Today’s bit up and its a tour through Britain’s burgeoning war industry at the end of 1915… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-do...

Some thoughts on the phrase "Globalise the Intifada". If there is concern about the phrase, even if there is no evidence to support the accusations that the phrase GtI generates or increases antisemitism and antisemitic attacks, maybe we should consider not using the phrase. 1/5

Découverte au SHD d' une lettre de Pétain (10 mars 1918) affirmant que « beaucoup » de prisonniers rapatriés doivent être enquêtés et « assez nombreux » traduits en conseil de guerre. Un soupçon né dès 1914. Analyse : prisonniers.hypotheses.org/5171

Russian soldiers of the 11th Grenadier Fanagoria Regiment of Generalissimo Prince Suvorov, now His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich... PHEW! That has to be the longest regimental name ever!

Neil Hadlock's sculpture depicts a family from Europe having disembarked in Hull before continuing to the Paragon Station. From their they travelled by train to Liverpool before leaving by ship to the States. Over 2,200,000 people passed through Hull and other

The latest podcast with Johann and me on the Mighty Eighth Podcast... open.spotify.com/episode/4Rv3...

Next in our re-run Fife & Forfar Yeomanry classic episodes is the drama of Operation Epsom! What a story it is! Please share! Thanks chums! open.spotify.com/episode/5oT4...

Russian soldiers of the 142nd Zvenigorod Infantry Regiment. Note that the soldier in the rear is holding a captured German Gewehr 98. Unfortunately I can't see what the guy on the right holding, maybe a pet of some kind?

A quick Friday morning plea for help from Bluesky historians: can anyone recommend books/articles/other pieces that actively *define* the concept of a wartime home front. I am looking for any definitions/discussions of definitions, rather than just recommendations of works covering home fronts. TY 🗃️

As a mother this has me very worried. Lives are being put at risk and the government needs to act quickly on this. BBC News - The struggle to get hold of medication in England is set to get worse - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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On the evening of 8 May 1915, 2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers receives absolution from Fr. Francis Gleason. Next morning, the battalion was decimated in an attack as part of the Aubers operation not far from Neuve Chappelle. Fortunino Matania, 1916, The Sphere #history #fww #fwwhist #Munsters

A neat line of headstones, all bearing the same cap badge. In this instance, they belong to men of the 6th (City of London) Battalion (City of London Rifles), London Regiment. These men were killed when German mines exploded near Vimy Ridge. 📍Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery 🇫🇷

Retour des recherches sur les infirmières décédées durant la #1GM angesblancs1418.e-monsite.com/pages/recher... Et pour bien redémarrer, focus sur les sœurs SABRE, sous les obus à Arras en 1915 angesblancs1418.e-monsite.com/blog/les-soe... #genealogie

It Can’t Happen Here? Teams of policemen and ‘immigration enforcement’ agents stopping dispatch riders on a busy SW London shopping street today to check IDs

🚀📖 💙📚⚡️⏳ #HistoricalFiction #ColdWar #Spy #thriller #BookSky Juin 1999 Après 4 mois de déploiement, 879 missions — dont 490 missions de frappe —, le Foch rentre au pays. SEM lors de leur dernier passage avant de regagner la base. Embarquez avec eux dans mon roman Maskirovka ! www.midshipnews.org

General Gouraud with sculptor Real del Sarte & his maquette for the Navarin Farm monument to the dead of Champagne, 1923. Gouraud lost his right arm at the Dardanelles, Real del Sarte lost his left at les Éparges. Central figure said to be modelled on Gouraud. Source: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

This week’s free to read is the 1914 bombardment of Zeebrugge harbour by the Royal Navy #history #navalhistory #ww1 jerijerod14.substack.com/p/bombarding...

Hostile Aerial Activity Map, British Third Army, 30 April-9 May 1918. #WW1 #OTD Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

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Join the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for a free tour of the Nuneaton (Oaston Road) Cemetery, led by one of our experienced volunteer tour guides. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cwgc-war-g... #WarGravesWeek

#1GM #WW1 Un soldat de 20 ans, en juillet 1918 du côté de Château-Thierry. Son bataillon (I/153) est d'attaque le 1er juillet. A gauche, se trouvait le 96th RUS (Régiment US) Avez vous des informations sur ce 96th? Help! Do you have any information regarding this 96th?

A Quite Surprising Story of another 'Teesside Pioneer' www.talesfrommyshed.com/the-war.../a...

This week’s podcast is out and it looks at what aircraft would have been used on the German aircraft carriers of #ww2 open.spotify.com/episode/7kpN... #podcast #navalhistory #history

The results of American tests on experimental body armour and helmets, Fort de la Peigney, Langres, France, #OTD 27 April 1918. If you are wondering, they weren't wearing the armour when it was being shot at. Photo: Lt. Hargan. Source: catalog.archives.gov/id/55226507

#OTD 27 April 1916 a German cloud gas attack with phosgene & chlorine, Loos sector, France. British trenches engulfed by concentration of gas intended to exhaust PH helmet respirators. British casualties in attacks on 27 & 29 1,260 of which 338 died. 100s of Germans also killed & injured by own gas.

Commonplace details of the past are often elusive. Meals served by 251 Tunnelling Company on the Western Front #OTD 29 April 1917. They were mostly miners & rations were probably slightly more plentiful. Meal times were dictated by 24-hour working in 8-hour shifts. (UK Nat Archives WO95/551/6/2)

Today article is free one - a brief look at one of my #Dday heroes 🇫🇷 achurchill.substack.com/p/free-artic...

Like everything else in the Balkans, the river systems are complicated and baffling. I made a simplified map to get a better understanding, but I’m not sure it’s helped. The Austro-German bridging units certainly had their work cut out during the 1915 tripartite invasion.

Three day tickets now on sale for our conference in Leeds! Headliners: self, Paul McGann, Frank McDonough, Stephen Fisher & Peter Hart! Full schedule details and bookings at: greatwargroup.com/product/week... @fxmc1957.bsky.social @seaspitfires.com @peterhart.bsky.social

Driver Sultan, 2nd Mule Corps, died #OTD 28 April 1915. Son of Azim, Mahmad Chak, Kharian, Gujrat, Punjab. Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England.

Podporucznik Jerzy Fijałowski of the Polish Air Force was killed when the North American P-51B Mustang he was piloting spun into the ground while approaching RAF Montford Bridge in Shropshire. 📍Donington (St Cuthbert) Churchyard, Albrighton 🇬🇧

“I am herewith offering my services for the Army Medical Corps should there be a need for a Negro physician for that branch of the service.” - 1LT Urbane Bass, 372nd Infantry Regiment, 93rd Division, American Expeditionary Force, before his induction into the US Army

#OTD 28 April 1916, the Yorkshire Evening Post reports a Wakefield rugby player catching on his own severed foot while crewing a barge in France. 'It flew up into the air and I caught it coming down!' Ben Johnson's leg was later amputated but he lived until 1975.

Brigadier General James Riddell was killed in action while commanding the 149th (1st Northumberland) Infantry Brigade. His headstone records that he was killed leading his brigade just five days after arriving on the Western Front. 📍Tyne Cot Cemetery 🇧🇪

#OTD 25 April 1915, military landings at Gallipoli after failed attempts to force the Dardanelles Straits by naval means. Beach Cemetery, Anzac, and V Beach Cemetery, Cape Helles.

Be creative. Tell a story. Do things with meaning. You're a human being given the honor of living a life on this world, not a meat puppet.

Remembering our parish priest, Father Finn. The first army chaplain to be killed in action in #FWW. Died on V Beach, Gallipoli today in 1915. @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social #FWWhist #History #1GM #Grande-Guerre #WW1

In this latest Old Front Line for ANZAC Day we ar joined by New Zealand playwright Arthur Meek to discuss his Voices of Gallipoli project and the men of the Otago Battalion.

Our @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is coming to Leeds in October! Tickets are now on sale for 3 days of #WW1 history headlined by self, Dr. Who (Paul McGann) @fxmc1957.bsky.social @seaspitfires.com & @peterhart.bsky.social Details & tickets: greatwargroup.com/shop/?produc...

#1GM #Vierzon Ancien élève du lycée, il inventa le mortier pneumatique, réalisa la flamme de l'Arc de Triomphe. J'ai eu plaisir de le retrouver dans des réalisations plus chargées mais plus pacifiques à l'expo "Art Déco" du MAD. Edgar Brandt, maitre ferronnier.

Captain Albert Jacka, VC, MC and Bar by Colin Unwin Gill, #IWMcollection Albert Jacka was the first Australian to earn the Victoria Cross in the Great War, while serving in the 14th Bn, AIF at #Gallipoli in 1915. See alt text for further information. #fwwhist #ANZAC #fww #Australia

Only two men were awarded both the DCM and DSO in the Second World War. One was Ernest Hollands. I popped into Haycombe Cemetery in Bath to see him this afternoon.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full: