The Society recently ran the first year of the President's Undergraduate Essay Prize. The quality of the submissions was incredibly high - huge congratulations to Alexandra Doménech for her success!
We hope to see many more excellent essays submitted by undergraduate students in the years to come!
The inaugural @fwwsoc.bsky.social' President's Undergraduate Essay Prize has been won by 2nd-year History (MA Hons) student Alexandra Doménech, for her essay 'Flirting with the Front: The Marraines de Guerre and the Unofficial Intimacies of the Great War'. Read more, edin.ac/3J1XtoB
"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...
They are literally in a place which was restored to Egypt in a peace agreement brokered by Jimmy Carter less than 50 years ago. (Whatever you might think of that peace deal it was hugely consequential between countries that had fought four wars in thirty years).
I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior. To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also. Sick.
The actual answer to this is nuanced. Most people probably didn’t actually call many numbers repeatedly - the five or six called most frequently were memorised and the rest written down in address books/diaries/notes on fridge.
It'd be remiss of me not to wish the US navy a very happy birthday, of course - and unlike virtually everybody else I'm going to include a picture of a genuine American warship to do so...
The irony of Trump resurrecting ‘Columbus Day‘ is that the original Presidential endorsement of Columbus Day was reparation for the lynching of Italians in New Orleans as ‘criminal immigrants’.
Republicans have never given the slightest shit about coal miners, only about their rich buddy coal mine *owners* (and of course the joy of burning the planet).
Any coal miner who thought Trump was on their side for anything other than bigotry was a dope.
