I think if half my face got blown off in #WW1, I’d curl up in a ball and feel sorry for myself. Let me introduce you to a Frenchman who did the opposite… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-th...

"When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026… it was not hot enough." via Climate Alert

A reminder of this day in 2016, from The Decade In Tory

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I miss the old door.

21 June 1899 | Czech Jewish composer Pavel Haas was born. Student of Leoš Janáček. Among his notable works are song cycles & string quartets. In 1941 he was imprisoned in #Theresienstadt Ghetto where he also composed. Pavel Haas was murdered in #Auschwitz on 17 October 1944.

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Conference 2026 Speaker Profile! 🚨 The boss! Nobody knows more about Germany in the 20th Century than @fxmc1957.bsky.social! He'll be in conversation with Paul McGann about defeat in 1918 and the Weimar years... Book your tickets at www.greatwargroup.com/product/weekend

William Orpen was so disgusted by the posturing of politicians at the Peace Conference at Versailles in 1919 that he painted them out and replaced them with the Unknown British Soldier & two victims of shell-shock. The Imperial War Museum refused the painting. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Goeneutte, Norbert (1854 - 1894) 'Somnolence'. Etching. 1888. Signed. 6x9 inches. Framed: 11.5x15 inches.

Verpilleux, Emile Antoine (1888 - 1964) London; 'Entrance to the British Museum'. Colour woodcut. 1914. Signed and dated. 18.25x14 inches.

If the US was a healthy democracy Mamdani would be eligible to be President. The restriction on non-native born citizens is a xenophobic embarrassment which should have been repealed a century ago.

13 June 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Naomi Plattner, was born. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- Children at Auschwitz 📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/ 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

Famed Hollywood Director Wesley Ruggles interrupted his burgeoning film career to serve in the US Army Signal Corps in WW1. Started as a Private and ended as a 1st Lt. Started his career in silent film, was one of the original Keystone Cops! Director of the 1931 Best Film Oscar Winner Cimarron.

#1GM Florentin Gabriel Marcel Gérardin (1881-1916) Un officier mitrailleur du 149e R.I. amphitrite33.canalblog.com/2026/06/flor...

6 June 1897 A Scottish woman, Jane Haining, was born in Dunscore. A Church of Scotland missionary in Budapest. In Auschwitz from 14 May 1944 No. 79467 She perished in the camp on 17 July 1944. Haining was recognised by @yadvashem.bsky.social as Righteous Among the Nations #WW2 #History

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social #FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social #FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

Every day this month, I’ll be posting a photo from my collection of cross dressing photos from the First World War. I don’t know if any of these people thought of themselves as queer, but they all had fun playing with gender, so #HappyPride 🏳️‍🌈

EXCLUSIVE - I had the privilege of working with Tommy Robinson on this feature for The Times... open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Who would like a Horace Nicholls photo? A member of the Women's Forestry Corps uses an axe to mark felled tree trunks for sawing c1917-18. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

William Rider-Rider, Canadian Officers entertain Canadian, American and Imperial Nurses. June 1918, Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3396813 & 3194336.

The crimes against humanity and the environment in #Gaza and #Lebanon continue. Refuse to look away. act.gp/4tU2GjC

This is my Libdem MP. We have exchanged emails re my cancer and the importance of hospices. And here she is … doing what we elect MPs to do rather than inciting riots from some field.

I know I must have some needlework/material culture mutuals. If you collect samplers, check out this collection of ~200 samplers going up for auction in Worcester, Mass later this month. Mostly 19th century (but some earlier). Many English samplers, some from Massachusetts, some Spanish.

🧵East Riddlesden Hall is an intimate 17th-century manor house and historic farming estate located in Keighley. It was built in 1642 using local Yorkshire stone by James Murgatroyd, a wealthy clothier and staunch royalist from a somewhat dubious family. It reflects the wealth generated by the

This summer, I will mostly going full Frohntal 😳 Will be taking a closer look at the Peralba and Chiadenis WW1 battlefield.

Remembering a few buried in unmarked public graves, who died on this day in: David Smith, died in 1846, aged 3 years Maria Beetham, died in 1859, aged 2 years Johanna Smith, died in 1859, aged 23 years Thomas Widdop, died in 1862, aged 18 years, employed as a brass finisher

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I’m going to be around all weekend, waffling about all sorts of wars - come join us at Duxford for a packed programme! www.iwm.org.uk/events/iwm-d...

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

They rescued a Belgian soldier trapped in Oostkerke, The orders of the day read: "I express my sincere thanks to Mrs Knocker and Miss Chisholm for their further act of devotion on the 25th of this month by going to retrieve one of our wounded men from a place under enemy artillery fire."

They rescued a Belgian soldier trapped in Oostkerke, The orders of the day read: "I express my sincere thanks to Mrs Knocker and Miss Chisholm for their further act of devotion on the 25th of this month by going to retrieve one of our wounded men from a place under enemy artillery fire."

Oops. More war books 📚🤦🏼‍♀️

28 May 1927 | A Czech Jewish girl, Hana Brigita Katzová, was born. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 26 January 1943. She did not survive.

One of the interesting aspects of exploring Italian Front battlefields…calorie deficit. It’s often not physically possible to consume the same number of calories as those expended. This was also the case for soldiers, in WW1 and now. After a week of -1,500 k/cal per day at altitude, I’m done in.

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

28 May 1933 | A French Jewish girl, Louise Gliot, was born in Metz. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 August 1944 in a transport of 1,300 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 826 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

Wonderful photos as well as fascinating subject matter here

We're especially worried about climate change in archives because there's going to reach a point where it's too hot for corduroy. A lot of archivists will have to fundamentally change their fashion choices. The rest of us will die with our honour.

Austro-Hungarian soldiers advance through a snow-storm behind the retreating Serbian army during the 1915 Austro-German-Bulgarian invasion.

At Autrêches (60), l’Église Saint-Victor dates back to 1520. The Germans used the bell tower for observation in Sep 1914. The tower then became the target for French artillery fire & was partly destroyed on 12 Nov. The church was only restored to its original state & re-opened in 1956. #1GM #FWW

Austro-Hungarian infantry advance in Galicia under cover from the two Schwarzlose machine guns of a machine gun squad.

THERE IS STILL REASON FOR JOY IN THE WORLD. (I know this isn’t an example of that for many people - but for me it’s a sign that there ARE still exciting good things happening in the world.)

23 May 1895 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Betje Olivier-van Thijn, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her husband Mozes and their two daughters, Anna and Jeannette. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.