Don't point firearms at people folks.

If you can get to the IBCC in Lincoln on Thursday folks get a ticket for this! Jane really knows her Onions!

Expensive Babe, a 'ton-up' Halifax on 51 Squadron. @lydiajane13.bsky.social #History #WW2 @nmtdambusters.bsky.social @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social

More for my trip to Canada booked. Flights, motorhome and car hire, hotels, and Niagara sightseeing: sorted - only got a last bit of accommodation and the flights home to sort out. Bit of maths first. $ £...

Another wizard session this morning... Alessandro Pesaro on Pippo the Phantom Aircraft: Aviation Lore in Second World War Italy Ian Castle Will the Real von Buttlar Please Stand Up? Dan Ellin The Legend of the Scarecrow Flare Brett Holman When Was the Red Baron?

A wizard start to Print the Legend @avculturesconf.bsky.social Amanda Laugesen on Australian Aviation War Memoirs Kristen Alexander on Clive Caldwell’s Photographic Archive Guillaume de Syon on the “Real” Count von Zeppelin Jeffrey Schultz on Reappraising Billy Mitchell

Three hours of Gremlins. What could possiblt gi wrumh?

New shiny exhibition refit at the BBMF Visitor Centre, RAF Coningsby.

I'm giving two talks in one day - not quite Phill Collins and Live Aid but there you go... Thread.

"It's our history, it's British history and it's important to keep it alive..." It's also Italian, German, and Polish history.

Today I have mostly been sending and receiving emails about parking at the university. It's a bit more of a car crash than this though.

The raid footage is spectacular and horrifying. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Pforzheim #OTD 23 Feb 1945. 380 aircraft dropped 1,825 tons of bombs in 22 minutes from 8,000 feet. 83% of the town was destroyed and over 17,000 people killed. 12 aircraft were lost with the loss of 42 airmen. #History @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social @nmtdambusters.bsky.social

The scale of the Éperlecques bunker only registers when you spot a tiny me standing in front of it. A V-1 and V-2 are displayed nearby, dwarfed by the structure designed to store and launch them.

Page from Corporal Henry Francis Howard's album. in the @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social He put on theatrical productions at RAF Halton and later RAF Waddington. #History #OTD 20 Feb 1942

Well that was unexpected. I'm looking at a collection of photographs, and in between snaps of H2S screens and armourers bombing up aircraft are a handful of naked pin ups...

An article I wrote has been published in @sourcephoto.bsky.social Wizard stuff on Lee MIller and the Camera at War too.

Comments on a talk I gave last year: 1) I was 'belittling' Bomber Command 2) lumped me in with 'John Irving'...

This might be worth a butcher's if you're local to Lincoln. frequency.org.uk/events/fligh...

Flying log book for Flight Sergeant Rascal, W/O James Wrigley's mascot. He flew on 47 operations with 97 and 635 Squadrons. His pilots on operations were P/O Munro, Sqn Ldr Riches and Sqn Ldr De Wesselow. #History #WW2 #OTD @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social

Following the rabbit hole using David McCormack's new book 'The Great Escapism' and Sean Feast's 'Last of the 39ers' I've found Alfie Fripp in photos of the POW production of The Merchant of Venice, and as a jokey in the 'Flieger Jockey Club Gala Day'. #History #WW2 @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social

What ever they fly, you'll still have to get your washing in if they practice with smoke over your house.

@danellin.bsky.social @marybrazier.bsky.social I listened again to your WHWFF presentation, I first heard it live. Re: Dresden I wonder if proximity to the end of the war has added to the non-afflicted outrage? And you’re spot on about RAF BC’s intentions each time they went out. 1

There's bags of social and cultural history in the archive...

Valentines card from the @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social . Peter Field served as a wireless operator and Cynthia served as a WAAF in 2 Group. Reader, she married him. #valentine

Burma! @ww2tv.bsky.social @historybowsh.bsky.social

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

This was funny and horrific in equal measures and at different times. One to catch up on, and wizard to see @ww2tv.bsky.social as a guest. #History #WW2

I'm guess those of you who follow me know what this is.

New to the @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social today: Pip Beck's photograph albums on loan for scanning from RAF Waddington Heritage Centre. Her book, 'Keeping Watch' is my favourite WAAF memoir. It's wizard to see her albums and read her handwriting. #History #WW2 #archives

482 aircraft from 1,5, & 8 Groups bombed the oil refinery at Pölitz #OTD 8/9 Feb 1945. Two target photographs and a reconnaissance photograph showing the cumulation of damage from the @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social. #History #WW2

Happy birthday Flt Lt Harry Richardson DFC, who turns an astonishing 108 today! 30 ops on Wellingtons with 149 Squadron and then 32 more on Liberators with 59 Squadron in the Far East. #History #WW2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLDm... @nmtdambusters.bsky.social we need a similar walk through of the Halifax... @wehaveways.bsky.social @almurray.bsky.social

FIDO on film www.britishpathe.com/asset/53913/

Hurrah for FIDO www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Get your tickets folks Supper and a Lecture at the IBCC, and @lydiajane13.bsky.social's book is so important to the historiography of Bomber Command. #WW2 #History #histbookchat

Walking the ground in the rain.

Reconnaissance photograph of Tripoli harbour #OTD 6 Feb 1942. #History

Well, the drawings are interesting... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I met Sir Ian years ago in Lincoln Cathedral during the filming of the DaVinci Code. (I was an extra.) I'll never forget what he said to me. 'I'd give it five minutes,' he said. This is much better.

RAF officers in front of Heslington Hall, 4 Group HQ, #OTD 5 Feb 1945. The hall is now part of @york.ac.uk #History

I know I frequently plug the @nmtdambusters.bsky.social but damn, this episode is bang on. Buy @alanallport.bsky.social's new book folks. nevermindthedambusters.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...

Lancaster ND801 JN-X from 75 (NZ) Squadron RAF Mepal overshot returning from Dortmund and hit a house in Sutton 22:23, 3 Feb 1945. 4 of the crew were injured. Photo taken #OTD 4th Feb. #History

A PhD opportunity at CCCU in History/Archaeology/Heritage. Preference is for a modernist, but proposals in other areas will be considered. Dr @davehitchcock.bsky.social is the point of contact. www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/f... #skystorians #medievalsky #archaeology

This evening I have mostly been listening to Jim Capaldi.

More talks about the future of RAF Scampton. It's: "A unique community rooted in aviation heritage, actively celebrating and promoting aviation activities" "A significant opportunity to build sovereign capability for UK defence and space sectors" and a £2.1 billion opportunity Hmm.

Aircrew in front of a Stirling during training #OTD 30 Jan 1945. John Taylor Brittain (kneeling left) later flew operations as a Lancaster mid-upper gunner with 195 Squadron from RAF Wratting Common. #History #WW2 @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social @nmtdambusters.bsky.social

Wakey wakey tablets anyone?

My eyes are going like Desperate Dan's

Pages from an album of photographs taken by LAC Arthur George Standivan following the liberation of Belsen. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, think about how this happened. Let's try to stop it happening again. #holocaust #WW2 #HISTORY