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Scottish Centre for War Studies & Conflict Archaeology at University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social - Researching & Teaching conflict history from many global perspectives. Follows/likes ≠ endorsement. https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/warstudies

U.S. soldiers on a search-and-destroy patrol in Phuoc Tuy province, South Vietnam, June 1966. U.S. Army photograph.
Cover page for a monograph book on 'Algerian independence and the British left: solidarities and resistance in a decolonising world'. By Mélanie Torrent. London: Bloomsbury. 2024. The front cover features black text showing the title and author, set on an orange background, the main image in the middle being a black-and-white photograph of a large crowd holding flags and banners during a protest, illustrating the Algerian independence movement.
Text about the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize and the front cover of the winning monograph, authored by Professor Evan Mawdsley, Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory. Also pictured is a profile image of Prof Mawdsley.
Book cover: Empire with a Vengeance Honour and Revenge in European Colonial Warfare, 1815–1914 Mark Condos
"Signalmen using Morse code equipment in a Signal Exchange Station", "British Army Morse signalers Battle of the Somme July 1916" IWM Q128. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193983
Cover of book with text "Uncertain Warriors: The United States Army between the Cold War and the War on Terror" (Military, War, and Society in Modern American History) Hardcover – 9 Nov. 2023 by David Fitzgerald.
HMS Ark Royal was the former flagship of the Royal Navy. One of three Invincible class aircraft carriers she was affectionately known as The Mighty Ark. Her keel was laid by Swan Hunter at Wallsend on 7th December 1978 and she was launched on 20th June 1981 and completed in 1985. Major deployments included the Bosnian war (1993) and the invasion of Iraq (2003). More recently, she assisted in the repatriation of air travellers stranded by the 2010 volcanic eruption. Image from 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums'.
Book cover containing the words "From the battlefields of World War 1 to the streets of today", by Anna Feigenbaum. Link to sign up for this seminar is in the next post.
Image is "The Battle of Waterloo, 1815", Public Domain. Painting, oil on canvas, by William Sadler II, made in June 1815.
Black and white photo of a World War 2 battleship exploding. HMS Barham, 1941.
Black and white photo. Woman sitting in a chair wearing a blindfold, inside a house, and with a human size doll next to her, used in seances, a portion of material connecting the doll to her face. Photo description: "1928 séance revealing Duncan with dolls (by Harvey Metcalfe)". Photo caption: "Plate XV "Phantoms" photographed during a seance with Mrs. Duncan at her home. Note mask-like faces, "coat-hanger" shoulders, and warp and weft of material".
Rows of shelves containing archival files in boxes and rolled up in cardboard tubes. Archives and Special Collections at University of Glasgow. Photo by Dr Tim Peacock.
The book cover of 'Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe', with the text on the front cover, text in yellow and orange with lines under each line that have arrows pointing in either direction, with a black background.
A black and white photograph of two lines of women wearing shipyard working clothes, c. 1918. Caption: "A group of Women Shipyard Workers. Women have played an important part in the vital work of Merchant Ship Production." Location (GB 248 DC 035/71) at University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections
A devastated street in the city centre just off the Unter den Linden after Battle of Berlin. Photo by No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit. Photo Public Domain via <a href="https://www.goodfreephotos.com/">Good Free Photos</a>
A devastated street in the city centre just off the Unter den Linden after Battle of Berlin. Photo by No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit. Photo Public Domain via <a href="https://www.goodfreephotos.com/">Good Free Photos</a>
Artwork of multiple twin-engine WW2 bombers aircraft flying through the sky with V-1 missiles in flight underneath, having been launched from them.