Simon Jones

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.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

cutting from Daily Express 9/9/1914, p. 4, photo of young woman wearing form of nursing uniform, captioned: A member of the "Daily Express" Nursing Corps photographed yesterday at Selfridge's wearing the special badge with the regulation overall and cap. Inset is an enlarged reproduction of the badge.

Does anyone know of any work on the ‘Daily Express Nursing Corps’, formed in August 1914? I’m researching someone who apparently paid for the training, exams, & uniform but then was unable to secure relevant employment. #WW1 #NursingHistory #histmed #medicalhistory

'Tintagel'. Oil on board. Painted in 2019.
Walking along the National Trail, Coastal Path, the majestic cliffs of Tintagel come into view, and this is one of those landscapes that can never fail to impress at any time of year.

A school friend's father worked for the Daily Mirror, so of course Maxwell stole his pension.

This feels like the kind of book I'd like to hold in my hands rather than read on my electronic device (actually I'd like to do both).

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Alt two women treat a male casualty in a low ceiling room

Mairi Chisholm born #OTD 1896, left, with Elsie Knocker in their 3rd Aid Post after the first two were destroyed by shelling, 700yds from front line at Pervijze, Belgium, Sept 1915 until gassed March 1918. Taken 6/8/1917 by Ernest Brooks. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

black and white photo woman on motorcycle, dog in foreground.

Mairi Chisholm born #OTD 26 February 1896, famous with Elsie Knocker for treating wounded in the front line 1914-18, seen in 1913, age 17, London to Exeter motorcycle run. They met before the war during motorcycle events & went to the front as ambulance drivers. Source: Hulton via Ancestry.co.uk

Book with a cat for no good reason.

Yes, tell me what you need Simon.

Egyptian geese and goslings.

The behaviour of some dog owners last week around these newly-hatched goslings showed exactly the need for this.