arrived
June 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
My reading for the weekend arrived
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If you are interested, CUP have released a 20% discount code for Making Sense of the Great War.
You can get it for £23.99 through their website using the code HIST2425.
Find more information - and purchase it - here: bit.ly/4mYM08h
#History #Military #NewBook #FirstWorldWar #MilitaryMorale
You can get it for £23.99 through their website using the code HIST2425.
Find more information - and purchase it - here: bit.ly/4mYM08h
#History #Military #NewBook #FirstWorldWar #MilitaryMorale
June 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
If you are interested, CUP have released a 20% discount code for Making Sense of the Great War.
You can get it for £23.99 through their website using the code HIST2425.
Find more information - and purchase it - here: bit.ly/4mYM08h
#History #Military #NewBook #FirstWorldWar #MilitaryMorale
You can get it for £23.99 through their website using the code HIST2425.
Find more information - and purchase it - here: bit.ly/4mYM08h
#History #Military #NewBook #FirstWorldWar #MilitaryMorale
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My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War
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June 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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It exists! I finally got my unboxing moment today! A short article to introduce my book Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War. Available for pre-order now.
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June 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It exists! I finally got my unboxing moment today! A short article to introduce my book Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War. Available for pre-order now.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/emigra...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/emigra...
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Delighted to share details of the upcoming hybrid workshop 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' to be held in Maynooth on June 25. This is part of the COLVET project funded by @erc.europa.eu You will find a draft schedule and details for registration here. Please join us on the day and share widely
June 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Delighted to share details of the upcoming hybrid workshop 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' to be held in Maynooth on June 25. This is part of the COLVET project funded by @erc.europa.eu You will find a draft schedule and details for registration here. Please join us on the day and share widely
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Issue 15:3 of First World War Studies is out now! Featuring four research articles (of which 2 are OA) and more than 30 book reviews covering a huge range of languages, countries & topics!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfww20/1...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfww20/1...
First World War Studies
Volume 15, Issue 3 of First World War Studies
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May 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Issue 15:3 of First World War Studies is out now! Featuring four research articles (of which 2 are OA) and more than 30 book reviews covering a huge range of languages, countries & topics!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfww20/1...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfww20/1...
‘The Dynamics of East Asian Politics and Diplomacy in the 1920s: The Intersection of International Cooperation and Imperial Expansion’ edited by Sogo Kazutaka, and with a small contribution by me, out now and free to download from the Aisa Japan Research Insitiute www.ritsumei.ac.jp/research/aji...
AJI Booksシリーズ｜アジア・日本研究所アジア日本研究所
アジア日本研究所ー次世代研究大学をめざして、さらなるアジア・日本研究の発展のために。
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May 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
‘The Dynamics of East Asian Politics and Diplomacy in the 1920s: The Intersection of International Cooperation and Imperial Expansion’ edited by Sogo Kazutaka, and with a small contribution by me, out now and free to download from the Aisa Japan Research Insitiute www.ritsumei.ac.jp/research/aji...
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My new article is now out on various experiences of internment during WWI in German East Africa. Thanks to Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser for putting the (forthcoming) issue together
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Making Enemies: British and German Missionary Personnel in East African Internment Camps during the First World War*
Abstract. During the First World War, German and British citizens in British and German colonies in East Africa were placed in internment camps. Men, women
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May 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
My new article is now out on various experiences of internment during WWI in German East Africa. Thanks to Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser for putting the (forthcoming) issue together
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If anyone is in Tokyo on 29 May then please join me and a host of others more qualified than me at Sophia University to discuss the passing of Japan's Peace Preservation Law in 1925 in light of its centenary. See attached for details;
May 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If anyone is in Tokyo on 29 May then please join me and a host of others more qualified than me at Sophia University to discuss the passing of Japan's Peace Preservation Law in 1925 in light of its centenary. See attached for details;
It's a great week for FWW research, one of our finest former PhD Students at Kyodai, (Dr since March this year!) Jiang Zizheng's article on Rethinking China's attitude towards Japan's Racial Equality Proposal is now published online in FWW Studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rethinking China’s Support for the Japanese Racial Equality Proposal at the Paris Peace Conference
The Great Powers’ rejection of Japan’s racial equality proposal to the Covenant of the League of Nations at the Paris Peace Conference set the tone for the post-First World War order. From the East...
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April 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
It's a great week for FWW research, one of our finest former PhD Students at Kyodai, (Dr since March this year!) Jiang Zizheng's article on Rethinking China's attitude towards Japan's Racial Equality Proposal is now published online in FWW Studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Wartime Internment as a Global Practice and Experience 1914-1945 (Pt 1) is online and open access in Immigrants and Minorities. It includes Marina Arcos de Perez and my paper on Germans in Cameroon during the FWW. Pt 2 coming in July! @fwwsoc.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/fimm20/4...
Immigrants & Minorities
Wartime Internment as a Global Practice and Experience, 1914–1945. Part I: Camps in Spatial Contexts; Guest Editor Names: Arnd Bauerkämper, Dina Gusejnova and Marina Pérez de Arcos. Volume 43, Issue 1 of Immigrants & Minorities
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April 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Wartime Internment as a Global Practice and Experience 1914-1945 (Pt 1) is online and open access in Immigrants and Minorities. It includes Marina Arcos de Perez and my paper on Germans in Cameroon during the FWW. Pt 2 coming in July! @fwwsoc.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/fimm20/4...
Attn FFWers, the archives of the European War Office in Spain are fully digitized, you probably know of them from Marina Perez de Arcos’ amazing work. They are also shortlisted for UNESCO recognition this year: archivos.patrimonionacional.es/index.php/de... @fwwsoc.bsky.social
Oficina de la Guerra Europea - Patrimonio Nacional
Además de los expedientes generales y la correspondencia oficial y particular relacionada con la I Guerra Mundial, en el Archivo se conservan más d...
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April 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Attn FFWers, the archives of the European War Office in Spain are fully digitized, you probably know of them from Marina Perez de Arcos’ amazing work. They are also shortlisted for UNESCO recognition this year: archivos.patrimonionacional.es/index.php/de... @fwwsoc.bsky.social
Big thanks to Imai (cover artist and current SOB bassist) and Kanda from from the legendary band GREED for sharing their knowledge and making our book happen: SOB’s Don’t Be Swindle out now on 331/3 Japan www.bloomsbury.com/ca/sobs-dont... @3313books.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Big thanks to Imai (cover artist and current SOB bassist) and Kanda from from the legendary band GREED for sharing their knowledge and making our book happen: SOB’s Don’t Be Swindle out now on 331/3 Japan www.bloomsbury.com/ca/sobs-dont... @3313books.bsky.social
Got held up in customs but finally recieved a stack o books to distribute to interviewees, and a chance to remind you that myself and Ran’s book on SOB and hardcore punk in Kyoto is still out www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sobs-dont...
April 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Got held up in customs but finally recieved a stack o books to distribute to interviewees, and a chance to remind you that myself and Ran’s book on SOB and hardcore punk in Kyoto is still out www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sobs-dont...