A trip to the Post Office, a chance reading of a sentence in Arthur Mee’s volume on Devon sat in the car park, and a returned cross I had no idea existed discovered. #ww1 #memory

Incredible to see this maquette of Gilbert’s design for Troon War Memorial at Hartlebury Castle yesterday. It’s an unusual design, a product of the Bromsgrove Design Guild, who produced both the Liver Birds and the gates to Buckingham Palace

Battle of Loos with Peter Doyle: in the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social we are joined by @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social to discuss the offensive of September 1915. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/10/25/b...

Thanks to all who joined us for a @oldfrontline.bsky.social Podcast Supporters evening where @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social joined us for an excellent talk about the Battle of Loos in 1915 - with the 110th Anniversary tomorrow, very apt!

Finally, a French 75

Trying to work out what is going on in the world can be a challenge

Technology is often a mystery. So it is, so it has always been

I know how he feels

Cast-iron Ypres. This incredible dish, no doubt made for the inter-war tourist market, is a cut-above the norm. Made of cast-iron, it has a dark presence that mirrors the destruction of the city, prior to its rebirth.

Lovely to be ‘leading the charge’ at the National WW1 Museum symposium in October www.theworldwar.org/symposia

I’ll never forget my first trip to this incredible place of legend

Great to see my 2012 book reissued in paperback - as with all the books in this series, it’s an introductory guide. Pleased that readers found it of value

German #WW1 Fokker D.VII fighter planes from Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 73. #HISTORY

Snake stone. How wonderful is this? Nature, eh

Check out the call for papers for this exciting conference in beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer in March next year on 'Women in War in France, Britain and Ireland'. It should be a fascinating event. femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/call-for-...

At the Menin Gate. The desire to connect with those lost a century plus ago is strong, the gate such a focal point. And rightly so.

The Menin Gate, just last week. Now divested of its shrouds, once again the Gate becomes a focal point for the curious, or for those seeking names or leaving remembrances. All this while pedestrians move through its arches, just as soldiers once passed though its rubble, to the sound of the guns

Faces of the Second World War #VEDay

Faces of the Second World War #VEDay

Faces of the Second World War #VEDay

Faces of the Second World War #VEDay

110 years. Today. #Gallipoli

110 years. Today. #Gallipoli

110 years. Today. #Gallipoli

Pocket battleship (a Dreadnought, if you will)

Pint-sized B-type

Bolsover’s impressive War Memorial. Many local miners & farm workers volunteered for service in the First World War. @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social @britwarmemorial.bsky.social #LestWeForget #FirstWorldWar #Bolsover

The Battle of Verdun began #OTD in 1916. To discover more about the longest battle of #WW1 have a listen to this episode of Old Front Line #podcast: oldfrontline.co.uk/2023/08/05/v...

Starfish! Great to work on this project with my wondetful colleagues at Keele www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remembering Tommy: Remembering Chris. My mate Chris Foster passed away last week, leaving a huge hole. This project was beloved by both of us: this is for you, my friend

Todya's badge - a rare one for the Better 'Ole soldiers social club in Paris. The badge date must be post-1915 as the famous Bairnsfather "Better 'Ole" cartoon wasn't published till late 1915. In all the years I have been collecting, this is the only example of this I have seen #WW1 #FWW

I hope the ghost of Sally Ride takes her vengeance on those responsible for this.

On this day in 1971, Alan Shepard brought the Lunar Module 'Antares' down in this utterly wondrous place. Seen here in #ApolloRemastered. In the upcoming #GeminiAndMercuryRemastered, we'll see Shepard up close, aboard 'Freedom 7' as he became the first American in space.

A plaque in Coventry’s War Memorial Park to Cpl Denis Worrod, Parachute Regiment, who was killed in North Africa. Sadly, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Medjez-el-Bab Memorial in Tunisia.

Today's badge - the first in a series. The Comrades of the Great War Association was set up in 1917 to represent the rights of those who had served or been discharged from service during WW1. Over 700 Associations were founded in the aftermath of the war. #WW1 #FWW

For those fluent in Catalan - this is a fascinating piece of work www.elpuntavui.cat/politica/art...

I recently found something similar in a bundle of papers my grandparents had saved over the years, which included the V1 that my dad saw fall when he was walking home from Wincheap School

It’s always great when you buy used books that have extra ‘stuff’ in them. This one is a keeper…

Docklow roll of honour (for the fallen). St. Bartholomew’s Church, Docklow, Herefordshire. First World War. #LestWeForget

Why does the BBC insist on using ‘Nasa’, when it’s NASA…? If it’s in the style guides, then change them…please

Services rendered: medals awarded to a Royal Welch Fusilier for service in France & Germany between 6 June 1944 and 8 May 1945, and to a rifleman in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps for service between 1941-45. These simple items reflect stories of endurance & courage by British citizen soldiers in WW2

Fantastic thread. My father was a PoW for five years after being captured in the Dunkirk perimeter. Not for him a galaxy of stars

Ok, here’s to my first seminar of 2025…

Supermarine S6b Schneider Trophy winner and the Spitfire that followed it, on display in the Flight Exhibition space of the Science Museum

Spitfire wind tunnel model from RAE Farnborough, 1941, on display in the Science Museum

German soldier, WW1.

French Army during the First World War🧵 Want to learn about the most modernised Army by 1918? -Key Battles -Innovations -What did the soldiers wear -Individuals Army that started in Red trousers and ended with the best tank of the War ✍️Part I (1914-1916)

Seventeenth century London sure looked like a cheery place…

Battle scars: the effects of a Blitz bomb blast on the Victoria & Albert Museum from April 1941

Lt Col Raymond Doherty-Holwell was awarded a DSO, which was presented by the King at Buckingham Palace, and was mentioned in despatches no fewer than five times. At the time of his death he was Assistant Director of Army Signals, VIII Corps. 📍Poperinghe New Military Cemetery