Steve Marsdin

I wasn’t expecting to find a memorial linked to the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission whilst walking in Derbyshire.

📍High Peak Trail

Stay safe, it’s wet and windy in the UK but nothing like that.

Le cauchemar de nombreux russes ayant choisi les US pour leur exil. Ils sont renvoyés dans la gueule du loup FSB par Donald Trump, accueillis par le FSB et l'armée. Certains risquent le front, d'autres la prison...

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Feeling low? Need to cheer up? Well think what it was like for POWs in the Great War! No Xmas fun and frolics for them! Why not buy yourself Pete & Gary's book: BEGGAR ME! I'M A PRISONER: BRITISH POWs IN GERMANY, 1914-19. The very best way to support our podcasts! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/19793588...

The Independent: Former London Zoo meerkat expert fined for glassing monkey-handler in row over llama-keeper.

We don’t do court reports, especially when it comes to violent crime, but there’s always an exception.

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.

Enough to power 23 million homes!

U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.

FREE ARTICLE: Charles de Gaulle: Origins This week, I’m going to be looking at the early life of Charles de Gaulle, beginning with his background and his initial military training today, and then on Friday, an extensive look at his experienc...

FREE ARTICLE DROP: At the end of the week I’ll be dropping a lengthy feature about the #WW1 service of Charles de Gaulle, but today you can read all about who he was and where he came from…

Today's rabbit hole is actually a black hole (indirectly) courtesy of @jellyjudith.bsky.social's husband. 🚀🔭👨‍🚀🌑

This is Karl Schwarzschild. He was a German physicist and astronomer. He served on the W & E Fronts in 1914 & 1915 where he used his science to help with ballistic calculations.

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Day 9 #ChristmasCountdown #AdventCalendar
85 years ago on 9th December 1940 in North Africa Operation Compass began and over the next few weeks 1, 2, 6, & 7 RTRs all played their part part in the successful operation.

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"A Night Raid" by H. J. Mowat, #CanadianWarMuseum.

Night raids were extremely dangerous and unpredictable. Here, #Canadian #soldiers creep out into no man’s land to attack the enemy frontline trench. Raids were both physically and mentally exhausting.

#GreatWar #fwwhist #fww #CEF

Day 8 #ChristmasCountdown #AdventCalendar

8th December is the day that the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is celebrated. This refers not to Jesus but to his mother Mary, who from the very first moment of her existence was free from original sin.
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Pen sketch showing square opening in ground, structure over the opening. https://www.roseberys.co.uk/a0748-lot-607240-david-bomberg-british-1890-1957-sappers-under-hill-60-1918-19-pen

A sketch by David Bomberg, for his official commission from 1918-19 depicting one of the Canadian Tunnelling Companies, being sold next week. There's confusion over whether he was depicting workings at St Eloi or Hill 60, & what access he had to the unit. One day I'll research it (sale link in alt).

Pte Duke Blacoe, 1st Depot Bn Tank Corps, died in Wool 105 years ago today on 8th December 1920. He is buried in Stockton-on-Tees.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

YouTube video by Battles of the First World War Podcast Demarcation Stones Fundraiser with Roger Steward and Dr Dominiek Dendooven

New episode on the New Ypres League Fundraiser!

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YouTube video by Battle Guide Documenting a Disaster: The WW1 Combat Cameraman (No AI)

Battle Guide has a new video out analyzing Geoffrey Malins’ #Somme film alongside cutting edge maps and expert analysis. This program is an absolute sterling example of the historian’s art and craft.

#fwwhist #firstdayontheSomme #GreatWar #Tommies #Malins

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Day6 #His Advent Calendar -when NZANS 1st joined up for WW1 they were not issued identity discs- many nurses had their own made from local coins. This belonged to Blanche Huddleston who was a nurse anaesthetic. The discs came in after the loss of 10 nurse on the Marquette.

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"Gas Attack, Lievin" by Alexander Young Jackson, 1918, Canadian War Museum.

This is a sobering and stark painting. As SOS flares arc into the sky, a cloud of poison gas blossoms over the front line trenches on the #WesternFront. #fwwhist #GreatWar #CBRN #NBC #chemicals

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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

One hundred years ago today on 5th December 1925 Wahhabi tribesmen (Saudis) loyal to Abdulaziz captured the holy city of Medina from the Hashemites without any fighting. This took place within the wider Saudi conquest of Hejaz, also known as the Second Saudi-Hashemite War or the Hejaz-Nejd War.
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A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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