No, the negativity is not worth my time.

1. This History Thread is about the mountains of Burma (Myanmar.) The distinctive terrain has formed borders & provided population enclaves with safe havens & means of resistance. Mountains may be sacred. Or despoiled by mineral & timber exploitation. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 🌄

It’s as if no one has ever seen the Thick of It

My munchkin is 8 months old. How did that happen.

Rolled in badger shit and not even a little bit sorry

Busy working on projects for my first two clients this morning!

Taking the little man to Grandma & Grandad’s for the morning so I can 𝗌̶𝗅̶𝖾̶𝖾̶𝗉̶ do some work.

Today’s #MessierMonday object is M-27, the Dumbbell Nebula. As telescopes improved in the 19thC, astronomers classified objects into planets and moons, stars and clusters, clouds of dust, and began to think about galaxies. But there was a group of objects like M-27 that they didn’t understand.

A month on from my previous sunset photo. Venus is moving on around her orbit and is closer to the horizon. Beautiful earthlight shines on the moon.

Meanwhile, in Oxfordshire:

Morning all. Photographer Tony Ray-Jones. Weymouth 1968.

We have no business sharing the world with whales. My second favourite creatures after equines 🐋

Jeffers

🎵 My lovely horseee 🎶. Max did so well with his TREC obstacles today.

As my maternity leave comes to an end, a reminder that I’m now offering an archive photography service primarily for museums/archives in the south east England (IWM, TNA, BL etc etc) to help make ends meet. Details below: lucybetteridgedyson.com/archive-rese...

My favourite thing*, is when people who are not military historians, write books about something that there are already 100 million books about, and they become best sellers and the press are all over them. *something that really pisses me off

Our morning bird watching session

Proof that your history does not define you 🤮 #eyesore

Are we using Threads and BlueSky? because I don’t know if I have the time for all these platforms 🫠

What was that? Oh that was your maternity leave mate.

Lovely Max

re: the #GrandNational: 43 racehorses have been killed on UK courses so far this year. I’m not on favour of an outright ban on horse racing - but that figure alone tells you everything about an industry in urgent need of serious reform

Wonderful to see the Orion capsule splash down and hear the crew are well. Can‘t imagine the mix of emotions they must be feeling about humanity right now.

It’s been one of those days where I have not achieved what I set out to PhD wise, however, I‘m trying not to beat myself up because I did manage to: 1) keep everyone in this photo alive 2) hang on to my sanity 3) reply to 4 emails & 5) have a zoom meeting about a project. #phdlife

🎶 The future's so bright My horse has gotta wear shades 🎶

Hey guys and gals. I have a favour to ask... If you’ve read and enjoyed my book, Jungle Commandos, I’d be most grateful if you could review or simply rate it on Amazon. It makes a big difference. Thank you 🙏🏻

Finished this on Wednesday. Really very good. The last few chapters tremendous, with the final one quite emotional. @lmbd1418.bsky.social

Cheeky little book green lit whilst I work on the proposal for my second big one!

Can we just… #Artemis2 📸Earth set at 6:41 p.m, NASA

What a miserable, insular, reductive and pedestrian view

I enjoy how this is turning up a lot of ‘whatever happened to *insert unusual vehicle here* at *unexpected place*’ responses.

Does anyone in the south-east of UK have an armoured vehicle/tank that I could film with for 30 mins? Ideally for free or a bag of beans.

One of my absolute favourite things about Americans is how squeamish they are about the word ‘cunt’. Such fun.

Ted’s second Discworld book. The Last Continent.

Just watched The Bride! A curious film. I liked it.

Members of a mule transport company of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (known as Force K6) on parade in France, 10 February 1940. 📸F 2478 #MuleMonday

I’m starting a new series of posts: #MessierMonday. Let’s see how long I can continue. First is M1, the Crab Nebula, whose history is almost a history of astronomy.

5 April 1944: the Japanese encirclement of Kohima is complete. Of the 2,500-strong garrison c.1,000 were non-combatant clerks, cooks, drivers etc, who picked up rifles to defend the position. Slim had expected a regiment to attack but a full Japanese division came instead. 📸IND3697 Kohima Ridge

Roman cavalry parade helmet Found River Wensum, Worthing, Norfolk. Early 3rd Century CE Ceremonial helmet, which would have been too flimsy for use in battle It was made, possibly in the Danube valley, from a single thin gilt bronze sheet. Now Castle Museum, Norwich, Norfolk #Archaeology #Roman

A little known Nazi side hustle was trying to resurrect the extinct wild equine, the Tarpan. Rare wild Przewalski horses were taken from occupied territories to Berlin for the project (@susannaforrest.bsky.social covers this amazing story in her book The Age of Horse - recommend!)

Kitty News @garius.bsky.social

Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa

Silly not to, unless you want the physical book.

Well. They’ve got a much nicer kit, at least.

Come on Port Vale !

Not all doctors are surgeons and not all military historians are military analysts.

In Scottish lore, folk born on Good Friday not only have the ability to see ghosts but to order them about... #PhantomsFriday

The return of mounted police to the West Midlands force is evidence of how even today the horse still has an active operational role to play in society and cannot simply be replaced by mechanised vehicles or tech.

Doesn’t roll or crawl but today decided to stand. Celebrating the Artemis II launch 🚀 I think.