Fascinating - I wonder if this is the UDTA - Tin City. maps.app.goo.gl/XCWXnPcXfXRf... making this is the CQBR - maps.app.goo.gl/YCe4kVP1UUx7...
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Fascinating - I wonder if this is the UDTA - Tin City. maps.app.goo.gl/XCWXnPcXfXRf... making this is the CQBR - maps.app.goo.gl/YCe4kVP1UUx7...
New post out:
We have an interview with John Bew - one of the most influential people in British politics over the past decade + foreign policy adviser to four PMs.
(Free to read)
samf.substack.com/p/interview-...
Nollaig na mBan
Happy Nollaig na mBan to all the great women, feminists, activists, historians, family, friends and colleagues in my life #nollaignamban #speirgorm
Uncivil War, my book about the British Army and the Troubles in the early 1970s, is out in paperback on 15 January. Come and hear me talk about it at the National Army Museum on 13 February:
www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/unc...
Yep. Glad to see @britishacademy.bsky.social getting on to this. These smaller departments at post '92s have been decimated in recent years and the decline is continuing. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...
Helen joined University of Staffordshire as an undergraduate mature student in Modern History and completed her BA, MA, and PhD here with our team. Well done Helen!
Her thesis made use of digitised records of Ireland's judicial and penal systems during this traumatic period of Irish History.
Thanks are also due to Prof James Treadwell, Dr Ciaran McCabe and Dr Sharon Mallon (chairing).
Congratulations to Dr Helen Yates on the successful defence of her PhD thesis today! Dr Yates' thesis was titled "Staying Alive: Crime, Agency, and Trauma during the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852"
A column from @frankie49.bsky.social that manages to link Festy Ebosele, James Joyce and Wittgenstein, via Connemara
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
Harvard University t-shirts for & 5.99
Harvard. On offer this week at Lidl.
Excerpt from the article: "The anti-immigrant activists also carried a flag of Jesus of Nazareth – possibly history’s most famous refugee - and Welsh-born immigrant, St Patrick, much to the mirth of onlookers, who posted dozens of bemused videos on Galwegian social media channels regarding the marchers’ misspelled ‘Galimh’ banner. United Irishmen, crowned harps, ‘Erin go bragh’ and Sacred Heart flags were also flown by marchers, who played songs by lifelong socialist, Luke Kelly, amplified through loudhailers. One woman was dressed up as Anglo-Irish nationalist and socialist revolutionary, Constance Markievicz."
"Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway"
Other journalists should take notes on reporting from Maxim Kelly.
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
If you have to write about awful people gathering and doing awful racist things, then this is absolutely the way to do it. www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Because they both use Adobe's free cloud it's relatively seamless. Saved me hours making the pdfs alone, the OCR and then search is just a bonus.
It will recognize the text for the first fifty pages on the free version, but if you have full Adobe on your uni laptop that will do anything larger and fairly quickly.
Adobe Scan on my phone has been a game changer for me. Been evangelizing MS OneNote for years but never seen anyone else use it.
An old MI5 officer recalled his recruitment. 'i was tapped on the shoulder in the gentlemen's lavatory of the Royal Bindi Club...'
And University Press of Kansas have made a beautiful book. @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
Mark Stout and Sarah-Jane Corke have done a great job putting this together and getting it out. @markstout.bsky.social
Need to get a read of Gill Bennett's chapter on disinformation. @gillhistory.bsky.social
Fantastic new book here showcasing the excellent new research out there in intelligence history. So happy my author's copy arrived today. 🙂↔️
Looking forward to it. I read your preview in this www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AGNEF...
50 free copies of this short review from me of Peter Finn and Robert Ledger (eds),The official record: oversight, national security and democracy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... An even shorter review would be 'go read it'.
If I remember the Newsletter supported US Independence, lots of their readers had relatives among the rebels.
Hey, my diesel MPV seats 7, is ULEZ compliant and gets 50mpg.
Oli North would've used Signal.
He was pivotal to the West's initial understanding of the 1983 war scare, though new sources on both sides have emerged since. One of a handful of people who could at least legitimately claim to have saved the world from nuclear annihilation.
Gordon Correa just now, 'Oleg Gordievsky has died. A KGB officer who spied for MI6, he supplied vital intelligence that helped manage tensions between the West and the Soviet Union in the 80s. Nothing suspicious to his passing, I understand'
Today's fantastic trip to MoD Chicksands and their Military Intelligence Museum, topped with a talk from Defence Intelligence. #universityofstaffordshire #ProudToBeStaffs .
