LJMU History

Brilliant to see the exciting work of our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social receiving such interest. Surely, the downloads will be in the 100s now!

Wonderful news! Congratulations to the colleagues involved!

Congratulations to our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social on the publication of this exciting #research paper on tabletop role-playing games during the #ColdWar. It's open access, so everyone interested can read it for free!

This Wednesday, 12 November, our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social will be talking about his current #research project on the #history of domestic #intelligence in #Britain. Everyone interested is very welcome to attend.

This is what we call research-led teaching! 👍💪👏

We're very much looking forward to celebrating the publication of @andrekeil.bsky.social's new book #emergency #powers in #Britain and #Germany during the First World War. The launch event is next Tuesday (28.10.), at 4.30 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend!

The left: earnest public speaker, telling the story of Robert Bruce Lockhart to a full ballroom of #history lovers at the @iowlf.bsky.social

The right: devil incarnate summoning the dark legions to do my bidding

I like both of these.
#booksky
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A packed audience for our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social talking about his favourite (flawed) spymaster Robert Bruce Lockhart. #history #spy

This is an exciting conference happening in #Liverpool next year. We're proud to support it via our Centre for Modern and Contemporary #History here at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social! Please find all information in the link below.

Some brilliant public-facing research here by our very own @malcolmcraig.bsky.social!!!

Maybe something for @malcolmcraig.bsky.social and the students on the @ljmuhistory.bsky.social Cold War module?

My department @ljmuhistory.bsky.social is hosting a series of talks this semester, including a launch event for my book that came out in April. Everyone's very much welcome to these events!

The cover of Wyrd Science magazine issue 7, with the magazine opened to show the first pages of my article titled 'Playing Games in the Bomb's Shadow'.

And here we are! The latest, greatest issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social, incorporating an article on the Cold War and RPGs by...me!

@ljmuimpact.bsky.social
@ljmuhistory.bsky.social

We're so very proud of our recent graduate Karin. Well done!

We have an exciting seminar series at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social this semester. These events are free and everyone's welcome to attend.

Our pleasure, Aliyah! 🙂

This will be interesting for our students!

Today kickstarts induction. My life long uni friends emerged from a chance encounter in the welcome desk queue where I ended up befriending the girl ahead of me& subsequently her flat mates. Looking around the lecture room I’ll be thinking about all the friendships to be made & that’s exciting.

Liverpool 8 and the Fight Against Apartheid How Toxteth's Struggle Became a Global One

One of our brilliant graduates this year, Aliyah Kerr, has turned her dissertation on anti-#apartheid #activism in #Liverpool into a Substack article. It's a brilliant read, and really showcases the quality of the research our students do for their dissertations. Give it a read!

About the Project Liverpool John Moores University invites applications for a fulltime, funded PhD researcher to work on a collaborative doctoral project with the Bluecoat, Liverpool's contemporary arts centre. The project will explore the global and imperial history of Liverpool's Blue Coat Charity School in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It will focus on the extent to which the growing globalisation of the port of Liverpool, and associated colonial connections and structures, were reflected in the people involved in the charity school - its trustees, supporters, pupils and staff - and the School's wider activities. The period covered is from the formal end of the slave trade and slave ownership in the early-nineteenth century to the purchase of the Bluecoat's city-centre buildings - significantly by Merseyside philanthropist and imperialist William Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) — in the Edwardian era. As well as the completion of a PhD thesis, the project will involve the co-production of a contemporary arts programme, reflecting upon the Bluecoat's imperial connections and legacies.

My @ljmuhistory.bsky.social colleague Nick White with the art’s organisation Bluecoat’s are recruiting a PHD student to research the global &imperial history of Liverpool’s Blue Coat Charity School. They want someone who can develop a community strand #skyhistorian www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Iran reportedly moves to shut Strait of Hormuz after US attacks The Iranian parliament backed a measure to close the critical shipping route in response to U.S. airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran, state media reported

www.politico.eu/article/iran...

Attention @ljmuhistory.bsky.social students - this was what I was referring to when discussing "strategic choke points"

It was my pleasure today to welcome over a hundred delegates from across the globe to this year's Britain and the World Conference, hosted by LJMU's Centre for Modern and Contemporary History
#batw2025 #skystorians #conference #history
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@ljmu-ris.bsky.social

Sharing Lands: Reconciliation, Recognition, & Reciprocity An afternoon of powerful storytelling, connection, and reflection inspired by the Choctaw gift to Ireland during the Great Famine.

Thursday 4th at 1.15 the @sharinglands.bsky.social crew will be chatting about the Irish Choctaw links (and also stickball, bicycles & virtual walks) at Nano Nagle Place #Cork It's free and everyone is welcome. nanonagleplace.ie/nanoevents/s...

Our very own @kateballantyne.bsky.social was interviewed in this podcast about her most recent book on student activists in Tennessee. It's.a fascinating listen!

@merseysideha.bsky.social Hi and welcome on Bluesky!

This sounds fantastic! Our department can't wait to work with the new Merseyside Historical Association @merseysideha.bsky.social! Onwards and upwards!

We are indeed hiring! All details for this temporary post in Modern #Irish #History can be found in the link below. Come and join our friendly bunch of hisotrians!

Our colleague @gillianobrien.bsky.social has been very busy over the last couple of weeks!

As every year, our first-year students have produced some brilliant exhibitions for their research projects. A real highlight of our academic year!

More impressions from our dissertation conference today. The LMI is a fantastic venue!