Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Image from the funeral procession of anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti. At front is Natividad Falú Duval from Puerto Rico who had lived in Barcelona since 1916. In 1936 joined the Durruti Column. POUM aid office Socorrs Roig behind. La Rambla, 22 November 1936. Don't know 📸 06617
Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Photo taken Barcelona, 1936 by British journalist John Langdon-Davies. Famous poster on top right "The militias need you! Location is Pla del Palau. Colourised by Julius Backmaan on Instagram. 03311
Reposted by Alex KnightYoYoni @yoyoni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Only 6 days left to back THE NIGHTS OF KING LUDD, a strategy board game about the Luddite Revolts at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. KS Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/die... Interested in learning more? See comments for a teaching video by @joedewhurst.bsky.social & the latest rules. 1104
Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Bakunin barracks, Barcelona (before and still today Cuartel del Bruc) July 1936. Militias preparing to leave for the Aragón front on top of "tiznao" metal-clad truck tank. Great colourised by Julius Backman on instgrm. Original photo by British journalist John Langdon-Davies. 29531
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2026#OtD 16 Sep 1919 Marusya Nikiforova, the Ukrainian anarchist communist and military leader, was put on trial by counter-revolutionary white authorities and later executed alongside her husband stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8839... 07326
Alex Knight @alexknight.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Circle DC 2027 tickets are on sale already for April 22-25! tabletop.events/conventions/...tabletop.eventsCircle DC 2027 030
Reposted by Alex KnightDan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The Summit Award nominees for @sdhistcon.bsky.social have been announced! I wanted to take a minute to mention each one in turn and why it's so exciting. 2384
Reposted by Alex KnightUnpub @unpub.org · 04/09/2026Unpub at PAX Unplugged reserved tables are now available for purchase! These tables are for designers to save a spot; playtesters never need a reservation 💙 f.mtr.cool/v19f27pvc5 0126
Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Anarchist Garcia Oliver column, Via Laietana, about to leave for the Aragón front, 28 August 1936. Original photo by Carlos Pérez de Rozas. Beautifully colourised by Julius Backmaan (Instgrm). 05820
Reposted by Alex KnightFred Serval @fredserval.bsky.social · 30/08/2026In a couple ou hours I'll be live with Brian Asklev to talk about introductory wargames. We'll feature games from @nutspublishing.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social @ospreygames.bsky.social @multimanpublishing.bsky.social and many more 🔥 www.youtube.com/live/7FGhPmZ...youtube.comTop 5 Wargames for Beginners – The Best Games to Start Historical WargamingYouTube video by Homo Ludens 2348
Reposted by Alex KnightYoYoni @yoyoni.bsky.social · 27/08/2026In less than a week we launch "The Nights of King Ludd: The Luddite War on Industry 1811-?" Follow our campaign page for updates: www.kickstarter.com/projects/die... A new game by me @joedewhurst.bsky.social & @ronengoldstein.bsky.social & published by @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social #boardgames 0319
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24/08/2026#OtD 24 Aug 1944 the 9th Armored Company (aka: La Nueve), a tank company comprised of 120 Spanish anarchist veterans of the Spanish Civil War, were the first to enter Paris during its liberation from Nazi occupation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9630... 214574
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21/08/2026#OtD 21 Aug 1944 the Maquis uprising took place in Paris where more than 4000 Spanish exiles took up arms against the occupying Nazi regime. Spanish civil war veterans were also the first external troops to enter the capital to liberate it stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9351... 29341
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21/08/2026#OtD 21 Aug 1791 the Haitian revolution began as 100,000 enslaved people rose up and eventually overthrew both slavery and French rule, creating the world's first Black republic shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h... 515976
Reposted by Alex KnightYoYoni @yoyoni.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Pack your torches and hammers, it's time to smash some machines ⚒️🔥 "The Nights of King Ludd" is coming to Kickstarter Sept 2. We're kicking it off with a game trailer: youtu.be/cToamg7Zvek Animations by @ronengoldstein.bsky.social, voice over by @5g4d.bsky.social #boardgames #luddite #wargamesyoutu.beThe Nights of King Ludd Game TrailerYouTube video by The Dietz Foundation 1286
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 05/08/2026#OtD 5 Aug 1835 the first factory in Spain to use a steam engine to power machinery, the Bonaplata factory in Barcelona, was assaulted and burned to the ground by luddite gangs known as Bullangues stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1048... 14911
Reposted by Alex KnightSDHistCon @sdhistcon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Our next convention is just around the corner! Saturday, Aug. 8 at noon PDT/3 p.m. EDT, tickets will go on sale for #SDHistConSummit2026, to be held from Nov. 6-9 at the SES Portuguese Hall in Point Loma San Diego (with a pre-convention brewery meetup Nov. 5). More info: sdhist.com/tickets-sdhi... 2209
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 04/08/2026#OtD 4 Aug 1765 French actor and revolutionary Claire Lacombe was born. She took part in the 1792 Paris insurrection and co-founded the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women, an organisation so radical it led all women's organisations to be banned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1040... 16516
Reposted by Alex KnightCraig6968 @craig6968.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Enjoyed a solo game of Land and Freedom tonight by @alexknight.bsky.social. Fun game even though it was a collective loss with the “Easter Accord” card maxing out Madrid on the 2nd round of Year 3. That aside, the Bot for the Moderates was destroying mine and the other faction. Great game. 1114
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 25/07/2026#OtD 25 Jul 1934 Nestor Makhno, leader of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine during the Russian revolution of 1917 and co-author of the Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists, died in exile in Paris at the age of 44 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/no-... 213947
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24/07/2026#OtD 24 Jul 1936 days after the start of the civil war, Buenaventura Durruti left Barcelona with an armed column and headed for Zaragoza which was occupied by the fascists. His workers' militia advanced and saved the Aragon front. More about the war: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e... 010346
Reposted by Alex KnightYoYoni @yoyoni.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Today we announce our next board game, "The Nights of King Ludd: The Luddite War on Industry 1811-?" A collaborative game of industrial sabotage ⚒️ 🔥 on Kickstarter September 2: www.kickstarter.com/projects/die... @joedewhurst.bsky.social @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social @ronengoldstein.bsky.social 36620
Reposted by Alex KnightKeith DeViere Donaldson @kddgames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026There are 60 cards in COINTELPRO. They'll feature 30 FBI quotes like "The Negro youth and moderates must be made to understand that if they succumb to revolutionary teaching, they will be dead revolutionaries" and Golden Age B&W comic-inspired illustrations of Fred Hampton and the BPP by Jane Kenn. 041
Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 19/07/2026#onthisday, 19 July 1936, the rebel Spanish military rose in Barcelona against the elected government. An unusual combination of anarchist and other workers with the loyal police, often fighting side by side, defeated them. By the next day. 450 lay dead. Photo Pérez de Rozas 35923
Reposted by Alex KnightClio's Board Games @cliosboardgames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026#OTD 90 years ago, right-wing officers couped against the Spanish Republic. What is your favorite Spanish Civil War game? Mine is Land and Freedom.(@alexknight.bsky.social) 5315
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18/07/2026#OtD 18 Jul 1969 Black Panthers began the United Front Against Fascism Conference in Oakland, California, alongside the white anti-racist Young Patriots Organisation and Puerto Rican street gang-turned-radical group the Young Lords stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8997..., 317078
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18/07/2026#OtD 18 Jul 1936 right-wing military rebels seized control of a third of the Spanish mainland and martial law was declared in the Canary Islands. The newspaper of the @CNTsindicato called for action & the Spanish revolution began the next day. More here: workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s... 14428
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/07/2026#OtD 14 Jul 1789 the people of Paris stormed the Bastille, a notorious prison and a symbol of power and the old order. This markeda key early victory in the French revolution. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the... 210747
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 05/07/2026#OtD 5 Jul 1852 abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a speech about July 4th: "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me… this Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052... 113651
Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The CNT's propaganda and publishing office. In July 1936, the anarchist union,in an act of potent symbolism, took over as HQ the former headquarters of Catalan business association (+since Franco's victory today's one). Via Laietana (Via Durruti in war). But look what downstairs premises are in 2026 65923
Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Different versions of one of the most iconic images of revolutionary Barcelona. Taken by Antoni Campañà on the Rambla with C/Hospital on 25 July 1936. A few years ago we learnt her name. Anita Garbín. She died in southern France in 1977. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Gar... 04914
Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 11/06/2026The moving memorial standing atop of a granite boulder to the Gracia family-by extension the whole of the Republican exile- at La Vajol, Catalonia, just few kilometres from the French border. Inspired by famous 1939 photo. 450,000 fled over these moutain passes into an uncertain, often deadly exile. 04116
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/06/2026#OtD 2 Jun 1863 the Combahee River raid took place, Harriet Tubman led 150 Black Union soldiers. The only woman-led military operation during the American civil war. 750 slaves were freed and the estates of several slaveowners were looted and burned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9200... 113271
Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 28/05/2026CNT milita fighters in front of the Bakunin barracks (prewar and now Cuartel Bruc, only remaining barracks in Barcelona) about to leave for the Aragón front. The banner reads "Direcció Saragossa". Photo by Antoni Campañà, summer 1936 0358
Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Refugees fleeing from Franco's army. Bielsa pocket, Aragonese Pyrenees. Spring 1938. 56622
Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Vote for the Left. For them!" Poster for the Front d'Esquerres (name of the Popular Front in Catalonia) for the February 1936 Spanish general election. By Cristóbal Arteche. 03612
Reposted by Alex KnightHawk and Dove Games @hawkanddovegames.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I just sent out our first newsletter to subscribers! The biggest piece of news is announcing our first game - Painkillers, one of my designs. I am immensely proud of this game and how far it has come since its inception. Here's a mini thread on the game as it is now. 44611
Reposted by Alex KnightMeeple Lady @meeplelady.bsky.social · 24/04/2026NEW POST: Spring is here! And it’s time for a trip to the nation's capital for Circle DC, an annual historical gaming convention from @fortcircle.bsky.social. Here's what I did and played in Washington, D.C. www.boardgamemeeplelady.com/2026/04/24/c...boardgamemeeplelady.comCircle DC 2026: Foxes and Lions, Hammer and Sickle, Rooster and Owl -Spring is here! And it’s time for a trip to Washington, D.C., for Circle DC, an annual historical gaming convention held by Fort Circle in the nation's capital! 28811
Reposted by Alex KnightMeeple Lady @meeplelady.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Day 2 of Circle DC: Playing Hammer and Sickle! 2322
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12/04/2026#OtD 12 Apr 1918 Bolshevik forces attacked 26 anarchist centres in Moscow. At least 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 arrested and jailed. They falsely claimed "criminal elements [had] infiltrated the anarchist organisations" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1253... 212556
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/04/2026#OtD 9 Apr 1898 Paul Robeson, Black singer, actor, communist and former shipyard worker was born. He was involved in anti-fascism, the civil rights movement and workers' struggles, and was blacklisted under McCarthyism shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/pau... 416048
Reposted by Alex KnightHawk and Dove Games @hawkanddovegames.bsky.social · 03/04/2026From @alexknight.bsky.social I am always happy to see Hammer & Sickle on the table, an interesting 4-player game about the Russian Civil War. And I finally get to play his new game Dethrone on the French Revolution. Can't wait to see Alex's take on that particular conflict! 1101
Reposted by Alex KnightTaylor Shuss @drawnonward.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I would like to thank everyone who supported & shared Walkable City's message and crowdfunding campaign. A ton of games get released every year - so it's a joy to see my vision resonating with so many people. I think it's going to be a great production - thank you all for believing in it! 🙏💖 0223
Reposted by Alex KnightTaylor Shuss @drawnonward.bsky.social · 21/03/2026We hit our first stretch goal for Walkable City today, but there are some very cool ones down the road still. I think the one I am most excited for so far is the extra art on the city from our artist Ryan Goldsberry - it really brings the city to life! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow... 0121
Alex Knight @alexknight.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Backed! My most anticipated game. (Note: I buy very few games). This one is great, and so is @drawnonward.bsky.social 062
Reposted by Alex KnightTaylor Shuss @drawnonward.bsky.social · 15/03/2026As part of the lead up to Walkable City's crowdfunding campaign, friends have been sending me videos of transit infrastructure local to them. 😊 What it is like near you? Any amazing transit options that aren't just more cars? 1112
Reposted by Alex KnightNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 08/03/2026On International Women's Day let's remember the women of Barcelona 1936 who began an incipient sexual revolution against reaction but also against the attitudes of own male comrades who for all their utopian rhetoric were often as sexist as ever when home as is often the case around the world. 19233
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 08/03/2026#OtD 8 Mar 1937 the Battle of Guadalajara during the Spanish Civil War began with an Italian and nationalist attack on Madrid. The attack and several following were repelled and the republicans launched a successful counter offensive. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-... 06715
Reposted by Alex KnightWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 28/02/2026#OtD 28 Feb 1921 revolutionary sailors aboard two battleships in Kronstadt, Russia approved a 15-point declaration following the repression of strikes in Petrograd by the Bolsheviks, demanding the gains of the revolution be protected stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9994... 09034
Alex Knight @alexknight.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I've had the pleasure of playtesting Taylor's game 3 times the last few years. So excited for this to be published and for people to engage with the challenge of car-free transit. 132