Rowan Thompson
@rowan-thompson.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain. Former IHR Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History. Writing a book on militarism in interwar Britain.
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📢 Applications close this Friday for the RAF Museum 2025 Academic Awards! 🎓
Open to undergrad, master’s & PhD students researching RAF history, air power, archaeology, IR or museology.
💷 £3,000 PhD bursary | £350 MA prize | £250 UG prize
🗓️ Deadline: 24 Oct 2025
👉 Apply now at: bit.ly/47nnua8
Open to undergrad, master’s & PhD students researching RAF history, air power, archaeology, IR or museology.
💷 £3,000 PhD bursary | £350 MA prize | £250 UG prize
🗓️ Deadline: 24 Oct 2025
👉 Apply now at: bit.ly/47nnua8
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
📢 Applications close this Friday for the RAF Museum 2025 Academic Awards! 🎓
Open to undergrad, master’s & PhD students researching RAF history, air power, archaeology, IR or museology.
💷 £3,000 PhD bursary | £350 MA prize | £250 UG prize
🗓️ Deadline: 24 Oct 2025
👉 Apply now at: bit.ly/47nnua8
Open to undergrad, master’s & PhD students researching RAF history, air power, archaeology, IR or museology.
💷 £3,000 PhD bursary | £350 MA prize | £250 UG prize
🗓️ Deadline: 24 Oct 2025
👉 Apply now at: bit.ly/47nnua8
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We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
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“Ephemera and the Construction of First World War Life Writing” by Ann‑Marie Foster / @amfoster.bsky.social: doi.org/10.16995/olh...
Part of the #OLHJournal special collection Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production
Part of the #OLHJournal special collection Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production
Ephemera and the Construction of First World War Life Writing
In the years following the First World War, memoirs of combatants and those who experienced war in other roles proliferated the print market with their autobiographies. People made sense of their war ...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“Ephemera and the Construction of First World War Life Writing” by Ann‑Marie Foster / @amfoster.bsky.social: doi.org/10.16995/olh...
Part of the #OLHJournal special collection Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production
Part of the #OLHJournal special collection Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production
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We offer #bursaries up to £900 for PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research in the field of labour history to fund essential archive or library research. Find out more sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
Bursaries
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support to PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research, as well as to BA and…
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October 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We offer #bursaries up to £900 for PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research in the field of labour history to fund essential archive or library research. Find out more sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
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The Program for our 11th conference, to be held at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki on 1-3 October 2025, is now available!
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September 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Program for our 11th conference, to be held at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki on 1-3 October 2025, is now available!
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📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
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Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.
Starting this week:
Starting this week:
Events
Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
www.history.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!
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I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
September 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
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This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
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The latest issue of Coastal Studies & Society, guest edited by our fab colleague @bradbeaven.bsky.social is out now.
It's a special issue on "Coastal Imaginaries" & covers the themes of anxiety, liminality, power, and cultural construction.
#CoastalStudies
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It's a special issue on "Coastal Imaginaries" & covers the themes of anxiety, liminality, power, and cultural construction.
#CoastalStudies
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Coastal Studies & Society - Volume 4, Number 2-3
Table of contents for Coastal Studies & Society, 4, 2-3
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September 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The latest issue of Coastal Studies & Society, guest edited by our fab colleague @bradbeaven.bsky.social is out now.
It's a special issue on "Coastal Imaginaries" & covers the themes of anxiety, liminality, power, and cultural construction.
#CoastalStudies
journals.sagepub.com/toc/CLS/curr...
It's a special issue on "Coastal Imaginaries" & covers the themes of anxiety, liminality, power, and cultural construction.
#CoastalStudies
journals.sagepub.com/toc/CLS/curr...
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The Cambridge Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop is back — MPhil and PhD students from all universities are welcome to apply!
@camhistory.bsky.social
@camhistory.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Cambridge Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop is back — MPhil and PhD students from all universities are welcome to apply!
@camhistory.bsky.social
@camhistory.bsky.social
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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...
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And you can now read the (just published) book for free on the @uolpress.bsky.social website uolpress.co.uk/book/democra... !
August 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
And you can now read the (just published) book for free on the @uolpress.bsky.social website uolpress.co.uk/book/democra... !
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We have a great opportunity for a prospective #PhD student at our #History Department at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. We have a fully-funded PhD #scholarship to work with my great colleague Prof. Nick White on the global connections of #Liverpool's Bluecoat School. All infos in the link below.
Collaborative Doctoral Award – The Bluecoat’s Global Networks, 1830s to 1906 at Liverpool John Moores University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Collaborative Doctoral Award – The Bluecoat’s Global Networks, 1830s to 1906 at Liverpool John Moores University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We have a great opportunity for a prospective #PhD student at our #History Department at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. We have a fully-funded PhD #scholarship to work with my great colleague Prof. Nick White on the global connections of #Liverpool's Bluecoat School. All infos in the link below.
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#History #SkyStorians @lselibrary.bsky.social are launching a Library Fellowships scheme to work with their archives and special collections, includes funding for travel/accommodation/subsistence up to £5k. 3 themed fellowships available. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
LSE Library Fellowships
Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.
www.lse.ac.uk
July 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
#History #SkyStorians @lselibrary.bsky.social are launching a Library Fellowships scheme to work with their archives and special collections, includes funding for travel/accommodation/subsistence up to £5k. 3 themed fellowships available. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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Check out our new publication. This one is an intersensory and intermaterial approach to popular militarism. It's Open Access too!!
@jbhist.bsky.social & I are excited to see that our new article on the Royal Military Exhibition of 1890 has been published Open Access by @ihr.bsky.social. This takes a sensory & emotions history approach to the topic of late Victorian popular militarism.
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Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: senses, spectacle and military modernity in late Victorian Britain
Abstract. This article considers the conjunction of senses, emotions and objects in the Royal Military Exhibition of 1890 to deepen our understanding of po
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July 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Check out our new publication. This one is an intersensory and intermaterial approach to popular militarism. It's Open Access too!!
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Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
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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...
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July 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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.
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#History #SkyStorians 2025 @hisjournalha.bsky.social Research Bursary scheme is now open! Available: 1 ECR award & 1 mid-career researcher award, each worth up to £1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
History Research Bursary Scheme: Early Career and Mid-Career Routes
www.history.org.uk
June 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
#History #SkyStorians 2025 @hisjournalha.bsky.social Research Bursary scheme is now open! Available: 1 ECR award & 1 mid-career researcher award, each worth up to £1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
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Applications now open (until 27 June 2025) for the Institute of Historical Research's non-stipendiary IHR Fellowships. Ideal for active, non-affiliated historians who would benefit from a period embedded in @ihr.bsky.social 's community of public, local & academic historians, archivists, curators.
The IHR Fellowship
The IHR Fellowship is comprised of leading historians recognised for their research and the promotion of history.
www.history.ac.uk
June 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Applications now open (until 27 June 2025) for the Institute of Historical Research's non-stipendiary IHR Fellowships. Ideal for active, non-affiliated historians who would benefit from a period embedded in @ihr.bsky.social 's community of public, local & academic historians, archivists, curators.
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🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility workshop! 🔔
Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist?
Apply for our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on 4th July!
Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist?
Apply for our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on 4th July!
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May 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility workshop! 🔔
Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist?
Apply for our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on 4th July!
Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist?
Apply for our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on 4th July!
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Sign-up now open for the conference on 'Britain, Conflict & the Sea' that I am running with RMG this September: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...
Britain, Conflict, and the Sea conference
This conference seeks to explore the ways in which modern Britain has been shaped by ideas and practices of maritime war.
www.rmg.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Sign-up now open for the conference on 'Britain, Conflict & the Sea' that I am running with RMG this September: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...
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📘New issue!🌟
Featuring articles from historians including Juraj Kittler, @harryspillane.bsky.social, Gio Maria Tessarolo, @1812andallthat.bsky.social, @mtoiv.bsky.social, @rowan-thompson.bsky.social, @briancasey123.bsky.social, @historytiia.bsky.social, Eve Pennington & Elizabeth Terry-Roisin! 🗃️
Featuring articles from historians including Juraj Kittler, @harryspillane.bsky.social, Gio Maria Tessarolo, @1812andallthat.bsky.social, @mtoiv.bsky.social, @rowan-thompson.bsky.social, @briancasey123.bsky.social, @historytiia.bsky.social, Eve Pennington & Elizabeth Terry-Roisin! 🗃️
April 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
📘New issue!🌟
Featuring articles from historians including Juraj Kittler, @harryspillane.bsky.social, Gio Maria Tessarolo, @1812andallthat.bsky.social, @mtoiv.bsky.social, @rowan-thompson.bsky.social, @briancasey123.bsky.social, @historytiia.bsky.social, Eve Pennington & Elizabeth Terry-Roisin! 🗃️
Featuring articles from historians including Juraj Kittler, @harryspillane.bsky.social, Gio Maria Tessarolo, @1812andallthat.bsky.social, @mtoiv.bsky.social, @rowan-thompson.bsky.social, @briancasey123.bsky.social, @historytiia.bsky.social, Eve Pennington & Elizabeth Terry-Roisin! 🗃️