Vanda Wilcox: I am v excited that First World War Studies has published this excellent article on Eritrea #fwwhist - also of interest to Italianists perspectives like this on the Horn of Africa can really enrich how we think about what a global history of war actually means www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I am v excited that First World War Studies has published this excellent article on Eritrea #fwwhist - also of interest to Italianists perspectives like this on the Horn of Africa can really enrich how we think about what a global history of war actually means www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Difficult Years: Eritrea and the Impact of the Great War (1914–1922)www.tandfonline.com This article investigates the economic and social situation of Eritrea from 1914 to 1922. Despite its distance from the battlefields, the impact that the Great War had on the country was significan...

But why do they always have to be so expensive? I hope the author is getting some of that.

The for-profit publishing model is broken, I completely agree. The author gets nothing, the editor gets nothing, the peer reviewers also get nothing.

The really daft part is that an annual subscription to the journal comes free with membership of the International Society for First World War Studies which costs 46€ or 34€ for students. Much better value.

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