US-import torture pork must be one of those many Brexit-Wins (TM). Could maybe be used as Pork-a-Ceutical Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Bacon or to make Ractopamine-Relaxant Sausages. #Downfall

www.faz.net/aktuell/gese... Danke @hemicker.bsky.social #waterloo210

am thrilled to announce the publication of our latest peer-reviewed research, "Sowing Eagles: 200 Years of Forging Waterloo Battlefield Relics." From October in the 'Revue belge d’Histoire ­Militaire' you can read online here already: sramakvvl.be/en/sowing-ea... @bernardwilkin.bsky.social

No matter how cool you are, you will never be as cool as Oberleutnant Freiherr von Fabeck's dog, 'posing' for the camera after the Battles of Dybbol and Alsen, at the end of the Second Schleswig War of 1864. #photography #war #militaryhistory

I could do with some servicing, but I guess this just what happens when you put "Profiter de vous et vous servir" directly into Google Translate. #FrenchGite

Very happy that this chapter is now publicly available via academia. "The economic exploitation of 'hero's bones' and other human remains: A Central European Perspective (1800-1930)" by Arne Homann and myself. www.academia.edu/128964647/Th... #history #archaeology #battlefields

How did trade tariffs affect the bone industry in the 19th century? And how did it contribute to the exploitation of the bodies of the Waterloo fallen? Find out for free in our article www.journalbelgianhistory.be/en/journal/b...

Haven't done one of those shout outs on here before. Can anyone shed light on the first names of: Second Lieutenant (in 1916) A.C. Harrison, 15th Royal Scots @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social Any help appreciated #ww1 #history

Merci @hemicker.bsky.social Can't wait to get started! #history #Germany

Two more revamped covers...

After approx 140 years this lamp is still doing it's duty without complaints

In addition to a 'Weisswurst Äquator' (white sausage equator) we Germans also clearly have an Idioten-Äquator (idiot equator). The people behind it are not desiring democratic participation & safeguarding of fundamental democratic rights, but rather the apparent security of an authoritarian state

The comments on this article are as frightening as they are stupid

Was asked today what I think of #WW2/Nazi reenactment (German in particular) www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... #history #livinghistory

I love Thistly Cross, but that's not available anywhere sadly

When it comes to readily available #Cider, is there anything in the UK which beats Weston's Vintage? Any recommendations welcome. #booze

Five years today since I stopped smoking. One of the best decisions of my life. Hard to describe how much everything is better since then.

Isn't she lovely 😍

So this is how you get 5 Star reviews on Amazon.uk. Sell stuff and enclose official looking Amazon letter offering a 15 quid voucher in return for a 5-Star review.

Old Pickle has an IBD flare-up, so she is now wearing her cuddly pullover, sitting on her heating blanket in front of the fire, lovingly observed by @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk

New bed for the Labradork

Don’t know what to do. Just found out my wife doesn’t like Groundhog Day.

Heavy trip Marathon with @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk

www.thetimes.com/article/0550... The only press article about the #ChristmasTruce worth reading this year. Beautifully written by @hackblackburn.bsky.social A stunning discovery by my old friend @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social

On Christmas Eve night… A story about the Christmas Truce 110 years ago and how we now definitely known that Indian soldiers were a part of it Spice tins given to Germans prove Indians were at Christmas truce www.thetimes.com/article/0550...

www.thetimes.com/article/0550... The only press article about the #ChristmasTruce worth reading this year. Beautifully written by @hackblackburn.bsky.social A stunning discovery by my old friend @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social

Time for my annual rant. We have madly shifted the beginning of Christmas into October when it is not needed. What we should reinstate is the 40 days of Christmas, beginning on 25 Dec and ending on Candlemas in early Feb so that January isn’t so utterly, bloody miserable as it currently is.

I am delighted to share some of Hélène Cook's wonderful photos of Belgium on my blog, and details of an exhibition of her work in Brussels www.discoveringbelgium.com/helene-cooks... Follow her on @helenecookphoto.bsky.social for some more great pics! #Belgium #photography @newsbelgium.bsky.social

Coffee with 'french milk' on the side in our favourite war museum (even though it's closed today). Perfect afternoon with @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk

On the train to Brussels to talk about the missing bones of the Napoleonic wars to a room full of archeologists. Cannot wait to meet @simonverdegem.bsky.social and share the research written with @robschaefer-historian.com and @tonypollard.bsky.social

Folks, it's Saturday. A good time to talk about personal hobbies. What is your guilty pleasure or assumed hobby ? When I'm not with family or hiking, I play guitar in a rock band. One thing for sure, we'll never make it to Glastonbury, but we don't lack enthusiasm.

Packed with full-on, energetic activities to make sure that everyone kept warm - no standing around shivering on a Zeitgeist WWI UK Trench Experience Day!

The Battlefield Design colouring book (volume 1 of many hopefully!) will be available in January. 25-30 images of tanks and aircraft from the FWW to the present day. I'll be looking for stockists - museum shops etc - so if you're interested please let me know!

"Ich fälle Bäume, trag Stöckelschuh Und Strumpf- und Büstenhalter. Wär gern ein kleines Mädchen So wie mein Onkel Walter."

WW1 medicine, life in the trenches, firing blanks, bayonet fencing lessons, a simulated gas attack, stretcher-bearing practice and much more Zeitgeist Trench Experience in the UK - the perfect alternative to a battlefield tour to France and Belgium.

I desperately needed to get out of the house earlier, so grabbed my camera bag and headed to Beachy Head for the sunset.

As this has been posted before the recent influx of wargamers over here, I'll repost it. Maybe someone finds it inspiring. These are isomorphic A4 terrain boards with #2mm buildings. The water features have meanwhile cleared up a bit more. #wargaming #terrain #terrainbuilding #tabletop #miniatures

Two weeks ago today we allowed British GCSE students to climb into mine galleries in the Argonnes. We had a full day of private, unlimited hands-on access in a war museum and students drove in WW1 tanks. There is nothing like a @zgtours4schools.bsky.social battlefield tour for schools.

Yesterday it was my acrylic ink profile of 'Küken' Hubrich's Albatros D.Va from 1918. Today it's my profile (from the same 'In Different Skies' series) of his Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-4 that Hubrich was flying 22 years later in 1940. No cute chick and egg painted on the side of this one!

You should really follow @bernardwilkin.bsky.social Historian, great friend and writing partner.

If you woke up this morning and asked yourself "what might be the bestselling book in the #museum shop on the Waterloo battlefield?", I have the answer for you. #History #archaeology French edition out soon! bernardwilkin.bsky.social

It was a very late, wild and messy pre-birthday night, last night, but unlike those of my younger days (🥳🍾🍸🍷🍹🍺💃🎉), the reason was a very poorly Princess Pickle Pooch having a severe IBD attack in a top floor apartment 😞😵‍💫🥴 Thankfully she's now sleeping soundly, bless her little heart... 🤞🤞🤞

A different man in his prime

I'm almost 41-years old and still don't get how the most mundane, bullshit posts get a billion likes, yet my handmade Dickens Muppet ghosts don't.

Donkey's years ago I painted the entire German and Soviet lists for the Rapid Fire Stalingrad scenario. It was massive and I made sure everything was based appropriately with rubble. Here's a few things from the project: a StuG, 45mm AT gun and engineers 251s. All from various manufacturers and 15mm

You have read it here first!

Kalkriese, Harzhorn, Agincourt, Nördlingen, Leipzigy, Waterloo, Verdun.. She has pooped on more historical battlefields than anyone else I know. She is a good girl.

My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...