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International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · Oct 6
Last week during the (wonderful) Society conference at the University of Macedonia, we announced the outcome of our recent elections at our AGM. With both @chriskempshall.bsky.social standing down as President & David Monger doing the same as Treasurer those 2 positions in particular were open.
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New bibliography entry: The Echoes of the Great War on a Distant Horizon: Santa Fe, Argentina ift.tt/iDLw0Yg #FWWstudies
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November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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New bibliography entry: Buenos Aires: A Cosmopolitan City at War ift.tt/7VMAuUz #FWWstudies
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November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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New bibliography entry: Ponta Delgada in the Azores: Centrality, War and Logistics in the Midst of Western Civilizations ift.tt/Zref8Bb #FWWstudies
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November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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New bibliography entry: Barcelona at War ift.tt/KXy8h6Q #FWWstudies
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November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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New bibliography entry: [Untitled] ift.tt/x3Qh9bJ #FWWstudies
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November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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New bibliography entry: Cape Town at War: 1914–1918 ift.tt/ncTBLiS #FWWstudies
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November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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New bibliography entry: Capital Transformations: Pretoria at War,
1914–1918 ift.tt/WorBe3x #FWWstudies
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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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New bibliography entry: Introduction: Urban Experiences of the First
World War in Africa, East Asia, Latin
America and South Europe ift.tt/PxaH7nX #FWWstudies
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November 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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This Memorial Lecture will be published in full in a future issue of First World War Studies, for now you can watch online!
fwwsoc.bsky.social International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · 8d
Last week's wonderful Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture by @juliarsct.bsky.social on the subject of 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War', is now available to watch on the Society YouTube Channel: youtu.be/yoaRVrmjDLw?...
Dennis Showalter Lecture 2025 by Julia Ribeiro Thomaz: 'Poetry under fire'
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November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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If you didn't catch last week's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, it is now available on Youtube!
fwwsoc.bsky.social International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · 8d
Last week's wonderful Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture by @juliarsct.bsky.social on the subject of 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War', is now available to watch on the Society YouTube Channel: youtu.be/yoaRVrmjDLw?...
Dennis Showalter Lecture 2025 by Julia Ribeiro Thomaz: 'Poetry under fire'
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November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Call for Statements of Interest - open now!

In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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2026 MWHN Conference - call for papers!

Join us in Romania next June to discuss all things military welfare and civil society. Deadline: 28 Feb 2026.

CfP attached and full details at militarywelfarehistory.com/2026-confere... #milwelfhist #civilsociety #charity #philanthropy @vahs.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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New bibliography entry: At the Periphery of a World War? Urban Experiences of the First World War in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and South Europe ift.tt/VPSUH2c #FWWstudies
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November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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New bibliography entry: The war for Anatolia and the remaking of international order: Greece, Turkey and the end of WWI ift.tt/x6bva9O #FWWstudies
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November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Last week's wonderful Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture by @juliarsct.bsky.social on the subject of 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War', is now available to watch on the Society YouTube Channel: youtu.be/yoaRVrmjDLw?...
Dennis Showalter Lecture 2025 by Julia Ribeiro Thomaz: 'Poetry under fire'
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November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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New bibliography entry: A Series of Unfortunate Events: 'First Battles' of the Nigerian Contingent in the Cameroon Campaign (1914–1916) ift.tt/4vaprby #FWWstudies
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November 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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New bibliography entry: The Social Science of the Great War: A Historiographical Essay on North African and Indian Soldiers in Palestine and Syria ift.tt/CkzxefD #FWWstudies
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November 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The whole event was wonderful. Everyone at the Society is incredibly proud of @juliarsct.bsky.social and have no doubts that Dennis Showalter would have found her lecture fascinating.

Details of next year’s awards and grant opportunities will be forthcoming in 2026!
juliarsct.bsky.social Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz @juliarsct.bsky.social · 13d
That is it for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture. Thank you to the @fwwsoc.bsky.social for their continuous support of my work and of ECRs. This award is one of our numerous member benefits, so do consider joining us! Thank you as well to everyone who attended both in person and online!
fwwsoc.bsky.social International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · Sep 5
We are delighted to share the details for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War' to be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social on 11th Nov 2025

You can book to attend in person or online:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Tomorrow! This is pretty much the last chance to book to attend through the eventbrite in the original message!
fwwsoc.bsky.social International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · Sep 5
We are delighted to share the details for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War' to be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social on 11th Nov 2025

You can book to attend in person or online:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War 5.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University What did the First World War do to poetry? What did poetry do during the First World War? In this lecture, Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz will explore a brand new corpus of war poets to interrogate not what is a good or bad war poem nor what war poems say about the war, but rather the social and cultural functions accomplished by poetry in 1914-1918: inventing itself, creating social links, anchoring the war in relation to a poetic past and multiple imagined futures, mediating the experience of war, and producing knowledge about the conflict. She will explore how the expansion of our definition of war poetry allows us to ask new questions about the First World War, as well as future possibilities to continue broadening our understanding of what war poetry was and, above all, what it did and continues doing for those writing and reading it. Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz is a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Lille. She completed her doctorate, on French poetry of the First World War, at Université Paris Nanterre. Julia has already published widely in academic journals, and is a Fellow of the International Society for First World War Studies. This lecture continues the annual series of Remembrance lectures at Edinburgh Napier University, marking the historical significance of Craiglockhart as a War Hospital during the First World War, famously the meeting place of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. We also remember our late colleague Catherine Walker, who was for many years curator of the War Poets Collection. Funding comes from the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture and the Centre for Military Research, Education & Public Engagement. This year the event is also the Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, selected by the International Society for First World War Studies. Named after Dennis Showalter, the leading historian of Germany during the war and a longtime friend and supporter of the Society it is delivered each year by a leading early career researcher in First World War Studies. The event is held in the Rivers Suite at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart Campus (Google map | travel info). There will be a wine reception from 5.30pm; the lecture will start around 6pm. The event will also be streamed online via Zoom. If you have any queries about the event, please contact Dr Andrew Frayn (a.frayn@napier.ac.uk). This event is both in person and online. If you wish to attend online, please buy an 'online Ticket'. Zoom information will be found in the email confirmations.
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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There's 60 booked for this in person, and more than that again online - we'd still like to see even more of you by either means!
fwwsoc.bsky.social International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · Sep 5
We are delighted to share the details for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War' to be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social on 11th Nov 2025

You can book to attend in person or online:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War 5.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University What did the First World War do to poetry? What did poetry do during the First World War? In this lecture, Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz will explore a brand new corpus of war poets to interrogate not what is a good or bad war poem nor what war poems say about the war, but rather the social and cultural functions accomplished by poetry in 1914-1918: inventing itself, creating social links, anchoring the war in relation to a poetic past and multiple imagined futures, mediating the experience of war, and producing knowledge about the conflict. She will explore how the expansion of our definition of war poetry allows us to ask new questions about the First World War, as well as future possibilities to continue broadening our understanding of what war poetry was and, above all, what it did and continues doing for those writing and reading it. Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz is a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Lille. She completed her doctorate, on French poetry of the First World War, at Université Paris Nanterre. Julia has already published widely in academic journals, and is a Fellow of the International Society for First World War Studies. This lecture continues the annual series of Remembrance lectures at Edinburgh Napier University, marking the historical significance of Craiglockhart as a War Hospital during the First World War, famously the meeting place of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. We also remember our late colleague Catherine Walker, who was for many years curator of the War Poets Collection. Funding comes from the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture and the Centre for Military Research, Education & Public Engagement. This year the event is also the Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, selected by the International Society for First World War Studies. Named after Dennis Showalter, the leading historian of Germany during the war and a longtime friend and supporter of the Society it is delivered each year by a leading early career researcher in First World War Studies. The event is held in the Rivers Suite at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart Campus (Google map | travel info). There will be a wine reception from 5.30pm; the lecture will start around 6pm. The event will also be streamed online via Zoom. If you have any queries about the event, please contact Dr Andrew Frayn (a.frayn@napier.ac.uk). This event is both in person and online. If you wish to attend online, please buy an 'online Ticket'. Zoom information will be found in the email confirmations.
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Final preparations for Tuesday's lecture! I am so lucky that I get to deliver this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture - and at Craiglockhart (and online) out of all places! If you are in Edinburgh, do come say hello - you can sign up via the link below
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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New bibliography entry: Essays on Italian history (1911-1920): The nation who wanted to become a power ift.tt/sDaPY1g #FWWstudies
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November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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New bibliography entry: The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and its Aftermath (1908–1923) ift.tt/kb5GaPh #FWWstudies
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November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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New bibliography entry: The Making of a World Order: Global Historical Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles ift.tt/0NdhmMu #FWWstudies
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November 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM