Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
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I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
Paperback copy of the book The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History with the Dead Sea shore in the background.
Happy new year everyone! If you are looking for something to read in 2026, The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History is now available in paperback. @yalebooks.bsky.social
One potential contributing country for an International Security Force for #Gaza is #Indonesia - which is why I'm particularly excited to see an article I co-wrote with @nirarielli.bsky.social on it will take to succeed published by the Jakarta Post!
www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2025...
@jacobstoil.bsky.social, Mary Elizabeth Walters and I wrote about deploying a multinational peacekeeping force to #Gaza long before it was cool. Now that such a force is being assembled (haphazardly), we revisit some of the ideas we put forward in 2023 share.google/Zm2MEI5kNdIF...
Diaries out - here's what we have in store for you at ILF this week and weekend! 🗓️ 📚
Tickets available at ilkleylitfest.org.uk or call the box office on 01943 816714 🎟️
This is the best plan available out of this nightmare. Netanyahu will try his best to torpedo it. I hope it'll be implemented nonetheless. @jacobstoil.bsky.social
I recommend this book wholeheartedly. Not only because it was written by my friends @enacciai.bsky.social, Morten Heiberg, and Carl-Henrik Bjerström, but also because it is innovative and fascinating. @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
The Starmer Declaration
@jacobstoil.bsky.social - does some of this look familiar to you?
Diminish a book
The Not So Lively Sea
Do you prefer to listen to books rather than read them? Good news, in that case - the audiobook version of The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History is now available. Many thanks to @tantoraudio.bsky.social & @nigelpatterson.bsky.social tantor.com/the-dead-sea...
It was an honour and a privilege to work with experts from Jordan, Israel and Palestine, developing ideas to alleviate the environmental crisis in the #DeadSea. Good to be reminded that there are plenty of kind and forward-facing people in the region. www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Some thoughts on one of the latest elements in this project: news.walla.co.il/item/3765878
Our History books of the year so far, as chosen by the critics.
Includes books by @tlgrady68.bsky.social, @hdiamond.bsky.social, @nirarielli.bsky.social and many more!
You can shop this selection with a 30% discount and free UK postage here:
yalebooks.co.uk/history-book...
#skystorians
Want to retain anything from your studies? Try writing your own essays rather than relying on #AI www.media.mit.edu/publications...
Thank you for initiating the letter. It's good to see the British government and other countries targeting two individuals who have a lot to answer for.
Global shortage of popcorn looming
My former padawan Jacopo Pili is co-organizing the conference "Pius XII and Decolonization: Catholicism in North Africa and the Levant, 1939-1958", which will be held in Cairo in November 2025. If your research relates to the topic, check out the call for papers. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
For once, we must agree to disagree.
Very sad to learn that historian Motti Golani, an expert on the British Mandate in Palestine, passed away unexpectedly.
Nir Arielli, author of The Dead Sea, was interviewed on American Purpose's podcast, Bookstack @nirarielli.bsky.social @americanpurpose.bsky.social https://www.persuasion.community/p/episode-160-nir-arielli-on-10000?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Truly beautiful
Prophecy can never be delivered because when it is, the entire faith/cult/movement ceases to have purpose. So much politics is just a giant pyramid scheme.
This reminds me of Netanyahu who is constantly on the verge of delivering 'total victory' but is, at the same time, prevented from doing so by a changing cast of domestic obstructions.
Netanyahu is trying to divert attention away from his many misdeeds as well as the surge in anti-government protests.
I am very grateful for this generous review of The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History in the Sri Lanka Guardian
slguardian.org/the-dead-sea...
Great to see the first of this new suite of videos about our undergraduate degrees in History at Leeds launched. Featuring brilliant colleagues @sarakbarker.bsky.social & @lauracking.bsky.social and our wonderful students & alumni, plus me making the case for the value and joy of a History degree.
