Thanks for your help. The mess tin also has a person's name engraved on the lid - I guess the soldier who owned it? Do you have any thoughts on which records/sources I might search for this name to see if I can find out more about his military record?
24.10.2025 17:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks π Iβll pursue thisβ¦
22.10.2025 22:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Base of French soldiers aluminium water canteen from Second World War showing logo / trademark.
Any military historians or others recognise this logo / trademark on the base of what is believed to be a French soldiers water canteen used in the Second World War. Thanks for any help or suggestions you can offer.
22.10.2025 21:53 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0
Good to hear from you! That sounds fascinating and Iβm looking forward to seeing how your thoughts develop on and around this theme.
05.09.2025 12:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Spoon, silver, taken by Holocaust survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto when she escaped from there (top view).
Spoon, silver, taken by Holocaust survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto when she escaped from there (underside view).
Such everyday things speak so poignantly. Brings to mind this object (below) with an interesting biography. Spoon taken from the Warsaw Ghetto (Leszno 71) by an escapee, used in a Berlin forced-labour camp, a DP camp in Austria, taken to the USA. Later donated to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
15.07.2025 14:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I know exactly what you mean.
30.12.2024 17:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture 2024. December 15, Bournemouth Uni (UK TAG45 2024), 4.20-5.30pm, free. Professor Laura McAtackney βThe potential and limits of conducting archaeologies of the Northern Ireland Troubles and peace process: reflections over 20 yearsβ BOOK NOW VIA EVENTBRITE. The event is followed by a drinks reception
Come join the annual Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture! Registration via Eventbrite. @tag45.bsky.social attendees can join us through conference registration #spma #geoffegan
21.11.2024 15:44 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
Yes, that rings true, good point.
18.11.2024 17:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Would you miss them if they werenβt there?
18.11.2024 13:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I see what you mean!
18.11.2024 13:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Front cover of Journal of the Society for post-medieval archaeology.
Do people still read/find useful book reviews in academic journals? As book reviews editor for Post-Medieval Archaeology I struggle to get reviewers, everyone is so busy I know, but is there something else going on here?
18.11.2024 13:30 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 4 π 0
Thanks π
14.11.2024 16:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Merci!
14.11.2024 16:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Agency, artefact, assemblage, ontology, materiality. Also probably shouldnβt omit ritual!
09.11.2024 10:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
PhD people, when you were writing up roughly when did you have your 1st complete draft and then final draft done in relation to your actual planned submission date? Asking for me! π
18.10.2024 10:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Yes π, Iβll message you!
19.08.2024 12:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Merci!
19.08.2024 12:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Planning to be in Carcassonne in a few weeks time, any recommendations?
19.08.2024 12:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Courage!
19.08.2024 11:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Otago peninsula?
09.08.2024 22:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Heading there next month for a wee holiday, any tips?
07.08.2024 21:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Merci! Iβll do that.
21.10.2023 17:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Hello Benjamin! Iβm trying to trace a biography a Hunter College alumna and Holocaust survivor deposited at Hunter I believe. Grateful if you could point me in the direction of who to contact about this. π
21.10.2023 10:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Merci!
21.10.2023 08:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Art and architectural historian of renaissance Italy at Leiden University. Also in possession of a law degree
https://www.easterneye.biz/
Eastern Eye is Britainβs best known and most respected Asian weekly newspaper with national coverage.
Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Historian & curator - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. ζ₯ζ¬θͺγεεΌ·γγ¦γγγPosts are personal views.
Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
Chair of London's Fire Committee.
π³οΈβπ
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Democratic Nominee for Mayor of NYC. Assemblymember. Running to make this city affordable. Democratic Socialist. Early Voting: 10/25 - 11/2. Election Day: 11/4. zohranfornyc.com
Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and Professor at UCLA. My research and writing focus on Israel-Palestine, contemporary antisemitism, Jewish politics, US-Israel relations, Israeli politics, and Middle East politics.
EA | Management & HR | Organized, Efficient, Trusted πMBA HR @nuc.university πB.Sc.BA Mgmt @uopx | Exploring history, art, theater & journals across UK, France, Italy, Rome, Greece & Egyptβcenturies of culture, beauty & depth.
Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Writing - archaeology - heritage.
British Iraqi.
Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' graduate.
Editor: European Journal of Archaeology.
Winner: EAA Book Prize 2025.
Working Classicist of the Year 2025.
She/her
(NB: no access to DMs)
Aspiring contemporary archaeologist and queer theorist.
Interested in materiality, monsters, #envhum, cities, the subterranean, and everything else in the universe. Currently MSCA fellow at UCL.
Writings here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0403-7786
Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.
π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈCo-writer and Co-Curator of @museumbums: https://museumbums.com/book/museum-bums/
Queer history, comics and lots of running.
Historian of France & 2WW, professor in French History at Cardiff University, my new book βJosephine Bakerβs Secret War with Yale University Press is out and available online & at all good booksellers.
PhD student (Durham & Beamish) researching nostalgia and working class heritage, interested in all things open-air museums/heritage/memory πͺ© she/her, views own, still figuring it out
The official Bluesky account for the British & Irish Association for Holocaust Studies, a research and educational organisation in the field of Holocaust Studies: http://www.biahs.co.uk
Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesnβt repeatβit remixes. Letβs imagine the tracks that never dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorians
Historian | Bithell Fellow @ilcs.bsky.social | Comms Officer @germanhistsoc.bsky.social