Thomas P. Stephens

Front cover of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson.

Coming soon: the next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series is 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson: bit.ly/474AbHq

Published free OA & in p/back @uolpress.bsky.social on 9 April #Skystorians 1/2

Teaching or researching U.S. history post-45? Join @carrienbaker.bsky.social Scott Laderman, @davidgreenberg.bsky.social and @mdegroot51.bsky.social for a webinar on understanding U.S. history in 1960s–80s. Tomorrow at 5:00 PM Eastern, I'll be moderating! #historians #bskyhistorians #ushistory #oah

The Call for Papers for NACBS 2026 is now open! Join us in Pasadena!

Read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

Oh wonderful, I've been waiting for it! The first volume is excellent.

I just got my first invite from a predatory publisher. I feel like a real scholar now.

Thanks Alex! I'm currently reading your book (I've already read most of your PhD thesis). It's incredible!

Oh, that's a fascinating tidbit! I've seen just two court cases in newspapers where defendants service in the Army Service Corps is brought up by the prosecutors or police to attack their character.

The bigger project looks at regimental culture in the Army Service Corps from the 1880s-1960s, and tracks how that changes in the shift to mechanical transport, more militarized support forces, and changing ideas about soldiers as men. It's a Phd, so it will be a few years before the book comes out🤞

Thanks! It's so fascinating how much logistical forces is neglected it so many militaries. Seeing the parallels and differences between countries has been a cool part of the broader project I'm working on.

Not Soldiers from a Soldier’s Point of View: The British Army Service Corps and the Boundaries of Martial Masculinities, 1914–1918 Historians of Britain and its empire have explored how the First World War’s violence and scale of mobilisation could transform cultural hierarchies. They have debated the impact of many white wome...

My first peer-reviewed article is in print! "Not Soldiers from a Soldier’s Point of View: The British Army Service Corps and the Boundaries of Martial Masculinities, 1914–1918." www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UDQRH...

Give it a read if you like #fww history, British history, or gender history.

This week @fwwsoc.bsky.social launched the brand new 'President’s Undergraduate Essay Prize'. This award has a cash prize and the opportunity for publication in the Society Journal. 🗃️

You can find the details here: tinyurl.com/4wyjvxmf

And the cover sheet here: tinyurl.com/4pxafxdz

📗New article out now!

"Feeling Old in Eighteenth-Century Britain" by Karen Harvey and Sarah Fox

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...