Jessica Meyer (@thehistorygirl1.bsky.social)

This is not the post I meant to write I was planning to write my next blog post about popular histories of returning British ex-servicemen, comparing Adam Powell’s Soldiering On and Simon Fowler and Daniel Weinbren’s Now the War is Over. At some point I will write this post, as there is a lot I…

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This is not the post I meant to write I was planning to write my next blog post about popular histories of returning British ex-servicemen, comparing Adam Powell’s Soldiering On and Simon Fowler and Daniel Weinbren’s Now the War is Over. At some point I will write this post, as there is a lot I want to say about the multiplicity of such books, what makes a book on a historical topic a ‘history’ and the challenges I am facing in trying to write The Return of the Soldier as something other than an academic monograph. But… Last week my husband was rushed into hospital. http://armsandthemedicalman.com/2026/03/30/this-is-not-the-post-i-meant-to-write/