There are good reviews, & then there is is - thank you #RoyalNavy Strategic Studies Centre for having me, on #Trafalgar day no less... and this amazing review of my "Black Redcoats". Like commando raids? Like amphib ops? Like righteous liberations? Get my book! #history #blackhistory

#reenactment shout-out to the St Kitts & Nevis Defence Force (SKNDF) who during this year's independence day celebrations put forward a historical display team representing the 4th West India Regiment (who garrisoned Brimstone Hill fortress) #History #Napoleonics #Blackhistory

As we approach #RemembranceDay I've used part of the sobering "Body Density Map" compiled in 1916 showing the # of dead in 75m x 75m areas at the Somme & put it over a familiar area. Imagine 7500 dead people from Big Ben to St James Park, and 749 in Parliament Square. #History

Napoleonic Historian Friends! If you were presenting about the battle of #Waterloo - what would you like to talk about? What ifs? Underappreciated factors? Myths? Give me your tantalising titles! #History #Historian #napoleonicwars

One of my favourite contemporary #WW2 misreports is this from #Australia paper The Argus, a week after Pearl Harbour, suggesting German battleship Tirpitz (and a Nazi carrier!) were in the Pacific! #History @almurray.bsky.social @hicksy.bsky.social @historybowsh.bsky.social @rgpoulussen.bsky.social

@hicksy.bsky.social & other #wargaming #wargamers - even during the real WW2 they were arguing about correct paint schemes. #models #painting #History

Took a break from #History to go fight for the Emperor as a #Warhammer40k Catachan Jungle Fighter along with my wife. Space Marines know no fear ... because Catachans are near. #Comicon #London #Warhammer #Cosplay #wargaming

A massive #blackhistorymonth win! Only 2 weeks ago at Apsley House me, @graemecallister.bsky.social & M Rayner talked about the 9 black British soldiers of Waterloo & using this image, noting it was unidentified, and now know! @theguardian.com Thomas James, 13th Light Dragoons!

Very happy to be in that line up! #History

Happy #Trafalgar day! Part of nearly all art of the death of Lord #Nelson is a great reminder the Royal Navy has always been a diverse force - a black sailor who sometimes has the honour of being the man firing at the sharpshooter who killed our hero. #History #BlackHistoryMonth

The 1920 #NYPD annual report, in response to the #WallStreet bombing of 16 Sept 1920, goes absolutely ham on the 'need' for secret police & a special military-trained "Riot Regiment" to combat "radicals, locally-bred bolsheviki, [and] chronic malcontents". #History

Living the #military #history nerd dream with fellow historians @graemecallister.bsky.social & Michael Rayner with a huge sand table of the Battle of #Waterloo & a great tale of black history, discussing the lives of the black soldiers who fought there. Three talks, each one with a full room!

What a great day of history! :D

A 1/9 bust of a Colonial Marine by sculptor Nello Rieviccio (he's on Insta: nello_rivieccio_artist) - I don't know who painted it. It's great! #History #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #models #painting #sculpture

A week to go! On 11 October 2025 come to the amazing Apsley House in #London to see me @graemecallister.bsky.social & other historians talking throughout the day on "The Black Soldiers of #Waterloo" - #British #military & #Georgian #history from a new perspective! #London

What is the legacy of the emancipation of the "Black Redcoats" by the Royal Marines into the modern era? Well, here is an absolute corker. I suspect Mr Crawford's ancestors were liberated from #Virginia before resettlement in #TrinidadandTobago #History

Very happy with this pic of 3 Chinooks of the Royal Air Force passing over Parliament on Tuesday afternoon. #History #Parliament #Airpower #photography #helicopters

Pretty happy to have used, and perhaps coined, the alliterative "vexillological vandalism". #flags #raisethecolours

My garage flagpole was the only flag in my street for several years, it has now been joined by a lamppost Union Jack (not pictured! This is mine) and it is upside down. Thankfully I identified the lads who put it up & told them, hope they fix it if nothing else.

All this vexing #vexillology has activated me. I hereby declare that all roundabouts in England should have a flagpole added & this flown (in Wales & Scotland, the canton shall their flags, in NI it will say "Speeds in MPH") - then you both know where you are & when a roundabout is near. Sorted.

Just looking back to that time I accidentally created a #40k meme character on #reddit & White Dwarf sent me a signed picture of him. #Warhammer40k #wargaming @snipethesorrow.bsky.social @wib.bsky.social

Amongst a great amount of interesting & fun events in my life recently, I've discovered "Black Redcoats" is in the Nashville public library. My first confirmed public library presence! An oddly emotional moment. #History #authorlife #writing #justwriteit

Finally, a pic of I at Paula Ogun Hector's amazing #VJ80 #WW2 event. In front of her tapestry of Afro-Caribbean, African, & Asian heroes of WW2 (& Americans too!) - how many can you name? #History #Blackhistory

Final little bit of last night's painting, a series of Epic 40k sized #Warhammer tanks, in the colour scheme of my WH40k 3rd Ornsworld army. #Wargaming

Final elements of the #Waterloo display for 11 Oct at Apsley House. With great thanks to @graemecallister.bsky.social for French info, and Michael Rayner for Prussians. After this Black History Month event, I'll be proud owner of a great display I'll happily lend to anyone who may need it! #History

As well as creating Waterloo's forces this evening, I took a few minutes to create these #Warhammer40k Alaitoc Eldar - which I very much enjoyed! #wargaming

Nearly done with #Waterloo for 11 Oct at Apsley House. Now i know how big the table needs to be. #history #wargaming #blackhistory @zwhitehistory.bsky.social @graemecallister.bsky.social

Preparing for my (& @zwhitehistory.bsky.social, @graemecallister.bsky.social, & friends!) event on 11 Oct 2025 at Apsley House in London where we'll have a #Waterloo display & talk for Black History Month about those African and Afro-Caribbean born soldiers who fought in that great battle #history

From "Black Canadian Veterans Stories" on Facebook - well worth a follow, it's excellent. Image from 8 August 1914 in Woodstock, New Brunswick, showing engineers including Miles Dymond answering the call to #WW1 - they'd form part of 1st Field Co, Canadian Engineers #History #blackhistory

A true classic in the field of German signage.

#Marvel "Secret Invasion" series was never going to please me because they didn't include this Royal Marine going all Sarge from Dog Soldiers (as seen in Cpt Britain & MI13) about defending Parliament with 2 Para, 3 Commando RM and the Royal Anglians from the Skrull. #properjob

👋 This week… The War of 1812 and ‘Black Redcoats: the Corps of Colonial Marines 1814-16’ with the fab @blackredcoats.bsky.social 🙌 💬A great chat about the raising of the Corps and its role in the campaign 🚨 Like, follow and subscribe on the 🔗 pinned to the profile page🙏 #History

I'm shocked, shocked, that I've known @badsocialism.bsky.social for more than several minutes & I had to find out about anti-Nazi calypso music from his appearance on the Strictly Facts podcast! #history #music #Trinidad www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwP...

Love doing a tour for an engaged audience - a bevy of WW2 historians no less! #history #ww2

Met a proper celeb of politics today. #politics #downingstreet

Had a lovely Saturday just gone touring around ‪@michaelohajuru.bsky.social,‬ Keith Piper, Paula Ogun Hector & guests around @ukparliament.parliament.uk with a particular focus on #BlackHistory - something very present, but poorly commemorated (for now!) in this great gothic Palace #history

On Sunday just gone I had the pleasure of bringing the "Black Redcoats" story to the people of #Willen Village - from the pulpit of the Church of St Mary Magdalene, a 1680 delight by Robert Hooke FRS. #history

Happy memories of visiting @tankmuseum.bsky.social a few years ago and finding some of the vehicles adorned with these delights. #tanksalot #history

I'm genuinely disappointed at how few American commentators have drawn comparisons between the Trooping of the Colour for HM The King's Birthday, and the Trump event. It's literally lying right there.

Being the token military historian at a social history focused conference was quite a thing. Highly recommend the experience to all my musketry loving friends. #history #historians

Before heading off to Aberystwyth managed to finish model 3/4 of Gorechosen. I originally didn't like the look of this model, but paint has really brought it to life & I'm glad I stuck with it. #wargaming #painting #warhammer

Lovely time at Aber Uni at The Communication & Exchange conference. A great pile of #history @joeycrozier.bsky.social @ctcallisen.bsky.social @mrfw17thc.bsky.social @jpsa.bsky.social @hammurab1.bsky.social @rharman.bsky.social @noluckst2.bsky.social and more, ta for a great series of papers!

@zwhitehistory.bsky.social @graemecallister.bsky.social & other fine historical minds will be joining me here, in the Waterloo Gallery at Apsley House, London, on 11 October 2025 for a Black History Month event "The Black Soldiers of Waterloo". Put us in your calendar! #history #blackhistory #London

"Sharpe's #Waterloo" has many ups and downs, but due to my area of history, I've long loved it for whichever members of the writing staff and crew managed to get this batman into the production. #history #blackhistory

An interesting depiction of a Colonial Marine "Black Redcoat" in the #Apalachicola Centre for History, Culture and Art #Florida. That's an officer's coat so I wonder if this artwork depicts Garcon, the CO of Prospect Bluff in 1816. #history #blackhistory

Managed to get in some #Saga #wargaming taking my Byzantine Romans against my wife's #vikings - the forces of Rome-but-in-Greek failed to stop the barbarians after the Magister Militarum (me!) threw away his cavalry early. #history #gaming #models

I very much enjoyed doing this interview! Great observations & incisive questions make presenting this incredible tale so much easier. #history #podcasts #foryourears

#Historian friends! We have a date for an Apsley House Black History event - tentatively titled "The Black Soldiers of Waterloo" - but with much room for discussion about black presence in the Napoleonic wars & era, it's 11 Oct 2025 ... please get in touch with me if you'd like to help! #history

Off the military history circuit to the #Caribbean social history circuit! Tune in & hear me yet again breathlessly tell this great tale #history #blackhistory www.buzzsprout.com/1562981/epis...

Rough images as I took them direct off a TV screen in haste as I was blown away by how a cheap and schlocky 1985 sci-fi (Zone Troopers, go watch it!) can lay down the badass. #cultfilm #movies #lowbudgethighcool