Assistant Professor @lsehistory | Great War + Morale | Written a book for @CambridgeUP | Past me: @History_Bham @TheLSECourse + LSE LIFE #twitterstorians
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Today is publication day for the paperback edition of my monograph Making Sense of the Great War at £29.99.
I am yet to receive my author copies, but I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and RTs this.
Find it here: bit.ly/4l1M5Gu
Unfortunately, this echoes my experience of academic publishing.
Overall, it was an experience that left me feeling little excitement about finishing, and releasing, my first book.
So much so that I never even considered organising a book launch.
I am so disappointed for Alan and so very disappointed in @OxUniPress for how they have treated Alan, his readers, and lovers of all things Dorothy Sayers. This biography of DS 1/2
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This will be published worldwide on 20 August.
I'm very happy to announce The Cambridge Companion to the Western Front, which is being published next month. It includes a stellar list of scholars, including @DrEmmaHanna @AlexCMayhew @mario_draper @MeighenMcCrae @ProfPeterDoyle @CambridgeUP cambridge.org/gb/universityp…
If you are interested in purchasing a copy of The Cambridge Companion to the Western Front then the code LLOYD2026 will get you a 20% discount via the CUP website - meaning it is a steal at £20.
bit.ly/3QuLFyX
#History #FirstWorldWar #WesternFront
I am very excited that this is nearing publication.
My contribution covers morale and the experience of the trenches. It was a (rewarding) challenge to try and synthesise such a complex topic.
I will be using many of the other brilliant chapters in my teaching next year!
I'm very happy to announce The Cambridge Companion to the Western Front, which is being published next month. It includes a stellar list of scholars, including @DrEmmaHanna @AlexCMayhew @mario_draper @MeighenMcCrae @ProfPeterDoyle @CambridgeUP cambridge.org/gb/universityp…
Thank you, @HistoryPegg!
Glad to hear you enjoyed the book.
Read it here: bit.ly/4dp745o
Or from Amazon for £27.53: bit.ly/4dVW0g7
A #History #book recommendation. #WW1
I’ve recently re read ‘Making Sense of the Great War’ by Alex Mayhew.
Alex’s writing is sharp on point and this is a brilliant in depth view covering areas that I hadn’t read about before including The Environment, morale, culture and much more on the western front in World War 1. Not only is it well written but it makes you think. It’s asks questions of you to understand the different aspects of the First World War and the Western front and the impact it had on people. It challenges perceptions and gives a unique insight. I really enjoyed reading this and a highly recommended book. @GreatWar100Yrs @GreatWarGroup @AlexCMayhew
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Last week, Dr Alex Mayhew took a group of our HY120 students joined on another of this term’s archive trips, visiting the archive of the National Army Museum where they were joined curator Justin Saddington.
@NAM_London
#nationalarmymuseum #archives #fieldtrip #history #lse
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Call for Papers: 2026 LSE/GWU/UCSB Cold War Studies International History Graduate Student Conference.
Full details here: lse.ac.uk/International-Hist…
Contact email: [email protected]
#conference #phd #graduate #coldwar #history #politics #event #lse
We drew on the collection of @AHAhistorians essays by Santanu Das, Susan Grayzel, Jessica Meyer, and Catherine Robson that analysed the film.
Students were drawn to the soundscape and narrative but queried silences and omissions.
All agreed it was an impressive piece of cinema!
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“Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History”
Tues 25 Nov, Professor Anja Laukötter delivers the Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture.
Event details and registration: lse.ac.uk/International-Hist…
#events #lse
Thank you @LSEReviewBooks for publishing this detailed review of my book.
Have a read and remember that you can purchase globally from Cambridge University Press (bit.ly/4l1M5Gu), Amazon (amzn.to/4mZKaEm), and other vendors.
I recently saw it in the wild!
NEW✨ Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front by @AlexCMayhew @lsehistory @CambridgeUP.
#Review by James Sewry @sewryjm
#History #FirstWorldWar
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb…
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📘From our latest issue
Dina Gusejnova (@lsehistory) on 'Loyalty and Allegiance in Baltic German Political Thought after the First World War'
#Refugee #Intellectual #Family #Politics 🛡️📜
👉Read open access: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
After several weeks in Canada, I have got my hands on my author copies of Making Sense of the Great War.
@HistoryPegg was chosen at random to receive one for free!
You can purchase it for £23.99 using the code HIST2425 here: bit.ly/4mYM08h.
#History #MilitaryHistory
Today is publication day for the paperback edition of my monograph Making Sense of the Great War at £29.99.
I am yet to receive my author copies, but I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and RTs this.
Find it here: bit.ly/4l1M5Gu
I had a wonderful time in the archive room @GreatWarCentre in Montreal yesterday.
Most of my time was spent looking through their postcard collection.
I also saw their (no longer) radioactive wrist watch collection and a painting of Arthur Currie by John Singer Sargent.
Did anyone else know that British helmets during the Great War contained asbestos? I didn't!
They hold a wealth of material culture - and personal documents - for historians to consult.
The research space is wonderful and the building is beautiful - well worth a visit!
Afterwards, I walked up to Mont Royal cemetery to see Currie's memorial and to look at the @CWGC graves that are so carefully cared for.
Interestingly, there is also a space for veterans of the Crimean and South African Wars.
If you are interested, @CambridgeUP have released a 20% discount code for Making Sense of the Great War.
You can get it for £23.99 through their website using the code HIST2425.
You can find more information here: bit.ly/4mYM08h
#History #Military #NewBook
Today is publication day for the paperback edition of my monograph Making Sense of the Great War at £29.99.
I am yet to receive my author copies, but I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and RTs this.
Find it here: bit.ly/4l1M5Gu
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New addition: Indigestible, disgusting, and vile: the development, regulation, and reception of ersatz food products in Germany during the First World War ift.tt/PQ0bpc8