Brilliant

“It’s a lot easier to destroy a thing than to build a thing.”

Today we celebrate Russia singlehandedly winning the Second World War…

Proud to be helping Alzheimer’s Research UK in the quest for a cure to this cruel disease. Humbling to meet the amazing Adams brothers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Training in the Royal Flying Corps, Canada 1918 style! Lt 'Ned' Ballough from Daytona, Florida had signed up for the US draft in June 1917 but impatient, travelled to Toronto and joined the RFC. He (surprisingly!) survived the war, training recruits in Canada before returning safely to the US.

Morning! #dog #petsofbluesky

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I’m so British. It’s 20 degrees so i sit out all day in the shade n get burned from the reflection off the table n floor… i mean wtf!?

I listen to Trump and think how? Then I remember the comical ‘argument’ i had in Alabama over whose Birmingham came first 😁

Afternoon all 🕶️☀️

Ladies of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, or as this flying cadet called them Warned Against All Cadets 😄

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Surprisingly moved after finding a roll up with tobacco still inside in Air Mechanic Ernest Dobson’s Pay Book. He joined the RFC as a boy mechanic in 1917 and left in 1922.

Not all corporate days were bad. This was one hell of an evening. How many legends can you name (aside from me 😁🤔)?

Allies insulted by surnames, enemies appealed to by first names. I’m sure that’s how we all jive….

Someone has a blanket fresh from the drier. Princess 😁 ❤️ #dogs

Trump not without precedent …from 1933 newspapers. #skystorians

An anecdote to the ‘myth of Billy Mitchell’. The real first man of American military aviation. Also helped the RAF grow by lending Texan airfields to boost training in return for the training of hundreds of American pilots and thousands of mechanics. #skystorians #histbookchat

This product is so good that you don’t even mind when it leaks all over your refrigerator because it fell on its side and somehow manages to do it every single time you buy it. That’s just the bargain you make with this stern old woman

Ludlow Castle on a sunny day ❤️

Hey Siri, what’s an insider trader?

Hmmm if you were thinking of spending the equiv of ~30k on a new car, would you go for the Chinese or US car!? 🤔

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Sales to Canada, Germany and Scotland this week. All of them rare beauties. Thank you! #histbookchat #skystorians www.gonna-need-a-bigger-shelf.com/category/all...

New trainers. Modelled on William Barker VC’s Sopwith Camel ❤️ #skystorians #histbookchat

Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"

Hats off to @economist.com for calling out the madness in refreshingly brutal honest language.

This isn't 'medicine', this is open-heart surgery led by a trainee car mechanic....

The whole world needs to echo this. This isn’t ‘politics’. This is economic history that will be studied a hundred years from now.

A ferocious energy behind British education, army reform and aviation. Shoddily treated by his colleagues and the press. An interesting life! #histbookchat

The whole world waiting on one narcissistic grifter to find out how much he will mess up their economies. And America had the audacity to call other nations ‘axis of evil’(!)

Introduced Mum to the Native American black metal band Blackbraid that I saw in France. I think they’ll grow on her 😂 🤟

Happy birthday to the RAF! An April Fools' joke, neither the British Army nor the Royal Navy, have really got over 😅🤣

What an artist Fortunino Matania was. His First World War drawings are quite wonderful. #histbookchat www.gonna-need-a-bigger-shelf.com/product-page...

Have a small cat with a swishy tail instead…

Trump destroying global economy, China emboldened on Taiwan, Israel bombing Beirut, household bills to soar… Morning!! 🫠

After six months of drowning in history books thanks to @needabiggershelf.bsky.social , i have finally catalogued and listed them all and reclaimed my office. And the sun’s out. #histbookchat

Yay, how wonderful, a day out shopping at Bicester Village …. Said no-one sensible ever..

Controversial, but the two seem to me intrinsically entwined … #histbookchat

#histbookchat indeed .... all 830 of them!

Rather incredible find. 1914 book by Maj Gen Altham with letter to the author from Gen Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien #histbookchat #history #book #ww1

As I was saying… Trump today “We'll sell our allies toned down military planes, because someday, maybe they're not our allies” … best advert for Tempest ever.

Whether or not there is a “kill switch” is irrelevant (there isn’t but a lack of software updates would do the same thing), the very fact it’s even talked about will make future purchasers think long n hard.

At a time when there is the real prospect of a divergence between the US and Europe, cooperation between Turkey, the European Union and the UK is more vital than ever.

Topical and excellent. www.gonna-need-a-bigger-shelf.com/category/mid...

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This seems a very topical time to be writing a lecture on aircraft procurement and national sovereignty!

Wow… if you haven’t seen Trudeau’s speech and Q&A, you should. Brilliant, just brilliant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=83f4...

Confession...I'm a massive rock and metal fan but try as I might, I just don't like Led Zeppelin.....sorry