We’ve announced 6 titles so far for our online conference on 26th April. Last but not least for this batch, we’re off to Romania with Ionut Retca. Dip in and out, or settle in for a #WW1 marathon! Follow @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social for more reveals 6/6 🎟️ : greatwargroup.com/product/online

We’ve announced six titles so far for our online conference on 26th April. Next up Cristina Cox and she’ll be taking us along for the ride with an armoured car battalion in 1918. 5/6 Details: greatwargroup.com/product/online

We’ve announced six titles so far for our online conference on 26th April. We’re also delighted that Angel Ruiz Kontara is going to give us an insight into German #WW1 psychiatry 4/6 Details: greatwargroup.com/product/online

We’ve announced six titles so far for our online conference on 26th April. We’re also excited to hear @landohistory.bsky.social talk about Gurkhas at war and the Nepalese home front 3/6 Details: greatwargroup.com/product/online

We’ve announced six titles so far for our online conference on 26th April. Next up is @dienekes.bsky.social with a rollicking LGBTQ+ tale of lies, spies and scoundrel-like behaviour 2/6 Details: greatwargroup.com/product/online

We’ve announced six titles so far for our online conference on 26th april. There are a dozen more to come (!) but for now take a scroll and see what’s on offer. Starting with @thelegalseagull.bsky.social and the mental health of pilots across the board 1/6 Details: greatwargroup.com/product/online

The striking dark grey slate headstone of Gunner Charles Norman in a Dorset cemetery. The artilleryman died of appendicitis at a hospital in Weymouth on this day in 1916. 📍Swanage (Northbrook) Cemetery 🇬🇧

From a man who knows the details:

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Oh my god people are giving small children AI toys and expecting them to learn communication from them??? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HUMANS SHOULD BE DOING THIS IS NOT AI'S JOB WHAT THE HELL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The biggest WW1 offensive you might not have heard of: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9v...

The Dardanelles are open for transit, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill said. "The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is the Ottomans shooting at the fleet," he said. "It is open for transit should the Ottomans not do that."

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🆕 In 1944 while carrying out daylight recce near Lovište in then Yugoslavia (now in Croatia), COPP's George Talbot found himself unable to avoid an encounter with an older local civilian. 81 years later, thanks to historian Ivan Pamić, we're able to name him: Stipan Srhoj. #NavalHistory 🧵

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Il y a 111 ans, mon AGP écrivait à sa Georgette adorée, restée à l'arrière avec ma marraine Mauricette et mon grand-père Roland, qui étaient alors petits enfants. Il venait d'arriver au dépôt de son régiment mais allait bientôt partir au front pour 4 années d'enfer. #généalogie #genealogy

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A grim parallel between US escalating a trade war w/ China & realising that China has serious leverage in the form of rare earths & US launching a war vs Iran & realising Iran has serious leverage in the form of being able to blow up the world economy. Failure of statecraft.

We're revealing the details for nearly TWENTY talks available at our online conference on 26th April. Pick and choose your favourites, or load up with snacks and settle in for a marathon! Full details: greatwargroup.com/product/online

This man is SACEUR. That’s not a post/person to be ignored.

#HGGSP 1941-1945: dans les rangs de la Wehrmacht ou SS, puis Milice, près de 30 000 Français se sont engagés aux côtés des nazis et ont participé à leur guerre d’extermination. Un docu explore un chapitre méconnu de l’histoire de la collabo militaire et extrême droite 🇫🇷 www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

Are we mad? Look at this for a deal from Outline Publishing! Beggar me! I'm a Prisoner and Welsh Warrior available for just £20 the pair. Not that many left so I'd get a move on! peter-hart.sumupstore.com/product/begg...

🗓️ #OTD in 1941 – Nigel Willmott asks Admiral Tom Baillie-Grohman (right, 📸 IWM A 28596) for permission to covertly land on Rhodes to recce beaches where Bob Laycock's 'Layforce' Commandos plan to land during Op Cordite, an imminent invasion of the island. #NavalHistory 🧵

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

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This week in our long running series BEGGAR ME! I'M A PRISONER we are still covering escapes - this time the methods of actually breaking out! These chaps were jolly ingenious - and brave! Please listen and share! Thanks! open.spotify.com/episode/5bKE...

This week’s free to read… The story of two different railway crashes on the same stretch of line. Featuring Charles Dickens jerijerod14.substack.com/p/the-staple...

A letter home shares some news at the front. Cigarettes. Sausages. And death. In a letter home to a friend. 18thbattalioncef.blog/2026/02/14/a...

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According to my photos app, 18 years ago today I was on the Somme visiting the grave of the American nurse who tended to my mortally wounded Great Uncle Jack. He died of wounds sustained at Langemarck, she died of liver failure, possibly caused by breathing gas soaked into her patients’ uniforms.

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Not the Western Front Conference 2026 Following last years great conference will take place on Saturday 31st October in Wakefield West Yorkshire just of the M1. Tickets cost £29 including lunch.with 4 great speakers. Earlybird tickets available for £25 before May www.trybooking.com/uk/FPHV

11 March 1918 Captain Albert Evelyn Alderson 3 Bn The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) died when he accidently drowned. He was buried in the Struma Military Cemetery, Greece. Albert is remembered on the War Memorial St Peter & St Paul Church Minnis Lane, River. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

11 March 1918 Captain Hardic Grey Ashton of 25 Sqdn Royal Flying Corps died from wounds and was buried in the Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, France. Hardic was 23. Hardic is remembered on the University of Manchester Memorial where he had been a medical student #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

11 March 1915 Lt William Munro Ross 2 Bn Gordon Highlanders was killed in action and has no known grave but is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. William was 22. William is also remembered at @pembroke1347.bsky.social and Eton College #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

One day I will visit the massive mine crater on Cote 108 which usually inaccessible within the grounds of a private quarry. This tour is on 11 April. www.chemindesdames.fr/fr/visite-gu...

🗓️ #OTD in 1945 – COPP's Ian Mackenzie (📸 Auckland War Memorial Museum) and Marines from Detachment 385 are discovered by a Thai patrol as they're finishing Operation Copyright, recce in Phuket, Siam (Thailand). #NavalHistory 🧵 ▶️ buff.ly/WnurEPG

Good morning! Ep 68 is out today - it's a mammoth episode, with aircraft designer Joe Wilding taking us through the history of Cold War Bombers. Jane goes AWOL half way through due to tech issues, but @jamesjhistory.bsky.social holds the fort! www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...

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Sex? Murder? Crazy Germans who don't actually look like Sydney Sweeney and Ana de Armas? Join us on Patreon as @abbottkahler.bsky.social dishes the true story of Eden Undone. @alexchurchill.bsky.social @boneyabroad.com Watch : tinyurl.com/45dxf4ut LIsten: tinyurl.com/yc847v3r

Looking forward to this visit to speak on Escape from German POW Camps, 1914-8 from 19.30 on 17 March 2026 at the Buffs Social Club, 60 Norton Road, Stockton on Tees, TS18 2BX. All welcome! I will have loads of books to sell! www.westernfrontassociation.com/branches/uni...

Sex? Murder? Crazy Germans who don't actually look like Sydney Sweeney and Ana de Armas? Join us on Patreon as @abbottkahler.bsky.social dishes the true story of Eden Undone. Patreon supporters get an extra 15 minutes, which we needed with this story! www.patreon.com/posts/eden-u... #booksky

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"Les soldats français du Reich" est en ligne. Ce doc en deux parties aborde, documente et raconte un angle méconnu de l’historiographie de la collaboration et de la Shoah : l’histoire de ces Français qui, par choix, ont combattu aux côtés des nazis. urls.fr/u7D9B4

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Something as heinous as the Milice in #WW2 France doesn’t just spring forth fully formed and ready to do evil - so let’s go back to #WW1 and find out what the deal is… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-a-...

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