How it started (14 August 1677): ‘Left off TOBACCO’. How it’s going (17 July 1678): ‘[M]ightily refresht by TOBACCO’. From Robert Hooke’s diary, @LdnMetArchives, CLC/495/MS01758. 🌿

The pre-publication reviews of @ismeetames and my new #ww1 book have me gasping: “a revelation” ... “a fine and rich global history” ... “a bravura performance” ... turning the “conventional history of the Great War inside out” bloomsbury.com/uk/global-war-…

Come join us Faculty of Arts Te Kura Tangata on Friday 9 July at 12:30pm NZST to listen to a panel of historians discuss monuments, memorials and public space. eventbrite.com/e/what-we-reme…

Come celebrate my inaugural lecture with me on Wednesday 4 August 6:15 Faculty of Arts Te Kura Tangata. To register: eventbrite.com/e/a-total-glob… The event will be live zoomed too, details to follow.

Very hard to find the motivation to keep writing when a new book that you've been dying to read, finally arrives in the post! Tim Hannigan

Monday morning lockdown reading. Loosely related to my thesis so I’m counting it as work. Very enjoyable so far. Alison Smith

To mark Te Pūtake o te Riri, He Rā Maumahara, the National Day of Commemoration of Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa we are giving away a complete set of NZ Wars histories by Vincent O'Malley – please retweet to enter.

Thanks to Faculty of Arts Te Kura Tangata for supporting this new book-reviewing site. anzliterature.com/feature/the-da…

Superb in-depth review by Sarah Russll of Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station by Redmer Yska redmer yska Faculty of Arts Te Kura Tangata Otago University Press Booksellers Aotearoa NZ Society of Authors @nzbookcouncil KATHERINE MANSFIELD nzreviewofbooks.com/katherine-mans…

The Māori anthology I've been working on for the past year is published this August, featuring the work of 27 writers: aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/hiwa-contempor…

#AAEH2023 carries on with Sarah Russell from University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau - fascinating look at British travel accounts of Siberian places of exile. ANUHistory Maartje Abbenhuis