Polygon wood

Polygon Wood cemetery

Memorial museum Passchendaele 1917

Passchendaele memorial park - 8 gardens designed in a poppy layout, one garden for each of 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇩🇪🇳🇿🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 (USA, Belgium, New Zealand and UK gardens in the photos below)

The Menin Gate ❤️

The cloth hall, Ypres, at night ❤️

Not the Western Front Conference 2026 Following last years great conference will take place on Saturday 31st October in Wakefield West Yorkshire just off the M1. Tickets cost £29 including lunch.with 4 great speakers. Earlybird tickets £25 before end of May www.trybooking.com/uk/FPHV

The inaugural online talk from the Not the Western Front Society was given by Dr Adam Prime tonight. This fascinating talk was all about the little known Battle of Shaiba and the early part of the Mesopotamian campaign in WW1 @ntwf.bsky.social @primeadam.bsky.social @goslingpress.bsky.social

An unusual example of a lowland broch. The elusive Tappoch (or Torwood) Broch is located near Denny in central Scotland, concealed within a dense (though now partly cleared) forest. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #TorwoodBroch #TappochBroch #Broch #Denny #Falkirk

A wet and misty day on the hills ☔️🌫️⛰️❤️ #benvrackie #scotlandinspringtime

For anyone interested in maritime history then this brilliant conference, commemorating 110 years since the Battle of Jutland, is on during May. My fellow naval nerd @jerijerod14.bsky.social (expert in all things German navy related) is a speaker and will definitely be worth a listen.

It is official⁉️ I have my own professional recording studio, and the new history podcast & YouTube channel will be lauching very very soon! We will be posting our first episodes in the next few weeks, so watch this space!!! Teddy also has a starring role! #Podcasting #History

This week’s free to read is the 1914 bombardment of Zeebrugge harbour by the Royal Navy #history #navalhistory #ww1 jerijerod14.substack.com/p/bombarding...

Readers of military history books love a good map, so for #mapmonday here are two original Red Cross maps showing POW camps in Europe which they produced for families of prisoners. Both maps feature in b&w format in my book - The Undefeated - published by @barnthornpublishing.

Proud to lay the Gallipoli Association wreath with Sergeant Ron Green BM ES at the Lone Pine commemoration event today. I also paid my respects to several fallen men including Lt-Col Richard Nelson Bendyshe, RMLI #Gallipoli #anzacday @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social

On the 280th anniversary of Culloden we are pleased to release the first longer video on The Wars Beneath Our Feet. youtu.be/u_0gwZQ-FvI?si…

Gosling Press has just produced a volume with all 96 issue of peninsula Press, the newsheet produced during the Gallipoli Campaign. This is we believe the first time all issues have been available. For more information go to goslingpress.co.uk/peninsula-pr...

British Army veteran and University of Wolverhampton PhD candidate Phil Watson joins the podcast for a fascinating discussion on British doctrine in the Great War. (Which YES, they did have a doctrine.) youtu.be/OWEecyMWfFM?...

10 Apr 1940 // Destroyer HMS Hardy was heavily damaged fighting to her last torpedo and shell against German destroyers off Narvik, and capsized after being beached. 32 men died. Captain B A W Warburton-Lee was awarded a posthumous VC. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Spitfire! ❤️

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 ⚓️ Nelson never got to carry out his own battle plan — and @zwhitehistory.bsky.social of @napwarspod.bsky.social explains why in our newest episode 🤯 Listen now: pod.fo/e/3c9366 #HistoryRage #Nelson #Trafalgar ⚔️

Psst… have a new book out in October! SLEUTH-HOUND tells the story of Scottish surgeon Joseph Bell, who inspired Sherlock Holmes. Expect Victorian forensics, Jack the Ripper, and even a ballistics expert named Dr. Watson. Follow me on Goodreads for more updates! www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

This evening’s TV. Where is that Nazi gold? @guywalters.bsky.social

The museum of communism in Prague. A fascinating and terrifying story.

Thrilled that The Last Hunt for Nazi Gold is a Sunday Times pick of the day. Do tune into Sky HISTORY at 9 p.m. on Monday!

Sunsets and sundowners. Thanks @guywalters.bsky.social for the negronis and stunning rooftop views of Prague. x

Operation Anthropoid and the crypt of St Cyril and St Methodius Cathedral, Prague

The Undefeated by Bill Robertson is out now. Published by Barnthorn publishing and available here www.barnthornpublishing.co.uk @bill1940.bsky.social @thehighlandic.bsky.social

Not the Western Front Conference 2026 Following last years great conference will take place on Saturday 31st October in Wakefield West Yorkshire just of the M1. Tickets cost £29 including lunch.with 4 great speakers. Earlybird tickets available for £25 before May www.trybooking.com/uk/FPHV

Issue 2 of the Not The Western Front Society Journal is now available. Articles include The Siege of Tsing-Tao, Part 2, An Armoured Car Experience, In German East Africa The Devil My Friend. All this for just £7.50 a year you can sign up at www.trybooking.com/uk/ESJZ

A few of my pieces have been framed for the Spring Exhibition at Churchgate Gallery in Porlock, and I think the framer has done a wonderful job. Here’s my ‘Storm at Crowcombe, 1724’. #art #artist #architecture

NTWFS is a group for those people interested in WW1 but who are looking for more than the western front in France and Belgium, as interesting as that is WW1 is so much more. Its just £7.50 a year for subscriptions and you can sign up at www.trybooking.com/uk/ESJZ

🚨GWG Free Talk Thursday 20 November at 20:00 UK time. We'll be joined by Nick Higham whose talk is based on his book Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War 1 Link below us02web.zoom.us/j/85381585115?… Meeting ID: 853 8158 5115 Passcode: 161943

“An action-packed tale of imperial British braggadocio, bravery and blundering on a grand scale.” A splendid review of Mavericks in the Times by Justin Marozzi, no mean writer and historian himself… This 1918 British operation was an imperial Mission: Impossible www.thetimes.com/article/3171...

GWG Director Alex Churchill will be tackling the topic of the Philippines in 1945 at the premier World War 2 festival We Have Ways Fest next weekend at Blackpit farm, near Silverstone Tickets here wehavewaysfest.co.uk

Last weekend GWG members Bruce and Mags Hubbard organised a day out for GWG members as part of the GWG 5th birthday celebrations. Their visit took them to all things Great War related in Caernarfon and included a short commemoration and wreath laying at Caernarfon war memorial.

Phil Watson giving his presentation “Lance -v- lance 1914 -The Last Lance Actions of the Great War” at the branch meeting of the WFA Tayside on Saturday afternoon

Topic: GWG free online talk. The Spy Who Disappeared - A Transcaspian Adventure Time: Jul 24, 2025 08:00 PM London Join Zoom Meeting us02web.zoom.us/j/88098843940?… Meeting ID: 880 9884 3940 Passcode: 763406 As always, the talk is free to all and registration isn't needed

🚨🚨 Free online talk! Louise Provan will be talking about Reginald Teague Jones - The Spy Who Disappeared. This is a true story of espionage, banditry and derring-do in a little known (in the West at least) part of the world - Transcaspia and the Caucasus. Details below

🚨 GWG free talk! Open to all! Steve Marsden talks about Defense de Fumer - How a company of French reserves (may have) changed the war Time: Jun 19, 2025 08:00 PM London us02web.zoom.us/j/83283187443?… Meeting ID: 832 8318 7443 Passcode: 784578

The first of our speakers has been confirmed for the @GreatWarGroup annual conference in October. Mike Taylor will be talking about captured German artillery 1914-1949 Follow greatwargroup.com/product-catego… to buy tickets and join fellow war bores in Bristol in October!

Sunset 🌓🌅❤️

Yesterday Andy Moody gave a talk to the Tayside Branch of @TheWFA about the Medium Mark A Whippet tank “Musical Box” and her wartime service. Andy is part of a group who have recreated a life size replica of “Musical Box”.

A beautiful day on the hills!

The NW Northern IC is having a great awayday in Glasgow with the @WHW_HighlandIC and our Scottish chums. Books, birthday celebrations, bier and bratwurst. WNTL? Thanks @louiseprovan.bsky.social ! 👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👏 #WeHaveWays

Feeling quite chuffed with myself. This is the culmination of an awful lot of work but I honestly think it challenges the accepted wisdoms which to this day, still surround Monty's legacy.