Very much looking forward to being part of this event in Edinburgh this Thursday evening.

Two fab books on one intriguing man #JamesVI &I … thrilled to be in conversation with Steven Reid & Steven Veerapen Boswell Book Festival this Saturday. Hoping to unpick the caricature 🎭 boswellbookfestival.co.uk/2024/events/385

One week to go! Hosted by National Galleries of Scotland and the SWW Studies Edin, this event explores painting and exhibiting culture in the Second World War. Chaired by Wendy Ugolini. Tickets (free): edin.ac/3JQvq8f

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #WWII #Art

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:
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Decoding the Jewels, publication day 🎉 National Museums Scotland Sidestone Press You can read it free online sidestone.com/books/decoding….
With huge thanks to wonderful contributors Geoffrey Munn Kate Anderson Helen Wyld & others Royal Collection Trust they just made today a little shinier ✨💫

Toasting Decoding the Jewels with bubbles in an appropriately ancient glass (tho sadly not #Renaissance )🥂

You will be hugely missed Patricia Keppie Commonwealth War Graves

Break from marking HCAatEdinburgh

Opportunity for a historian of contemporary Britain to come and work with brilliant colleagues in a brilliant city for 13 months

I will be chairing this 'in conversation' event with Patricia Allerston National Galleries of Scotland and Suzanne Bardgett, author of The Air War in Paintings. Exciting!

Delighted to have you on board!

Very happy to be up in Edinburgh (the most visually impressive city in the UK!) again, for a team meeting of the 'Beyond Borders' project with Wendy Ugolini, Martin Johnes and George Evans! 😀🌄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This is very sad news. Chris Williams was an inspirational and generous scholar.

Our co-founder Wendy Ugolini's new book is out next month. It addresses how 'Welshness' was performed & mobilised in England during the two world wars, using a range of original case studies.

Final book cover for 'Wales in England 1914-1945' approved. Due out next month. Cheapest pre-order available here:
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Am delighted to have been awarded a Visiting Scholarship to St John's College to undertake #SWW research over the summer. My visit will take in Bodleian Libraries OxfordUniversityMEC and the riverside bars frequented by Morse.

Thanks Newnham College for the invitation to the wonderful #SWW exhibition on Newnham women Bletchley Park. Fascinating material on the use of historians, linguists & mathematicians in wartime intelligence.

A pleasure to be at the launch of the wonderful National Museums Scotland 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)

Very pleased indeed to have started work with Wendy Ugolini and Martin Johnes on their important 'Beyond Borders' project, and am busily reacquainting myself with the historiography 😀📚.

Very proud to see my grandad, who died in 1995 but was the inspiration for my new OUP History book, Wales in England 1914-1945, makes it into the index: