Prof. Catriona Pennell

His family escaped Israel-occupied Palestine in 1967, seeking shelter in Lebanon as a refugee. With no passport & no means of state-organised evacuation, all he & his family can do is try to find somewhere safe from Israel’s bombs. For the second time in 18 months; for the 7th time in 50 years.

Bombs are terrifying no matter where they fall. While many UK newspapers focus on British residents in Dubai, this footage is from my friend in Saida, southern Lebanon this morning.

'Her eight-year-old daughter Heather had just died in hospital, two weeks after playing in the sea on the beach at Dawlish Warren in Devon, where she contracted E coli O157, a bug which comes from raw sewage.'

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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

The Iraq War at 20: Anniversary Journalism, British Cultural Memory, and the Politics of Closure War anniversaries are important milestones that enable certain understandings of the violent past to be naturalized in the present. This article is the first qualitative analysis of British press c...

Feels like the article by @teachlearnwar.bsky.social and myself on how the press covered the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War is relevant again today…

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Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

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Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves Satellite images and witness testimony show destruction as IDF claims it was forced to take defensive measures

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Imperialism in all its forms and by all imperial powers has contempt for national sovereignty and international law. Despicable- and some would have us join a military alliance with the US.

Also if anyone is interested in the history of the United States' attempts to topple leaders in South America and install more friendly dictators then you can - and I'm not joking here - download the files from the CIA website.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.

Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Check out a new collaboration between HaSS Cornwall and the National Maritime Museum, Cornwall. On 25 April 2026, a new University of Exeter/NMMC Masterclass will run on the topic of ‘World War 2, the Fall of France, and Cornwall’s Covert Special Operations’. nmmc.co.uk/university-o...

#OpenAccess! CAPTURING COMMEMORATION: Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain by Noakes, Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social, Hanna, Hughes @lornamhughes.bsky.social, Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social & Wallis has now been published!

Find out more : bit.ly/47FiHAL

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Capturing Commemoration: Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

Publication alert! A collaborative reflection on the UK’s biggest public history event - the centenary of the First World War. Thanks to @ukri.org for funding & my fellow co-authors @lucynoakes1.bsky.social @chriskempshall.bsky.social @lornahughes.bsky.social James Wallis and Emma Hanna.

Germany raised its citizens to hate war. Now it wants us to enlist in the army – but we say no | Mithu Sanyal The war in Ukraine is a crime. But European leaders should be working for peace, not preparing young people to fight and die, says German academic Mithu Sanyal

The inherent tension between war and remembrance.

Advocating for History by Doing History - On History This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history…

New blog from IHR Director @clairelanghamer@bsky.social reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...

S1E6 Media, Memory and the War in Iraq

📣 Just landed today: my interview on ‘Media, Memory and the War in Iraq’ as part of 🇨🇦 The Culture and Conflict Podcast. Discussing work by myself & @chriskempshall.bsky.social as part of @ukri.org ‘Ephemera and writing about war in Britain, 1914 to the present’. Enjoy! @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

‘Dangerous nostalgia’: did Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ after Franco leave new generation open to far right? Events to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator’s death are intended to remind Spaniards, particularly the young, of the dangers of fascism

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British Asian families urged to share stories of ‘greatest generation’ who fought for Britain Half of UK public unaware of contribution made by 2.5m British Asian members of armed forces who served in second world war

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📣 Delighted to announce that @hass-cornwall.bsky.social, with Trebah Garden, have launched the Tony Hibbert Prize: aimed at secondary school students in Cornwall with an interest in the legacies of 20th conflict and the challenges the world faces today.

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Message in a bottle from first world war soldier found on remote Australian beach Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes

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Yesterday members of @hass-cornwall.bsky.social represented our faculty to visiting members of @exeter.ac.uk Council. They showcased world-leading research that engages with the Critical Minerals agenda from the perspectives of History, Archaeology, Law & Political Science. They did us proud.

Entering Gaza earlier today.

Amid practical work to save lives, we also bear witness.

Three new trustees to join the Society's Council from November - RHS The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the election of three new members to its governing Council. These appointments follow this year’s election round for new Councillors, in autumn 2025...

It’s official…

France's political upheaval isn't temporary - it's a profound constitutional crisis | Pierre Purseigle The old prime minister is back with a new team, but it can’t last: a democracy can’t have a president with the powers of a king, says French historian Pierre Purseigle

Where I try to explain why France is not going through an ordinary political crisis but that the Fifth Republic is a regime in crisis.
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Delighted to announce I’ve been elected as a Council member to @royalhistsoc.org until 2029. Thank you for the confidence you’ve put in me to advocate for our colleagues & our discipline. Looking forward to working with other members, including Dr Stella Fletcher and @davidhitchcock.bsky.social

Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.

‘A dolphin among sharks’: readers pay tribute to Robert Redford, a great movie star and decent human being People remember the human side of the ‘dazzling’ film star, who was kind and wise and lived a dignified life

The history graduate and the Sundance Kid 🤠

A New Agenda for the Global South: West Papua, the United Nations, and the Politics of Decolonization Emma Kluge on West Papuan attempts at self-determination.

Today is the anniversary of the 1962 signing of the New York agreement between Indonesia and the Netherlands, leading to the recolonisation of West Papua. In my Humanity article, I explore the events leading up to this: humanityjournal.org/issue13-1/a-... Message me if you want a copy!

Parliament - Dr Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, Senior Lecturer in British Politics YouTube video by University of Exeter

The UK Parliament is the core of the British political system and a subject of relentless scrutiny.

Here at Humanities & Social Sciences Cornwall we teach and research our legislature in collaboration with Parliament itself.

Find out more in our new video series:
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