Counter protest against the far-right in Liverpool. Please share it. Even if you're not in Liverpool, you might have followers who are and help is gonna be needed

Well, happy "Germans get punched in their Nazi noses in Normandy" day to all who celebrate. Because I had this on my HDD from Twitter days, here is the write-up on the shenanigans of 2. Sicherungsdivision, who had a REALLY bad day today, 82 years ago. Good. #navalhistory @alanallport.bsky.social

OTD 85 years ago German paratroopers massacred 180 inhabitants of the village of Kandanos in Crete. This followed the massacre of Kondomari the day before. Kondomari is one of the most extraordinarily well documented war crimes of the Wehrmacht. @garius.bsky.social @rgpoulussen.bsky.social

hi everyone! as your local resident witch and Celtic pantheon pagan *AND* British built heritage historian, please, PLEASE stop leaving lit candles as offerings in Neolithic monuments (cough cough West Kennet Long Barrow)

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

This is an excellent article from Tim. Well worth your time. #WW2 #Normandy44

Now written up here. crusaderproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/h...

The Town Hall of Breville in Normandy are reporting that the 51st Highland Division memorial on Breville Ridge has been stolen. 📷 Mairie de Bréville-les-Monts

Men from 264 Squadron in front of a Boulton Paul Defiant Mark I. Back row: Pilot Officer Guy L. Hickman (KIA 31 May 1940), Flight Lieutenant Nicholas "Lanky" Cooke (KIA 31 May 1940), Squadron Leader Philip Hunter (KIA 24 August 1940), Pilot Officer Michael H. Young ...

Sort of about now on this day in 1944, Admiral Ramsey set the schedule for the Normandy landings. D-Day would be 5 June with a basic H-Hour at 0645 and specific H-Hours for each beach as attached. With a formalised date the schedule of embarkation was now set to begin on 31 May.

This is really interesting but I'm otherwise lost for words.

So this is actually happening. @rgpoulussen.bsky.social @garius.bsky.social @cedricmas.bsky.social @ww2tv.bsky.social @ima-naval-history.bsky.social @airminded.org @smoorebofb1940.bsky.social @airpowerhistory.bsky.social @rafhistory.bsky.social @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social @karljames1945.bsky.social

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📜 Historians of Paris! Huge huge long shot 📜 Is anyone at the Archives Nationales main site at any point in the next few weeks, & willing & able to take a few photographs of documents? Happy to pay for your time, whatever you can spare – pls DM me

The Sherman Crab mine flail was so much more than a mine clearer. The spinning drum was equally at home wrecking barbed wire and, on Sword Beach on D-Day, Sgt Walter Smyth used it to destroy a German 75mm AT gun. 🎥 IWM A70 5-2, A70 85-3, A70 5-1 & A70 14-8

Looking forward to seeing this - but not looking forward to the fact that after extensive access to my work’s collection of British papers relating to the American Revolution, and a long historical context discussion with the production team, neither myself or my work’s archives are credited.

Men of 45 Commando come ashore on Sword Queen Red Beach at approx 09:10 on 6 June 1944. On the right is the burning Sherman Crab tank of Lieutenant John Allen, knocked out by the anti-tank gun in the bunker just visible in the very top left corner of the image. 📷 IWM A70 31-2

My AHF forum post about the much discussed and commonly misidentified MG-Gunner photographed on December 18, 1944, on the road from Recht to Poteau. No, he is not Hans Tragarsky, nor is he Walter Armbrust or Heinz Mäger. His identity is still unknown...

In 1938, a 16-year-old Jewish girl fled across the Baltic Sea with her parents. Sweden let her in. Her parents were turned away at the border. Her mother was sent to Theresienstadt. Her father to Auschwitz. Her name was Hilde Back. #EternalLight 1/10

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Out today.

If you want a bespoke battlefield tour in the Arnhem-Nijmegen are, give me a call. I know some things about Market Garden. 😉

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

I'm 56. Racism was everywhere when I was a kid. People just did it, without comment. Normalised. In the 90s political correctness (later: Woke) appeared, and racism withdrew. I'm not saying it vanished. But by 2015, it was socially unacceptable, even in the rough areas I grew up in. Then Brexit.

RAF bomber command Destroyed 10% German invasion fleet in July though to mid September 1940, destroying 224 of 1918 barges assembled Imagine the destruction if they had tried to invade And that without Royal Navy Destroyers & Cruisers having being let loose Was there ever a chance of an invasion

In a post promoting the British Army and their actions, Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, actually used footage of Bloody Sunday. There are no words.

"No one should be surprised that they’re kicking out the one person charged by Congress with protecting Stars and Stripes’ editorial independence. For nearly a year, Pentagon leadership has placed more and more restrictions on the mainstream media."

Ok, so let’s do this! Let’s track just how long it took Tony and the #TimeTeam archeologists to wind up in the pub drinking beer in each episode …

24th April 1918. The first tank vs tank action.

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: St Gaston

These are all fantastic! 👇

Off out tonight. Should be fun! 😀🧷🍻

60,000 starving prisoners. 13,000 bodies left unburied On April 15, 1945, British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen — and faced a humanitarian catastrophe that didn't end with freedom A stark reminder of the scale of Nazi atrocities🔗⬇️

Out in May.

Another day ... another announcement of impending layoffs at another national media organization. 1/

49 years ago today Released on this day in 1977, the eponymous debut studio album by English punk rock band The Clash. It is widely celebrated as one of the greatest punk albums of all time #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory #otd

(1944, Normandy, France.) One of the artificial harbours. #WW2 #HISTORY

yep, Nestlé had their sales reps *dress up as nurses* and give out free formula *in maternity wards* to make families dependent on it, in countries where many didn't have access to clean water for mixing with formula. researchers estimate that 10.9 million babies died.

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

Home after a lovely week in London. Yesterday morning we managed to pop in to see these chaps.

Also ask me about the Stoßlinie, a map overlay system so good the British army in the desert seriously thought about adopting it.

A favourite things is watching a kid get on the DLR in London and run to the front seat, so they can pretend to drive it. It never matters who is sitting there. EVERY adult gets up and concedes that seat. As humans, we recognise and are bound by a sense of joy and wonder. Above everything else.

That was fun. Stiff Little Fingers as good as ever. The Meffs providing excellent support. We're a little battered and bruised but very happy.

So, pull up a chair, and let's look at where we are three weeks into the sh-tshow that is Trump's Iran war. TL:DR it's not great, but it's not catastrophic (yet) either and there's an opportunity here. 1/n

What was it like for a regiment on the 'deadliest day' in French military history? Not Verdun. Not 22nd August 14. But 25th September 1915, where over 21,000+ French died in a few hours. One regiment — the 315e RI — suffered the 4th highest losses. This is their story 🧵 ↓

Happy Evacuation Day! While Boston celebrates the retreat of the British in 1776, let's also remember the Black Bostonians who found their freedom by leaving Massachusetts with the British. Pompey Fleet was a skilled printer enslaved by the Fleet family (printers/booksellers/auctioneers) in Boston

Get off Twitter and delete your accounts. It’s unsafe. My account got stolen and it could happen to you too

Meanwhile, elsewhere, the US evacuation ‘effort’ is about what you would expect from this administration. Turns out effectiveness is now woke too. Long Facebook post in ALT.