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The International Society for First World War Studies is delighted to announce that the 2022 Dennis Showalter Public Lecture for an Emerging Scholar is now open for nominations. The deadline for nominations are 1 May. We urge members to consider their outstanding emerging colleagues for nominations. Full details on the award and how to nominate can be found at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QX98Oi-D1ImJNR20FcyCFEkLief_ZquSQ_6T2TCyj_4/edit
The International Society for First World War Studies is delighted to announce that the 2022 Jeffrey Grey Award for Postgraduate or Early-Career Research Mobility is now open for applications, and that the Elizabeth Greenhalgh Award for Outstanding Emerging Female Scholar in First World War Studies is now open for nominations. Deadlines for all applications and nominations are 1 May. We...
An Appreciation by Professor Robin Prior
I was sitting in my office at ADFA in 1992 or 1993 hard at work marking papers or reflecting on whether the military could be used to forcibly expel those members of the School of Economics who were not members of the Union (all of them) when I heard a voice say: ‘You don’t say...
The Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the International Society for First World War Studies condemns Russia’s military assault on Ukraine and President Putin’s use of historical distortions and lies in the attempt to justify this attack on Ukrainian sovereignty. As a community of scholars studying the history of a global conflict which brought the relentless violence of total...