Fantastic day yesterday at the 'Popular Culture and World Politics: Portraying War, Conflict, & Political Violence' one day symposium. I learnt so much from 'dresses and drones' to 'weaponizing music' concluding with discussion on some fantastic low budget films in 'Wakaliwood, Uganda'.

Excellent keynote today from @maddipow.bsky.social - Everything she said made pure sense and even included a little history lesson in open science 🧬 (and bropen science 😂) There is more than one way to be scientific! 🧪 #QRS2025

Excited to be at #QRS2025 for two days nerding out 🤓 (do we use hash tags here?)

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

Term one teaching complete! As exhausted as we always are by this point, London is very pretty and I know I am lucky to work in such beautiful buildings (excluding strand building, if you know you know 😂) with wonderful colleagues. Now to steam on w PhD before signing off for a rest 🎄🤶🎅🦌

This is one of my favorite, low-tech, ways of visualizing the past! Doesn't oversell the reconstruction, shows possible past and present in same view, works, rain or shine and without power.

Do follow @chlocake.bsky.social. I, like many veterans of the conflict in Afghanistan, contributed to this study and I found doing so personally very cathartic. I’m also pleased it has led me on the quest I now find myself on in critically analysing veteran testimony in other historical interests.

Like most historians, I ought to blog a lot more than I do - here is a brief outline of my PhD for the ‘general reader’ with methods and findings to follow in greater detail over the coming months. Let me know what you think 🤓

www.chloestorer.com/history-blog...

Quite a lot of pressure for the first post - thought I’d introduce myself - hello I’m Chloe, I’m in my final year of my PhD on Operation Herrick and I’m interested in war, the experience of war, oral history and history in general 🤓