The restored inside of Notre Dame is spectacular

This window with two columns of different materials and colors caught my attention.💚🤎

Coming to a bookshop near you next March...

From the archive - #Planning for a Hot War in the #ColdWar pod.fo/e/219e90

#OnThisDay in 1953, an armistice paused the Korean War, but peace remained elusive. Listen why the #KoreanWar has been forgotten, why it mattered then, and why it still matters now. With @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social & @ospreypublishing.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2fe846

From the archive - In August 2024 I was honoured to be invited to the National Army Museum in London to interview Andrew Long, the author of new book about #BRIXMIS in front of a large audience of veterans. pod.fo/e/2616c5

Published this month 10 years ago! 😁

Why the #KoreanWar has been forgotten, why it mattered then, and why it still matters now. With #RobertLyman @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social & @ospreypublishing.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2fe846

I knew Dick Maydwell - a great chap!

The Yorkshire Dales...

In case y'all wanted to know what a Beaver looks like from the inside.

A surreal morning earlier this week in the Netherlands

LATEST EPISODE - The Night a #Nuclearmissile #Exploded: A Firsthand Account of #Survival Listen here. pod.fo/e/2fa195

Out now...

On our way to sunny Spain! That's me in the driver's seat on our way to Torrejon, July 1988 😎

@michaelnbooks.bsky.social takes a look back at both the first Gulf War & the Balkans Conflict in this new book for @ospreypublishing.bsky.social excellent series. #histbookchat Please find below a link to my book review. historybookchat.blogspot.com/2025/06/raf-...

Today’s badge a Red Cross badge dated 1914-1919. #WW1 #FWW

A bit of garden perfection for you! 😁

OTD in 1940 Soviet Union shot down a Finnish civil flight from Estonia to Helsinki, killing diplomats from France & USA plus businessmen from our allies in Germany. We denied it. Imagine the Russian military shooting down civil aircraft in this day & age then lying about it.

From the archive pod.fo/e/12c9d6

NEW EPISODE - Memories of an East German Naval Officer's Family Listen here 🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode407 #coldwarhistory #eastgermany #DDR #GDR #coldwar #podcast @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social @ddronline.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social

What better than the Rock of Gibraltar for #RockinTuesday with a glorious view across to Spain #photography #EastCoastKin #travel

Devils Arrow, Boroughbridge, N. Yorks. #StandingStoneSunday

+++ On this day, the 8th of June 1949, George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four, was first published. +++ It was a warning from history / not an instruction manual #georgeorwell #dystopian #dystopianfuture #bigbrother #room101 #thoughtpolice #INGSOC #newspeak #thoughtcrime #otd

Pictures reveal secrets of former Cold War base www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#roses #flowers #photography

Do you have a short #ColdWar #story or #anecdote that deserves to be heard, but isn’t quite long enough for a full episode? Let me know here coldwarconversations.com/2025/06/cold...

Punks London 1982

East Berlin border guards shine their searchlight into the eyes of a Royal Military Police patrol and are answered by a time honoured gesture. Listen to the interview here. coldwarconversations.com/episode405/

Perfection - with a beautiful perfume, too

Re-share and follow us to enter our draw to win our latest #coldwar #bookgiveaway Click on the link below for other ways to enter and T&Cs. coldwarconversations.com/giveaway/ #vietnamwar #korea #USAF #Specialforces

In the during the dying days of the #ColdWar, Canadian CF-18 pilot Major Bob Wade became the first Western pilot to fly a Soviet #MiG29 Fulcrum fighter aircraft. This episode tells you how he did it. pod.fo/e/12bce

NEW EPISODE - "The aircraft exploded and the cockpit filled with fire" - #Korean skies to the brutal #VietnamWar Listen here 🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode404 #coldwarhistory #coldwar #fighterjets #USAF

Random aeroplane photo of the day... Tornado GR1 of 31 Squadron (... and that's me in the driver's seat 😁)

A poignant epitaph...

Out last week! (And off to a good start!) 😀

NEW EPISODE - "The aircraft exploded and the cockpit filled with fire" - #Korean skies to the brutal #VietnamWar Listen here 🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode404 #coldwar #f100 #supersabre @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social @airpowerhistory.bsky.social

If you missed this weeks episode ‘Over Cold War Seas’, here is the link aviation-xtended.co.uk/ep-220-over-... Also on all good podcast playing apps! Phot A7 Corsair II (Copyright US Navy) @michaelnbooks.bsky.social @ospreypublishing.bsky.social

Will coach drivers PLEASE drop people off in designated areas only. It’s helicopter mating season.

Finally! Enough pollen off the car to apply the second generation of this bumper sticker. #MaytheFourthBeWithYou #AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen

MiG-21BIS MG-118 of the Finnish Air Force at a road base(road runway), 1980s. The truck is type ZIL 164. (Matti Wikman)

On April 17, 1970 55 years ago, today #Apollo13 came home. Listen to my chat with #Fredhaise one of the crew. pod.fo/e/142149

Bluebells are here!😃

Without words

#OTD in 1943, Sfax, Tunisia. Valentine tanks passing cheering crowds. #WW2 #HISTORY

Random aeroplane photo of the day... 11 Sqn Venom at Wunsdorf 23 June 1955

Clouds clearing. After poor conditions the low-lying clouds started to clear at sunset and the mountain ahead could now be seen. A much shot location, beautiful to the eye in person, as well as capturing in camera. #photography #nature #landscapephotography

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Learn about the #ColdWar through award-winning, real-life stories told by those who lived it. coldwarconversations.com

Random aeroplane picture of the day.... Italian Typhoon