#today in 1941 the USSR & Empire of Japan sign a Neutrality Agreement. This I think is one of the most underappreciated #WW2 #history moments with massive ramifications for how the war played out. @historybowsh.bsky.social @almurray.bsky.social

For no reason at all, just remembered that time the #Joker was #Iran #UN representative. #Comics #Batman #History

If you're going to hang out with a #sailor, might as well make it #Nelson of the Big Bad Royal Navy* #History #RoyalNavy *official title now, cheers Colonials.

One for you @badsocialism.bsky.social if you've never seen it before: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xDK...

Today for the #Nigeria Presidential visit to the #UK I am enjoying listening to a great collection of Nigerian march songs of the Royal West African Frontier Force. These recordings were made in 1945, and capture men of 7 Bttn 3 Nigeria Brigade - CHINDITS! #history #burma

Great Day at @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social with @societyarmy.bsky.social for talks on the American War of Independence (250 years of a lucky escape!) with great speakers & subjects! #History #AWI #America250

Reading a 1905 book about #Nigeria today & genuinely loving this reminder that even in the 20th century large parts of #Africa were unknown to colonial forces. #History

A recruiting poster from #WW2 in Northern Rhodesia & Nyasaland (as #Zambia & #Malawi where then known) in the Chewa/Nyanja language - it has the classic question of recruitment posters: "This man is a soldier. King George wants more soldiers. Are you brave men? If so, join the army!" #History

Big shout out to #Hornblower for this excellent depiction of the uprising enslaved people of #haiti - full of French Revolutionary fervour in full "Black Jacobins" style. #history #drama #television

By far the weirdest thing I get a lot of now is requests to "take part" in #book club discussions about my book - usually at last minute - & they always reveal themselves as #scams with stuff like this. This particular one uses has also stolen the identity of an actual club in #chicago #authorlife

Another enjoyable #history evening talking to North Crawley's Historical Society about my "Black Redcoats" - a fun evening with food & wine afterwards. #authorlife #writing #books

Now that's a hell of a hard #WW2 pic, showing a #Nigeria soldier of the West #African Brigade that was part of #Burma Chindit operations! #history #blackhistory @historybowsh.bsky.social @badsocialism.bsky.social

Got a bit of time today? Why not watch a great piece of #USA #BlackHistoryMonth work that's also #militaryhistory, specifically #Vietnam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxSi...

Finally, a #manga just for me! About the shenanigans and coup attempts around & against the #Japanese Emperor as it becomes clear they need to surrender in #ww2 - an excellent bit of #History well-presented.

It’s time! @blackredcoats.bsky.social’s Black Redcoats and the Harbour Special from Tintagel Brewery. I’ve dipped into the book before but this is the full cover to cover. From the start it’s pretty epic and uplifting. #readingndrinking #histbookchat

My "Black Redcoats" is at the College of the Muscogee Nation, the Muscogee descend from the Creek who the Royal Marines & former enslaved I wrote of fought alongside against the US. The corn is from the Great Tecumseh's Tippecanoe ( @tom4141tom.bsky.social ), & Alabama the homeland of Creek #History

Sometimes you just need to remember that you only need a mad minute. #history #guns #war #british #smle

How's #book sales of my "Black Redcoats" doing you ask? Well I've booked (ho ho!) yet another speaking event for SEPTEMBER 2026(!) another free lunch & chance to sell books while doing what I love, talking #history! #bookme #authorlife

Hola #Burma #WW2 historians & enthusiasts @badsocialism.bsky.social @historybowsh.bsky.social I'm putting together some stuff on the #Africa contribution to Burma & this is my "Order of Battle" using modern flags. Does it make accord with what you know? #History

Spent a very happy Sunday talking to the @armybenevolentfund.bsky.social Berkshire branch about my "Black Redcoats". A great audience of proud #veterans it was a pleasure to bring this amazing tale of #British and #blackhistory to. #authorlife

While stupid things are said about (recent) military #history, the 179th Anniversary of #Isandlwana & #RorkesDrift (#Zulu) took place yesterday & brave people fighting for their Kings and Countries were honoured. Big love to the Diehards Living History Group for this photo.

Going up on flagpole tonight. Let's see if the #raisethecolours crowd are #patriots or collaborators. Britain forever, and everyone who is lucky enough to be #British, of all creeds & colours, you are my people. Fuck foreign despots. #457 #History #NATO

I've been SO ANGRY all day due to various utterances by idiots that, to make myself feel better, I've been indulging in reading the words of Royal Marine officer Edward Nicolls, who wanted to destroy the United States by having British forces arm enslaved people and native Americans. #History

Reading these reports about an alleged new #Canada defence plan in case of #USA invasion, and it seems to come down to "We're the Taliban now". Or the Tal-ay-ban, if you will. #politics #currentevents

In Kitwe, #Zambia, part of the Zambian Defence Force barracks is Mawlaik Banquet Hall, a public-usable venue for things like weddings and graduations. It is named after the village Mawlaik in #Burma #Myanmar where Zambia (& Malawi) soldiers fought hard in #WW2. @historybowsh.bsky.social

Anyone else ever wonder what this guy from Rage Against the Machine's "Sleep now in the fire" music video is up to now? #History #music #ratm #metal #politics

Time to aggressively divide the #Napoleonic #Sharpe loving #History world with the strongest weapon in the world: the power of equine friendship. @zwhitehistory.bsky.social @lureynol.bsky.social #reading #books

Shout out to the ship's crest of HMS Tiptoe, yet another amazing #royalnavy crest. #history #ww2

Relaxing this evening with an incredible piece of #ww2 propaganda with so far too many mad elements to easily list! #history #ussr #film

Good night, but especially good night to HMS Witch's amazing ship crest. #history #royalnavy #ship #naval

Oh aye, let's just go and aggravate the Americans when I don't even have an anti-Delta Force insurance plan. #History

Come and listen to be *very uncomplimentary* about the United States at just the moment I may have to consider helicopter-proofing my garden! #History #Politics #Currentevents

Here we are, an official US govt post containing a dogwhistle to the US right-wing's mythologised version of #Rhodesia, the British colony that went rogue rather than give black people rights. The 2015 #Charleston Church shooter wore a Rhodesian flag on a jacket. Not shocked, but sick. #History

Reading "West African Way" about 5th Gold Coast Regt (#Ghana) in #WW2, they're fighting after building 73 miles of road thru #Burma jungle. A full pan- #african event, with #Gambia troops first engaging, followed by #Nigeria w/support fire from #SierraLeone #History @historybowsh.bsky.social

Re-enacting Memory: from PBS War of 1812 film shoot, 2010

#ww2 #Burma, 1944. Bearded chap is Brg Ricketts, CO West #African Frontier Force and is an unknown soldier from #Nigeria. 3rd West African Division was all-Nigerian, 6th, 7th, & 12 Bt. 🇳🇬 Regt inc 3 Engineers and 3 Field Ambulance. Part of the #chindits @historybowsh.bsky.social

Via @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social - 19 Dec 1945, Viceroy of #India Wavell awards a posthumous Victoria Cross #VC to the widow an Indian Army soldier. Her husband was a British hero & she is wearing a #burka. 13/30 Indian VCs were posthumous in #WW2. #History #Burma @historybowsh.bsky.social

One for you @zwhitehistory.bsky.social & other #Napoleonic history fans. A fantastic discussion about our favourite French antagonist on @thisguysucked.com open.spotify.com/episode/7N1F...

In 1909, during the State Opening of Parliament, suffragette Muriel Matters boarded an airship intending to "bomb" Parliament with 'votes for women' leaflets. In 1939, she reminisced about her aerial adventure: bbc.co.uk/videos/c88zz... #history #womenshistory #HERstory

Had a fun couple of days sending @uclpress.bsky.social 's "Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain's colonial past" (by @abdulmohamud.bsky.social & others!) to teacher & headteacher friends of mine. #History #teaching #education

Love #Sport, Love #Boxing, Love #History? Donate for a plaque remembering two great 19th Century Boxers at the site of their #pub - right where The National Gallery is in Trafalgar Square today! Be part of bringing history back into the fabric of today!

Was delighted (if terrified) to write this list for @societyarmy.bsky.social but very glad for the chance to big up the amazing work of Dale Cox! (And my own everlasting love of alternate history novels.) #History #BooksWorthReading #alternatehistory

@theresthistory.bsky.social & @empirepoduk.bsky.social I highly recommend you look into "Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain's colonial past" from @uclpress.bsky.social (they've made it free!) & get in some of the great authors to talk about it. #History uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Had a great evening at @ucl.ac.uk celebrating the launch of @uclpress.bsky.social's amazing "Teaching Slavery" resource wrote by @abdulmohamud.bsky.social, Robin Whitburn, Katie Donington & Nick Draper. Essential reading. #History IT'S A FREE PDF! uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Here's a story from the 9 Feb 1943 #NewYork World-Telegram that literally demands historical investigation. Whatever became of you, Adolf Hitler Mittel? #History #WW2 #newspapers

Come and see me getting excited about history TONIGHT! #history #military #blackhistory #authorlife

#trains and #warhammer together as they always were meant to be. #wargaming #40k #models

Great intro to "West African Way" (5th Btn Gold Cost Regt #Ghana) by CG Bowen concerning the West African contribution to the #Burma campaign in #WW2 #blackhistory @historybowsh.bsky.social

Tell us how you really feel, author of "Place-names of #Leicestershire & #Rutland". #History

Truly, the most supreme example of Socialist Realism. #WW2 #History #Czechia #Prague