Prof. Catriona Pennell
@teachlearnwar.bsky.social
Prof. of Modern History & Memory Studies & Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research & Impact HASS, University of Exeter | RHS Councillor 2025-29
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Historian of war, empire, and memory at @uniofexeter.bsky.social with a particular interest in education, social justice & human security. New to Bluesky. Here because of global dark skies overhead. Pango, age ten weeks, also new (since Thursday) & helping to keep us smiling.
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Imperialism in all its forms and by all imperial powers has contempt for national sovereignty and international law. Despicable- and some would have us join a military alliance with the US.
January 3, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Imperialism in all its forms and by all imperial powers has contempt for national sovereignty and international law. Despicable- and some would have us join a military alliance with the US.
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Also if anyone is interested in the history of the United States' attempts to topple leaders in South America and install more friendly dictators then you can - and I'm not joking here - download the files from the CIA website.
January 3, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Also if anyone is interested in the history of the United States' attempts to topple leaders in South America and install more friendly dictators then you can - and I'm not joking here - download the files from the CIA website.
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Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
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Check out a new collaboration between HaSS Cornwall and the National Maritime Museum, Cornwall. On 25 April 2026, a new University of Exeter/NMMC Masterclass will run on the topic of ‘World War 2, the Fall of France, and Cornwall’s Covert Special Operations’. nmmc.co.uk/university-o...
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Check out a new collaboration between HaSS Cornwall and the National Maritime Museum, Cornwall. On 25 April 2026, a new University of Exeter/NMMC Masterclass will run on the topic of ‘World War 2, the Fall of France, and Cornwall’s Covert Special Operations’. nmmc.co.uk/university-o...
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#OpenAccess! CAPTURING COMMEMORATION: Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain by Noakes, Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social, Hanna, Hughes @lornamhughes.bsky.social, Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social & Wallis has now been published!
Find out more : bit.ly/47FiHAL
#WWIStudies
Find out more : bit.ly/47FiHAL
#WWIStudies
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#OpenAccess! CAPTURING COMMEMORATION: Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain by Noakes, Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social, Hanna, Hughes @lornamhughes.bsky.social, Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social & Wallis has now been published!
Find out more : bit.ly/47FiHAL
#WWIStudies
Find out more : bit.ly/47FiHAL
#WWIStudies
Publication alert! A collaborative reflection on the UK’s biggest public history event - the centenary of the First World War. Thanks to @ukri.org for funding & my fellow co-authors @lucynoakes1.bsky.social @chriskempshall.bsky.social @lornahughes.bsky.social James Wallis and Emma Hanna.
Capturing Commemoration: Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Publication alert! A collaborative reflection on the UK’s biggest public history event - the centenary of the First World War. Thanks to @ukri.org for funding & my fellow co-authors @lucynoakes1.bsky.social @chriskempshall.bsky.social @lornahughes.bsky.social James Wallis and Emma Hanna.
The inherent tension between war and remembrance.
Germany raised its citizens to hate war. Now it wants us to enlist in the army – but we say no | Mithu Sanyal
The war in Ukraine is a crime. But European leaders should be working for peace, not preparing young people to fight and die, says German academic Mithu Sanyal
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The inherent tension between war and remembrance.
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New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...
Advocating for History by Doing History - On History
This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history…
blog.history.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...
📣 Just landed today: my interview on ‘Media, Memory and the War in Iraq’ as part of 🇨🇦 The Culture and Conflict Podcast. Discussing work by myself & @chriskempshall.bsky.social as part of @ukri.org ‘Ephemera and writing about war in Britain, 1914 to the present’. Enjoy! @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
S1E6 Media, Memory and the War in Iraq
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November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
📣 Just landed today: my interview on ‘Media, Memory and the War in Iraq’ as part of 🇨🇦 The Culture and Conflict Podcast. Discussing work by myself & @chriskempshall.bsky.social as part of @ukri.org ‘Ephemera and writing about war in Britain, 1914 to the present’. Enjoy! @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
📣 Delighted to announce that @hass-cornwall.bsky.social, with Trebah Garden, have launched the Tony Hibbert Prize: aimed at secondary school students in Cornwall with an interest in the legacies of 20th conflict and the challenges the world faces today.
hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/tony-hibbert...
hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/tony-hibbert...
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
📣 Delighted to announce that @hass-cornwall.bsky.social, with Trebah Garden, have launched the Tony Hibbert Prize: aimed at secondary school students in Cornwall with an interest in the legacies of 20th conflict and the challenges the world faces today.
hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/tony-hibbert...
hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/tony-hibbert...
Yesterday members of @hass-cornwall.bsky.social represented our faculty to visiting members of @exeter.ac.uk Council. They showcased world-leading research that engages with the Critical Minerals agenda from the perspectives of History, Archaeology, Law & Political Science. They did us proud.
October 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Yesterday members of @hass-cornwall.bsky.social represented our faculty to visiting members of @exeter.ac.uk Council. They showcased world-leading research that engages with the Critical Minerals agenda from the perspectives of History, Archaeology, Law & Political Science. They did us proud.
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Entering Gaza earlier today.
Amid practical work to save lives, we also bear witness.
Amid practical work to save lives, we also bear witness.
October 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Entering Gaza earlier today.
Amid practical work to save lives, we also bear witness.
Amid practical work to save lives, we also bear witness.
It’s official…
Three new trustees to join the Society's Council from November - RHS
The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the election of three new members to its governing Council. These appointments follow this year’s election round for new Councillors, in autumn 2025...
royalhistsoc.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It’s official…
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Where I try to explain why France is not going through an ordinary political crisis but that the Fifth Republic is a regime in crisis.
🇫🇷 #france #politics
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🇫🇷 #france #politics
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@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
France's political upheaval isn't temporary - it's a profound constitutional crisis | Pierre Purseigle
The old prime minister is back with a new team, but it can’t last: a democracy can’t have a president with the powers of a king, says French historian Pierre Purseigle
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Where I try to explain why France is not going through an ordinary political crisis but that the Fifth Republic is a regime in crisis.
🇫🇷 #france #politics
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
🇫🇷 #france #politics
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Delighted to announce I’ve been elected as a Council member to @royalhistsoc.org until 2029. Thank you for the confidence you’ve put in me to advocate for our colleagues & our discipline. Looking forward to working with other members, including Dr Stella Fletcher and @davidhitchcock.bsky.social
two men in suits and ties are waving their hands in a room .
ALT: two men in suits and ties are waving their hands in a room .
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October 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Delighted to announce I’ve been elected as a Council member to @royalhistsoc.org until 2029. Thank you for the confidence you’ve put in me to advocate for our colleagues & our discipline. Looking forward to working with other members, including Dr Stella Fletcher and @davidhitchcock.bsky.social
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Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.
The history graduate and the Sundance Kid 🤠
‘A dolphin among sharks’: readers pay tribute to Robert Redford, a great movie star and decent human being
People remember the human side of the ‘dazzling’ film star, who was kind and wise and lived a dignified life
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The history graduate and the Sundance Kid 🤠
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Today is the anniversary of the 1962 signing of the New York agreement between Indonesia and the Netherlands, leading to the recolonisation of West Papua. In my Humanity article, I explore the events leading up to this: humanityjournal.org/issue13-1/a-... Message me if you want a copy!
A New Agenda for the Global South: West Papua, the United Nations, and the Politics of Decolonization
Emma Kluge on West Papuan attempts at self-determination.
humanityjournal.org
August 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Today is the anniversary of the 1962 signing of the New York agreement between Indonesia and the Netherlands, leading to the recolonisation of West Papua. In my Humanity article, I explore the events leading up to this: humanityjournal.org/issue13-1/a-... Message me if you want a copy!
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The UK Parliament is the core of the British political system and a subject of relentless scrutiny.
Here at Humanities & Social Sciences Cornwall we teach and research our legislature in collaboration with Parliament itself.
Find out more in our new video series:
youtu.be/sRui4vRGChE?...
Here at Humanities & Social Sciences Cornwall we teach and research our legislature in collaboration with Parliament itself.
Find out more in our new video series:
youtu.be/sRui4vRGChE?...
Parliament - Dr Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, Senior Lecturer in British Politics
YouTube video by University of Exeter
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August 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The UK Parliament is the core of the British political system and a subject of relentless scrutiny.
Here at Humanities & Social Sciences Cornwall we teach and research our legislature in collaboration with Parliament itself.
Find out more in our new video series:
youtu.be/sRui4vRGChE?...
Here at Humanities & Social Sciences Cornwall we teach and research our legislature in collaboration with Parliament itself.
Find out more in our new video series:
youtu.be/sRui4vRGChE?...
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Say it again for those in the back: HUMANITIES USUALLY SUBSIDIZE STEM at most R1s. Yes we have receipts.
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Say it again for those in the back: HUMANITIES USUALLY SUBSIDIZE STEM at most R1s. Yes we have receipts.
