LJMU History
@ljmuhistory.bsky.social
This is the Bluesky account of the History Department at Liverpool John Moores University. We're a modern history department situated in the heart of Liverpool. We teach and research modern history with a global outlook. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni
Brilliant to see the exciting work of our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social receiving such interest. Surely, the downloads will be in the 100s now!
Gee whizz! My article on Twilight 2000 in the Journal of American studies is now the most read piece over the last 3 months, despite it only being available for a couple of weeks. That's kind of terrifying! Thanks so much to everyone who's taken the time to engage with it!
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November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Brilliant to see the exciting work of our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social receiving such interest. Surely, the downloads will be in the 100s now!
Congratulations to our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social on the publication of this exciting #research paper on tabletop role-playing games during the #ColdWar. It's open access, so everyone interested can read it for free!
Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public.
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When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces | Journal of American Studie...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces
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November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This Wednesday, 12 November, our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social will be talking about his current #research project on the #history of domestic #intelligence in #Britain. Everyone interested is very welcome to attend.
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This Wednesday, 12 November, our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social will be talking about his current #research project on the #history of domestic #intelligence in #Britain. Everyone interested is very welcome to attend.
This is what we call research-led teaching! 👍💪👏
1) Related to some recent discussions and more long term stuff, I've been thinking about my own efforts to embed the study of RPGs (and games more widely) into undergraduate teaching here at @ljmuhistory.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This is what we call research-led teaching! 👍💪👏
We're very much looking forward to celebrating the publication of @andrekeil.bsky.social's new book #emergency #powers in #Britain and #Germany during the First World War. The launch event is next Tuesday (28.10.), at 4.30 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend!
October 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We're very much looking forward to celebrating the publication of @andrekeil.bsky.social's new book #emergency #powers in #Britain and #Germany during the First World War. The launch event is next Tuesday (28.10.), at 4.30 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend!
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The left: earnest public speaker, telling the story of Robert Bruce Lockhart to a full ballroom of #history lovers at the @iowlf.bsky.social
The right: devil incarnate summoning the dark legions to do my bidding
I like both of these.
#booksky
@ljmuresearch.bsky.social @ljmuhistory.bsky.social
The right: devil incarnate summoning the dark legions to do my bidding
I like both of these.
#booksky
@ljmuresearch.bsky.social @ljmuhistory.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The left: earnest public speaker, telling the story of Robert Bruce Lockhart to a full ballroom of #history lovers at the @iowlf.bsky.social
The right: devil incarnate summoning the dark legions to do my bidding
I like both of these.
#booksky
@ljmuresearch.bsky.social @ljmuhistory.bsky.social
The right: devil incarnate summoning the dark legions to do my bidding
I like both of these.
#booksky
@ljmuresearch.bsky.social @ljmuhistory.bsky.social
A packed audience for our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social talking about his favourite (flawed) spymaster Robert Bruce Lockhart. #history #spy
Great turnout for my talk on the life of Robert Bruce Lockhart in Nantwich last night. Big tip of the hat to Steve at Nantwich Bookshop for organising a wonderful event.
As an added bonus, despite being in a church, I didn't burst into flame!
#historybookchat #history @ljmuhistory.bsky.social 📚 🗃
As an added bonus, despite being in a church, I didn't burst into flame!
#historybookchat #history @ljmuhistory.bsky.social 📚 🗃
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
A packed audience for our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social talking about his favourite (flawed) spymaster Robert Bruce Lockhart. #history #spy
This is an exciting conference happening in #Liverpool next year. We're proud to support it via our Centre for Modern and Contemporary #History here at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social! Please find all information in the link below.
It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
victorianist.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This is an exciting conference happening in #Liverpool next year. We're proud to support it via our Centre for Modern and Contemporary #History here at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social! Please find all information in the link below.
Some brilliant public-facing research here by our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social!!!
Right, now I have some time (and a copy myself!) it's time to share some internal pics from the new issue, my thoughts on the relevant features & perhaps persuade a few more of you to buy a copy (because it's swell)
shop.wyrd.science
So today let's start with @malcolmcraig.bsky.social's one, as...
shop.wyrd.science
So today let's start with @malcolmcraig.bsky.social's one, as...
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Some brilliant public-facing research here by our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social!!!
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Maybe something for @malcolmcraig.bsky.social and the students on the @ljmuhistory.bsky.social Cold War module?
📣Out now: Bandung at 70. A joint project with Robert Bosch Stiftung, this new ePaper revisits the 1955 “Bandung Spirit” 70 years on. Can Global South & North renew multilateralism, defend international law & tackle crises from climate to digital futures? 👉Find out here: tinyurl.com/zyxbty3
October 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Maybe something for @malcolmcraig.bsky.social and the students on the @ljmuhistory.bsky.social Cold War module?
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My department @ljmuhistory.bsky.social is hosting a series of talks this semester, including a launch event for my book that came out in April. Everyone's very much welcome to these events!
We have an exciting seminar series at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social this semester. These events are free and everyone's welcome to attend.
September 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
My department @ljmuhistory.bsky.social is hosting a series of talks this semester, including a launch event for my book that came out in April. Everyone's very much welcome to these events!
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And here we are! The latest, greatest issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social, incorporating an article on the Cold War and RPGs by...me!
@ljmuimpact.bsky.social
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@ljmuimpact.bsky.social
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September 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
And here we are! The latest, greatest issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social, incorporating an article on the Cold War and RPGs by...me!
@ljmuimpact.bsky.social
@ljmuhistory.bsky.social
@ljmuimpact.bsky.social
@ljmuhistory.bsky.social
We're so very proud of our recent graduate Karin. Well done!
I am absolutely thrilled that Karin Meredith’s dissertation on c19th beauty culture in advertisements has been hightly commended by @womenshistnet.bsky.social. It was perhaps the best diss I’ve ever had the delight to supervise! I’m so proud of her &with @ljmuhistory.bsky.social send hearty congrats
Highly Commended: Karin Meredith
"Marketing Beauty, Maintaining Power: Gender, Class and Advertising in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain"
An insightful exploration of the beauty industry through periodicals, touching on whiteness, femininity, and moral discourse.
"Marketing Beauty, Maintaining Power: Gender, Class and Advertising in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain"
An insightful exploration of the beauty industry through periodicals, touching on whiteness, femininity, and moral discourse.
October 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We're so very proud of our recent graduate Karin. Well done!
We have an exciting seminar series at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social this semester. These events are free and everyone's welcome to attend.
September 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We have an exciting seminar series at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social this semester. These events are free and everyone's welcome to attend.
This will be interesting for our students!
September 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This will be interesting for our students!
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Today kickstarts induction. My life long uni friends emerged from a chance encounter in the welcome desk queue where I ended up befriending the girl ahead of me& subsequently her flat mates. Looking around the lecture room I’ll be thinking about all the friendships to be made & that’s exciting.
September 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Today kickstarts induction. My life long uni friends emerged from a chance encounter in the welcome desk queue where I ended up befriending the girl ahead of me& subsequently her flat mates. Looking around the lecture room I’ll be thinking about all the friendships to be made & that’s exciting.
One of our brilliant graduates this year, Aliyah Kerr, has turned her dissertation on anti-#apartheid #activism in #Liverpool into a Substack article. It's a brilliant read, and really showcases the quality of the research our students do for their dissertations. Give it a read!
Liverpool 8 and the Fight Against Apartheid
How Toxteth's Struggle Became a Global One
aliyahkerr.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
One of our brilliant graduates this year, Aliyah Kerr, has turned her dissertation on anti-#apartheid #activism in #Liverpool into a Substack article. It's a brilliant read, and really showcases the quality of the research our students do for their dissertations. Give it a read!
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My @ljmuhistory.bsky.social colleague Nick White with the art’s organisation Bluecoat’s are recruiting a PHD student to research the global &imperial history of Liverpool’s Blue Coat Charity School. They want someone who can develop a community strand #skyhistorian www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
July 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My @ljmuhistory.bsky.social colleague Nick White with the art’s organisation Bluecoat’s are recruiting a PHD student to research the global &imperial history of Liverpool’s Blue Coat Charity School. They want someone who can develop a community strand #skyhistorian www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Attention @ljmuhistory.bsky.social students - this was what I was referring to when discussing "strategic choke points"
Attention @ljmuhistory.bsky.social students - this was what I was referring to when discussing "strategic choke points"
Iran reportedly moves to shut Strait of Hormuz after US attacks
The Iranian parliament backed a measure to close the critical shipping route in response to U.S. airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran, state media reported
www.politico.eu
June 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Attention @ljmuhistory.bsky.social students - this was what I was referring to when discussing "strategic choke points"
Attention @ljmuhistory.bsky.social students - this was what I was referring to when discussing "strategic choke points"
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It was my pleasure today to welcome over a hundred delegates from across the globe to this year's Britain and the World Conference, hosted by LJMU's Centre for Modern and Contemporary History
#batw2025 #skystorians #conference #history
@ljmuhistory.bsky.social
@ljmu-ris.bsky.social
#batw2025 #skystorians #conference #history
@ljmuhistory.bsky.social
@ljmu-ris.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It was my pleasure today to welcome over a hundred delegates from across the globe to this year's Britain and the World Conference, hosted by LJMU's Centre for Modern and Contemporary History
#batw2025 #skystorians #conference #history
@ljmuhistory.bsky.social
@ljmu-ris.bsky.social
#batw2025 #skystorians #conference #history
@ljmuhistory.bsky.social
@ljmu-ris.bsky.social
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Thursday 4th at 1.15 the @sharinglands.bsky.social crew will be chatting about the Irish Choctaw links (and also stickball, bicycles & virtual walks) at Nano Nagle Place #Cork It's free and everyone is welcome. nanonagleplace.ie/nanoevents/s...
Sharing Lands: Reconciliation, Recognition, & Reciprocity
An afternoon of powerful storytelling, connection, and reflection inspired by the Choctaw gift to Ireland during the Great Famine.
nanonagleplace.ie
June 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Thursday 4th at 1.15 the @sharinglands.bsky.social crew will be chatting about the Irish Choctaw links (and also stickball, bicycles & virtual walks) at Nano Nagle Place #Cork It's free and everyone is welcome. nanonagleplace.ie/nanoevents/s...
Our very own @kateballantyne.bsky.social was interviewed in this podcast about her most recent book on student activists in Tennessee. It's.a fascinating listen!
I went on the brilliant @americancampus.bsky.social and talked about my book, Radical Volunteers, out now with @ugapress.bsky.social. Thanks so much to @llassabe.bsky.social for having me on the pod! And don’t just listen for my episode, the pod is fantastic.
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open.spotify.com/episode/2XWw...
The student Old Left with Katherine Ballantyne
American Campus Podcast · Episode
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June 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Our very own @kateballantyne.bsky.social was interviewed in this podcast about her most recent book on student activists in Tennessee. It's.a fascinating listen!
@merseysideha.bsky.social Hi and welcome on Bluesky!
May 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
@merseysideha.bsky.social Hi and welcome on Bluesky!
This sounds fantastic! Our department can't wait to work with the new Merseyside Historical Association @merseysideha.bsky.social! Onwards and upwards!
Exciting news for people in #Liverpool and #Merseyside! We now have a local branch of the @histassoc.bsky.social! If you are a #historian, #history #teacher, or just generally interested in history, feel free to join us! We're here on Bluesky: @merseysideha.bsky.social and online: merseysideha.co.uk
Merseyside HA
The Voice for History
merseysideha.co.uk
May 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This sounds fantastic! Our department can't wait to work with the new Merseyside Historical Association @merseysideha.bsky.social! Onwards and upwards!
We are indeed hiring! All details for this temporary post in Modern #Irish #History can be found in the link below. Come and join our friendly bunch of hisotrians!
If you're a historian of modern Ireland, we are currently welcoming applications for a temporary position in @ljmuhistory.bsky.social. This is to cover my esteemed colleague @gillianobrien.bsky.social, who will be on research leave in AY2025-26.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNB992/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNB992/l...
Lecturer in Modern Irish History (Fixed term for up to ten months) at Liverpool John Moores University
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May 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM