This week’s free weekly digest is up. There’s some comic/Hollywood history in honour of Batman’s 85th birthday, and news of upcoming tours and trips 🧵 There are also snippets of articles about a #WW1#WW2 service of a Queen… plus news of nexts weeks content

Free Weekly Digest

Here’s your weekly, free roundup of everything that has been going on in my history world…

This week’s free weekly digest is up. There’s some Hollywood history in honour of Batman’s 85th birthday, and news of upcoming tours and trips 🧵 There are also snippet msnof articles about a #WW1#WW2 service of a Queen… plus news of nexts week’s content

Free Weekly Digest

Here’s your weekly, free roundup of everything that has been going on in my history world…

Today’s article is up. This time it’s the next part in my extended feature that looks at the #WW2 service of the Queen Mary. Find out what the Yanks made of her from 1942 onwards, and why you didn’t want to get in her way when she was outrunning uboats at full speed

FULL FEATURE: WW2 Service of a Queen Pt.II

Last month I gave you the first part of what is turning out to be a mammoth feature about the war service of one of the most beautiful ships every built: Cunard White Star’s Queen Mary. I looked at th...

Today’s article is up. This time it’s the next part in my extended feature that looks at the #WW2 service of the RMS Queen Mary. Find out what the Yanks made of her from 1942 onwards, and why you didn’t want to get in her way when she was outrunning uboats at full speed…

FULL FEATURE: WW2 Service of a Queen Pt.II

Last month I gave you the first part of what is turning out to be a mammoth feature about the war service of one of the most beautiful ships every built: Cunard White Star’s Queen Mary. I looked at th...

“Harsole” Absolute genius 🤣

PKkatherineschof8.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 10:26pm

I love this very much. Do you know Santanu Das' beautiful book India, Empire & the First World War? Similar mixture of warmth and sadness in the sheer humanity of those boys so very far from home. This is a page from the trench notebook of Jemadar Mir Mast, Feb 1916, NAI Delhi (Fig 0.4 in Das' book)

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I read Italian like a five year old, but I am determined.

Granted, “for the lols” is probably not the optimum way to plan a syllabus

But then you don’t get to make fun of him falling off his camel… Also, Auda is hilarious at Aqaba lol