This is worth a read regarding the beginning of WW1
#Counterfire | Is this a chilling replay of the Sarajevo moment?
https://www.counterfire.org/article/is-this-a-chilling-replay-of-the-sarajevo-moment/
Interview "The Making of the Modern Middle East: History, Politics, & Today’s Turmoil"
Today’s Middle East crises are rooted in 20th-Century European imperialism.
Attached image is adapted from the transcript at:
https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/history-politics-interview.html
Interview "The Making of the Modern Middle East: History, Politics, & Today’s Turmoil"
Today’s Middle East crises are rooted in 20th-Century European imperialism.
Attached image is adapted from the transcript at:
https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/history-politics-interview.html
Interview "The Making of the Modern Middle East: History, Politics, & Today’s Turmoil"
In 1900, "most of what we now refer to as the Arab world -— the Arabic-speaking areas of the Middle East -— were under the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, or the French Empire."
https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/history-politics-interview.html
@CStamp it's also the #AmericanFlu.
#Spain was merely the first nation that reported about it during #WW1 as they were #neutral and had no active #PressCensorship active...
1. Part of Women's History Month. Women of the Empire.
Elizabeth Ness MacBean Ross was born on 14th February 1878, London. She was the daughter of Donald Alexander MacBean and Elizabeth Wilson Ness.
Doctor Elizabeth Ross was a Scottish Physician who worked in Persia (presently Iran) among the Bakhtiari people. #womenoftheempire #WW1
1. Continuing the series of the women and girls that were killed at Barnbow Munitions Factory, Leeds.
Mary Amelia Schofield was born in 1874, Potternewton, Leeds, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Joseph Schofield and Mary Ann Thompson.
In 1891 aged 16 Mary worked as a Tailoress. In 1911 aged 36 Mary was a Charwoman and lived with her mother at 48 Potternewton Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire. #WW1 #canarygirls
One thing I miss about Twitter is being able to ask a question like "Did ANZAC troops on the Western Front in WWI paint kiwi or other symbols on their Brodie helmets?" and actually get relatively regularly expert input.
The Fedi rocks. But it's very fractured 
#FediHelp #ANZAC #WW1 #NZTwit #NZTwits #BoostsOK
This chart shows the average weekly diet of one working class family from Oxfordshire in England, in 1912.
It was included in the book “How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem” by B. Seebohm Rowntree and May Kendall, published in 1917.
Source: “How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem”, Rowntree & Kendall, pp. 59-63, pub. 1917.
#historyfacts #history #WW1 #commonwealthwar #ww1 #ww1history #community #heritage
The front cover is an image of Chief Stoker William Bowen on his wedding day and behind the massive cliffs of the island of Hoy #Orkney where the M-class destroyer struck a mine with all lives lost #WW1 #RoyalNavy
HMS Pheasant 1917 Who were the lost men and boys, Available worldwide from all good bookstores. RRP £19.99
#WW1 #RoyalNavy #Orkney
https://youtube.com/shorts/_T7DOPPpGV8?si=WmLm8maUeI9cxJrE
Le saviez-vous ?
Le pigeon biset est le seul animal ayant reçu la Croix de guerre en reconnaissance des services rendus lors de la première guerre mondiale: Vaillant, pigeon biset né en 1915, matricule 787-15, était ainsi l’un des milliers de pigeons utilisés comme messager dans des conditions difficiles, parfois au péril de leur vie.
Eh oui, le pigeon voyageur, c’est lui!
Étonnant, non?!
Reposting my #Introduction because there's a flurry of new folks -- and I'm an eternal optimist at finding fellow Welsh writing in English peeps. So here goes:
I work as the Community Outreach Officer for the Welsh Dictionary of Biography, more collquially called the #Bywgraffiadur, at the #NationalLibraryOfWales. Our goal is to close representational gaps and set the Dictionary on a course of recording the diverse lives of historical Welsh people in all their facets. https://biography.wales/
Otherwise, I'm working on #WelshWritingInEnglish mostly from the long #C19. Other research interests include #TravelWriting, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the #VisitorsBook. I'm also into #PublicHistory and community outreach, sometimes abt #PortHeritage, #WW1 German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.
I share longer #WiP here: https://bydbach.hcommons.org/
Toots will be mostly in #English, but occasionally also in #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.
#Histodons
The book lists all 89 men and includes information about their lives, their families, and the communities they came from. Many of the men were experienced seamen but some had only recently been conscripted into service. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #Orkney
My War Wolf for Trench Crusade is complete. Very happy with how he turned out, especially the gore. He's a messy eater.
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#trenchcrusade #heretic #minipainting #minis #scalemodeler #ww1 #tabletop #wargaming
On a similar cheery note, here is the latest album by #German black/death band, #Kanonenfieber. As old contemptibles already know, the band's theme is World War One, and "Die Urkatastrophe" sticks to a winning formula. War? What is it good for? Sick riffs & crushing songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O8l5Z76w1w
#Music #Review #BestOf2024
#Metal #BlackMetal #DeathMetal #ExtremeMetal #WW1 #History
Today's video for December is the scandalous story of the Loch Doon Aerial Gunnery School.
During the First World War, the British Army attempted to weaponise flight. That was certainly the idea behind the school, but a willful blindness to the conditions at Loch Doon led to a huge waste of public money.
