Connie Ruzich

Thanks, Tony. I've had to take a break due to family health issues, but I hope to be back when things are easier.

Chicago Tribune #OTD Feb 23 "show the various devices used for overcoming barbed wire entanglements ... The allies are using a small cannon for firing a drag anchor hitched to a cable, over the wire entanglements. This is then dragged through the entanglements by a windlass.
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Remember, even if someone is technically correct when they assert that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder “won’t fix you”, they are forgetting one simple, unassailable truth:

It certainly can’t hurt.

War memorial plaque commemorating the employees of the Kings Norton Metal Works who gave their lives in the Great War.

War memorial plaque. St. Nicolas Church, Kings Norton, Birmingham, West Midlands. Commemorating the employees of the Kings Norton Metal Works who gave their lives in the Great War. #LestWeForget

For King and Country This book is an original interpretation of domestic patriotism and the limitations of wartime mobilisation in rural and urban communities of the British Home Front…

My new book "For King and Country: The Role of Patriotism in Mobilisation in the First World War" is available now @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
'A fascinating read' Professor Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social author of Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness

That's wonderful!

Valentine's Day 💕

How many soldiers died & left a family bereaved on that day?

626 French soldiers died on 14th Feb from 1915-1918

338 - 1915
134 - 1916
90 - 1917
64 - 1918

How many 315e? 2
Below 🧵on one, warning he was no sweetheart

Eugene Albaud: Fusillé pour l'exemple

Love the #DorothyParker reference ;)

A Kiss 1916 postcard Known as the “Canadian Rupert Brooke,” Bernard Freeman Trotter was a twenty-five-year-old graduate student at the Univers...

A charming love poem from the First World War: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-ki... #ValentinesDay #FWW #poetry #lovepoem

Sarojini Naidu

Remembering Sarojini Naidu, a "lyrical voice of women's empowerment," political activist, and poet, born 13 Feb 1879. Here is her #FWW poem "The Gift of India": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-... #poetry

I sooo feel this right now. What names are these? What claims are these? What does it all mean? (cue maniacal laughter). All I remember is that this was going to be One of the Best Things I Have Written 🤪

Other Events As well as running its own conferences every couple of years, the MWHN also encourages and supports its Members in coming together to participate in panels at other academic events around the world…

#CFP for 'The Military Medicine and Welfare of the First World War: preparations, evolutions and legacies' symposium, 10-11 April 2025. Submit your abstracts and bios to the organisers at militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com by Friday 14 February 2025. militarywelfarehistory.com/other-events/.

Ranging far beyond the traditional canon

Most definitely

International Poetry of the First World War Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War. Bringing together p…

30% off INTERNATIONAL POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (40% off ebook) on Bloomsbury's website. Sale ends Sunday, Feb. 16. www.bloomsbury.com/us/internati...

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International Poetry of the First World War Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War. Bringing together p…

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12th or 13th century jug decorated with a comical anxious face. Winchester City Museums.

I absolutely love and empathise with this medieval jug, spotted in Winchester City #Museum

Todya's badge - a rare one for the Better 'Ole soldiers social club in Paris. The badge date must be post-1915 as the famous Bairnsfather "Better 'Ole" cartoon wasn't published till late 1915. In all the years I have been collecting, this is the only example of this I have seen #WW1 #FWW

War memorial tablet. St. Mary's Church, Kings Worthy, Hampshire.

War memorial tablet. St. Mary's Church, Kings Worthy, Hampshire. Commemorating four sons of the Reverend Francis Henry Baring, who all fell in the Great War. Ernest and Charles (Australian Imperial Force), Cecil (Royal West Kent Regiment) and Reginald (Royal Air Force). #LestWeForget

I realize that pub crawls are quite popular, but I truly believe that the concept of a library crawl is long overdue.

Women Demobilized May Wedderburn Cannan In her autobiography Grey Ghosts and Voices , May Wedderburn Cannan writes, The Census for 1921 had found there was in...

"Now must we go again back to the world
Full of grey ghosts and voices of men dying..."
-May Wedderburn Cannan, after the death of her fiancé Major Bevil Quiller Couch, who survived some of the worst battles of #WW1, only to die of influenza 6 Feb. 1919. behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/10/wome...

Sarah Hart's sister Dorothy Maud, a munitions worker, died at work but was not entitled to a CWGC headstone.So her parents added her name to her sister's memorial, who was. This must be a very rare, if not unique example, of the words "munitions worker" inscribed on a CWGC grave.
#womenshistory #WW1

2.2.16 (back from leave)
"A day has passed, I am waiting for my company this evening, it will perhaps change my ideas a little. This morning I put all my stuff back in order, I sewed and brushed which kept me busy a little, but we are not going to be warm in our barn, because today it is very cold"

Just spotted on my lunchtime walk to get me out of the office #WW1 #FWW

A tiny watchful fragment in the chapter house at Durham Cathedral.
#StainedGlassSunday

These are difficult times 😥

Their only crime “ Although a citizen of the United States, the black man is regarded by the white American as an inferior being with whom relations of b...

"And in every land
Are black folk scourged;
Their only crime—
That they dare be men."
--Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2017/09/thei... #blackhistorymonth #ForgottenPoets #FWW #WW1

This morning’s sunshine has reminded me of the word ‘philocaly’: a love of beauty, even in the smallest things.

👀 Ely Cathedral #Ely #Cambridgeshire

#Medieval #Romanesque arches,
#Victorian nave ceiling - 1860s.

#SundayStonework
#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday

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What a sunrise in #Pittsburgh today. I feel like it’s just been one after the other lately. This morning I headed to the North Shore and found some pockets of calm water protected by the remaining ice, and it made for the perfect spot for a panorama of the cotton candy sky.