THE ALISTAIR HORNE VISITING FELLOWSHIP

The Alistair Horne Visiting Fellowship provides membership of St Antony’s College and limited financial assistance to a candidate who is researching or writing a significant book on a topic of modern history. The deadline for applications is 30 November 2014. Details here. Further information here.

CALL FOR DOCTORAL PROPOSALS FOR OCTOBER 2015 START

Call for doctoral proposals for October 2015 start. We hope and believe that funding for graduate students will be available. Candidates should indicate their interest in working with the project as part of their applications, which should be made to the appropriate Faculties / Departments in the normal way. Please mention specific potential supervisors in your application. Please see here for information on applying.

WW1 CENTENARY WEBSITE GOES LIVE!

The WW1 Centenary website goes live on Monday 20 October! Have a look here and let us know if you have any information you want to add to the site.

Oxford WW1 website

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Literary Journalism and WWI

Contributions are invited for a forthcoming volume on ‘Literary Journalism and WWI’. For more details see here.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: GENDER & HISTORY

The journal ‘Gender and History’ is calling for article abstracts for a special issue dedicated to ‘Gender and Global Warfare in the C20’, with a particular focus on WWI. The deadline has been extended to 31 October 2014. Further details can be found here.

Military History Seminar 15th October

Dr. Susan Grayzel (University of Mississippi) will be addressing the Military History Seminar on 15 October. See her recent blog post on gender expectations and WWI on the British Library’s website.

VOX “ECONOMICS OF WWI”

The online journal, VOX, is currently publishing a series of articles on the economics of WWI, edited by Kevin O’Rourke and including a recent contribution by Patricia Clavin. Follow this link!

http://www.voxeu.org/