Professor of Second World Studies (Edinburgh Uni); PI on AHRC-funded project, Beyond Borders; RSE-funded SWW Network; author of 'Wales in England 1914-1945'.
Delighted that - with
@martinjohnes
& Nadine Wright
@I_W_M
- have received an
@ahrcpress
research grant for a major 4-nation project, Beyond Borders: The Second World War, National Identities & Empire in the UK. Two 3 yr post doc posts (Edinburgh/Swansea)
Delighted to announce that I have been promoted to Professor of Second World War Studies
@HCAatEdinburgh
Thanks to everyone who had faith in me along the way and gave me so much support!
Many years ago, when I left
@BBC
, I asked my lovely (bemused) colleagues for a copy of this book. Today, I have been promoted to Professor of Second World War Studies
@EdinburghUni
. A long & winding road!
My
@OUPHistory
book is out in the wild & available for pre-order! It "provides a wholly new perspective on the social, cultural, and military history of Britain at war".
Prospective book cover
@HCAatEdinburgh
:
#twitterstorians
Delighted to have signed contract with
@OUPHistory
for my book, Wales in England 1914-1945. It examines how ideas of Wales and Welshness were performed & mobilised within English society during the two world wars.
#SWW
#FWW
(Photo c/o Shrewsbury House Archive)
Publication day for my
@OUPAcademic
book, ‘Wales in England 1914-1945. A Social, Cultural & Military History’. It addresses the mobilisation of Welshness in England during the two world wars, e.g. via military hybrid units 1/6
My daughter Holly has won an award at the Paolozzi Prize for Art Awards 2021 for this wonderful portrait of her brother Alex. He was her 'on-site' model during the whole of lockdown. V.proud.
#paolozziprize
#paolozzi
Looking out photographs for my mum's funeral. This was one of her favourites: with my late dad at the time of their engagement (on right). RIP my lovely, generous-hearted mum.
Final checks done! My book Wales in England 1914-45. A Social, Cultural & Military History is submitted to
@OUPHistory
I appreciate their patience when I suspended writing due to stint as PG Director
@HCAatEdinburgh
during pandemic. On mobilisation of Welshness in wartime England
A pleasure to be at the launch of the wonderful
@NtlMuseumsScot
exhibition, 'Maps: Memories from the Second World War'. Also got to see this rather apposite painting en route:
Ian Eadie, 51st Highland Division Plans El Alamein (1949)
"Good lecture Mum" my undergrad son comments from bed as I finish delivering my remote seminar on British memory of the Second World War in our hallway...
Am delighted to have been awarded a Visiting Scholarship to
@StJohnsOx
to undertake
#SWW
research over the summer. My visit will take in
@bodleianlibs
@oxfordMec
and the riverside bars frequented by Morse.
Today is my 25th wedding anniversary and, as a historian, I feel I can't let the day pass unremarked! Here are photos my husband and I took of each other while on honeymoon in New Orleans - pre-smart phone and pre-selfie...
Thanks to the wonderful
@argonaut_books
for hosting the launch of my
@OUPHistory
book, 'Wales in England 1914-1945. A Social, Cultural, & Military History'. And thanks to everyone who came along and made it really special!
My article,'“The Band of Brothers”: The Mobilization of English Welsh Dual Identities in Second World War Britain' is published today
@JBritishStudies
. It highlights the functioning of dual identifications across nations within
#SWW
Britain.
Image of 'Liverpool Welsh'
@TheShewsy
Time to again wheel out the letter from Harold Wilson to my grandad, John Herbertson, thanking him for his work as an election agent in Wilson's Huyton constituency in the 1966 election:
My article '"The Band of Brothers”: The Mobilization of English Welsh Dual Identities in SWW Britain' has been published by
@JBritishStudies
as FirstView:
I can offer a small no. of free downloads so get in touch if you're interested.
Image c/o
@TheShewsy
Have received proofs for my
@CultSocHistory
article on Richard Llewellyn in
#SWW
Britain. 1st publication on my research re: English Welsh duality in wartime.
Changi Museum illuminates POW/ civilian internee experience in Singapore during the Japanese Occupation & has replicas of murals produced by POW Stanley Warren. He later said that the strength to work on the religious images gave him 'an ecstasy which I had not known before'.
I've just given a paper on David Graves, son of poet Robert Graves, who was killed in action (1943) & is commemorated here. His
@CWGC
registration reads: 'Son of Capt. Robert Graves, formerly of The Royal Welch Fusiliers' enclasping the two men in their shared regimental identity
Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar (formerly Burma).
This memorial commemorates approximately 27,000 men of the Commonwealth forces who died serving in World War Two and have no known grave.
Final half hour of Day 8
@ucuedinburgh
picket line at Old Medical School. Thanks to passersby for the thumbs up, the quiet words of encouragement and the sausage rolls...
#UCUStrikesBack
As part of our 'Second World War Conversations' series, we are hosting a panel on East Asia on 4 June with
@Andrew_Levidis
&
@jeremyyellen
on Japan's empire and
@lodilas
on Japanese-occupied China. Discussant is
@FBoecking
. Register free here:
My dad would have been 80 today. On his 72nd birthday, in hospital, he ate coffee creams and reminisced about his parents. He died the next day. Still miss you Dad.
Delighted to announce the CFP for the joint conference betw
@SWWStudiesEdin
&
@SWWresearch
which takes place on 9-10 June 2023: 'From the Personal to the Global: Lived Experiences of the Second World War'. Full details below:
It happened! Thanks to the wonderful team at
@NAM_London
for being such wonderful hosts and everyone who came to my talk on
#SWW
British Italian soldiers:
Proud to announce the launch of our
@SWWStudiesEdin
mobile walking tour, 'Second World War Edinburgh'. Funded by
@RoyalSocEd
& developed by the wonderful team
@curiousedi
the app highlights sites of
#SWW
interest in the city:
Am delighted to announce that the next online
@SWWStudiesEdin
Round Table,'The British Empire and the Second World War' will take place on 23 March with leading experts
@OxfordYasmin
@chinra4
Ashley Jackson & Tarak Barkawi. Register free here:
Very proud to see my grandad, who died in 1995 but was the inspiration for my new
@OUPHistory
book, Wales in England 1914-1945, makes it into the index:
CFP
@SWWStudiesEdin
conference '1940', June 2020. Key themes include veteran identities; culture & media; politics; dissent; internment & detention; intelligence studies; island histories; myths and memories. More info here:
First day back in the office
@HCAatEdinburgh
and Nicholas II is missing from my Russian nesting dolls set (purchased in St Petersburg in 1998). Another great Romanov mystery to be solved...
Very much looking forward to participating in this veterans conference with Wendy Webster &
@SilenceInPolish
at Craiglockhart, relatively unchanged since Owen & Sassoon resided there in
#FWW
‘Identity, Purpose and Belonging: The First Scottish International Conference on Armed Forces in Society’ to be held at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart 2024
Barbara Hepworth began experimenting with colour & strings when she moved with her children to Cornwall 5 days before the
#SWW
was declared: 'The strings were the tension I felt between myself & the sea...' Sculpture with Colour (1940)
@NatGalleriesSco
With our colleagues
@NatGalleriesScotland
, the Second World War Network (Scotland) is hosting 'Art in War. Painting and Exhibiting Culture in Second World War Britain'. The National, Edinburgh at 6pm on 16 May. Free tickets can be reserved here:
CFP: '1940' conference organised by
@SWWStudiesEdin
June 2020
@HCAatEdinburgh
to mark the 80th anniversary of the second year of the Second World War. Keynotes
@jonathanfennell
and Susan Grayzel. More info here:
Photo of my nana, Liz, who organised a private evacuation to Llanfair Talhaiarn during the Liverpool blitz. Pictured with her two older sons and twin babies 1941
#StDavidsDay
Thank you to the thoughtful student from my Gender Identities in Wartime class
@HCAatEdinburgh
who nominated me for
@eusa
Teaching Award. Much appreciated.
Turning the monthly page on our wall calendar (optimistically filled in at the start of 2020), is like seeing an alternative existence play out before my eyes...
Excellent opportunity
#twitterstorians
@uniworchistory
: applications are invited for a fully-funded full-time PhD studentship to broadly address the theme 'Women and the Wartime Home Fronts in Twentieth-Century Britain'. More info here:
Am delighted to be speaking on English Welsh dualities in wartime as part of the inaugural lecture series
@CHICAMatHud
. Now I just need to decide whether to deliver the paper from my kitchen or the hallway...
Thrilling news! Our 2020/2021 Online Lecture Series is here! Look at the brilliant scholars discussing
#history
,
#culture
and
#memory
. The best part? All events are FREE. Join us by following
@CHICAM
and watching for updates. Tell friends! Coworkers! Random people on the street!
Art of Ayresome: "Brought back lots of good memories".
We've added some new works to the online
@Boro
art exhibition including this fantastic depiction of Rolando Ugolini by Richard Piers Rayner.
Share your memories and feedback here
#UTB
#ArtOfAyresome
:
Major international
#SWW
conference
@SWWStudiesEdin
delivered ✅
Now prepping for Singapore trip with Teresa Lim's evocative book, 'The Interpreter's Daughter', which outlines the impact of the Japanese invasion on one Chinese Singaporean family.
This new
@EdinburghUP
book by
@Sir__Ian
Writing the Radio War contains all my favourite themes: the BBC, the Second World War and constructions of Britishness:
Lovely to return on non-strike day to find this. To echo
@earlymodatLancs
, I miss teaching whilst on
#USSstrike
but also need to defend our right to a fair pension.
Privileged to be at
@CWGC
#LightingTheirLegacy
event
@ScotWarMemorial
, in the presence of two D-Day landings veterans, to see the symbolic passing of the torch to the new generation of memory agents