Lieutenant Cyril Henry Barraud, The Ramparts, Ypres, #OTD 6 July 1916. These are the casemates where early issues of The Wipers Times trench newspaper were printed. Today they house a brewery that makes Wipers Times beer. Source: www.warmuseum.ca/collections/...

Home Guard firing Z Battery anti-aircraft missiles during an exercise on Merseyside, #OTD 6 July 1942. Photo: Lt Taylor. Source: Mirrorpix via Findmypast.

Happy Birthday Wiktoria Goryńska, artist and member of the Polish underground, born #OTD 6 July 1902.

I've always known this to be true.

When the best blurb you can find is 'A competently written piece', maybe best omit it?

Rare find at the National Archives UK: earlier this year, the volunteer Michael Scurr at TNA discovered one of the earliest prints of the US Declaration of Independence in the Royal Navy Captains’ letters collection and can be linked to our collection as it travelled on the American privateer Dalton

Patton sounded like Elmer Fudd on helium.

Remarkable to see beach obstacles already in place in Normandy, forty-two years before D-Day.

#OTD 3 July 1916 on the Somme, the British captured the German-fortified village of La Boisselle after three days of bitter fighting. One British soldier has a German helmet, but there are no smiles for the photographer, no relief, only horror and exhaustion. #WW1

Another great discovery for @prizepapers.bsky.social. (More here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...)

I'm warning you, historical fiction!

An empty park in England right now.

The largest number of fatalities in a munitions factory explosion in Britain during the First World War occurred #OTD 1 July 1918 at Chilwell in Nottinghamshire. 134 were killed & 250 injured. Photo: Ernest Milner. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Thinking about how most history from large publishing houses is rehashed from secondary-sources, & this may lead non-historians to assume that all history is just lifted from something already written. To reconstruct lives little-remarked upon during their own times is vv difficult & time-consuming.

THIS BIN IS NOT A BIN STOP USING THIS BIN AS A BIN I'M WATCHING YOU!

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

The internet is simultaneously the most effective medium for disseminating information and the most unsuitable for preserving it.

Duncan Grant, portrait of Police Constable Harry Daley, c1930. Said to be the first openly gay British policeman, and a lover of E M Forster. Seen at the Towner, Eastbourne, usually Guildhall Art Gallery.

Major Leslie Jack Coulter DSO, graduate of the Ballarat School of Mines, commander of 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company. Killed in action age 26 #OTD 29 June 1917 raiding German mine shafts near Loos, France. Photo: Elliott & Fry. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Gräf & Stift motorcar in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand & Sophie Duchess of Hohenberg were assassinated in Sarajevo #OTD 28 June 1914 (Heeresgeschichtliche Museum, Vienna).

Hole made by the bullet fired by Gavrilo Princip that killed Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Sarajevo, #OTD 28 June 1914 (Heeresgeschichtliche Museum, Vienna)

Whatever you're up to this weekend, I hope you have an enjoyable one. #cartoon from the now (sadly) defunct Phoenix magazine. #art #caveart #artgallery

I've been posting wonderful Horace Nicholls photos from the Imperial War Museum daily for just over a month. Thank you for all the comments, reposts and likes. I've one more for tomorrow, then I'll try to give it a rest. But there are many more online, not to mention the work of other photographers.

The main thing that I remember about the summer of '76 is that it was a drought, not a heatwave, and that ever since I have turned off the tap while brushing my teeth.

#OTD 26 June 1916, the London Scottish march to the Somme. They will attack five days later. In the 80s, I met a veteran who remembered the photo being taken & named one of the men killed. I asked if they were told to smile. No, he said. Photo: Ernest Brooks. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

#OTD 26 June 1917 the poet & army officer Wilfred Owen was admitted to Craiglockhart War Hospital, near Edinburgh, where he was to meet Siegfried Sassoon. The admission & discharge book records his arrival, departure, period of service, & diagnosis of neurasthenia. (UK National Archives MH 106/1887)

This prompted me to find a reading of this, not having experienced Hardy since I was at school forty-five years ago. I agree, Hardy's recollection of the lost voices of his youth is affectionate and moving.

I've been posting wonderful Horace Nicholls photos from the Imperial War Museum daily for just over a month. Thank you for all the comments, reposts and likes. I've one more for tomorrow, then I'll try to give it a rest. But there are many more online, not to mention the work of other photographers.

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

Congratulations to all those who were involved with this project and made it happen. A well-deserved award. #FWW #WW1 #film film.IWMcollections.org.uk/news/109

D Tel front page busy as ever telling you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

The Needles and Polar Bear, Isle of Wight.

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.

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.

Get this rare household gem for yourself in our shop 😉 shop.stromnessmuseum.org.uk/products/sca...

Remarkable tea towel congruence today!

Cups from a ship in the German Fleet scuttled in Scapa Flow #OTD 21 June 1919, in @stromnessmuseum.bsky.social .

What insect creates these strange volcanic eruptions?

I hope they play Finlandia at her funeral.

The Roden Downs; the drovers track from Lowbury Hill down to The Ridgeway.

Seascraper brought me back to Benjamin Wood, for which I'm grateful.

'Sex and the Travel-Guide', Liverpool Daily Post, 10/8/1922, p. 9.

Loving everything about this film of Kathryn Magnolia Johnson's class for African-American stevedores in France, 9 Nov 1918. A charter member of the NAACP who devoted her life to improving civil rights through literacy. #BlackHistoryMonth #WW1 US National Archives catalog.archives.gov/id/25030

Dwight C. Shepler, 'Storm on "Gooseberry". Ships tied together in rough seas.' #OTD 19 June 1944, the beginning of a 3-day storm that destroyed the Mulberry "A" artificial harbour at Omaha beach. See alt text for the artist's description. Source: www.history.navy.mil/content/hist...

As #WorldCup2026 is underway, here's a reminder that the very first international #football tournament took place in England in approximately 3100 BCE. @privateeyenews.bsky.social #stonehenge #cartoon.

Sowar Muhammad Sarwar, 19th Lancers (Fane’s Horse) died this day in 1915 and is buried in Brookwood Cemetery, #Woking, Surrey. Lest we forget. #CWGC #wargraves #EOHO

Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share.

Simon Jones takes a deep dive on his ancestor’s service at Waterloo and beyond. Highly readable and informative.👍🏼

My ancestor Richard Jones who was at the Battle of Waterloo.

Have you ever wondered how our houses get built back up? Stone by stone of course! These photos show the Ballyvollen Houses from their original location near Lough Neagh in 1995, to their new home at the Folk Museum.