Huw Bennett
@bennetthuw.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
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The School of Advanced Study 'has developed Reshaped, an online training platform offering free resources for humanities researchers in the UK and further afield, covering topics such as digital skills for research and open access in humanities subjects.' 1/2
Humanities champion maps futures amid ‘challenge and reinvention’.
Collective effort can secure subject’s place despite losses, School of Advanced Study’s Claire Gorrara (@clairegorrara.bsky.social) believes.
#academicsky #humanities
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Collective effort can secure subject’s place despite losses, School of Advanced Study’s Claire Gorrara (@clairegorrara.bsky.social) believes.
#academicsky #humanities
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Humanities champion maps futures amid ‘challenge and reinvention’ - Research Professional News
Collective effort can secure subject’s place despite losses, School of Advanced Study’s Claire Gorrara believes
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December 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The School of Advanced Study 'has developed Reshaped, an online training platform offering free resources for humanities researchers in the UK and further afield, covering topics such as digital skills for research and open access in humanities subjects.' 1/2
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Come and work for a PhD with us with our full Hans Rausing scholarships for students from anywhere in the world...
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at @kingshistory.bsky.social is inviting applications for prospective students to pursue a PhD in the History of Science and Technology. For more information, click here: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py
FUNDING | KingsCHoSTM
Funding Opportunities within King's CHoSTM
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December 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Come and work for a PhD with us with our full Hans Rausing scholarships for students from anywhere in the world...
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New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb
Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research.
Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research.
Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS
The Society currently invites applications for the following six schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 23 January to 6 March 2026. For ...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb
Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research.
Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research.
Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
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This is enormously exciting. A conference - Empires at War - co-hosted by the Royal Military College of Canada and @ucddublin.bsky.social in Newman House, 17 - 18 Sep 2026. Call for Papers now open.
Keynotes - @jonathanfennell.bsky.social Linn, Khan, McGaughey, Thomas.
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Keynotes - @jonathanfennell.bsky.social Linn, Khan, McGaughey, Thomas.
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Conferences - UCD Centre for War Studies
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December 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is enormously exciting. A conference - Empires at War - co-hosted by the Royal Military College of Canada and @ucddublin.bsky.social in Newman House, 17 - 18 Sep 2026. Call for Papers now open.
Keynotes - @jonathanfennell.bsky.social Linn, Khan, McGaughey, Thomas.
www.ucd.ie/warstudies/c...
Keynotes - @jonathanfennell.bsky.social Linn, Khan, McGaughey, Thomas.
www.ucd.ie/warstudies/c...
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France intercepted drones flying over nuclear submarine base, defence minister says on.ft.com/48QFefT
France intercepted drones flying over nuclear submarine base, defence minister says
Europe on high alert for foreign interference as Irish police probe drone incursion against Ukrainian president’s plane
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December 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
France intercepted drones flying over nuclear submarine base, defence minister says on.ft.com/48QFefT
The new US National Security Strategy only reinforces what has been obvious since the Trump-Zelenskyy Oval Office debacle: the US can no longer be relied upon. British defence policy needs to catch up with this reality much faster.
December 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The new US National Security Strategy only reinforces what has been obvious since the Trump-Zelenskyy Oval Office debacle: the US can no longer be relied upon. British defence policy needs to catch up with this reality much faster.
Highly recommend Professor Henke’s lecture on German grand strategy:
Event video now available for: 'Zeitenwende or Continuity? Germany’s Quest for a Grand Strategy' with Prof Marina Henke
Watch as Henke asks, “Has Germany finally found a coherent grand strategy, or is strategic confusion still at the core?” youtu.be/KEGsB8DXt7o?...
Watch as Henke asks, “Has Germany finally found a coherent grand strategy, or is strategic confusion still at the core?” youtu.be/KEGsB8DXt7o?...
'Zeitenwende or Continuity? Germany’s Quest for a Grand Strategy' with Professor Marina Henke
YouTube video by Centre for Geopolitics
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December 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Highly recommend Professor Henke’s lecture on German grand strategy:
Delighted to see my chapter on the British Army published in this book today. Thanks to editors Jan Hoffenaar and Brian McAllister Linn for having me along!
National Armies and NATO, 1949-1991 - Leiden University Press
By providing a comparative study of NATO’s armies, this volume provides both a long-needed historical assessment and essential understanding of the problems facing the alliance and its members today.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Delighted to see my chapter on the British Army published in this book today. Thanks to editors Jan Hoffenaar and Brian McAllister Linn for having me along!
Reading about Treasury policy-making seems an appropriate way to spend budget day.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reading about Treasury policy-making seems an appropriate way to spend budget day.
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Spend time with some of the nicest people in Cambridge (and their archives)👇
📚 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.
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🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Spend time with some of the nicest people in Cambridge (and their archives)👇
Unacceptable censorship of free speech by the BBC. The Corporation seems intent on hastening its own demise.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Unacceptable censorship of free speech by the BBC. The Corporation seems intent on hastening its own demise.
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My talk at @ihr.bsky.social / @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social on British perceptions of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement is this Thursday! Come along in person, or join online!
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‘Out of sight and out of mind?’: British Perceptions of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement
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November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My talk at @ihr.bsky.social / @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social on British perceptions of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement is this Thursday! Come along in person, or join online!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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My new article is out with Irish Political Studies ‘The Rocky Road to Decommissioning: Revisiting the Decommissioning of Irish Republican Army Weapons Part 1 – August 1994 to October 2001’. Thanks all interviewees, reviewers and archive staff. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Rocky Road to Decommissioning: Revisiting the Decommissioning of Irish Republican Army Weapons Part 1 – August 1994 to October 2001
Decommissioning of paramilitary weapons formed a crucial part of Northern Ireland’s peace process. But the decommissioning of Irish Republican Army (IRA) weapons (the most prominent paramilitary gr...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
My new article is out with Irish Political Studies ‘The Rocky Road to Decommissioning: Revisiting the Decommissioning of Irish Republican Army Weapons Part 1 – August 1994 to October 2001’. Thanks all interviewees, reviewers and archive staff. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
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Anyone interested in pursuing doctoral study in military history (broadly defined) and especially in tje strategy snd economic statecraft of tge two world wars: please drop me a line
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College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarships - University of Birmingham
Fully-funded and partially-funded scholarships for doctoral research students studying in the College of Arts of Law in the 2026/27 academic year onwards
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November 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Anyone interested in pursuing doctoral study in military history (broadly defined) and especially in tje strategy snd economic statecraft of tge two world wars: please drop me a line
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
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An excellent essay on the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition about the end of empire, by the always excellent Erik Linstrum.
What happens when nationalist history meets the horrors of empire? For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I reviewed a new exhibition on British counterinsurgency at the Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum
An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
An excellent essay on the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition about the end of empire, by the always excellent Erik Linstrum.
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Published - the latest issue of the Journal of Political & Military Sociology is now out - it is a special issue: Ukrainian society responds to a decade of Russia's war - which I was fortunate to co-edit with Anna Kvit ⬇️
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Vol. 51 No. 2 (2024): Fall 2024
| Journal of Political & Military Sociology
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November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Published - the latest issue of the Journal of Political & Military Sociology is now out - it is a special issue: Ukrainian society responds to a decade of Russia's war - which I was fortunate to co-edit with Anna Kvit ⬇️
journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/issue/v...
journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/issue/v...
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Braint cael cyhoeddi yn Fortnight. Llyfr Philip Stephens yn werth chweil hefyd.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Braint cael cyhoeddi yn Fortnight. Llyfr Philip Stephens yn werth chweil hefyd.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
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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/...
Cardiff looking splendid this evening.
October 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Cardiff looking splendid this evening.
An enjoyable and productive visit to the Swedish Defence University this week; managed to fit in a quick look around the Army Museum in Stockholm. Thanks to @warmatters.bsky.social for hosting!
October 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
An enjoyable and productive visit to the Swedish Defence University this week; managed to fit in a quick look around the Army Museum in Stockholm. Thanks to @warmatters.bsky.social for hosting!
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Here is an Aber sunset to get your weekend off to a great start, photo courtesy of our head of department @alshepherd.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Here is an Aber sunset to get your weekend off to a great start, photo courtesy of our head of department @alshepherd.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing this new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum:
Now open at IWM London, our brand new special exhibition Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus. It's fascinating, it's revelatory and it's FREE. Do come and see it!
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October 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Looking forward to seeing this new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum:
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Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
October 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
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For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
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October 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.