@stevebrownauthor.bsky.social
Author of eight books on British Army topics for the period 1793 to 1815. Family historian. Sometime muso. Builder of small WW2 planes. Touchstones: Zappa. XTC. Richard Thompson. King Crimson. Morale commensurate with the fortunes of the Baggy Greens.
I'm just starting to prepare for my presentation on Writing Military History at Local Word 2025 - it's now only a couple of weeks away.
Booking link: events.grlc.vic.gov.au/event/13943709
#localword25
Plus... some latest stuff I did for Redcoat History:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=br6c...
I’ve just read Peter Barton’s book.
20.07.2025 05:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Six of these on my list, BL at #1. Duellists at 2.
28.06.2025 04:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Channel 9 from Australia.
How are you going, Yanks - are you great yet?
Get well soon Rob.
09.06.2025 00:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks to Owen Davis for a lovely review of King George’s Army Vol 2 (Foot Guards and 1-30 Foot). Vol 3 is out now, and Vol 4 not too far away.
#napoleonic #history #helion
www.napoleon-series.org/book-reviews...
Eerily reminiscent of a high school second XI match in Perth circa 1978 in which I had the misfortune to be on the receiving end - on a primary school oval with a cracked concrete pitch and 40 metre boundaries. Memories…
28.05.2025 11:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It was great to catch up with Christian Parkinson last night to finally record Part 2 of my British Regiments series
It was great to catch up with Christian Parkinson last night to finally record Part 2 of my British Regiments series - due out on Redcoat History in a few weeks. Keep an eye out on YouTube.
19.05.2025 22:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Getting a July 1914 kinda vibe from seeing this week’s gatherings…
11.05.2025 00:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the best accounts of a ‘small’ battle out there.
06.05.2025 09:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hear hear, for our Parliamentary and electoral system.
04.05.2025 01:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very similar to Australia - our elections are compulsory so held on Saturdays - but same five week lead in. Oh,
and ours is this coming Saturday 3 May!
#skystorians
25.04.2025 00:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some recent book purchases, three-quarters of which are appropriate on this #AnzacDay2025.
I visited Pozieres and Fromelles in 2016, the centenary of the actions, as well as Ypres, Mons, Bullecourt and Dixmuide.
The Menin Gate evening service was truly memorable.
Good Friday? Hot cross buns!
18.04.2025 09:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prepping for another podcast with the excellent Chris Parkinson at Redcoat History - recording next Tuesday. Should be a good one - Part 2 of British Army ranks and structures during the Napoleonic Wars.
17.04.2025 01:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0About 4% of our exports used to go to the USA. But I guess they will be going to China now.
09.04.2025 03:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great hospital menu
My wife is in hospital for some chemo. This is her dinner menu. It runs to eight pages.
I’m thinking I should pretend to be ill so I can eat here.
Charlie Court pushed it endlessly in the 1970s.
08.04.2025 07:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So he is like Don Fanucci from Godfather 2 now, going around to visit all the countries in Europe to collect his ‘protection’ money?
07.04.2025 03:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Australian battalion losses in the attack at Fromelles, evening of 19/20 July 1916, from starting strengths of around 950.
Fromelles was these unit’s first action under fire. Welcome to WW1.
I am reading Peter Barton’s The Lost Legions of Fromelles. About half the book is the Bavarian perspective. I think I have learned more about WW1 from this book than any other.
06.04.2025 07:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Actually, I think I misunderstood his comments. What FDT actually meant is that he WANTS monarchs to grovel to him for exemptions, so that he can hand them down like some sort of God-Emperor.
04.04.2025 04:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0bsky.app/profile/brit...
04.04.2025 01:07 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0TRUMP: Soon I will be getting calls from kings, queens and ambassadors looking for tariff exemptions.
He plainly has no idea how constitutional monarchies work, in addition to everything else.
Australia does not import US beef for two reasons. First, we produce far more beef than our 27mill population can eat. Secondly, US exporters are not interested in complying with our biosecurity laws. Apparently Americans are above laws.
03.04.2025 01:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A full hour explaining Warne to Gatting, 1993?
02.04.2025 07:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Australia is virtually the same. Voting is mandatory, so the results are determined by the entire population. We use a preference system, so 2nd and 3rd preferences count when results are tight.
31.03.2025 11:17 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The US is overcompensating for being late for WW1 and WW2 by being early for WW3. Land and mineral grab, pure and simple.
29.03.2025 05:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ve just remembered your area of expertise. My book has French medieval overtones. Happy for you to read it if interested.
21.03.2025 23:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
