@remembrancewatch.bsky.social How’s this for some ‘Ultra’ Remembrance? #GetTheBadgeIn

Please repost if you agree that British TV News is betraying our democracy by giving Farage what looks like more coverage than all the other opposition parties combined.

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

funny how if you give "legitimate concerns" a poke they quickly turn into "organised fascist intimidation"

A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Superb comment on the ridiculous use of anti-terrorism legislation against peaceful protesters. Freedom of expression, eh? #FreeSpeech #Palestine #PalestineAction

it's real support from actual racists

Two Tier MPs

Go figure. The guy who wants to put hundreds of thousands of people into mass detention camps without trial or verdict is against human rights laws and treaties. Who’d have thought?

A great lunch today with a fabulous view of #Poros #Kefalonia #Greece from #Taverna #Agrapidos

To say this is somewhat at odds with the news and social media narrative would be the understatement of the year. Also if Ed Davey is that popular vis Farage why is the mainstream media practically ignoring him?

"Unlike the left, we don't believe in erasing history" says the guy renaming ships and purging any mention of like the navajo code talkers, tuskegee airmen, black medal of honor winners, etc

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

In "Legitimate Concerns" news. 41% of the 899 arrested for taking part in Farage Riots last year had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence. For those arrested by one police force, this figure was 68%. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Fantastic reproduction of #WW1 Field #Medical Cards by Somme Poppies Reproductions, going straight into my #FWW display for schools! Get yours here www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4... Plenty of WW2 paperwork, packaging etc available too.

@dstepheb.bsky.social Hello Stephen, I hope your talk at Taff’s went well tonight. Very frustratingly I was there during the day but couldn’t stay for your talk - would have been great to see you!

Reform MP James McMurdock won his seat by just 98 votes. And he only managed that by hiding the fact that he was an ex con. Now he's accused of fraudulantly claiming covid loans. Bet his constituents are delighted.

All of us.... every single last one of us... are descended from immigrants. And without it, this country would just be a bunch of uninhabited islands on the edge of the world. Everything that built this country... and everything it is... springs from that. And we should embrace it, not decry it.

Remembering my GG Uncle, Joseph #Allton, killed in action 8th May 1917 at Fresnoy-en-Gohelle during the Battle of #Arras. He has no known grave, and is remembered on the Arras #Memorial. Joseph, 25, was from #Bedworth #Warwickshire #WW1 #FWW #History #Casualty #CWGC #Remembrance

On the anniversary of the #Lusitania sinking, I am reminded of this headstone in #Lijssenthoek #CWGC. It’s rare that a soldier’s reason for fighting is so clearly & publicly recorded. Remembering Dvr Leland Wingate Fernald, #USA volunteer in #Canada, died 1 year 1 day after the Lusitania sank 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇧🇪

Guillemont Road Cemetery this afternoon. Frankly, it was in a bit of a state in places, especially the entrance.

It would be much more on brand if they wore an armband…

A glorious morning at #Vimy Ridge today. Can confirm it is still 100% #Canadian. #WW1 #History #Canada

@bigandylock.bsky.social Great to see you in action at Lochnagar Crater today mate. Hope I’ll get to work with you sometime soon!

Really pleased to have been able to visit the Chattri (Umbrella) Memorial this week; it’s been on my list for years. High on the South Downs above #Brighton, the Memorial honours #Indian #Army soldiers of #WW1 who were cremated there, their ashes later buried at sea. #FWW #Sikh #Hindu #History

As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.

For St David’s Day: the shawl. This is my many-great-great grandmother Sarah's shawl. She was born ~1840 & lived near Corwen.

Given the state of the world I’ve decided to run a scale model group build and competition in aid of Ukraine. Please spread the word and join in, details of how to enter the competition will be released soon. I’ll set up a feed on here and a facebook page soon. #ForUkraineGB u24.gov.ua

Heading out to the #WW1 battlefields again - what a beautiful morning for it! #FWW #History #Education #Learning #Anglia #Tours #School #KS4 #KS3 #Somme #Ypres #Ieper #Dover #HistoryTeacher #UK #France #Belgium #GCSE #Edexcel #AQA

The end of a long week, but a good one. Cheers all! #ChurchEndBrewery

Vancouver Corner Canadian Memorial today. #WW1 #FWW #Canada #Memorial #Belgium #Canadian

And relax… #Belgium #Beer #Maitresse #Tripel 🇧🇪

Wintry-looking trenches at Bayernwald today. #Ypres #WW1 #FWW #Learning #Education #Anglia #Tours #KS3 #KS4 #GCSE #Medicine #Edexcel #History #HistoryTeacher

Off to the Western Front on tour for a few days - it’s been a while… Glorious morning for it. #WW1 #FWW #Anglia #Tours #School #KS3 #KS4 #GCSE #Somme #Ypres #Ieper #Education #Learning #History #HistoryTeacher #UK #Medicine

Remembering John McCrae, author of #WW1 poem "In Flanders Fields," who died in France Jan 28, 1918. "We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow..." You can read more here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2015/04/brea... #FWW #poetry

It's #FunFriday ! And what better way to end the week than with some AFV amusement? This week @idlemrb.bsky.social suggested I do some threads on ugly tanks. I'm always up for a challenge, so here are my Top 5 Ugly Tanks of WW2! 1/

A chilly visit this week to the superb #ww1 trench @greatwarhuts in #Suffolk - if you’d like to bring your students here for a truly #immersive #learning #experience, see www.frontlinelivinghistory.com for details! #historyteacher #education #uk #ks3 #ks4 #enrichment #AQA #Edexcel #schools #edusky

My first #TankTuesday of 2025 features the Matilda II. Designed in late 1936/early 1937, this well armoured 'infantry tank' first fought with the British Army in France 1940. The tank went on to serve in North Africa, Malta & Crete, before being withdrawn from frontline service in 1942. 1/

🧵 Enjoyed a great family day out at #Twickenham yesterday; both the stadium tour and World #Rugby #Museum were excellent. Two rugby-mad lads tried on the #England changing room for size and practised their run out of the tunnel! 1/3

Having pored over 18th/19th century Army Lists these last couple of years, I have kept a running list of some of the more interesting names of British army officers of that era. Here is just a selection. Yes, there was an actual Lt Johnny Rotten (47th Foot). #NapoleonicHistory #writing #britisharmy

Finished the work year on a high with two very successful solo school gigs. Last week, probably my longest commute of 288 miles to Truro; yesterday my shortest of c.1 mile! Many more good things to come in 2025, but for now - over to Uncle Noddy for an important announcement…

Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse… ‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down www.theguardian.com/business/202...

06/12/1941: British #Submarine HMS Perseus sank off #Kefalonia after hitting a mine. The story of sole survivor, John Capes & islanders who helped him deserves to be better known: tinyurl.com/4fkmebp3 In memory of all of Perseus’s crew still on patrol. #RN #RoyalNavy #WW2

Whenever I visit the #Chapel at #Talbot House in #Poperinge it seems that the Great War soldiers who worshipped & sought solace there are only just out of sight, their prayers & hymns just on the edge of hearing. Please support its restoration if you are able #WW1 #FWW gofund.me/295a5d8f

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@simonjones.bsky.social Received safely, thank you - I look forward to reading it! #WW1 #FWW #History #Tunnelling

When you visit a school for the first time and they immediately book you for next year..! Great feedback from recent workshops notes our passion for educating students about #WW1 Book now, 2025 is filling up fast! #History #KS3 #KS4 #GCSE #Edexcel #FWW #Schools www.frontlinelivinghistory.com

A fantastic first visit to Queen Elizabeth’s High School in #Gainsborough today, working with Y9 who really engaged with the experience and learning on offer. Wonderful to see that the school continues to remember former pupils who fell in both world wars. #Lincolnshire #WW1 #WW2 #Memorial

30/11/15 "the top of our trenches are disintegrating with the rain. We just got our "bottes en toile" which we put over our boots. Today I took some wounded to the rear, I thought I was was going to stay stuck in the muddy hell holes along the way. It took 1hr to do 200m ... " #315eRI