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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Some brilliant public-facing research here by our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social!!!

Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 2d

FYI:
@ljmuimpact.bsky.social and @ljmuhistory.bsky.social

Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe something for @malcolmcraig.bsky.social and the students on the @ljmuhistory.bsky.social Cold War module?

Körber-Stiftung History & Politics @koerberhistory.bsky.social · 2d

📣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

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Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social · 21d

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!

LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · 21d

We have an exciting seminar series at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social this semester. These events are free and everyone's welcome to attend.

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Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 11d

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

The cover of Wyrd Science magazine issue 7, with the magazine opened to show the first pages of my article titled 'Playing Games in the Bomb's Shadow'.

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · 4d

We're so very proud of our recent graduate Karin. Well done!

Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 4d

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

Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · 21d

We have an exciting seminar series at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social this semester. These events are free and everyone's welcome to attend.

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · 23d

Our pleasure, Aliyah! 🙂

LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · 23d

This will be interesting for our students!

Liverpool John Moores University Library @ljmulibrary.bsky.social · 24d

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Explore the Social History Archive with LJMU’s Exclusive Trial Access – Autumn 2025

We are excited to announce a special trial of the Social History Archive, giving staff and students full access from September through to the end of December 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity t…

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 25d

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.

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · Jul 28

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...

About the Project
Liverpool John Moores University invites applications for a fulltime, funded PhD researcher to work on a collaborative doctoral project with the Bluecoat, Liverpool's contemporary arts centre.
The project will explore the global and imperial history of Liverpool's Blue Coat Charity School in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It will focus on the extent to which the growing
globalisation of the port of Liverpool, and associated colonial connections and structures,
were reflected in the people involved in the charity school - its trustees, supporters, pupils and staff - and the School's wider activities. The period covered is from the formal end of the slave trade and slave ownership in the early-nineteenth century to the purchase of the Bluecoat's city-centre buildings - significantly by Merseyside philanthropist and imperialist William Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) — in the Edwardian era. As well as the completion of a PhD thesis, the project will involve the co-production of a contemporary arts programme, reflecting upon the Bluecoat's imperial connections and legacies.

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · Jun 22

www.politico.eu/article/iran...

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

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

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Gillian O'Brien @gillianobrien.bsky.social · Jun 4

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

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · Jun 5

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!

Dr Kate Ballantyne @kateballantyne.bsky.social · Jun 5

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.

open.spotify.com/episode/2XWw...

The student Old Left with Katherine Ballantyne

American Campus Podcast · Episode

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · May 24

@merseysideha.bsky.social Hi and welcome on Bluesky!

LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · May 24

This sounds fantastic! Our department can't wait to work with the new Merseyside Historical Association @merseysideha.bsky.social! Onwards and upwards!

Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social · May 23

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

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · May 24

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!

Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · May 14

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...

Lecturer in Modern Irish History (Fixed term for up to ten months) at Liverpool John Moores University

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Modern Irish History (Fixed term for up to ten months) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · May 24

Our colleague @gillianobrien.bsky.social has been very busy over the last couple of weeks!

Gillian O'Brien @gillianobrien.bsky.social · May 16

Fascinating work week - #convent, #conference, #corpse & a #museum! #monaghan #liverpool #dalkey @irishmuseums.bsky.social @ljmuhistory.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social

Photos of Monaghan county museum, Loreto convent Dalkey, historical association conference, Liverpool, gravestone

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · Apr 10

As every year, our first-year students have produced some brilliant exhibitions for their research projects. A real highlight of our academic year!

Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · Apr 10

It’s our first year exhibitions today. Students make a poster and guidebook on themed topic. My students did Victorian Sex Workers. I had such great work and lots of creative extras. It was really lovely hearing them talk about their research, direction and enjoyment of creativity

Looking down into a room with people and tables. There are posters on boards. It is a chapel setting

Map with red string joining up locations in London and pages of text and images underneath

Hand made lambs in a table poster in the background

A group of students and poster with a threatening and iPad screen showing a black and white image. Guidebook open with tickets on a table

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · Feb 24

More impressions from our dissertation conference today. The LMI is a fantastic venue!

Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · Feb 24

A really lovely day of dissertation presentations. I was soooo incredibly proud of my students as they discussed physical culture, beauty adverts, disability in the old Bailey, male sex workers, gaiety girls & so much more.

Also I got to drink tea from tea cups. We need more tea cups in the world

A picture taken in a Victorian wooden lecture theatre red benches and carpets. The walls are white with male portraits hanging around. Looking on to a lecture stage with a screen behind with a slide saying thank you for listening

A nineteenth century ornate staircase with satires with side. Red walls and carpets and the a mosaic of snakes for the medical sign with Greek words

A table of tea chows with ornate flowers on a white table cloth and a red wall behind

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · Feb 24

We held our annual #History Dissertation Conference today. Fair to say, we were blown away by the quality of our students' #research and the buzz and atmosphere throughout the day. It's a highpoint of our #academic year! @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · Feb 24

Our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social has a new Substack blog for his historical musings now. Obviously, we recommend to subscribe.

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German History Society @germanhistsoc.bsky.social · Jan 24

🚨NEW OPPORTUNITY🚨
@imm-min-journal.bsky.social are looking for an editorial assistant for a period of 3 years starting March 2025.

📅 Deadline: 7 February 2025

🖥️ Find out more at the GHS website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/01/23/o...

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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · Jan 28

That's playful pedagogy at work. Surely, our students will love it!

Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · Jan 28

1) New & exciting for this teaching semester is my strand for our @ljmuhistory.bsky.social Exploring History 1st year module. Exploring asks the students to work in groups to produce a public history display on a narrow topic. This year I have created a new strand 'Gaming America's Cold War'.

Page from a student facing website for my 'Gaming Americas Cold War' public history project. The page shows the covers of the Twilight 2000, Gamma World, and Morrow Project RPGs. The text says "In this strand you will have the opportunity to conduct research into a particular aspect of the relationship between analogue games (tabletop roleplaying games, board games, wargames, etc.) and America's Cold War in the 1980s. In small groups you will use primary and secondary sources to develop a museum exhibition exploring this topic and explaining its significance to the general public. Since the 1980s, sustained scholarly investigation has explored the cultural significance of contemporary films, television programmes, novels and comics which reveal the history and impact of different forms of post-1945 'nuclear culture'. Analogue games, however, are far less studied. Please note that this strand is explicitly NOT about console/computer games."

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