Steve Marsdin

This is going to be an epic day of #WW1 history. Follow the links below to see the talks announced so far!

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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

It's #worldbookday2026 today and I can't believe it's only a been year since I first received the proof copies of my 3-volume history of the East Riding Yeomanry... available from Leonaur Books if you fancy a read!

After attacking a synthetic oil plant in Germany, F/Sgt Cecil Finch’s Halifax was shot down over the UK by an intruding Ju 88 night fighter as the aircraft returned to base.

📍Rugby (Clifton Road) Cemetery 🇬🇧

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If you want to know more about the origins of the United States’s difficult relationship with Iran you’ll find more here:

A couple of months ago, I was a guest on the Global Health Histories podcast series, talking about the history of medical care provision for disabled ex-servicemen in Britain after the First World War. The episode is now available and can be found here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/directories1...

#ww1 #histmed

Are you ready to join @kitchapman.bsky.scoail on a global quest to achieve immortality, cure all disease and transmute lead into gold?! Still rolling off the press, you heard it here first! @alexchurchill.bsky.social & @boneyabroad.com

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The US is now wasting $4 million Patriot missiles on $20,000 Iranian drones.
"Stupid is as stupid does."
If the US had a professional president, he would ask Ukraine for technical assistance with cheap drone interceptors, but the US has Trump who instead insults Zelensky.

A citation for the award of a Bar to the Military Cross of Major Frank Goldsmith

An interesting Bar to the MC citation in respect of Major Frank Goldsmith, 14th Hampshire's. Boy's Own stuff - I wonder who witnessed all of this? @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social

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ARTICLE: Dad’s Army and the Art of Prowling, WW2 I came across a hilarious pamphlet produced in the Second World War and decided I had to share the contents with you.

Turns out they really don’t like it up ‘em if it’s in the kidneys. The art of prowling as taught to the Home Guard in #WW2

Ted Parsons, George Burbidge and Noel Cooper, with Neville McHarg behind them, photographed at COPP’s base in Algeria earlier in 1943.

🗓️ #OTD in 1943 – George Burbidge (centre) and Noel Cooper (front right) lose their lives during reconnaissance off Sicily. They're the latest losses suffered during early COPP ops after being rushed out from Britain. #NavalHistory 1/2

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Are you ready to join @kitchapman.bsky.scoail on a global quest to achieve immortality, cure all disease and transmute lead into gold?! Still rolling off the press, you heard it here first! @alexchurchill.bsky.social & @boneyabroad.com

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The Hormuz issue

This week’s podcast talks about some of the historical presidents which are now going to effect the Straits of Hormuz at the moment…

open.spotify.com/episode/7JBv...

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L/Cpl William MacPherson who served with the 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion Highland Light Infantry, died of wounds on this day in 1918.

📍Ypres Reservoir Cemetery 🇧🇪

#OTD 3 Mar 1919 — 548220 Pte John Albert Shaw, 809 Area Employment Coy, Labour Corps, died of acute bronchitis & cardiac failure at St John’s VAD Hospital (Newland School for Girls, Cottingham Rd, Hull). He was just 29, leaving his widow Maud. #LestWeForget 1/3

The German destroyer Z-33 under air attack by Beaufighters on 9 February 1945 at Førde Fjord, Norway.

The attack went badly and saw 9 of the attacking 31 attacking Beaufighters and one of the ten escorting mustangs, shot down.

The Germans lost no ships

#ww2 #history #raf #navalhistory

In this episode of the WFA's MiD pod David Griffith discusses his new book The Guards 1915–17: An Elite Division at War. The book is the first major history of the Guards Division in nearly a century. Published by Helion & Co.

kensingtons.org.uk/podcast/ep37...

From the French equivalent of The Onion

Seeking revenge, Dubai parachutes 3000 influencers on Tehran.

Exclusive: U.S. Marines fired on protesters storming consulate in Karachi, officials say U.S. Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend, two U.S. officials said on Monday—a rare use ​of force at a diplomatic post that could sharply ...

This hasn't got the attention it needs. 10 people were killed.