Peter Doyle

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!

French 75 field gun: on a silk postcard

French 75 cocktail: my first!

Finally, a French 75

Absolutely!

Mannequin of Worcester soldier in Gallipoli, 1915, peering through a trench periscope. On display until recently at the Soldiers of Worcester exhibition - now closed.

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

Mannequin of a mounted First World War Worcester Yeoman looking at his compass for inspiration, on display in the Soldiers of Worcester exhibition until its recent closure

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

Mannequin of a National Service period soldier in the Soldiers of Worcester exhibition, which closed on 31 August and will open in a new form at The Commandery in the city some time in the future

I know how he feels

E-mail sent!

Not sure I can!

Hi Darren, I’d love to carry a piece about your exhibition in Geology Today. Up for it?

Wow!

Perhaps - interesting idea

Possibly, but it’s also a medium that has great depth in terms of texture and tone. Maybe also brass was in short supply, as most post-WW2 souvenirs are made of this shiny metal

Cast iron dish depicting the ruined city of Ypres - specifically the remains of the Cloth Hall

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.

Symposia The National WWI Museum and Memorial's annual symposiums bring together the leading historians on the World War I era. Recommended for all who have a general or professional interest in the periods pr...

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

Colditz castle at night, taken on my very first digital camera, a Kodak easyshare in the early 2000s. I’ll never forget that trip

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

Spot on, Paul!

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Cover of my book on Loos, showing a soldier in a PH helmet

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

Great cover!

I certainly did that day, and for everyday since!

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

It was also a dangerous one, as I had to escape the advancing tide. I never forgot that lesson!

Ammonite, Dactylioceras tenuicostatum from Whitby. Collected by me as a young teenager

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-...

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Crossed laid at the Menin Gate

Crossed laid at the Menin Gate

Crossed laid at the Menin Gate

A single cross, a single flower

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.

Crosses of remembrance laid at the Menin Gate

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

Lumberjill

This is my favourite FWW forester image

Home Guardsman; ARP Warden in civvies; ARP warden in uniform; RAF airman

Faces of the Second World War #VEDay