Alex Mayhew
@alexmayhew.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at LSE International History | Great War + Morale + Crisis + Mesopotamia + Technological Innovation
Written a book for Cambridge University Press | Past me: University of Birmingham, LSE100 and LSE LIFE.
Written a book for Cambridge University Press | Past me: University of Birmingham, LSE100 and LSE LIFE.
This is incredibly sad.
I met Tim for the first and only time over the summer whilst doing research at the Canadian War Museum.
For someone so senior (and busy) he was incredibly generous with his time: took me for a coffee, discussed his research, and enquired about mine.
A real loss.
I met Tim for the first and only time over the summer whilst doing research at the Canadian War Museum.
For someone so senior (and busy) he was incredibly generous with his time: took me for a coffee, discussed his research, and enquired about mine.
A real loss.
Everyone at the International Society for First World War Studies is greatly saddened to hear about the passing of Dr Tim Cook.
www.warmuseum.ca/news-release...
www.warmuseum.ca/news-release...
War Museum announces passing of Chief Historian, Dr. Tim Cook | Canadian War Museum
www.warmuseum.ca
October 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This is incredibly sad.
I met Tim for the first and only time over the summer whilst doing research at the Canadian War Museum.
For someone so senior (and busy) he was incredibly generous with his time: took me for a coffee, discussed his research, and enquired about mine.
A real loss.
I met Tim for the first and only time over the summer whilst doing research at the Canadian War Museum.
For someone so senior (and busy) he was incredibly generous with his time: took me for a coffee, discussed his research, and enquired about mine.
A real loss.
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New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Join us on Tuesday 14 October for Dr Jake Subryan Richards' book release event, "The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans & the End of The Slave Trade".
See here for full event details and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
#event #slavery #slavetrade #africa #history #LSE
See here for full event details and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
#event #slavery #slavetrade #africa #history #LSE
September 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Join us on Tuesday 14 October for Dr Jake Subryan Richards' book release event, "The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans & the End of The Slave Trade".
See here for full event details and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
#event #slavery #slavetrade #africa #history #LSE
See here for full event details and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
#event #slavery #slavetrade #africa #history #LSE
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The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social.
Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...
Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...
September 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social.
Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...
Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...
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Tickets available via the link to sign up, great range of speakers on everything from slavery to remembrance and pageantry to stokers - full programme here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...
August 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Tickets available via the link to sign up, great range of speakers on everything from slavery to remembrance and pageantry to stokers - full programme here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...
Thank you @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social for publishing this detailed review of my book.
Have a read and remember that you can purchase globally from Cambridge University Press (bit.ly/4l1M5Gu), Amazon (amzn.to/4mZKaEm), and other vendors.
I recently saw it in the wild!
Have a read and remember that you can purchase globally from Cambridge University Press (bit.ly/4l1M5Gu), Amazon (amzn.to/4mZKaEm), and other vendors.
I recently saw it in the wild!
August 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Thank you @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social for publishing this detailed review of my book.
Have a read and remember that you can purchase globally from Cambridge University Press (bit.ly/4l1M5Gu), Amazon (amzn.to/4mZKaEm), and other vendors.
I recently saw it in the wild!
Have a read and remember that you can purchase globally from Cambridge University Press (bit.ly/4l1M5Gu), Amazon (amzn.to/4mZKaEm), and other vendors.
I recently saw it in the wild!
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My new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London is part of @waterstones.bsky.social summer promotion this week - 25% off pre-orders by entering SUMMER25 at the checkout.
www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o...
#WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials
www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o...
#WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials
July 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London is part of @waterstones.bsky.social summer promotion this week - 25% off pre-orders by entering SUMMER25 at the checkout.
www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o...
#WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials
www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o...
#WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials
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On advance access: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism"
by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism*
Abstract. This article shows how the European Community sought to become a global climate leader during the 1980s and 1990s, only to fail to make progress
doi.org
July 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
On advance access: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism"
by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Well worth a read!
My first peer-reviewed article is in print! "Not Soldiers from a Soldier’s Point of View: The British Army Service Corps and the Boundaries of Martial Masculinities, 1914–1918." www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UDQRH...
Give it a read if you like #fww history, British history, or gender history.
Give it a read if you like #fww history, British history, or gender history.
Not Soldiers from a Soldier’s Point of View: The British Army Service Corps and the Boundaries of Martial Masculinities, 1914–1918
Historians of Britain and its empire have explored how the First World War’s violence and scale of mobilisation could transform cultural hierarchies. They have debated the impact of many white wome...
www.tandfonline.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Well worth a read!
After several weeks in Canada, I have got my hands on my author copies of Making Sense of the Great War.
Mark Jones (@mark18681918.bsky.social) was chosen at random to receive one for free!
You can buy it for £23.99 using the code HIST2425: bit.ly/4mYM08h.
#History #HistoryBooks #FirstWorldWar
Mark Jones (@mark18681918.bsky.social) was chosen at random to receive one for free!
You can buy it for £23.99 using the code HIST2425: bit.ly/4mYM08h.
#History #HistoryBooks #FirstWorldWar
July 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
After several weeks in Canada, I have got my hands on my author copies of Making Sense of the Great War.
Mark Jones (@mark18681918.bsky.social) was chosen at random to receive one for free!
You can buy it for £23.99 using the code HIST2425: bit.ly/4mYM08h.
#History #HistoryBooks #FirstWorldWar
Mark Jones (@mark18681918.bsky.social) was chosen at random to receive one for free!
You can buy it for £23.99 using the code HIST2425: bit.ly/4mYM08h.
#History #HistoryBooks #FirstWorldWar
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What a wonderful day of discussion and collaboration at 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' workshops we had contributors from four continents and different disciplines talking about a wide and varied range of archives +contexts. Learned so much and I can see so much scope for future collaboration
June 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What a wonderful day of discussion and collaboration at 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' workshops we had contributors from four continents and different disciplines talking about a wide and varied range of archives +contexts. Learned so much and I can see so much scope for future collaboration
I had a wonderful time in the archive room of the Canadian Great War Centre in Montreal yesterday.
Most of my time was spent looking through their postcard collection.
However, I also saw their (no longer) radioactive wrist watch collection and a painting of Arthur Currie by John Singer Sargent.
Most of my time was spent looking through their postcard collection.
However, I also saw their (no longer) radioactive wrist watch collection and a painting of Arthur Currie by John Singer Sargent.
June 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I had a wonderful time in the archive room of the Canadian Great War Centre in Montreal yesterday.
Most of my time was spent looking through their postcard collection.
However, I also saw their (no longer) radioactive wrist watch collection and a painting of Arthur Currie by John Singer Sargent.
Most of my time was spent looking through their postcard collection.
However, I also saw their (no longer) radioactive wrist watch collection and a painting of Arthur Currie by John Singer Sargent.
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I really want to read this!!! Since I am teaching a class on the World Wars this autumn, it's high up on my reading list!!!! 🗃️📌 #firstworldwar @alexmayhew.bsky.social
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 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I really want to read this!!! Since I am teaching a class on the World Wars this autumn, it's high up on my reading list!!!! 🗃️📌 #firstworldwar @alexmayhew.bsky.social
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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📣Out now on #firstview!
Andrew Halladay (@lsehy.bsky.social) on 'Internationalism, Empire, and the Early Esperanto Movement in India'
#Language #Community #Transnational 🗣️ 🗃️ 20thc
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Andrew Halladay (@lsehy.bsky.social) on 'Internationalism, Empire, and the Early Esperanto Movement in India'
#Language #Community #Transnational 🗣️ 🗃️ 20thc
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
June 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
📣Out now on #firstview!
Andrew Halladay (@lsehy.bsky.social) on 'Internationalism, Empire, and the Early Esperanto Movement in India'
#Language #Community #Transnational 🗣️ 🗃️ 20thc
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Andrew Halladay (@lsehy.bsky.social) on 'Internationalism, Empire, and the Early Esperanto Movement in India'
#Language #Community #Transnational 🗣️ 🗃️ 20thc
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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
Off to Canada - well Montreal and Ottawa - for research at the end of this week.
If anybody has any recommendations for things to do in both cities around my archive work then these would be very welcome!
If anybody has any recommendations for things to do in both cities around my archive work then these would be very welcome!
June 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Off to Canada - well Montreal and Ottawa - for research at the end of this week.
If anybody has any recommendations for things to do in both cities around my archive work then these would be very welcome!
If anybody has any recommendations for things to do in both cities around my archive work then these would be very welcome!
Today is publication day for the paperback edition of my monograph Making Sense of the Great War at £29.99 (or cheaper via Amazon).
Though I am yet to receive my author copies, I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and shares this.
Find it here: bit.ly/4l1M5Gu
Though I am yet to receive my author copies, I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and shares this.
Find it here: bit.ly/4l1M5Gu
Making Sense of the Great War | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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June 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Today is publication day for the paperback edition of my monograph Making Sense of the Great War at £29.99 (or cheaper via Amazon).
Though I am yet to receive my author copies, I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and shares this.
Find it here: bit.ly/4l1M5Gu
Though I am yet to receive my author copies, I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and shares this.
Find it here: bit.ly/4l1M5Gu
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Check out this fascinating new article:
Joe Robinson, "Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: The Deceleration of Crises in Late Modernity," Journal of Political Ideologies (2025)
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Joe Robinson, "Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: The Deceleration of Crises in Late Modernity," Journal of Political Ideologies (2025)
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: the deceleration of crises in late modernity
‘Crisis’ is a word of ancient coinage whose purchase in modern politics is frequently taken to be diminished in discourses of ‘crisis pessimism.’ This pessimism argues that the proliferation of ‘cr...
www.tandfonline.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Check out this fascinating new article:
Joe Robinson, "Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: The Deceleration of Crises in Late Modernity," Journal of Political Ideologies (2025)
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Joe Robinson, "Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: The Deceleration of Crises in Late Modernity," Journal of Political Ideologies (2025)
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Everyone at the International Society is hugely saddened to have heard this news.
Sad news: I have heard that Professor Brian Bond died yesterday. He was 89. I last saw him three weeks ago. Brian was an immensely significant figure in British military history. He supervised my PhD (and 50 others) and I owe him a great deal. RIP.
June 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Everyone at the International Society is hugely saddened to have heard this news.
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Feeding the Mind is now available in paperback and you can get 20% off using the code HIST1925.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
Feeding the Mind
Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Feeding the Mind
www.cambridge.org
May 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Feeding the Mind is now available in paperback and you can get 20% off using the code HIST1925.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
I could not be prouder of our two THIRD YEAR UNDERGRADUATES for this achievement.
Many scholars never publish in the Historical Journal.
Pip and Noah are off to Oxford to begin their postgraduate studies next year.
They are two young historians to keep an eye on!
Many scholars never publish in the Historical Journal.
Pip and Noah are off to Oxford to begin their postgraduate studies next year.
They are two young historians to keep an eye on!
📣Out now on #firstview!
Philippa Fletcher and Noah Petts (both @lsehy.bsky.social) on 'The Lives and Legacies of the British Gay Liberation Front Badge, 1970–2024'
#Badge #Community #Belonging #QueerHistory 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Philippa Fletcher and Noah Petts (both @lsehy.bsky.social) on 'The Lives and Legacies of the British Gay Liberation Front Badge, 1970–2024'
#Badge #Community #Belonging #QueerHistory 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
May 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I could not be prouder of our two THIRD YEAR UNDERGRADUATES for this achievement.
Many scholars never publish in the Historical Journal.
Pip and Noah are off to Oxford to begin their postgraduate studies next year.
They are two young historians to keep an eye on!
Many scholars never publish in the Historical Journal.
Pip and Noah are off to Oxford to begin their postgraduate studies next year.
They are two young historians to keep an eye on!
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This is a first rate lecture at the #NationalArmyMuseum by Dr Alex Mayhew. Highly recommended if you wonder how the English #Tommies stuck it out for years on the #WesternFront
#fww #fwwhist #ww1
#fww #fwwhist #ww1
Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness and Morale
YouTube video by NationalArmyMuseumUK
youtu.be
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is a first rate lecture at the #NationalArmyMuseum by Dr Alex Mayhew. Highly recommended if you wonder how the English #Tommies stuck it out for years on the #WesternFront
#fww #fwwhist #ww1
#fww #fwwhist #ww1