"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

A Paris Beauty, created c.1940s, by an individual who was compelled to live at Netherne Hospital. This drawing on the fly leaf of a library book predates the art therapy studio there: such existing creativity using purloined & improvised materials led directly to the studio’s establishment in 1946

Some weekend reading. #Internment

So, part of my job is to see what people are making of the history of our Hospital. Bethlem partly exists in the gothic, horror-adjacent end of history, and so attracts a certain kind of presentation. Restraints, gore, electrodes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until... ...I stumbled onto this book.

And not just you: have you seen this statement from the ICRC? www.icrc.org/en/article/i... The implication is that people are accusing them of hiding records that AI insists exist but has actually just hallucinated.

Pancho Barnes was one of the stunt flyers. A remarkable lady who more than cemented her name on aviation history.

Our first talk of 2026 is on 21 January at the Grosvenor Museum by Prof Tim Grady of @HistArchChester on German War Graves and the British: The Great Exhumation Mission of 1962. Non-members very welcome [£5 cash/cheque at the door].

Josep (2020). Powerful animated film about Catalan artist Josep Bartolí's experiències after the Spanish Civil War in a French concentration camp and his relationship gendarme, and later in Mexican exile with Frida Kahlo. www.theguardian.com/film/2021/ja...

Welcome to the Public Domain, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) 🎖️ 🎬 The third film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards is a realistic look at World War I. Experience the first filmed adaptation now in the #publicdomain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

Sports but make it art Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua (2025) / Francis Bacon, “Self Portrait with Injured Eye” (1972)

That feeling when you find 60 pages of unpublished and unedited interviews with survivors from the My Lai Massacre... Photo is from the CID investigation at My Lai, Nov 1969. Incense sticks have been placed in cans from the C-rations left by Charlie Company.

I thoroughly enjoyed the matinee performance of A Christmas Carol at the Leeds Playhouse yesterday. A fabulous reworking of the script by Deborah McAndrew and expertly delivered by Reese Dinsdale and cast. Great to see "signing" used in parts of the performance too. #ChristmasCarol #Scrooge

I reviewed Gabriele Tergit's THE EFFINGERS, a mighty and brilliant and extremely readable book out now in English thanks to a cracking translation by Sophie Duvernoy >>> www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Hans Baluschek (German, 1870–1935) "Cold", 1917. Gouache and Colored Crayons on Vellum, 49.5 × 33 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

worship for the Deaf community and a symbol of Deaf identity until its closure in 2014. It continued a tradition of Deaf worship that had begun in central London in the 1870s shown in the image above (St Saviour's Oxford Street)

Delighted to have received my De Montfort University 35 year long service award. Thank you to all staff and students who have helped me on the way.

Machine gun cartridge box. Sent by Mexico to Spanish Republic. An artifact reminding of positive role played by Mexico helping the Republic. Mexico never recognised the Franco regime, and didn't reestablish diplomatic relations with Spain till 1977. Part of the collection of my friend Alan Warren.

new on @carceralhistory.bsky.social: distinguished historian @madameclair08.bsky.social pitches her new @beaconpress.bsky.social book, TELL HER STORY: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City carceral-history.ghost.io/authors-pitc...

Today’s Oscar-qualified short is 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls,' a hauntingly beautiful gothic stop-motion fable of love and greed. Directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, the TIFF-winning short was produced by the NFB and Clyde Henry Productions. www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/the-g...

Lest We Forget www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0q... "The corner of northern France that is forever Yorkshire". This is a piece I did for ITN News with John Irvine in 2016. (with special thanks also to @profalisonsfell.bsky.social and Legacies of War at the University of Leeds ) #Fricourt

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller November 08,1945

I've set a couple of hours aside this afternoon to watch Peter Watkins' Edvard Munch (1974). I like this type of documentary-style cinema where the plotline and characters are given time to develop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD3s...

One for the Christmas stocking - if available in Oz! @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/cat-on-...

Bonfire Night when I was younger (w/out wanting to sound too nostalgic) was mostly about pie and peas, jacket potatoes, and parkin. It was also a community event, involving 'chumping' (collecting firewood) or 'raiding' the rivals' stockpile, and then getting together to make the biggest bonfire.

Delfshaven - one year ago today! #Netherlands

“In Peter Watkins’s world, no amount of time can bury the cry for freedom.” Rest in power Peter Watkins, socialist hero. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...

Happy Halloween - a perfect tune for the approaching All Hallows' Eve! [Wold Newton Triangle - The powers of parkin and the cake-eating dragon of Filey is one of my favourite legends.]

Episode 4 of 'Glimpses of German History' is now LIVE! In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India. Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA

The SS Rohilla Disaster 🧵 29 October 1914 – Through the Evening and Night As the Rohilla steamed down the east coast, the fierce storm increased in severity. With wartime blackouts hiding every coastal and ship’s light, the captain was forced to navigate by dead reckoning guessing his 1/2

#NationalGeographic has named #Hull, #England, one of the top 25 destinations in the world for 2026, thanks in part to the city's embrace of its rich #MaritimeHistory. Hull is in the midst of a massive restoration of several sites, including a maritime museum and the 1927 Spurn #Lightship.

Remembering the superlative writer and editor Keith Roberts, who was born on this day 1935. A fitting day therefore to be embarking on his 1968 book ‘Pavane’, which many still regard as not only his masterpiece but also one of the genre’s finest ‘alternative history’ novels.

If you're looking for the short on my new article, Dr Tom Almeroth-Williams has made it easy for you! 👇👇

Waterstones was a rather disorienting experience this morning. Exit lift, turn left now instead of straight ahead or right for History. Totally threw me. I couldn't work out the different sections or periodisation, or the alphabetical arrangement of historians/authors. I'll try again at the weekend.

Thanks for sharing, @illuminations.bsky.social 😊

In Vol 46 (2021) we published Ben Braber and Natalie Braber, 'From Tangier to Locarno: The Experience of War in Nottingham and Language Use in Local Newspapers, 1905-1925'. Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #history #nottingham #openaccess #published

Mask of Sorrow (1996, dedicated to the memory for the prisoners of Gulag) Magadan, Russia Sculptor : Ernst Neizvestny

© Peter Brown. 'Glasgow,' 2023. Oil on board, 16" × 12".

Soz. Not quite getting the Green Party vibe (or any other, for that matter), and leaning more towards the electioneering platform of Monty Brewster in 'Brewster's Millions' and 'None of the Above'. #QuestionTime

And the rest . . . bsky.app/profile/alan...

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Thinking aloud really, and I'm wondering if it's worth dipping into The Illustrated London News/Illustrated Police News/Police Gazette to see if there are other accounts of the attack or Wm Symonds' retirement? A sketch or artist's impression being better than nothing in the absence of a photo.

Patricia Routledge as Mrs Peachum in The Beggar's Opera (1983). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExD1... Full version www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDin...

We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Tony Harrison, aged 88, who had been unwell for some years. A tribute has been published on our website. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

You know you’re living in strange times when Last Night of the Proms feels like the least jingoistic thing happening in Britain at the moment.

The Blue Peter, Derby. The things you see on the top deck of a bus! More on the Blue Peter, Blue Pool, and Blue Boy below. www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2570842 #ArtDeco #PublicHouses #Derby

War Horse, Leeds Grand Theatre. #NationalTheatre #Warhorse #Leeds

My favorite JEKYLL AND HYDE is Stan Laurel's DR PYCKLE AND MR PRYDE, which features a diabolical Hyde character who terrorizes London with petty pranks, gags and practical jokes. (And, ironically, is probably one of the more faithful versions.)

Saturday vibes. Roy Lichtenstein, The Red Horseman (1974) and Carlo Carrà's original from 1913.