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rjhammond215.bsky.social
Historian. Senior Lecturer. Vice-President and Founder Member of the Second World War Research Group: https://www.swwresearch.com/. Co-Editor of War in History journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/WIH
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Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Just successfully made my first very basic gantt chart. Not sure what this says about where my life is going...

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

New book just arrived, with the bonus prize that I get a mention in the acknowledgments.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Currently re-reading Paul Corner's classic book on popular opinion in Fascist Italy and am greatly amused by a footnote referring to a short diary entry by an unnamed Italian from November 1918: 'The War ended today. The cat is pregnant again.' From the global to the local. 🗃️

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I regret to inform you all that is, in fact, still January.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

I have (genuinely!) just received an email from the head of a motorcycle club inviting me to be a VIP guest of honour at an event in the summer, and to hand out the awards to winners. It is a very kind offer, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say I think they got the wrong Richard Hammond.

submitted 42 days ago • 8 comments

Has anyone watched any of M: Son of the Century/Il figlio del secolo yet? Did you think it was any good and did it avoid glorifying Mussolini and/or fascism? Should I encourage students who are about to start studying fascist Italy to watch it, do you think? 🗃️

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

Well, in the end we have received more than 200 paper proposals in total, either as individual submissions or panel submission components! Many thanks to everyone, and especially to @meganahamilton.bsky.social for her outstanding organisation! Now comes the really hard part 🗃️

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment