How thick have you got to be to lie (to my face I might add!) about when you bought a horse, its history and temperament, in an age of social media, when a cursory google can reveal the truth. People ENRAGE me.

Morning in Sussex.

If you wonder what the next rung up on the ladder of sharks and shysters is from second hand car dealers and estate agents… it’s horse dealers.

Maps are ESSENTIAL to understanding the Burma campaign. I would have loved to include more in Jungle Commandos but budgets be budgets. Here is one of my favourites of the Myebon peninsula, as we remember the men of 3 Cdo & 74 Brigade who were fighting their way north towards Kantha #OTD in 1945

Men of 3 Commando Brigade tackle the sticky, deep mud of Myebon, Burma as part of Operation Passport, January 1945. 📸 @NatMuseumRN 374/77

On this day in 1945, 3 Commando Brigade spearhead the amphibious landings on the Myebon peninsula in Burma, struggling through waist high mud to reach the shore You can find out more about these events in Jungle Commandos by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson. https://bit.ly/3IYyMci

🗓️ #OTD in 1945 – Operation Pungent, landings at Myebon in Burma (Myanmar) (📸 NARA), is preceded by COPP 3 demolishing beach-defence stakes. #NavalHistory After that's done, senior officer Alex Hughes boards a motor launch to provide pilotage for the assault. ➡️ buff.ly/bNSgszT

Re post due to typo, sorry! I have laid out a comprehensive set of reasons (with sources) on my insta page as to why and how actively posting on X is damaging.

‘There is little question that the mule is considerably more intelligent than the horse once he realises that he is being treated as friend and can trust those who use him’ - an unnamed RA Officer regarding his experience of mules in Mesopotamia during SWW #MuleMonday 📸 IWM NA18292

NEW! "Animal Bridges: Mules in the Making of Asia's Largest Transregional Networks, 1870s-1940s" by Iftekhar Iqbal online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/4

William Rider-Rider, Memorial to 1st Canadian Pioneers, January 1918, Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3379698.

‘There is little question that the mule is considerably more intelligent than the horse once he realises that he is being treated as friend and can trust those who use him’ - an unnamed RA Officer regarding his experience of mules in Mesopotamia during SWW #MuleMonday 📸 IWM NA18292

Well I’d laugh. Just hope the UK users who are still on there go to Threads. Otherwise gawd eh.

THREAD/Today marks the 85th anniversary of one of the more notorious incidents from the London Blitz, which sadly was an exception to the usual rule that Underground stations were safe and secure places to sit (or sleep) through an air raid. on 11 January 1941, the alert had recently sounded and...

The remains of an Anglo- Saxon pony buried alongside 2 people at Leiston, Suffolk found in an excavation ahead of the building of the Sizewell C nuclear power plant. 👇 BBC News - Princely burial with horse unearthed at Sizewell C excavation - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Plough a furrow The horse ploughed a furrow then needed a rest The horses needed 3 rests to plough the length of the field The field is 3 furrows long 3 fur-longs The horse walked 3 furlongs

Trump: Iran mustn‘t use violence against protestors Also Trump: it’s fine for ICE agents to murder protestors

Never not going to make me a bit teary, even after a sixth viewing 🥊❤️🥹 #AThousandBlows Although, this is technically my second TV/Film credit - I played the tiny part of DEATH FIGHTER 1 in a low budget action film shot in 2020. DEATHPIT (2023). Those were the days...

Busy day yesterday so didn’t have the chance to post about the 10 year anniversary of Bowie’s death. I was living in Beckenham at the time. I woke up, saw the news and immediately text my Dad in tears. That evening I walked down to the site of the Three Tuns where a sea of tributes was growing.

People in Myanmar continue to protest against the Junta despite huge risks, attacks & airstrikes. They've embraced the full spectrum in terms of diversity of tactics. Peaceful protests, malicious compliance, global campaigns on & offline, mutual aid, armed resistance & more. ##RejectShamElection

Off to see a man about a dog, oh no wait, a woman about a horse.

Yay!

Me logging off Bsky for a bit to go read after dropping a bomb that will leave shrapnel in my public history career

Still using X? Or even worse, paying for it? If the hate speech wasn’t a good enough reason for you to leave, I wonder if Musk’s AI stripping clothes off your daughters and wives at the request of other users is? Those with big followers in mil hist should check themselves @almurray.bsky.social etc

Mule research, and yes I know it’s not even 10am and I’m on the truffles but they’re Christmas ones so it’s fine.

Don't forget that @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social is coming on my YouTube channel this Saturday at 2pm ET! I would be grateful if you went over and Subscribed to the channel. Hit that bell to be alerted when we go live! www.youtube.com/live/OZ53Ihd...

Thanks to all who have thoughtfully responded. Appreciate the insight!

Took Ollibobs to the vet for a suspect lump. Surgery booked. Also discovered she’s developed a heart murmur 😭 poor Olive

Happy Birthday to one of my all time heroes, David Robert Jones. Here’s my favourite performance of my favourite song:

Genuine question off the back of a discussion I was having yesterday: what, if any, frameworks exist in the U.S. to protect the country from a rogue President (impeachment etc) and are they simply not robust enough or do the majority in the States not see an issue with Trump?

On the way taking horses to Greece waiting for LST in Taranto, Italy in December 1944.

My great grandfather in middle Trooper Fred Paternoster

It's been cold here in the UK so this photo of men of the King's Dragoon Guards exercising their horses in the snow in Feb 1945, seems fitting. Though officially mechanised, the KDG continued to carry out mounted patrols in both Italy and Greece during the SWW #WarHorseWednesday 📸IWM NA 22532

Yup, sounds like a bull terrier. So many stories in our family of out BTs eating things. One of my aunt’s once ate a snorkel. It came out the other end.

Five Dartmoor ponies, a native rare breed, are settling into their new home at Wimpole Estate where they're helping to restore nature and biodiversity by gently grazing thistles and vigorous plants beneath thousands of recently planted trees. Read the full story at buff.ly/Qz4RopL 📷 Mike Selby

Happy Birthday to my lovely aunty Sylv, wherever you may be.

There’s a radio call in discussing the potential of a war between Europe and America. Sigh. What is this world at present!

There being nothing on TV, ever, we’ve started watching Alfred Hitchcock’s back catalogue. Currently half way through Vertigo.

The British Army continued to encourage the equine-soldier bond during the SWW by making each gunner personally responsible for his mule. Here a gunner of 1st Mountain Bty RA and his mule sharing a special moment whilst on exercise in Scotland, 1942. 🥰 #MuleMonday 📸 IWM H 23679

If anyone has a sub to the Telegraph, could you screen shot me the below obit? Pretty please: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar...

Trump, Putin, Jinping, Farage… men really be menning at the moment.

Another one bites the dust. Bloody hell it’s gonna be @alanallport.bsky.social turn to manage Utd soon enough.

Bsky help please: After the loss of our lovely Pip, we’re now ready to give a loving and experienced home to a healthy, safe, heavy horse, 7-15y/o, >15hh, for happy hacking and maybe a spot of trek. Based in south east UK. If anyone knows of anything please get in touch. 🐴 🧡

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” — George Orwell, 1984

I’ve replaced the box in which we keep our Christmas decorations. This is once in a generation event and I’m certain that next year, I won’t be able to find the decorations.

Following the 81st West African Division's dramatic advance down the Kaladan Valley the Japanese abandon Akyab island and on this day in 1945 3 Commando Brigade land unopposed during Operation Lightning/Talon. Find out more in 'Jungle Commandos'. https://bit.ly/3IYyMci

Thank you @axe99.bsky.social for such a glowing review! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

I know there’s loads of awful things happening in the world right now, but we’re building Ikea furniture. I’m not suggesting that is worse, but

Well. Max has escaped a ride today. 🥶