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.
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
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
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
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;
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
You probably didn’t miss it but just in case, the Environmental Histories of the First World War is one of the best edited volumes I’ve read in a long time
April 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
You probably didn’t miss it but just in case, the Environmental Histories of the First World War is one of the best edited volumes I’ve read in a long time
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...
Always great to see new books on the FWW coming out in Japan, particularly when one features an all star cast of contributors. Edited volume by Mori Yasuo 総力戦とは何だったの (Chilura, 2025) @fwwsoc.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Always great to see new books on the FWW coming out in Japan, particularly when one features an all star cast of contributors. Edited volume by Mori Yasuo 総力戦とは何だったの (Chilura, 2025) @fwwsoc.bsky.social
Also got a pack of memorial band-aids from the Museum for Wounded, Sick, and Retired Soldiers in Kudanshita
February 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Also got a pack of memorial band-aids from the Museum for Wounded, Sick, and Retired Soldiers in Kudanshita
Received these interestingly shaped paperclips from the staff at the Museum for Japanese soldiers interned in Siberia and Repatriates from the Empire in Shinjuku. Not available for sale apparently.
February 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Received these interestingly shaped paperclips from the staff at the Museum for Japanese soldiers interned in Siberia and Repatriates from the Empire in Shinjuku. Not available for sale apparently.
My only remaining claim to any street-cred is that the students at Yoshida-dorm invite me to write for their annual fresheners’ magazine. This year I’m introducing them to Zygmunt Bauman
February 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
My only remaining claim to any street-cred is that the students at Yoshida-dorm invite me to write for their annual fresheners’ magazine. This year I’m introducing them to Zygmunt Bauman
Anyone know what this machine for strengthening ‘weak children’ is? From Present Day Japan 1934
January 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Anyone know what this machine for strengthening ‘weak children’ is? From Present Day Japan 1934
The pentel energel pen, best pens by far and now getting on that late 1990s Irish trend of adding ‘Euro’ to branding to pull in the punters
January 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The pentel energel pen, best pens by far and now getting on that late 1990s Irish trend of adding ‘Euro’ to branding to pull in the punters
Received my advance copy of myself and Ran Zwigenberg’s book length review of S.O.B.’s Don’t be Swindle, thanks to everyone we interviewed and who helped out. Big thanks to SxOxB for putting up with us. Order here www.bloomsbury.com/ca/sobs-dont...
Or just listen to the album it’d save you time!
Or just listen to the album it’d save you time!
December 10, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Received my advance copy of myself and Ran Zwigenberg’s book length review of S.O.B.’s Don’t be Swindle, thanks to everyone we interviewed and who helped out. Big thanks to SxOxB for putting up with us. Order here www.bloomsbury.com/ca/sobs-dont...
Or just listen to the album it’d save you time!
Or just listen to the album it’d save you time!
Finally getting around to the last volume of Hisa Masato’s 2018 manga ‘Jabberwocky 1914’ in which a race of humanoid dinosaurs are behind the First World War. Here they are planning how to get the USA into the war and spark a revolution in Russia
December 2, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Finally getting around to the last volume of Hisa Masato’s 2018 manga ‘Jabberwocky 1914’ in which a race of humanoid dinosaurs are behind the First World War. Here they are planning how to get the USA into the war and spark a revolution in Russia
On Saturday, I'm joining a host of speakers, far more qualified than I, to discuss challenges faced by the Japanese New Left post 1970. I'll be adding my two cents on the contemporary music scene in Kyoto. Come and challenge me on my definition hardcore punk! www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/symposium/zi...
November 28, 2024 at 8:08 AM
On Saturday, I'm joining a host of speakers, far more qualified than I, to discuss challenges faced by the Japanese New Left post 1970. I'll be adding my two cents on the contemporary music scene in Kyoto. Come and challenge me on my definition hardcore punk! www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/symposium/zi...
Very fun to go on about Punk in Northern Ireland to the KAG group in Kurashiki even if I only found out at the last minute that I was supposed to give the talk in Japanese
November 16, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Very fun to go on about Punk in Northern Ireland to the KAG group in Kurashiki even if I only found out at the last minute that I was supposed to give the talk in Japanese
