A lap round Silverstone - easy! Well, probably not with a new knee - but I'm giving it a go on Friday 12th September. I'm fundraising for Women's Heartbeat. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving www.justgiving.com/page/brian-c...

Very disappointed with Silverstone Festival - we went specifically to see a large collection of Group C cars, as promised in the advertising and re-emphasised on the Silverstone Events app (“Expect iconic Jaguars, Porsches, Mercedes”) - none of the above marques were there #FAIL

Overshadowed by VJ Day but not forgotten - Operation Dragoon on 15th August 1944 when French and American forces landed in the Var. #operationdragoon #var #1944 #worldwartwo

After a temporary technical hiccup, the @WomensHeartbeat website is back up again - please pass this on to any women you know who suffer with cardiac issues. #WomensHealth www.womensheartbeat.com

Looking forward to getting stuck into this - David Keable-Elliott’s ‘The Doctrine of the British Army’ from Helion. #HistBookChat

It's not bad when one of your musical heroes doesn't disappoint when you finally get to see them. #Kraftwerk #ForeverNow

For the third time this century the government of the USA is about to get involved in a situation it has not taken the trouble properly to understand, which it thinks it thinks it can quickly resolve by using limited military force. To learn none of the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan is criminal.

That is some pretty intense ducting going on under the @astonmartin.bsky.social Valkyrie hypercar! #WEC #AstonMartin #Valkyrie #LeMans

Leo Amery and his amazing networks open.substack.com/pub/bpc59/p/...

What a night, what a team! COYS @tottenhamhotspur.com #TottenhamHotspur #Spurs

If you need an example of the financial insanity of the National Health Service - this equipment, not all of it actually used, is going to the skip as the hospital that issued it is not allowed to take it back due to the danger of cross-contamination. #nhs #wesstreeting

Aw, that’s sad news - one last time: “Norm!” #Norm #Cheers #GeorgeWendt

A superb day that fully got into the geopolitical situation that Robert Bulwer-Lytton took on in 1876 - and where better to hold it that at his family home, @knebworthhouse.bsky.social. @henrycobbold.bsky.social & @hisbpf.bsky.social were perfect hosts.

F1 coverage down from 85 pages to 75; only four pages for the Eddie Jordan obituary and the Lawson/Tsunodo switch only gets a mention in the Intro - not really the F1 coverage we used to get from GP Racing. Time to say goodbye @autsport-com.bsky.social #F1 #FormulaOne

Quite pleased with this - the inside of my Tamiya 1/35 M113 APC substack.com/@bpc59/note/...

New arrival - ‘Reporting the First World War: Charles Repington, The Times and the Great War by AJA Morris #histbookchat

RIP #EddieJordan

This is such horrible news - he was one of the real characters in F1 and was very public about his illness and the fight he was undertaking to try and conquer it. A hero in every sense of the word. RIP #EddieJordan

Time to revisit this #aristocracy #Britain #Cannadine #DavidCannadine #histbookchat

A fantastic graphic that really makes its point very quickly

Vote for Pole-Carew - the Unionist Candidate. A strong navy and tariff reform. A service man for service men. [1910 general election] #polecarew #1910generalelection

Please give me online bookstore a follow and a visit. I've got 700 on there so far with lots to come. @needabiggershelf.bsky.social www.gonna-need-a-bigger-shelf.com

So I’m doing a study of the members of the Bullingdon Club in the 1860s and 65% of them are from Christ Church - what’s the link? #bullingdon #oxford

The wars of the memoirs #GarnetWolseley #Wolseley #FrederickRoberts #Roberts #WarsOfTheRings #LordsOfTheRings

The square in Hyeres https://www.wikiart.org/en/raoul-dufy/the-square-in-hyeres

Red River Road starts in Port Arthur and continued to what is now Winnipeg. The “road” took weeks to traverse, which Colonel Garnet Wolseley found out the hard way, sent to quash the Red River Rebellion in 1870.

A nice eBay purchase - a signed carte de visite of Garnet Wolseley. I am 95% confident the signature is authentic as it matches very closely indeed other examples and is clearly inked onto the CDV. #Wolseley #GarnetWolseley #CartedeVisite

So who exactly was Louise Wolseley? open.substack.com/pub/bpc59/p/...

Currently recovering from knee replacement surgery so I thought I’d give Bluesky another go. And just a reminder that all my scribbles on random bits of history are now collected over on @SubstackInc - subscribe (free) here - bpc59.substack.com