Hello! During the pandemic, I compiled a collection of digitised Great War primary sources for student research essays. Going through them just now for my current class, loads of those links are now dead. Does anyone have any favourite online source collections (that work)? Will share new list!
One day I will visit the massive mine crater on Cote 108 which usually inaccessible within the grounds of a private quarry. This tour is on 11 April.
www.chemindesdames.fr/fr/visite-gu...
Reminding me of a beautiful moment five years ago.
For some reason I'm looking at my photos of the Naval Museum at Çanakkale (formerly known in English as 'Dardanelles'). The light railway wagons carry sea mines. The Gallipoli Peninsula is just over a mile away.
A copy of the journalist Dorothy Lawrence's book with its original dust jacket. Yours for £2,500.
The BBC’s job is to “inform, educate, and entertain”? Let’s talk about the middle word.
What follows is the story of what we found in an FOI request (per the Observer) about the Corporation killing off plans to launch an online catalogue and failing to deliver ‘learning for people of all ages’. 🧵
At least two Canadian War Graves gravediggers died in June 1919.
Pte. Wifred A. Nickerson of Nova Scotia was killed by an exploding detonator and is buried at Bois-Carré British Cemetery.
Pte. Nathanael E. Kern of Ontario was killed by a phosgene gas cylinder and is buried at Houchin British Cem.
Behave yourselves, future generations.
#OTD 8 March 1919 Sylvia Pankurst's newspaper The Workers' Dreadnought reported the murders of Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht.
Plus the telegraph boy is in fact Arthur Lowe.
Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West.
I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down.
I'd welcome help building a strong application.
Thank you 💙🙏
This is also an excellent listicle.
'Surviving Scottish Engine Houses' is also the title of a self-help article that my spouse would welcome.
Artist’s briefing for this was based on examples in Ypres & Fromelles museums which both lack the spherical handgrip, so I didn’t quite get the dimensions right (fig 11). This new example also shows that these handgrips were made of softer wood more susceptible to worm, hence they had not survived.
I know it's excessive, but I now have two First World War tunnellers' push picks.
Designed to avoid a 'roo on 'roo incident.
O hang on, a day late.
#OTD 4 March 1941 Italian M13/40 tank captured by 6th Australian Divisional Cavalry, Cyrenaica, Libya. Photograph: Geoffrey Keating. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Apart from sending me a completely different edition in paperback not hardback, I'm completely delighted with my purchase from Betterworld books.
I don't really want to be given a label by some whippersnapper. The @royalhistsoc.org has been hoovering us up for some time now, even some of the less scholarly ones, which I'm sure must have annoyed some striving academics.
This beach chalet at Eastbourne bears a plaque stating that King George V & Queen Mary holidayed in it for the month of March, 1935.
They need to assess how the camouflage appears in a black & white aerial photo.
Circa 1944 unidentified Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) in Bell P-63 Kingcobra she was flying to Alaska to hand off to Soviet pilots, part of the Lend-Lease Program. More on WASPs here (airandspace.si.edu/s...). Via National Air and Space Museum. #alaska #alaskahistory
Thanks Mark.
A Fairey Swordfish pilot, Royal Naval Air Station HMS Sparrowhawk, Hatston, Orkney, March 1942. Photo: Lt Reginald Coote RN. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
The Covid paths still visible in Windsor today.
Disappointed (but not entirely surprised) this #cartoon didn't find a home. #doglife #dogs #business
