Dr Aimée Fox
@draefox.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in IR at University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
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Dr Aimée Fox
@draefox.bsky.social
· Oct 7
Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!
US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
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A small story of the pain off loss, memory, and #remembrance in 1920s Seven Dials.
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
A small story of the pain off loss, memory, and #remembrance in 1920s Seven Dials.
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I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
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Here's the preview of the book cover... it's not out yet, but you can now pre-order The Dum-Dum Bullet: A Lethal History, 1850-1950
The Dum-Dum Bullet | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Here's the preview of the book cover... it's not out yet, but you can now pre-order The Dum-Dum Bullet: A Lethal History, 1850-1950
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"We’ve made it about individuals, because the academic research system is very focused on the individual level, and that’s something we really need to break,” she said.
Yes, break the focus on individuals. After all, the system is doing its best to break individuals altogether at this time. 1/3
Yes, break the focus on individuals. After all, the system is doing its best to break individuals altogether at this time. 1/3
REF must ditch focus on individuals, says Ottoline Leyser.
Former UKRI head also echoes previous calls for universities to do less research.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Former UKRI head also echoes previous calls for universities to do less research.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
REF must ditch focus on individuals, says Ottoline Leyser - Research Professional News
Former UKRI head also echoes previous calls for universities to do less research
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"We’ve made it about individuals, because the academic research system is very focused on the individual level, and that’s something we really need to break,” she said.
Yes, break the focus on individuals. After all, the system is doing its best to break individuals altogether at this time. 1/3
Yes, break the focus on individuals. After all, the system is doing its best to break individuals altogether at this time. 1/3
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Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.
Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain | Events at The University of Manchester
Department of History Guest Seminar
events.manchester.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.
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Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Capital, Agents and Absentees: Port Phillip Pastoralism and the Profits of Slavery
This article reveals that British-based merchants invested capital made from the Atlantic slave complex in the early Port Phillip District’s pastoral sector. It traces the capital that underpinned ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I'm so pleased to share this Call for Papers for a conference on Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries, organised with my colleagues Chris Batten and @rfhodge.bsky.social, kindly supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Submissions to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by 22/12/25!
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I'm so pleased to share this Call for Papers for a conference on Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries, organised with my colleagues Chris Batten and @rfhodge.bsky.social, kindly supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Submissions to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by 22/12/25!
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Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess!
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Militarizing Marriage
Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962...
www.ohioswallow.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess!
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
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When you're trying to figure out the purpose of the paper you're writing...
October 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
When you're trying to figure out the purpose of the paper you're writing...
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📣 The WFA PhD Grant Scheme is currently open to applicants!
We want to hear from anyone researching the First World War as part of their doctoral thesis, no matter what the topic!
#fwwhist
Full details and application form can be found below ⬇️
www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...
We want to hear from anyone researching the First World War as part of their doctoral thesis, no matter what the topic!
#fwwhist
Full details and application form can be found below ⬇️
www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...
October 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
📣 The WFA PhD Grant Scheme is currently open to applicants!
We want to hear from anyone researching the First World War as part of their doctoral thesis, no matter what the topic!
#fwwhist
Full details and application form can be found below ⬇️
www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...
We want to hear from anyone researching the First World War as part of their doctoral thesis, no matter what the topic!
#fwwhist
Full details and application form can be found below ⬇️
www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...
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This year one of the great joys of my work has been contributing to the advisory board for a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. And last week the exhibition officially opened!
Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus
At the end of the Second World War, a wave of independence movements swept the British Empire. Emergency Exits focuses on three often overlooked independence movements. These were brutal conflicts bet...
www.iwm.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This year one of the great joys of my work has been contributing to the advisory board for a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. And last week the exhibition officially opened!
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I'm delighted to say that I have been awarded the State Library of NSW's David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship for 2026!
My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition".
Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.
My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition".
Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.
October 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I'm delighted to say that I have been awarded the State Library of NSW's David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship for 2026!
My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition".
Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.
My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition".
Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.
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for those of you in/near Bristol: I'll be speaking there on Dec 2 on the rise and fall of proportionality in US government military-legal thinking - please come if you're around.
www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
The Rise and Fall of Proportionality: International Humanitarian Law and the American Way of War
Online and in person for internal University of Bristol Atendees
www.bristol.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
for those of you in/near Bristol: I'll be speaking there on Dec 2 on the rise and fall of proportionality in US government military-legal thinking - please come if you're around.
www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
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I am really honoured to share that I will be a keynote at this year’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium. I’ll be focusing my talk on my 2022 piece ‘Your Work Is Not International Relations’. Thank you very much to the editorial team! : millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...
October 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I am really honoured to share that I will be a keynote at this year’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium. I’ll be focusing my talk on my 2022 piece ‘Your Work Is Not International Relations’. Thank you very much to the editorial team! : millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...
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I guess the countdown to publication day has well and truly begun ...
'An essential insight into the voices that are often silenced by a city's ego, and a timely spotlight on a political agenda that is ever-present today.' - @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London. #booksky #London
The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London. #booksky #London
October 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I guess the countdown to publication day has well and truly begun ...
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“Tim Galsworthy compellingly shows us how the thinking of Republicans, as they encountered the momentous years of the civil rights movement, was rarely far from memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction.” I'm humbled Robert Mason gave my forthcoming book "The Republican House Divided" such praise 🗃️
October 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
“Tim Galsworthy compellingly shows us how the thinking of Republicans, as they encountered the momentous years of the civil rights movement, was rarely far from memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction.” I'm humbled Robert Mason gave my forthcoming book "The Republican House Divided" such praise 🗃️
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New bibliography entry: Framing the First World War: How divergent views shaped a global conflict ift.tt/X073b8k #FWWstudies
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October 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New bibliography entry: Framing the First World War: How divergent views shaped a global conflict ift.tt/X073b8k #FWWstudies
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New bibliography entry: Between You and Me and the Bedpost: Gossip and the Social Life of the British Armed Forces in the First World War ift.tt/RImpWGd #FWWstudies
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October 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New bibliography entry: Between You and Me and the Bedpost: Gossip and the Social Life of the British Armed Forces in the First World War ift.tt/RImpWGd #FWWstudies
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Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!
US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!
US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
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It was two OUP books.
October 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It was two OUP books.
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I wrote what became the first chapter of this great volume. It comes out in November.
We are thrilled with the collection & are incredibly grateful to our contributors for their fantastic chapters, including @sdanisimova.bsky.social @vandawilcox.bsky.social @lmhalewood.bsky.social @yanikdag.bsky.social & more!
Check out the contents & praise 👇
kansaspress.ku.edu/978070064056....
Check out the contents & praise 👇
kansaspress.ku.edu/978070064056....
Framing the First World War
This innovative approach to the history of World War I looks at ways in which military actors saw and perceived war, and how that exerted a significant influ...
kansaspress.ku.edu
October 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I wrote what became the first chapter of this great volume. It comes out in November.
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Looking forward to seeing this book out very soon now!
Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!
US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Looking forward to seeing this book out very soon now!
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It’s been fantastic to work with so many brilliant colleagues on this - brilliant chapters on everything from innovation to propaganda and covering great geographical range. We also hope the book speaks to qs of mil thought & organisation beyond history- check it out!
Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!
US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
It’s been fantastic to work with so many brilliant colleagues on this - brilliant chapters on everything from innovation to propaganda and covering great geographical range. We also hope the book speaks to qs of mil thought & organisation beyond history- check it out!
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Breaking the Status Quo: What Could Empathy Mean for our Politics?
Join @claireyorke.bsky.social discussing her new book, Empathy in Politics and Leadership with jennifernadel.bsky.social from @compinpolitics.bsky.social
Monday 13th October, 6pm, KCL
Register:
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
Join @claireyorke.bsky.social discussing her new book, Empathy in Politics and Leadership with jennifernadel.bsky.social from @compinpolitics.bsky.social
Monday 13th October, 6pm, KCL
Register:
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
Book Talk - Breaking the Status Quo: What Could Empathy Mean for our Politics? | King's College London
In this event, Dr Claire Yorke will speak about the core ideas of her new book ‘Empathy in Politics and Leadership: The Key to Transforming our World
www.kcl.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Breaking the Status Quo: What Could Empathy Mean for our Politics?
Join @claireyorke.bsky.social discussing her new book, Empathy in Politics and Leadership with jennifernadel.bsky.social from @compinpolitics.bsky.social
Monday 13th October, 6pm, KCL
Register:
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
Join @claireyorke.bsky.social discussing her new book, Empathy in Politics and Leadership with jennifernadel.bsky.social from @compinpolitics.bsky.social
Monday 13th October, 6pm, KCL
Register:
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
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Had great fun writing this. How a spiritualist vegetarian who believed he had found the Holy Grail convinced Churchill and 5 million Brits to pray for peace and freedom during WWII.
gethistory.co.uk/articles/20t...
gethistory.co.uk/articles/20t...
The Silent Minute
What do you do when your army has retreated, your ally has capitulated, and you face invasion? You pray.
gethistory.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Had great fun writing this. How a spiritualist vegetarian who believed he had found the Holy Grail convinced Churchill and 5 million Brits to pray for peace and freedom during WWII.
gethistory.co.uk/articles/20t...
gethistory.co.uk/articles/20t...