D'ya think? The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My one visit to see Beverley Town FC this year clearly had an effect. Well done on achieving promotion. Up the Beavers!

Nice work, for a traitor. Farage in the US running the UK down and pocketing cash and gifts that he didn’t declare at the time

As my maternity leave comes to an end, a reminder that I’m now offering an archive photography service primarily for museums/archives in the south east England (IWM, TNA, BL etc etc) to help make ends meet. Details below: lucybetteridgedyson.com/archive-rese...

This royal visit must be cancelled forthwith. news.sky.com/story/uk-can...

I guess lack of space prevented Mason from mentioning that Starmer set up the Strategic Defence Review in 2024, led by Lord Robertson, and has committed to acting on all 62 of its recommendations. And that he is now back at his job with the Cohen Group, who act as defence industry consultants. 🤔

Latest addition to the Long, Long Trail is article "252nd Tunnelling Company men in the attack at Bullecourt, 20 November 1917" see www.longlongtrail.co.uk/252nd-tunnel... #ww1 #genealogy

'Names of every soldier who passed thru Normanby Hall Aux Hospital, w/their ranks, no.s and regiments, were meticulously logged by Ernest Dain, the household's clerk. "It's unique," says [the curator]. "I'm certainly not aware of any other stately home that has a record as detailed as this."'

On 23 June 2026, Britain marks ten years since the Brexit referendum. We were promised £350 million a week for the NHS. We were promised the easiest trade deals in history. We were promised sunlit uplands. Research now shows the economy is 6-8% smaller,

Latest article added to the Long, Long Trail is "The Devonshire (Fortress) Company of the Royal Engineers (Territorial Force)" see www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-devonshi... #ww1 #genealogy

Latest addition to the Long, Long Trail. An article for family historians, "Regulars, reservists and the 1911 census". See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/regulars-res... #ww1 #genealogy

Latest article added to the Long Long Trail is "A Great Yarmouth casualty of Fromelles July 1916" see www.longlongtrail.co.uk/a-great-yarm... #ww1 #genealogy

Today's new article at The Long, Long Trail is "A life from Ascension Island via Japan and Canada to death in France in June 1918": the story of Wright Thomas Squire. See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/a-life-from-... #ww1 #genealogy

Just added a couple of press clippings to my article "Was your soldier a policeman before or during the Great War?" See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/was-your-sol... #ww1 #genealogy

#otd 10 April 1918, German Fourth Army extends Lys offensive northwards, attacking British 25th, 19th and 9th Divisions. Recaptured Messines Ridge. #ww1 #genealogy

Latest article added to the Long, Long Trail is "The Fifth Army School of Musketry and “Carey’s Force”". See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-fifth-ar... #ww1 #genealogy #mgc

It seems that Nigel Farage's antisemitism and support for Nazi policies extend far beyond his "Hitler was right" schooldays ... meme via William Peter Tennant

I was given this, along with various bits including a copy of the same unit's journal "Linseed Lance", some years ago. Just about to photograph it all for the Long, Long Trail. #ww1

#OTD 9 April 1918 German Sixth Army commenced offensive in Flanders (Battle of the Lys). British 40th and Portuguese 2nd Divisions hard hit; 55th (W. Lancs) conducted splendid defence of Givenchy. #ww1

Latest addition to the Long, Long Trail is "Wounded with the 10th West Yorkshires on the Somme, 25 August 1918" see www.longlongtrail.co.uk/wounded-with... #ww1 #genealogy

Wouldn't it be nice if he just shut his yap for one day?

List of UK politicians/political figures who have declared support for Trump: • Boris Johnson • Liz Truss • Suella Braverman • Andrea Jenkyns • Jacob Rees-Mogg • Nigel Farage • Lord Frost • John Hayes • Robert Jenrick • Sammy Wilson • Ian Paisley • Jake Berry • Kwasi Kwarteng • Tim Montgomerie

I'm not sure that the USA will ever recover from this shameful period in its history. The damage done to its reputation is colossal.

@hellohistoria.bsky.social Thought you may like to know that I have discovered not one but two Louvains in my wife's family tree (Herefordshire).

Yes. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

@homesickpenguin.bsky.social One more piece. War Office daily list 14 Sept 1918. Reported as POW. Now on to see if can find repatriation.

USA: looks as though your own civilisation has already died. How can you possibly tolerate this? How can you sit idly by and do nothing? #Iran

100% agree

Yikes — BBC caught editing a *quote* claiming to be from a man inside Iran who at first allegedly said he was “ok” with them being nuked… then they changed it, apparently realizing that was too much 🤔

A perfect evening for watching the bats flit about. I love that.

Latest article added to the Long, Long Trail is "RGA Gunner gassed at Mailly-Maillet". See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/rga-gunner-g... #ww1 #genealogy

This is appalling. How on earth can the trip planned by King Charles possibly go ahead after this?

The current President of the USA is by some distance the most foul human being I have ever come across.

Nice discovery this evening ... a relative of my wife's served in the 3rd, later 2nd, Tyneside Irish. Taken POW. Like almost all of her northeastern family, he lived in Cowpen, Blyth. An Easter project for me. #ww1 #genealogy

Just remembered that I became a full time carer four years ago today.

100% agree

This is Apartheid. It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide. To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.

Personalised newsletter. Clever stuff.

Completely barmy. Honestly, you have to wonder about some people.

The new series of #WDYTYA to be aired this spring & summer in 2 parts features: Toby Jones Zoe Ball Amy Dowden Adeel Akhtar Dame Harriet Walter Joe Swash Ruth Madeley Katarina Johnson-Thompson www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/tv-series/wh...

Hope you remembered your clocks. www.longlongtrail.co.uk/time-on-the-... #ww1 #genealogy

I see the BBC is not mentioning that half a million people were in London yesterday protesting against the far right. Agenda, much?

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

A couple of bits of #ww1 ephemera

@neheritagelib.bsky.social thought you might like to see this. It's a Blyth Co-Operative Society picnic. Do not know date. From family album. #genealogy #blyth #Northumberland

So when does Farage get charged for wasting police time?

Another job done for WDYTYA. Four periods of army serve spanning 1914-1943. Gassed at Oppy in 1918. Court martial in Baghdad in 1922 then a mess waiter at Tidworth. Home defence in London in WW2. Might be something in this but can't ever tell if it will make filming. #ww1 #genealogy

Is it not news-worthy… That an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler was allegedly held in detention for 10 hours Tortured by Israeli soldiers using burning cigarettes and nails All to force a confession from his father? Look at him Because our press will rather you didn’t.

It's sometimes hard to comprehend the sheer scale of the armies of the Great War. One example: the Army Service Corps of the British Army alone had personnel of 327,693 all ranks in September 1918, of which 11,480 were officers. Just vast. #ww1 #genealogy