Andrew creed

@alexchurchill.bsky.social happy birthday alex ❤️

Very apt to have finished this fantastic book today

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Question for my Bluesky historian friends: how do you prepare for doing presentations? I’m no longer able to memorize large amounts of information (because old) so I can’t memorize my talk, but have you any other tips or tricks you use to prepare?

Very interesting concept, enjoyed prey

Episode 30 - Building The Bombers, with Andrew Rawson - Never Mind The Dambusters Welcome back - Series 2 is here!In this episode of Never Mind the Dambusters, hosts Jane Gulliford Lowes and James Jefferies welcome historian Andrew Rawson to discuss the design and manufacture of bomber aircraft during World War II. The conversa...

WE'RE BACK! Series 2 is here.

In this episode Andrew Rawson joins us to discuss "building the bombers"!

nevermindthedambusters.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...

Speeches by politicians banned at 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation Director of the memorial says he wants the focus to be on the last survivors of the Nazi concentration camp

“There will be no political speeches at all,” said Piotr Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz Memorial, in an interview with the Guardian.

Read the article by Shaun Walker in the Guardian:

Some interesting ww1 crosses that are housed in Cheltenham cemetery

Vintage black and white photo of a woman seated beside a small dog on a table, gently touching it.

5 January 1928 | Dutch Jewish girl Roosje Wolf was born in Rotterdam.

In December 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Most definitely ❤️

@normagraham.bsky.social merry Christmas to you and your family norma

Merry Christmas to all followers
Have a lovely time

Tomorrow Wednesday December 18 2024 at 7pm eastern time, Jayson Geroux returns to the #OTD YouTube channel to discuss the Battle of Ortona with new technologies. Join us.
#history

Battle of Ortona Re-examined
youtube.com/live/FLSdLWA...

#OTD in 1897, Baruch Steinberg, the Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army, was born in Przemyślanych (currently in Ukraine).
His Polish-Jewish family came from a long line of rabbinical traditions, and he was ordained during the First World War, about the same time his family moved to Vienna.
#History #WW2

ARTICLE: Building for Victory. America in WW1 Here’s a thing for this holiday season… Did you know it is possible to gift a paid subscription to one of your favourite people?

Today’s article is live and it’s all about how America declaring war in 1917 made victory impossible for Germany and her allies…

Found out how the US mobilised her industrial power…

And how the experience gained would also help defeat the Axis powers in 1945

Trees up

Wish I could have seen them live, cream live at the albert hall 2005

8 December 1934 | A French Jewish girl, Solange Slabodzinski, was born in Paris.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 21 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

YouTube video by OTD Military History Rare Footage of the Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7 1941

Striking footage from the attack underway

Rare Footage of the Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7 1941
youtu.be/MHcy4dF8P00

That's so bloody wrong

The next GWG free online talk is on the topic of the US Spruce Production Division - a vital part of the American war effort.

Tuesday 10 Dec at 20:00 GMT
Free to attend, no need to register - just click the Zoom link
us02web.zoom.us/j/8177546429...

Meeting ID: 817 7546 4295
Passcode: 329395

#OTD in 1943, 644 men on USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) were lost when the escort carrier was torpedoed. It was the largest loss of life in the sinking of a U.S. carrier. Among those killed was Dorie Miller who had been awarded the Navy Cross for his actions at Pearl Harbor.

FOLLOW ALERT: military historian @alexchurchill.bsky.social is on #bluesky and runs one of the most fascinating #substacks, which offers articles, podcasts, and photos on a wide-range of historical topics! She's also an incredibly supportive person, always lifting others up. Show her some love!

Nope 🤣🤣

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My gorgeous and very talented historian BFF is now on here! Give her a follow 😍
@drkatevigurs.bsky.social

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If you’re in the IC and looking for your friends, this might help a little. 😊

Jadwiga Deczewska was born #OTD in 1927.

During the German occupation, she lived in Warsaw, where she completed her primary school education.

She participated in the Warsaw Uprising and afterwards became a POW at Stalag VI C Oberlangen.
#Thread #History #WW2

Some of the very best historians and authors(and me) on the Second World War.

An amazingly friendly, knowledgable community.

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