This week @fxmc1957.bsky.social takes on the 15 Minute Book Club as he turns his attention to the holocaust in volume four of The Hitler Years. 🎧 pod.fo/e/35efc4 📺 youtu.be/Y83SaJG0oAs #books #histbookchat #booksky #newbooks

Our next episode is live for our Patreon supporters! @fxmc1957.bsky.social joins us to discuss his latest volume in The Hitler Years - Holocaust 1933-45. Our Patreon supporters get Extra Time, an extra 15 minutes with our guest as we find out more. Join today! www.patreon.com/posts/frank-...

Why was everyone in *Civilisations: Rise and Fall* dressed like they were in a 1950s Hollywood epic? Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱

One of the reasons why Finland is the happiest country in the world is that the public broadcaster Yle sends a live feed of the first 8 weeks of a pack of puppies every fall. It’s already the fifth edition of ”Finland’s most therapeutic live feed”. This is what I call value for my tax money

We've done a thing! @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I chatted with @rooneyvision.bsky.social about his new book about Alcock and Brown, Harry Hawker and, of course, Harry's amazing wife Muriel. Check us out wherever you get your pods or on YouTube.

We are delighted to share our launch episode with you, as @rooneyvision.bsky.social joins us to discuss the men who showed up in Newfoundland after the end of the Great War to attempt to fly the Atlantic. David, your 15 minutes begin now... 📺 youtu.be/OTIqIje5ixI 🎧 shows.acast.com/15-minute-bo...

My heart breaks for the loss of these innocent lives and how many more will die from preventable deaths because of ignorance, disinformation, and bad faith authors. They are causing a public health crisis.

We’re also thrilled that we’re finally planning a return to Jordan for our bestselling “in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia” tour. Led by @alexchurchill.bsky.social we go to places no other tour group visits! www.istoriatravel.org/jordan

Our Cassino tour for 2026 is now live! Find our more about this immersive six day trip with @alexchurchill.bsky.social via the link below #WW2 www.istoriatravel.org/cassino

Join us on this one off trip and you get @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @peterhart.bsky.social as guides, as well as the mighty Richard Van Emden on his first tour! This is one campaign through the eyes of the men on the ground who fought it. @istoriatravel.bsky.social www.istoriatravel.org/somme

Join us on this one off trip and you get both myself and @peterhart.bsky.social as guides, as well as the mighty Richard Van Emden on his first ever tour! This is one campaign through the eyes of the individuals on the ground who fought it. @istoriatravel.bsky.social www.istoriatravel.org/somme

Today’s article is up, and it’s a look at some French satire/humour from the First World War achurchill.substack.com/p/photo-arti...

Preserved 3rd century mosaic excavated in Iznik www.heritagedaily.com/2025/11/pres...

Our lovely Patreon supporters now have access to our launch episode, where we chat with David Rooney about the men who, at the end of the Great War, gathered in Newfoundland to try to fly the Atlantic. Join today and get 15 extra minutes! #histbookchat #booksky www.patreon.com/posts/david-...

✨Augustus in colour✨ The Prima Porta Augustus is one of the most famous sculptures of ancient Rome. Earlier depictions of the sculpture noted the remnants of colour but the craze for cleaned statuary meant much detail was lost to the casual gaze. #AncientRome #History

NEW #Phoenician small ceramic bottles were traditionally thought to hold perfumes and medicines. Residue analysis found chemical traces of wine, resins, pitch and palm oil, indicating their uses were much more multifunctional than expected. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

1/3 The Ara Pacis, or Altar of Augustan Peace, depicts Augustus’ (formerly Octavian) vision of the #Rome he created. The monument is by Augustus’ mausoleum at the Campus Martius. Panels show the imperial family, including Livia, his wife. #ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology 📸 my own.

Today’s Substack is all about French perspectives on the Hundred Days in 1815. Just a word on the subscription - for £5 a month you get two articles like this a week, as well as access to a back catalogue of 200 pieces 😮 achurchill.substack.com/p/article-fi...

Today’s article is up and it’s a brief look at the Hundreds Days in 1815, but from French eyewitnesses… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-fi...

Places are going fast for this. Your chance to start bridging the gap between passionate enthusiast and thinking historian…

Today’s shift is in honour of this shameful git who is mad at me for doing laundry

You can check out our pilot episode with @drkatevigurs.bsky.social for free, including the extra time, right now! Come for the technical issues, stay for great chat about Kate's new book, Mission Europe: The Secret History of the Women of SOE. #BookSky #HistBookChat www.patreon.com/posts/kate-v...

A pilot episode for you! We had to battle some tech gremlins but you can hear how @15minutebook.club will work and what the bonus content will be like. Thank you Kate for being our guinea pig! @boneyabroad.com www.patreon.com/posts/kate-v...

Today marks the 107th anniversary of the moment when the Allied armistice with Germany came into effect and the First World War came to an end. Today, I examine what that felt like across the globe… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-ar...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Israel blocking wells on Palestinian land with cement. Nothing to see here, just Genocidal Ethnic Cleansers doing what Genocidal Ethnic Cleansers do

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

This is the Roman bathhouse at Bearsden in Glasgow, the only visible remains of the fort on the Antonine Wall that once stood there. Featuring hot and cold rooms as well as plunge pools and a latrine, it also had glazed windows and painted plaster decoration. #RomanFortThursday

OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.

Gunner, sandwich, cop!

Well, that's a new one More importantly, I wonder what was on it, to make it ' explode ' 😂

✨Caracalla’s athletes✨ Among the decorations of the Baths of Caracalla is s sequence of mosaics depicting athletes. The fascination with the bodily prowess of the athlete comes to the fore in such moments. Today these mosaics are held in the Musei Vaticani collections. #MosaicMonday

Today’s article is up and it’s FREE for all to read. Get your potted introduction to three of the leading French generals in #WW1 for starters: achurchill.substack.com/p/free-artic...

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

My self imposed book ban is going well...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

A short section of the late 3rd century AD stone wall encircling the #Roman Town of CORINIVM DOBVNNORVM (Cirencester) with projecting polygonal tower Originally extending for 2 miles (3.2 km), enclosing an area of 240 acres (97 ha), this is the only bit exposed today 📷 Oct 2025 #RomanSiteSaturday

Cirencester was the Roman Corinium, second only to London in size with 10,000 inhabitants. Its amphitheatre was one of the largest in Britain. It was built in the early 2nd century and it could hold c. 8,000 spectators. It was fortified against Saxon invaders. #RomanSiteSaturday

New post this week, part three on ancient Kos! This week continues through the reconstructed Casa Romana before detailing the adjacent remnants of the southern area of the agora. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Today’s feature is up on Substack. I’ve been obsessing over my Tank Memorial Book again, but this time I’ve put all of the citations in context. You get tanks, Canadians, and a bad few days for the German Army in 1918… achurchill.substack.com/p/full-featu...

Perfect combo! 🤤

Absolute fascist violence.

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Lastly, it wouldn’t be a WW1 event without Peter Hart, and he’s going to be telling the tale of a Welsh officer at 1st Ypres

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Making his debut, Jamie Nimmo has got (family) skin in the game when it comes to talking about Scots at the Battle of Loos!

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Caroline Drew will be talking all about poison sweet madness and Home Front propaganda. Fake news is not a modern invention... Ticket details 👇🏼

Today’s article is live and it’s an on-the-ground view of what French capitulation looked like in 1870 after the opening weeks of the Franco-Prussian War. Specifically a Metz-born officer watching his city fall… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-th...