Alastair Lockhart

The German Maritime Museum invites applications for 3-9 month-long fellowships to work on interdisciplinary object-based research focussing on the cultural & political significance of the relationship between humans and the sea. Apply by 31 January 2025. museumsbund.de/stellenangebot…

Thinking about applying for our By-Fellowship? @satisfactory20, one of our By-Fellows this term, shares her top tips. Don't forget to send us your application by 31st December. buff.ly/3G5pxT3

This new book from our Academic Director James Crossley is out next month! Read more and pre-order here: link.springer.com/book/978303173…

My article, Orwell, Class, and Consumption: The Desecration of Bread in The Road to Wigan Pier, is now live in @ES_Routledge! doi.org/10.1080/001383…

We have EXTENDED the CFP deadline for the 2025 Space Between Conference! Send us abstracts by DECEMBER 15! spacebetweensociety.com/2025-conferenc…

From Pews to Arenas: The History of Catholicism (and Pontiffs) in Stadiums #Papalvisit2024 buff.ly/3ZcWKFb

Out now! 📕 Religion and War from Antiquity to Early Modernity explores the role of religion in war from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective. Preview: bit.ly/3znO5XL Learn more 📖: bit.ly/4ezbyUE

I am so excited to see my book “Apocalypse in British Art and Visual Culture in the Early Twentieth Century: Some Revelation” near publication with @Routledgebooks @tandfMediaArts Thanks to @PaulMellonCentr for the support and funding for this project!

Publication day is nearly here! Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought is now available for pre-order edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-catastrop… - 30% launch discount with code NEW30 @EdinburghUP

#OnThisDay 24 October 1656 James Nayler re-enacted Christ's entry into Jerusalem at Bristol, with his followers singing hosannas & casting garments before him. The Quaker movement disassociated themselves with Nayler, who was arrested and tried for blasphemy. #17thCentury #OTD

You're looking at the first photo of the Earth from space. It was taken by a camera mounted on a captured German V2 rocket launched by the U.S. military on this day in 1946.

We’d like to congratulate the Icknield Way Association and Friends of the Ridgeway on the successful launch of the new very old #GreatChalkWay that links the Jurassic Coast in Dorset with the Wash in Norfolk. It’ll be a memorable route!

CFP: Implicit Religion special issue: "Private and Intimate Spaces of Spirituality". Including the blurry categories and processes of religious/spiritual vs. secular spaces, or the accidental, inadvertent or impromptu formation of spiritual places: journal.equinoxpub.com/IR/announcemen…

From @ChuArchives - Mary Agnes Hamilton‘s diary for August 1945 with ‘The ATOMIC BOMB’ scrawled across the page. ‘Lunch with Hugh Dalton and heard all about it’ followed

An historic photo : HMS Victory and HMS Dreadnought

🚨CFP for 2025🚨 Now announcing our 2025 CFP for "Peace and Conflict in the Space Between" Abstracts due December 1! spacebetweensociety.com/2025-conferenc…

@SimoninSuffolk @YalePevsner @premierinn 2nd floor, I think...

@AlasLockhart @YalePevsner @premierinn Excellent, which floor were they on, can you remember?

I'm delighted to learn from @YalePevsner that the glass I photographed in the stairway of the Quayside @premierinn Newcastle, back in July, is by the great Caroline Townshend, 1908. Two of them, the arms of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Northumberland. (I had the Northumberland Pevsner with me at the time, but didn't look them up, tsk.)

The Dover Pharos in Kent is the most complete standing Roman building in England. Built in the early 2nd century AD, it is also one of only three lighthouses to survive from the whole of the former Roman empire. Is it the oldest building in England? ➡️ bit.ly/TheOldestBuild…

"End Game: Apocalyptic Video Games, Contemporary Society, and Digital Media Culture" Edited by: Lorenzo DiTommaso , James Crossley , Alastair Lockhart and Rachel Wagner is officially out today. #contents" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">degruyter.com/document/doi/1…