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Dr Victoria Taylor

@spitfirefilly.bsky.social

My article on Luftwaffe bombing campaigns during the Second World War is now out in this month's #HistoryOfWar magazine! Available at all good magazine sellers and online: www.magazinesdirect.com/az-single-is...

January 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM

Dr Victoria Taylor

@spitfirefilly.bsky.social

Happy joint publication day to #EagleDays & my new accompanying feature in
#HistoryofWar magazine! Focussing on recruitment & training in the Luftwaffe by 1940, it contains bonus material that I couldn't fit into the book. On sale now! 😊👇 #BattleOfBritain

www.magazinesdirect.com/az-single-is...

May 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM

Jessica Meyer

@thehistorygirl1.bsky.social

I missed out on these @imperialwarmuseums @libertylondon fabrics at first issue, so am delighted to have managed to get my hands on some this time around. I can’t wait to incorporate them into my next quilting project!
🪡
#quilting #culturalhistory #historyofwar #thehistoriancrafts

February 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM

Jessica Meyer

@thehistorygirl1.bsky.social

Good showing of @fwwsoc.bsky.social members at this year’s Society for the History of War conference, both in person and in references. #fww #ww1 #milhist #historyofwar

PowerPoint slide showing Vanda Wilcox’s The Italian Empire and the Great War and an archival photograph of Italian servicemen on horseback.

November 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM

William Sheehan

@willsheehan.bsky.social

Want to see as many of you in Limerick as possible!!! #militaryhistory #historyofwar

The Society for the History of War @sochistorywar.bsky.social · Apr 24

📢 CfP: Society for the History of War Conference 2026

📍 University of Limerick
🗓 26–27 Nov 2026

Papers & panels invited on all aspects of war & violence incl. gender, memory, civil wars, cultures of conflict, and lived experience.

🗓 Deadline: 3 July 2026
📩 SHOWconferences@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS
***The deadline for paper and panel submissions is 3rd July 2026***
The Society for the History of War invites proposals for its Annual Conference:
The Conference is organised in collaboration with the University of Limerick and will be
held at the University of Limerick, Ireland, on 26-27 November 2026.
****
Keynote speaker:
Prof. Robert Gerwarth, University College Dublin, ‘Europe's Age of Civil Wars, 1917-
1949’

Proposals, either individual paper or panel proposals are welcome on any topic
addressing the history of war. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Society for the History of War
• Government policies, domestic politics, and the conduct of war
• Warfare, irregular warfare, counterinsurgency, peacekeeping
• Globalising histories of war
• Empires, imperialism, war and violence
• Civil-military relations
• Militarism, military identities
• War, violence, emotions and senses
• Experiences of war and violence; war and the everyday
• Gender and war
• Media and the military
• Memory and commemoration
• Military cultures, military institutions, military landscapes
• Cultures of war and violence
• Representations of war and violence
• Civil wars
We would welcome early innovative and/or interdisciplinary methodological approaches
that highlight the range and complexity of challenges faced when studying violence and
war, as well as contributions by scholars who, although interested in the past, would not
call themselves historians.

SUBMISSION PROCESS
We welcome proposals for individual papers or for themed panels. Postgraduate
students are encouraged to participate in panels or to submit their own panel proposals
or individual papers. The conference is intended to offer a constructive environment in
which to present work in progress to a specialist audience.
Panels will last for 90 minutes each and should have three to four speakers, and a chair.
Each paper should be no longer than 15 minutes to leave sufficient time for discussion.
Individual paper proposals must include a paper title, a 300-word abstract of the paper,
and a one-page CV with current contact information / email address combined into a
single file. If accepted, individual papers will be assigned by the program committee to
Society for the History of War
an appropriate three to four person panel and assigned a chair. Speaking time per paper
will be 15 minutes.
Panel proposals must include a panel title and 300-word abstract summarizing the
theme of the panel; a paper title and a 300-word abstract for each proposed paper
proposed; and a one-page CV for each panellist, combined into a single file. Do note that
every panel must be chaired.
The deadline for proposals is 3rd July 2026. Please send all the relevant paperwork to
SHOWconferences@gmail.com making it clear that you are responding to this particular
CfP. The conference organisers will make a decision on the final programme by 31st
August 2026 at the latest.
We ask those organising panels to take diversity and gender balance seriously when
proposing their composition.

May 13, 2026 at 5:52 PM

The Society for the History of War

@sochistorywar.bsky.social

SHoW's heading to Potsdam!

📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June

Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk

#SHoW2025 #HistoryOfWar #CallForPapers #MilitaryHistory
#WarStudies #CFP

Society for the History of War

Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.

www.show.org.uk

May 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM

Clare Mulley

@claremulley.bsky.social

Yay! On my way to #BordersBookFest to talk about #AgentZo, & found a new review of the book in the current issue of #HistoryOfWar magazine!

June 13, 2024 at 10:38 AM

CedarBough T. Saeji

@thekpopprof.bsky.social

13 Mar 10:30am
Dr. #NikolaiJohnson (my former student!)
#ForcedLabor #HistoryofWar #KoreanHistory #Japan #Korea
zoom: [https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/61256584995]

March 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM

Rusty Robot X

@rustyrobotx.bsky.social

Here's one I did last year in 23. War Selfies.

#War #Historyofwar #Warselfies #Battleoflittlebighorn #AmericanRevolutionaryWar #Vietnamwar #battleofthermopylae #Gruntlife #grunts #aiart #aiartwork #aiart

November 22, 2024 at 7:26 AM

Hayley

@hayleybrabazon.bsky.social

It’s SHOW time of year again! This morning, I presented my paper titled “From Conflict to Recognition: gender and the military service pensions acts in post revolutionary Ireland”. As always, the @msp-archive.bsky.social is central to my research #historyofwar

November 28, 2024 at 10:31 AM

JoJo Hollatz

@jojohollatz.bsky.social

SECRET World War Two FACTS You Didn't Know About

#History #HistoryDocumentary #WorldHistory #WorldWar2 #WW2 #Facts #WWII #MilitaryHistory #Education #HiddenHistory #WarStories #WorldWarII #SecondWorldWar #Learning #HistoryOfWar #HistoryBuffs #LesserKnownFacts #HistoricalDocumentaries

October 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM

German Historical Institute London

@ghilondon.bsky.social

British troops’ bodies, routines, and understandings of ‘regular’ and ‘irregular’ violence.

Read it now: ghil.hypotheses.org/... 🔗

#historyofwar #warfare #weapon #guerilla #armalite #historyblog #skystorians
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The Enemy’s Weapon: Learning Guerrilla Warfare Through an American Rifle

Sarawak, January 1964 ‘You may be intrigued to hear that we have got our first Armalite rifle in Sarawak—captured from the Indos yesterday’, an officer of the British Far East Land Forces stationed in Singapore wrote to his colleague in Whitehall. ‘This may act as a suitable incentive to hasten our own.’1 In the context … Continue reading The Enemy’s Weapon: Learning Guerrilla Warfare Through an American Rifle

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March 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM

HeilMeinTrumpler

@heilmeintrumpler.bsky.social

Like his lord and savior, The Orange Jesus, JD Vance clearly isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.

Top down, a total KAKISTOCRACY!!!

#JDVance #DonaldTrump #WorldHistory #HistoryOfWar

August 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM

Stratheia

@stratheia.bsky.social

From ancient times to the modern era, war has remained a constant in human history, reflecting enduring patterns of power, ambition, and conflict.
#HistoryOfWar #PowerPolitics #HumanConflict
Read Full Article: stratheia.com/can-wars-eve...