Alex Mayhew

Assistant Professor @lsehistory | Great War + Morale | Written a book for @CambridgeUP | Past me: @History_Bham @TheLSECourse + LSE LIFE

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[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

Today is publication day for the paperback edition of my monograph Making Sense of the Great War at £29.99.

I am yet to receive my author copies, but I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and RTs this.

Find it here: https://t.co/tA8l7MeB3u

[LSE International History @lsehistory]

The LSE-Yale Seminar in Contemporary International History — a joint seminar between the LSE International History Department and the Department of History at Yale University — invites proposals for the 2026-2027 academic year.

#LSE #Yale #history #seminar

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

Thank you, @HistoryPegg!

Glad to hear you enjoyed the book.

Read it here: https://t.co/BtbPCKtzNq

Or from Amazon for £27.53: https://t.co/ioprgQMKp3

[Ian Pegg @HistoryPegg]

A #History #book recommendation. #WW1

I’ve recently re read ‘Making Sense of the Great War’ by Alex Mayhew.

Alex’s writing is sharp on point and this is a brilliant in depth view covering areas that I hadn’t read about before including The Environment, morale, culture and much more on the western front in World War 1. Not only is it well written but it makes you think. It’s asks questions of you to understand the different aspects of the First World War and the Western front and the impact it had on people. It challenges perceptions and gives a unique insight. I really enjoyed reading this and a highly recommended book. @GreatWar100Yrs @GreatWarGroup @AlexCMayhew

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

@david_gange @WmCollinsBooks @GeorginaCapel Excited to read this, David!

[LSE International History @lsehistory]

We are delighted to announce that we are hiring for LSE Fellow in the History of US Foreign Relations!

Closing date for receipt of applications is Thursday 30th April.

Full details and applications: https://t.co/555Hrqgll6

#career #vacancy #fellow #history #hiring #lse

[LSE International History @lsehistory]

Last week, Dr Alex Mayhew took a group of our HY120 students joined on another of this term’s archive trips, visiting the archive of the National Army Museum where they were joined curator Justin Saddington.

@NAM_London

#nationalarmymuseum #archives #fieldtrip #history #lse

[LSE International History @lsehistory]

Call for Papers: 2026 LSE/GWU/UCSB Cold War Studies International History Graduate Student Conference.

Full details here: https://t.co/Vcg5cFcGVq

Contact email: [email protected]

#conference #phd #graduate #coldwar #history #politics #event #lse

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

We drew on the collection of @AHAhistorians essays by Santanu Das, Susan Grayzel, Jessica Meyer, and Catherine Robson that analysed the film.

Students were drawn to the soundscape and narrative but queried silences and omissions.

All agreed it was an impressive piece of cinema!

[LSE International History @lsehistory]

Last night, Dr Alex Mayhew hosted a screening of Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old for students in our department. Attendees gorged on pizza and discussed the film's depiction of the Great War. Thanks for hosting, Alex!

#film #pizza #ww1 #students #history #lse

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

@DulwichHamletFC Woeful.

[LSE International History @lsehistory]

“Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History”

Tues 25 Nov, Professor Anja Laukötter delivers the Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture.

Event details and registration: https://t.co/T1HMDpjKNs

#events #lse

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

@DulwichHamletFC Laughable.

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

@DulwichHamletFC Obviously an incredibly disappointing result, and you would hope we could hold on to a lead even with ten men, but the referee played a huge part in that.

We were cruising before we went down to 10.

[Dulwich Hamlet FC @DulwichHamletFC]

Not a bad finish that 😅

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

Thank you @LSEReviewBooks for publishing this detailed review of my book.

Have a read and remember that you can purchase globally from Cambridge University Press (https://t.co/tA8l7MeB3u), Amazon (https://t.co/6iK2RRoJi0), and other vendors.

I recently saw it in the wild!

[LSE Review of Books @LSEReviewBooks]

NEW✨ Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front by @AlexCMayhew @lsehistory @CambridgeUP.

#Review by James Sewry @sewryjm

#History #FirstWorldWar

https://t.co/py2adAWvKQ

[The Historical Journal @HistoricalJnl]

📘From our latest issue

Dina Gusejnova (@lsehistory) on 'Loyalty and Allegiance in Baltic German Political Thought after the First World War'

#Refugee #Intellectual #Family #Politics 🛡️📜

👉Read open access: https://t.co/MjIBKZztkd

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

@sommecourt @HistoryPegg It has to be ordered through this part of the CUP website: https://t.co/MN9pDumnwK.

As I say, though, after shipping it is around the same price on Amazon (and other outlets) and might arrive faster!

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

After several weeks in Canada, I have got my hands on my author copies of Making Sense of the Great War.

@HistoryPegg was chosen at random to receive one for free!

You can purchase it for £23.99 using the code HIST2425 here: https://t.co/Lva7Th16Tb.

#History #MilitaryHistory

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

Today is publication day for the paperback edition of my monograph Making Sense of the Great War at £29.99.

I am yet to receive my author copies, but I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and RTs this.

Find it here: https://t.co/tA8l7MeB3u

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

@sommecourt @HistoryPegg @sommecourt I have just tried the code and it does appear to be accepted, so long as you have chosen the the paperback.

Saying that, CUP shipping costs means there is little difference to the current price for both paperback and e-book on Amazon etc.

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

Afterwards, I walked up to Mont Royal cemetery to see Currie's memorial and to look at the @CWGC graves that are so carefully cared for.

Interestingly, there is also a space for veterans of the Crimean and South African Wars.

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

I had a wonderful time in the archive room @GreatWarCentre in Montreal yesterday.

Most of my time was spent looking through their postcard collection.

I also saw their (no longer) radioactive wrist watch collection and a painting of Arthur Currie by John Singer Sargent.

[Alex Mayhew @AlexCMayhew]

Did anyone else know that British helmets during the Great War contained asbestos? I didn't!

They hold a wealth of material culture - and personal documents - for historians to consult.

The research space is wonderful and the building is beautiful - well worth a visit!