I got back yesterday from a very successful trip to Singapore, where I attended The British Empire and the Great War: Colonial Societies/Cultural Responses conference, organised by Michael Walsh (Nanyang Technological University) and Andrekos Varneva (Flinders University). Since the conference was extensively livetweeted, I thought I'd forgo my usual post-conference report and instead Storify the #EmpireWW1 hashtag. While I've included tweets from the other livetweeters (Ashleigh Gilbertson, Jo Hawkins, Steve Marti, and Alexia Moncrieff), I've used only those about the sessions I actually attended myself. So it's still sort-of my view of the conference. There are keynotes by John MacKenzie, Hew Strachan (with bonus airpower), Tim Barringer, and Jay Winter; mystery aeroplanes, Zeppelins, air control, and the destruction of the Turkish 7th Army; various asides and interruptions; and Eric Bogle!

All of the #EmpireWW1 tweets can be seen here. And, to reiterate...

#EmpireWW1 1,074 tweets by 64 contributors reached 37,409 twitter accounts, a total of 780,686 unique impressions. https://t.co/dIcP932lUZ

— Jo Hawkins (@history_punk) February 24, 2014

#EmpireWW1 - Highest exposure @Airminded 305 tweets/ 358.1K impressions & most retweeted @ACPGilbertson 143 tweets/ 175 retweets

— Jo Hawkins (@history_punk) February 24, 2014

... Twitter works.

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