Huw Bennett
@bennetthuw.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Delighted to see my chapter on the British Army published in this book today. Thanks to editors Jan Hoffenaar and Brian McAllister Linn for having me along!
National Armies and NATO, 1949-1991 - Leiden University Press
By providing a comparative study of NATO’s armies, this volume provides both a long-needed historical assessment and essential understanding of the problems facing the alliance and its members today.
lup.nl
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Delighted to see my chapter on the British Army published in this book today. Thanks to editors Jan Hoffenaar and Brian McAllister Linn for having me along!
Reading about Treasury policy-making seems an appropriate way to spend budget day.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reading about Treasury policy-making seems an appropriate way to spend budget day.
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Spend time with some of the nicest people in Cambridge (and their archives)👇
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November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Spend time with some of the nicest people in Cambridge (and their archives)👇
Unacceptable censorship of free speech by the BBC. The Corporation seems intent on hastening its own demise.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Unacceptable censorship of free speech by the BBC. The Corporation seems intent on hastening its own demise.
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My talk at @ihr.bsky.social / @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social on British perceptions of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement is this Thursday! Come along in person, or join online!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘Out of sight and out of mind?’: British Perceptions of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement
www.history.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My talk at @ihr.bsky.social / @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social on British perceptions of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement is this Thursday! Come along in person, or join online!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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My new article is out with Irish Political Studies ‘The Rocky Road to Decommissioning: Revisiting the Decommissioning of Irish Republican Army Weapons Part 1 – August 1994 to October 2001’. Thanks all interviewees, reviewers and archive staff. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Rocky Road to Decommissioning: Revisiting the Decommissioning of Irish Republican Army Weapons Part 1 – August 1994 to October 2001
Decommissioning of paramilitary weapons formed a crucial part of Northern Ireland’s peace process. But the decommissioning of Irish Republican Army (IRA) weapons (the most prominent paramilitary gr...
www.tandfonline.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
My new article is out with Irish Political Studies ‘The Rocky Road to Decommissioning: Revisiting the Decommissioning of Irish Republican Army Weapons Part 1 – August 1994 to October 2001’. Thanks all interviewees, reviewers and archive staff. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
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Anyone interested in pursuing doctoral study in military history (broadly defined) and especially in tje strategy snd economic statecraft of tge two world wars: please drop me a line
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarships - University of Birmingham
Fully-funded and partially-funded scholarships for doctoral research students studying in the College of Arts of Law in the 2026/27 academic year onwards
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Anyone interested in pursuing doctoral study in military history (broadly defined) and especially in tje strategy snd economic statecraft of tge two world wars: please drop me a line
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
An excellent essay on the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition about the end of empire, by the always excellent Erik Linstrum.
What happens when nationalist history meets the horrors of empire? For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I reviewed a new exhibition on British counterinsurgency at the Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum
An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.
jacobin.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
An excellent essay on the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition about the end of empire, by the always excellent Erik Linstrum.
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Published - the latest issue of the Journal of Political & Military Sociology is now out - it is a special issue: Ukrainian society responds to a decade of Russia's war - which I was fortunate to co-edit with Anna Kvit ⬇️
journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/issue/v...
journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/issue/v...
Vol. 51 No. 2 (2024): Fall 2024
| Journal of Political & Military Sociology
journals.upress.ufl.edu
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Published - the latest issue of the Journal of Political & Military Sociology is now out - it is a special issue: Ukrainian society responds to a decade of Russia's war - which I was fortunate to co-edit with Anna Kvit ⬇️
journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/issue/v...
journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/issue/v...
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Braint cael cyhoeddi yn Fortnight. Llyfr Philip Stephens yn werth chweil hefyd.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Braint cael cyhoeddi yn Fortnight. Llyfr Philip Stephens yn werth chweil hefyd.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
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I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
Cardiff looking splendid this evening.
October 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Cardiff looking splendid this evening.
An enjoyable and productive visit to the Swedish Defence University this week; managed to fit in a quick look around the Army Museum in Stockholm. Thanks to @warmatters.bsky.social for hosting!
October 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
An enjoyable and productive visit to the Swedish Defence University this week; managed to fit in a quick look around the Army Museum in Stockholm. Thanks to @warmatters.bsky.social for hosting!
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Here is an Aber sunset to get your weekend off to a great start, photo courtesy of our head of department @alshepherd.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Here is an Aber sunset to get your weekend off to a great start, photo courtesy of our head of department @alshepherd.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing this new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum:
Now open at IWM London, our brand new special exhibition Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus. It's fascinating, it's revelatory and it's FREE. Do come and see it!
www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...
www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...
October 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Looking forward to seeing this new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum:
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Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
October 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
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For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
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European Journal of International Security updates! 🎉
Matthew Ford and Simone Tholens are joining EJIS as associate editors 🌟
And just published - new #openaccess FirstView articles 📚
Read more about the update here! 👉 https://ow.ly/708K50XajW7
Ruth Deyermond Amira Jadoon Olivier Schmitt
Matthew Ford and Simone Tholens are joining EJIS as associate editors 🌟
And just published - new #openaccess FirstView articles 📚
Read more about the update here! 👉 https://ow.ly/708K50XajW7
Ruth Deyermond Amira Jadoon Olivier Schmitt
An update from the European Journal of International Security
Our journal bring you updates on new associate editors and FirstView articles.
ow.ly
October 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
European Journal of International Security updates! 🎉
Matthew Ford and Simone Tholens are joining EJIS as associate editors 🌟
And just published - new #openaccess FirstView articles 📚
Read more about the update here! 👉 https://ow.ly/708K50XajW7
Ruth Deyermond Amira Jadoon Olivier Schmitt
Matthew Ford and Simone Tholens are joining EJIS as associate editors 🌟
And just published - new #openaccess FirstView articles 📚
Read more about the update here! 👉 https://ow.ly/708K50XajW7
Ruth Deyermond Amira Jadoon Olivier Schmitt
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“We want our international students to continue to feel welcomed for the positive social and cultural and economic contributions they make in Wales, and we're very keen to ensure that that continues so there will not be a levy in Wales.” (Welsh education secretary Lynne Neagle)
Wales rules out levy on international student fees
Education secretary confirms devolved nation will not follow UK government in taking a cut of overseas tuition fee income
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
“We want our international students to continue to feel welcomed for the positive social and cultural and economic contributions they make in Wales, and we're very keen to ensure that that continues so there will not be a levy in Wales.” (Welsh education secretary Lynne Neagle)
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The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
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Opinion: It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor. on.ft.com/476Dcr8
October 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Opinion: It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor. on.ft.com/476Dcr8
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In the current issue of Ab Imperio: a defence of scholarly integrity against right wing historical propaganda:
Full text here:
alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...
Full text here:
alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...
October 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
In the current issue of Ab Imperio: a defence of scholarly integrity against right wing historical propaganda:
Full text here:
alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...
Full text here:
alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...
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“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”
This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.
This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.
October 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”
This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.
This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.
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This call for applications for a First Book Workshop from @toynbeeprize.bsky.social looks like a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars working on "global, imperial, comparative, world, or transnational history": toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f.... Deadline is November 2, 2025.
Call For Applications: Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition 2025-26 | Toynbee Prize Foundation
toynbeeprize.org
September 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This call for applications for a First Book Workshop from @toynbeeprize.bsky.social looks like a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars working on "global, imperial, comparative, world, or transnational history": toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f.... Deadline is November 2, 2025.