Every time I am on the verge of deleting my account because my mind can now longer handle the doom scrolling, something pops up that reminds me why I created this account in the first place Beauties like this ⬇️⬇️ is why I still bother hanging around

Deichman Bjørvika public library, Oslo, Norway One of my absolute favourite places #library #libraryporn #oslo #norway #architecture

Someone here a while back said that the average Union soldier went from “why am I fighting this war?” to “I’m going to burn every square inch of the accursed south to the ground and salt the ashes” when they realized how much sexual depravity was baked into southern plantation culture.

#Navalhistory Scuttled off Guadalcanal in the aftermath of the Barroom Brawl of November 13 1942, the wreck of the battleship Hiei has been discovered at a depth of some 900m.

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This is a long shot, but I'm a nerd and I'm deep in a rabbit hole so here goes: does anyone know anywhere online I can find the elusive 1943 U.S. Navy "Pacific Fleet Tactical Orders and Doctrine", otherwise known as PAC10? Pinging @honer.bsky.social , if that is okay #navalhistory

I enjoyed being on the Generals of WWII Podcast with John Viscardo for a discussion of the Battle of Guadalcanal. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3UM5...

If you want to know why the Italians weren't that fussed about aircraft carriers, this may help. The circles are 500km range from main Italian bases and ports prior to the war. 500km because the map was done for the IMAM Ro.43 floatplane. @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social @alanallport.bsky.social

I’ve always been fascinated by how Command & Control training was conducted in the Second World War; so when I saw @simonparkin.bsky.social had written a book about the work of the work of the Western Approaches Tactical Unit (WATU) I had to track down a copy. #HistoryBookChat #HistBookChat

A tank provides heavy, protected, mobile firepower. "This is a tank"

A-10s being kept in service is peak ugg ugg moar power decision making. Every defence commentator criticising it needs to understand that this is exactly what the feminisms have been going on about.

One of my favorite things is finding gems unrelated to what I’m researching A Texas guy in the ‘70s related to a local paper that during the 1916 border mobilization, he witnessed the 1st NH Inf band play “Marching Thru Georgia,” causing a nearby GA unit to threaten to attack. Regulars intervened

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

4/15/042 BC — Roman leaders tax the property of 1400 wealthy Roman wmn to pay for a civil war. Hortensia thought the #TaxationWithoutRepresentation was unfair + rebuked leaders in a notable historic speech. Women forced leaders to back down #womenshistory #womensrights #votingrights #PolSky #TaxDay

So before we ask people to sacrifice more to not achieve the square root of bugger all, set a clear vision of what you actually want to achieve and make sure that vision is economically affordable. The 2025 Review doesn’t do that because it still chases the fantasy of ‘shaping the global sec env’

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

Not my weirdest CK3 run

Really cheeky question. Does anyone have any unused warhammer or similar minis in their attic or cupboards that I could have? Painting is doing great for my mental health but I have no money to buy miniatures or similar with.

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

Did the #RoyalNavy tap #Soviet undersea comms cables during the #coldwar? Listen to an officer on HMS Valiant allude to this. It's here around the 32 min mark. coldwarconversations.com/episode388/

I promised @gregjenner.bsky.social I'd share a bit more about John Hodgson the 173-page footnote guy. Let's start with a note her wrote to himself while dying: "I have raised persons and families from oblivion, while the genealogies of the great interest myself no more than those of the poor." /1🧵

jesus CHRIST. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I think the organisers may have got the names in the wrong order, but if you'd like to hear about the fate of the Kaiser's Navy after the First World War, come along! There's a late bar after all...

i give you Kevin McAleer, "Dueling; the cult of honor in fin-de-siecle Germany" Princeton University Press, 1994, p26

Excited to be sharing thoughts about the Tenth Fleet and the development of ASW in the US Navy in World War II at the WNHA Symposium aboard USS Midway this morning.

when Ami looks over at Alysa to be like “is this real???” and then they celebrate together ahhhhh

A reminder, before a certain movie probably makes a big thing of it again: A young Irish couple did not provide the critical data that made Stagg tell Ike to delay D-Day. The most critical data came from HMS Hoste, alone out in the Atlantic. The Blacksod story is nice. But it's not true. /1

Lots of fantastic quotes in this interview, as you'd expect, but it's still consistently funny to watch Gilroy push back on the notion he's clairvoyant when all he and the other writers of Andor did was look to historical references. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

If the Duke of York escaped prison, fled to France, raised an army and landed at Newhaven to try to overthrow his brother I’m not saying it would be a good thing but as a historian I wouldn’t exactly hate it.

1804. Oceans are now Battlefields. In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French. It should be a massacre. Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵

Happy Punch-a-Nazi Day to all who celebrate (which should be everyone)

So the DOD started laser testing because they believed party balloons were drones, shut down all of El Paso airspace, and blamed it on Mexican cartels?

Richard is too modest to mention his own book. I recommend to you Strangling the Axis from @rjhammond215.bsky.social #histbookchat.

Obviously the problems of Italy's lack of access to key raw materials during the SWW is well known, but still astonished to read this stat: 73% of factories controlled by Fabbriguerra had to partially or wholly halt production at some stage during 1941 for lack of materials/fuel

"Hey I'm going back to the dildo box, I just had the idea to juggle them" Cameraman who would later be arrested after singing "FASCIST DILDO CLEANUP CREW DOO DAH DOO DAH": @ckinferno.bsky.social But don't ask him questions, he won't say shit ✊ (posted with permission)

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.

Still the greatest list ever complied.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

In fact, he was insistent. His final journey must start at Waterloo – but those tracks head south west. The train could get to Oxon, but: point-switching; complications. So, why? Well, so he could force General de Gaulle, President of France, to walk under an arch celebrating the defeat of Napoleon

As a transsexual I can't tell you how thrilled I am that fascists are feeling unsafe in bathrooms.

Fascists and gas stations - name a more iconic duo I'll wait

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

The Soviet Navy's approach to hunting NATO's carriers was multi-pronged. In our recent chat with @michaelnbooks.bsky.social, he took us through what went into their planning and execution. Check out the full Over Cold War Seas episode via the links below: 📺: youtu.be/Zwl9jJns3gk 🎧: pod.fo/e/3746eb

Annoyance time This artwork by Piotr Forkasiewicz was created for the cover of my Fairey Swordfish book from Mortons. We decided on the composition after studying all the accounts from the aircrews involved and photos of the op But whenever it is posted online, people decry it as inaccurate…

One of the key things that helped the Soviets back down during the Cuban Missile Crisis was Zhukov's testimony to the Politburo about how turbofucked the RKKA was without American precursor chemicals and explosives.