Simon Jones

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
And I decline.

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.

Illustration showing WW1 tunnelling tools and techniques from Simon Jones, The War Underground 1914-18 (Osprey 2024).

Photo of two digging implements, leaf-shaped blades, wood hafts, spherical hand-grips.

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.

photo of the pointed leaf-shaped steel heads of two similar digging implements, fitted to wood hafts.

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.

Man waves from turret of tank. Large kangaroos painted on turret and hull of tank.

#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/...

Screenshot shot sellers illustration of hardback edition A London Family 1870-1900.

Cover of paperback edition of A London Family 1870-1900.

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.

Row of small beach chalets.

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.

Young man with beard, naval peaked cap, leather flying jacket and life jacket, stands in front of biplane.

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/...

Photo long grassed avenue with two straight narrow depressions about 5 metres apart.

The Covid paths still visible in Windsor today.

Disappointed (but not entirely surprised) this #cartoon didn't find a home. #doglife #dogs #business

Last night I felt the power of Britten's music combined with the words of the requiem and Wilfred Owen's poetry. But Owen's work now feels sanctified and antique in a way that I think he would have hated. It felt nullified into remembrance.

Ashes to fashion: 'We just had to start again', after bombs destroyed collection 50 years after disaster struck, past and current curators are celebrating a collection reborn.

In 1976, the IRA firebombed the HQ of the National Trust in Northern Ireland in which the Ulster Museum's textile & fashion collections were also housed. The fire brigade refused to enter the building owing to a dispute over danger money. This exhibition is about rebuilding the collection.

The Jewish YMCA Dr Kathryn White follows the life and work of Harold Boas from Perth to London

The remarkable story of the YMCA’s Jewish service in the First World War, now on my Substack:

Woman and two men working on model of landscape.

‘Camouflage class in New York University... They make models from aerial photographs, re-photograph them, then work out a camouflage scheme and make a final photograph’, March 1943. Original colour photograph by Marjory Collins. Source: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

Programme for Benjamin Britten War Requiem St George's Chapel Windsor Castle.

This evening, on this day of wrath, this day full of tears.
I've grown into this music over decades.

View of Hope Street and the Catholic Cathedral at dusk.

My nephew sends a photo of the place I lived for 16 years and I will never stop feeling nostalgia and longing to return to Liverpool.

I've discovered I can get into the account and so I've changed the email to that of the company CEO.

Transcending Boundaries: Daily Express Correspondent Annie Christitch’s Reporting from First World War Serbia | TMG Journal for Media History

There's a VG article by @stephanieseul.bsky.social on Annie Christitch tmgonline.nl/articles/10....

The diminutive, 5 foot tall sharpshooter would become the second highest paid performer on The Wild West Show

The diminutive, 5 foot tall sharpshooter would become the second highest paid performer on The Wild West Show, only Bill Cody made more. During the tours, she became closest of friends with the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull, who, seeing her shooting skills, felt she was gifted with

Annie Oakley, troupe member of Bill Cody's ("Buffalo Bill") ‘Wild West Show’, at the World Exposition, Paris, 1889. Roland Bonaparte Collections | © Musée du quai Branley-Jacques Chirac

Annie Oakley, troupe member of Bill Cody's ("Buffalo Bill") ‘Wild West Show’, at the World Exposition, Paris, 1889. Roland Bonaparte Collections | © Musée du quai Branley-Jacques Chirac

Annie Oakley, troupe member of Bill Cody's ("Buffalo Bill") ‘Wild West Show’, at the World Exposition, Paris, 1889.

Roland Bonaparte Collections | © Musée du quai Branley-Jacques Chirac

Thanks Tom that's v interesting. I'm just trawling through the D Express and have got to May 1915, and Christitch is about to go to Serbia.