Ed Caesar

Both are too close: hence silly. But in slightly different parts of the field...

You get extra points for making the effort!

The Season of Cricket Returns to the U.K. International cricket played in England without crowds was a sterile prospect, in more than one sense, but it was still cricket. A summer was possible.

At Old Trafford for the Test today. Reminded of the time in COVID when I came and watched the Test on my own, then attempted to explain the sport to Americans...
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You're so kind - thank you!

Lovely response, not least the people emailing me with their family's WW1 stories. The other cool thing is that I'm now in conversations about how to provide an exhibition space for these images in the UK, on which I hope to have more soon. Would love for more people to see these powerful photos.

As a journalist and emerging public historian, I spent much of the past week reading through transcripts of oral histories made and collected by residents of Kerr County, Texas – where flash floods killed more than 100 people this month.

There’s one recording that stood out to me. 🧵

Thank you Helen! So kind. Delighted you enjoyed it

I will have a dig

I love Test cricket.

I'm also quite heartened by the experience of sharing a story on here... The old place had become a desolate hellhole for actual readers

ah man, so kind. Delighted you've read all those!

Wow -The backdrop looks like the Thuilliers... Thanks so much for sharing it. There are definitely Canadians in the collection, but I don't think the Royal Newfoundlands went through there. (I could be wrong, and will check.)

thank you!

You're so kind to read it and respond so thoughtfully... Thank you

thank you!

Thank you - I'm so pleased you enjoyed it

they are all so good... There is an online gallery if you search for the BBC Lost Tommies or an Australian facebook pages, the Lost Diggers

You have a Thuillier print?? Tell me more?

thank you!

Wow - to serve in two world wars... That is something. Gallipoli was a horror.

Thank you so much!

Lol

You're so kind. I find visiting those places even now gives me chills. Thank you so much for reading

Truly a hellscape. Thank you so much for reading!

The First World War, in Sharp Focus An English chronicler of the trenches, and his wartime romance, captured in long-lost photographs.

“The soldiers laugh, frown, flirt. They bounce local children on their knees, they pet dogs, they wear silly costumes, they sit on horses. In some photos, the men have dirt on their boots and faces. It’s as if they’d left a trench only a minute before the shoot.” www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Ah - thank you! It's all so sad

That is very kind, thank you.

V kind, thank you

Thank you!

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