Did you know many WWII soldiers didn't want more monuments? 🎖️💥 Historian @tessadunlop.bsky.social rages against the myth of remembrance for Gloucester History Festival 🎧 Listen: pod.fo/e/30c0ca 🎟️ See her live, Tues 16 Sept: www.gloucesterhistor... #WWII #History

🚨Festival Special 🚨 Who gets remembered — and who stays silent? 🗿✨ @tessadunlop.bsky.social explores the hidden voices behind our monuments. 🎙️ 🎙️ Listen here: pod.fo/e/30c0ca See Tessa speak at Gloucester History Festival, Tues 16th Sep 🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor...

🔥 HUGE thanks to @tessadunlop.bsky.social for kicking off my Gloucester History Festival specials! She dropped by Rage Towers to rage about 🏛️ commemoration, 🗿 monuments & the wars we choose to remember ⚔️. Out 7th Aug! 🎙️✨ #History #Podcast #TessaDunlop

Thankfully I’m feeling much better this week, and indulging in some new shows 🙌🏻 but of course I’ve also got my regular faves on there 😄 have a great weekend all, and enjoy the sunshine ☀️ #followfriday @tessadunlop.bsky.social @iaindale.bsky.social @48hourscbs.bsky.social @wonderymedia.bsky.social

Thank you. I feel seen. A ‘monument’ of a post! @jennifergilmour.bsky.social

@tessadunlop.bsky.social Brilliant historical article! Came to understand the significance of these women in “The Imitation Game“ film. Thank you so much for this piece. apple.news/ACbF1Sn6LQ5G...

Nice to see @tessadunlop.bsky.social ‘s fab new book War and Peace in Exeter Waterstones today. If you’re interested in how war memorials can tell us about our national story this one’s for you, great job Tess ❤️

This week @iaindale.bsky.social and I discuss the riots in Ballymena and the Roma. Wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

I’ve been wiped out with a cold this week 🤧 but happy to share my #FollowFriday, the shows that got me through 🙌🏻🎧 @iaindale.bsky.social @tessadunlop.bsky.social @wonderymedia.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @48hourscbs.bsky.social #podcasts #podcastrecommendation

Extraordinary I have to write this. The Roma are human too. The Roma have rights too. The Roma have been persecuted for centuries. The Roma were the last enslaved people in Europe. The Roma are last whipping boy IN Europe - on BBC this lunchtime people being openly discriminatory. STOP

Calling Bath! This Thursday 6.30pm @waterstonesbath @britwarmemorial.bsky.social @harpernorth.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/lest-...

Chester Storyhouse to host talk on war and commemoration - @tessadunlop.bsky.social on her upcoming event! www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/2522060...

Dear Bath and Bristol please come and join me 12 June 6.30pm to discuss the West Country’s incredible monuments and statues to war! #lestweforget ❤️⬇️ @waterstonesbath.bsky.social waterstones.com/events/lest-we…

Last week’s entertainment on The Royal Beat with @trueroyaltytv @lovemondaytv discussing the new book ‘Lest We Forget’ by @tessadunlop.bsky.social - ranging discussion of royal monuments and memorials including Elizabeth II -should be out today. Enjoyed it. play.trueroyalty.tv/the-royal-be...

We’re really looking forward to hosting Phil Robinson and @tessadunlop.bsky.social at Storyhouse, Chester, next Wednesday! www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/2520710...

Charles’s historic stopover, he was careful not only to embolden his own country’s sovereignty but also to underscore the “vitality of our constitutional monarchy…’ Small wonder Charles made the effort to cross the Atlantic. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/r...

@tessadunlop.bsky.social's 'Lest We Forget: War and Peace in 100 British Monuments' is so good on the contested nature of memorials and memorialisation. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

I discuss BBC ‘bias’ on our latest pod with @iaindale.bsky.social #wherepoliticsmeetshistory podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Blown away by lovely generous review in @AspectsHistory for #LestWeForget ‘A brilliant book’ ‘An intimitate approach to national Monuments’ Thank you @nicolacornick very generous. 🙏 Signed copies available @foxlanebooks aspectsofhistory.com/book_reviews...

Why does the BBC keep framing a Youth mobility scheme as a ‘loss’ for Britain? As usual in hoc to the tabloid press - which no longer speak for the majority of Britons 👏👏👏👏

Românian exit poll 54.9% Nicușor (centrist) 45.1% Simion ( far right) But that does not include the large diapsora vote. More likely to be in favour of Simion. Good luck Romania @iaindale.bsky.social

From @foxlanebooks.bsky.social and @tessadunlop.bsky.social. A lovely signed copy. #histbookchat

Just leaving this photo here. One curated a statue to men who had their faces blown off, one fought the nazis+ then her son died, one had a son who was a commando killed by the taliban in Afghanistan + one fought the taliban. #womenwhoserve #lestweforget 🙏 for the intro @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social

Psssst. #VEDay80 www.amazon.co.uk/Lest-We-Forg...

It’s called harassment and it IS illegal. And I am 50 not nearly 50. Emotions are running high. When is it going to STOP?

Doing a little history experiment on YouTube. Do please join me there! For your history needs… #achilles #hydepark #wellington

Very happy to be publication-day twins with the wonderful @tessadunlop.bsky.social today. My new book BLITZ KIDS tells the true stories of 15 children who lived through WW2. Her new book LEST WE FORGET looks at war and peace in Britain via 100 monuments. How's that for a double-bill!

Launch day 🎉 A massive thank you to all the many contributors who made LEST WE FORGET WAR AND PEACE IN 100 BRITISH MONUMENTS possible. And 🙏 @waterstones.bsky.social for making it an April book of the month. Thank you @iaindale.bsky.social @sauldavidraye.bsky.social for the kind words.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w... Another brilliant episode, though a little short….. for a bit more Welsh add in Grant Tucker. Thank you @tessadunlop.bsky.social and @iaindale.bsky.social for such an interesting mix of history, politics & laughter.

Interesting discussion about the hereditary principle on @iaindale.bsky.social and @tessadunlop.bsky.social’s latest (excellent) podcast, featuring the notion that the hereditary peers’ contribution won’t be missed from the House of Lords…

Yes @iaindale and I are going where few dare – to take on the titans of the podcasting world with our brand new @global podcast WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY. Please do join us next Tuesday: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Yes @iaindale and I are going where few dare – to take on the titans of the podcasting world with our brand new @global podcast WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY. Please do join us next Tuesday: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Keir Starmer is totally where it’s at this week. 🇬🇧🇷🇴

As someone who speaks a 2nd language at about the same level of fluency as Zelensky’s English, it surprises me that no one has referenced this in their analysis of the oval office row. Nuance, dexterity and manners are very hard to achieve 2 against 1 in a foreign language

In a world where we talk of peace in times of war, how do we manage ideas of war in times of peace? A theme I try to explore in my new book LEST WE FORGET, available for PRE ORDER with a 25% discount @waterstones Reposts welcome! 😉 waterstones.com/book/lest-we-f…

Where are we heading? God only knows but it feels properly insecure out here on the Eastern Frontier of NATO/EU. A salient reminder that the opportunists who gambled the defense of Europe on a win for Trump cannot be trusted.

I finally went to bed at 3.30am. Anyone else hate the copyedit stage of a book? Can I ban the words: ‘as’ ‘that’ ‘while’

Reasons to love February: catkins

Very moving i/v with Thomas Kingston's parents this morning on @BBCr4today In the past I have struggled to come off SSRIs (like him I was on them for anxiety) Likewise, I sometimes take Zoplicone (a sleeping pill). It can make me very tearful the next day.

"Just because Trump has farted doesn't mean the sewage system has changed." @tessadunlop.bsky.social says renewed climate denialism in the U.S. presents an opportunity for Britain to lead a "green revolution". Tim Montgomerie | @thejeremyvine.bsky.social | #JeremyVine

Thought I would find respite in a 1926 book of poetry for the weekend. It has a section of hate poetry. Really. 😳 Here is one about a ‘fat white woman whom nobody loves’ Before X there were poetry compilations.

Bravo Harry for dragging an apology out of NGN. No one else could’ve done it. Holding corporations to account is FAR TOO HARD. As for Harry, now the legal mists are clearing how will he occupy his time? Me ✍️ ⁦‪@Independent‬⁩ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Time to channel Rousseau the philosopher who gave us the idea of the ‘will of the people’ but acknowledged this ‘enlightened idea’ had a dark side. Toppling absolute monarchs by the absolute will of the people still led to absolutism..hence USA’s checks + balances 🤞they cope with the assault.

President Trump, a convicted felon, has promised to root out a ‘Radical and corrupt elite.’ He has also promised a ‘golden age of growth’ Under his last presidency more US factories closed than opened. #Inauguration2025

Hope it’s ok to plug this again, but I have a substack looking at history and true crime. There are loads of interviews on there already. You can subscribe here: open.substack.com/pub/rebeccar...

These belonged to my grandmother - they are a bridal set, French 1920s apparently. I am sending them off to a new home today. Clearing my mum’s house out has been weirdly painful but inevitably the contents of a highland home don’t fit into a London dolls’ house. X

Brutally cold temperatures nearly did for Lyndon Johnson

📣📣Monumentally excited that LEST WE FORGET will be published this April with @HarperNorthUK The human stories and history behind 100 British monuments to war and peace. bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d…

When is a fact not a fact? When it is on Facebook. On Instagram. On X… Welcome to the post-truth world, the conductor of this world orchestra is Mr Trump, on drums Mr Musk, Zuckerberg on the Triangle…

Lost my most treasured possession. My great grandmother’s three tier gold snake ring at the Peterborough A1 service station. Holding onto fact it is not my home or a family member. But it is nonetheless weirdly painful.