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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...

Our @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is a month away! So many talks and seminars to choose from. @pikegrey1418.bsky.social will be giving an exclusive talk about the Battle of Galicia. This oft-ignored scrap in 1914 consumed a million casualties along a 200 mile front in three weeks!

Our @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. From the Royal Logistics Corps Museum, Samantha Jolley is going to be telling us all about tank drivers from the Army Service Corps!

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Phil Watson will be kicking off our Friday night on all things Haig by talking about the BEF chief’s command philosophy. Ticket details👇🏼

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Emmett Kelly is going to tackle the story of how Canada went from a tiny army/navy to mobilising men up to 11,000km to get them to war in 1914! Ticket details 👇

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Trevor Torkington will be regaling his audience with the story of K Class submarines and the Battle of May Island.

Our annual conference is a month away! So many talks and seminars to choose from. I’ll be unsurprisingly talking about the French, and giving an exclusive talk all about General Foch in 1914 @watsonlittle.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social @donaldwin.bsky.social

Conference is a month away! So many talks and seminars to choose from. We talk about technical innovations through Brit eyes, and we forget that the French were pioneers too! @jimsmithson.bsky.social is going to give our ally their dues for steel helmets (that Churchill preferred) and more…

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩 The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 by me #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Friday night will see a focus on Haig and leadership during #WW1, and @bigandylock.bsky.social will be talking about decision-making during Third Ypres