Interesting to see a set of French Système Perrin Geophone on eBay. These are not, as the vendor claims, from the First World War but either inter-war or even post-Second World War. I think the manufacturer B.F.A. (Basse Fréquence Appliquée) may date from the 1950s.

The @oldfrontline.bsky.social #YouTube Channel has just passed 10K subscribers - a big milestone for us! All films are free to watch, and next week for #Somme110 we hope to post something every day. Do come and join us there too! See: youtube.com/@oldfrontlin...

credit to Sally Nugent who just, in normal circumstances, brought Nigel Farage's political career to an end. If polls don't plummet after this, I will be truly astonished.

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Moulin de Laffaux, just to the W of the Chemin des Dames: a site of fierce fighting in, and now commemoration of, both World Wars. @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social #FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

This is such a fruitful line of enquiry. Everyone should be asking Farridge more questions about it.

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You've been asking. We've heard you. 🐾 We know dogs are a big part of many families, so we're having a dog friendly trial week at The Devil's Porridge Museum! From Monday 29th June to Sunday 5th July 2026 well-behaved, dry, dogs on leads will be welcome into our museum with their humans! 🎉

The World Cup is great because it's the only time where you can get emotionally invested in a 1 a.m. Jordan - Algeria game for reasons other than having a crippling gambling addiction.

Let's say it one more time, things are not 'lost', 'forgotten', or 'discovered' when they are in archives, they are preserved for present and future generations that wish to look at them. This article does not even name the archive.

Conference 2026 Speaker Profile! 🚨 @seaspitfires.com will be making TWO appearance in Leeds! Starting with this keynote... Book your tickets at www.greatwargroup.com/product/weekend

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Monumento alla Civiltà Italica, Verona. Commemorates the victims of an Austria- Hungary bomb dropped on Piazza delle Erbe on 14 November 1915.

In 1918, barely a decade after the start of newsreels, the YMCA took a portable cinema show into the desert. Read how technology met entertainment for First World War soldiers in this week’s substack: open.substack.com/pub/kathryns...

Author Erich Maria Remarque's birthday. He served in WW1 as a conscript. Wounded in 1917. Received the Iron Cross 1st Class. He would write "All Quiet on the Western Front" based on his experience and it became a classic around the world. Wrote 13 other incredible novels. #WW1 #FWW #GreatWar

L'histoire des femmes américaines 🇺🇸 qui ont aidé la #France 🇫🇷 et ses orphelins à se relever de la Première Guerre Mondiale #WW1 🪖 www.slate.fr/culture/hist...

Conference Seminar! Each year, on Saturday morning we offer 12 small group talks - you get to mix and match your perfect schedule! Trustee @jellyjudith.bsky.social is emerging as a force to be reckoned with on the campaign in Mesopotamia! Book your tickets at www.greatwargroup.com/product/weekend

🧵Today is Windrush Day. Alford Gardner’s journey crossed oceans to reshape the social history of Yorkshire. Born in Jamaica, he first arrived in England in 1944, volunteering for the RAF during World War II and training as a mechanic at RAF Hunmanby Moor, Filey. Returning to Jamaica after the war, a

Two engineers of the 1° Régiment du génie, very early 1916. The man on the left is likely Adolphe Paul VOYER, who was awarded the Croix de Guerre from the 10th Infantry Brigade for actions on 23 February, 1916. #WWI #History

🔊 What did a WW1 Lebel rifle sound like? Here's the distinctive sound of the rifle that armed France throughout the First World War. Over 3.4 million were built. Turn the volume up youtube.com/shorts/z8YgT...

Join us for a whole weekend of #WW1 content! (and Doctor Who)

Now l’m ’retired’ there will be more time for other stuff, including my YouTube channel #TheWarsBeneathOurFeet. Here’s a little flavour of what’s up next.

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The thought-provoking words on Serjeant Leonard Harness’s headstone caught my attention while exploring the war graves of Normandy. The 29-year-old was killed while serving with the 1st East Riding Yeomanry, part of the Royal Armoured Corps. 📍La Delivrande War Cemetery 🇫🇷

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Conference Seminar! Each year, on Saturday morning we offer 12 small group talks - you get to mix and match your perfect schedule! Here's one for you from lovely Beth! Book your tickets at www.greatwargroup.com/product/weekend

Conference 2026 Speaker Profile! 🚨 Paul McGann has spent a career bringing countless wars to life on screen! In conversation with @alexchurchill.bsky.social we'll be finding out all about the Monocled Mutineer and more! Book your tickets at www.greatwargroup.com/product/weekend

Of course I didn’t leave Duxford without any books… 📚

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#1GM L’adaptation au cinéma est un exercice périlleux, surtout quand on s’attaque à une œuvre vive, poétique et riche de Jean Cocteau. Thomas l’imposteur réalisé par G. Fanju en 1965 en est un bel exemple. ⤵️ Du bon et du moins bon, compte rendu du film ⤵️ parcours-combattant14-18.fr/thomas-limpo...

I also think that these borders are important to bear in mind in understanding the significance of #Verdun in the #1GM.

#Fusillés #Amnistie Parmi les 4 graciés du jour , le 20/06/1916, suivant l'avis de la "Guerre", le Président de la République a commué la peine de mort requise contre le soldat Meunier en 20 ans de prison. Engagé volontaire, retour en unité le 04/12/1916. Recondamné en 1917. Libéré le 10/02/1922.

I know, but it’s not @guywalters.bsky.social - it’s the second part of my bit on the (un)readiness of the French Air Force for Blitzkrieg in 1940… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-th...

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Bure, Ardennes - January 45

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Nick Timothy, Dominic Cummings, Morgan McSweeney - we've had a parade of overmighty subjects in Number 10 who turn out to be hopeless at governing. The reign of the "political strategist" has not been a golden age for British politics.

#1GM Pierre Marie Joseph Pretet (1881-1952) Un officier ayant survécu à la Grande Guerre et qui terminera sa carrière avec le grade de lieutenant-colonel. amphitrite33.canalblog.com/2026/06/pier...

🧵The race riots that erupted in Hull on 19-20 June 1920 formed part of a wider wave of unrest that affected several British port cities in the aftermath of the First World War. Economic hardship, high unemployment and fierce competition for jobs created tensions within maritime communities,

I was pleasantly surprised to find a blue plaque in Leicestershire honouring three members of the same family who served with the Royal Horse Artillery during the Battle of Waterloo. 📍Earl Shilton 🇬🇧

Rolls Royce started the 1910s as a niche luxury car manufacturer. They ended it powering the most reliable armoured cars of the war, used all around the globe. #WW1 #British #Innovation #AutomotiveHistory #MilitaryHistory #RollsRoyce

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Any #FWW #historian able to expand on this reference in the conclusion to Prof David Stevenson’s book 1914-1918: The History of the First World War, please? “In France [in the 1990s] an anthology of soldiers’ letters became the most successful bestseller of its kind since the 1930s.” What anthology?

85 years ago today: 18th June 1941 was a day of consolidation and recovery. Op Battleaxe had failed for several reasons including a lack of understanding of the ground & the enemy, lack of artillery fire concentration, and poor C2.

Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.

Two days ago, a man in Hull was sentenced to 26 months in jail (suspended for 18 months) and 250 hours of unpaid work for selling CDs containing "unauthorised remixes of well-known tracks"

William Orpen was so disgusted by the posturing of politicians at the Peace Conference at Versailles in 1919 that he painted them out and replaced them with the Unknown British Soldier & two victims of shell-shock. The Imperial War Museum refused the painting. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

In front of the small farm where the SS shot and killed Alphonse and Jeanne Loffet and their daughter Julia, and where the Fahrradzug was devastatingly defeated by 117/I in a brief skirmish.