Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonDr Adam Prime @primeadam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🔔The Western Front Association's PhD Grant Scheme is open for 2026 🔔 There are no limitations regarding geography or topic, if your doctoral research includes the First World War, we want to hear from you! #fwwhist Follow the link for full details. www.westernfrontassociation.com/about-the-wf... 096
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonSailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it! 17252071719
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Most civil servants work in Justice, Home Office, DWP, HMRC & Defence. Cut 224,000 jobs and you cut: prisons, borders, benefits, pensions, tax collection, the armed forces. Then the specialists who keep rivers clean, stop cyber attacks and contain animal disease ..." via Reform Are Not Your Friends 1814280
Bobbie Johnson @bj13johnson1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Mint chocolate chip ice cream at Lee on the Solent this afternoon  030
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"The danger to women is more likely to come from Danny Tommo's mates in balaclavas than from anyone in a small boat" via We Demand UK 311353495
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go. 751935431
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonStephen Fisher @seaspitfires.com · 16/09/2026I confess I'm not a huge Pressure fan. Admittedly it's my area of expertise so anything not right will stand out more, but Pressure goes beyond condensing history into a film – instead it's complete fiction that damages real history. Here's my review.seaspitfires.comPressure: A very fictional retelling of a crucial D-Day decisionIn 2000, an unusual motion was passed in the House of Commons. It noted the inaccuracies in the new Hollywood movie U-571, recognised the true history of the capture of an Enigma machine by HMS Bul… 11408
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonCaitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Hope this isn't a total "find and replace" on all official NHS documents - if I'm asked if I have "a warm hand over" in my pants next time I have thrush, I'm going to be very confused. 1316920
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonSophie's Great War Tours @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social · 14/09/20261/2: For anyone that has been concerned or following the EU’s biometric Entry-Exit System (EES) saga, guess what...At least 9 countries have reportedly been allowed to delay full implementation (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Italy & Switzerland) 351
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059762389
Bobbie Johnson @bj13johnson1.bsky.social · 13/09/202655 years ago today I arrived at Haslar for the first time 2151
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonRather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026We're having a RAINY DAY POSTCARD AND BOOKMARK SALE to celebrate the kind of grey, rainy Sunday that, for a little while there, was but a distant dream under the baking sun. Ends tonight! (Apologies - didn't mean to end on an apocalyptic sounding note). www.rathergoodart.co.uk 0274
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonBrexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave. 12530921601
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonTeresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Free access to records at #Ancestry relating to #WW2: This includes free access to the 1898-1968 UK (& some Ireland) nursing registers Ending midnight Sunday. #HistNursing #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory @rcnhistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social 01513
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonBryan Behar @bryanbehar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Could you imagine anyone else in the history of history, let alone the President of the United States, so blatantly defiling the memory of our fallen brethren? What a terrible, broken person. 1367114963168
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A third of nurses and a third of doctors were born overseas. Without immigrants the NHS would collapse. You are more likely to be treated by an immigrant than to be behind one in a queue. Massive underfunding of our NHS and lack of social housing were a political choice. 18396135
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us. 493600943
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff. 112607504
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonNick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Why can’t Labour fight the new Blackshirts?” Piece from me on Burnham’s extraordinary failure to take on the extreme right-wing forces that our rampaging through this countrynickcohen.substack.comWhy can’t Labour fight the new Blackshirts?Fear, cowardice and stupidity rot the centre-left 87432
Reposted by Bobbie Johnson𝟙𝟜𝟙𝟠𝕔𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤 @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 04/09/2026Anyone out there who could help with this? And if you still use Facebook or X, it would be great if you coild post the link there. #ww1 #geneaology dugout.discourse.group/t/female-doc...dugout.discourse.groupFemale doctors at War Hospitals in WW1I’m doing research on women doctors who qualified in the UK up to 1916, and their careers. I have a database of 1600 women in this category. My current interest is those who might have worked in the W... 433
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonCOPP Survey @coppsurvey.uk · 03/09/2026There's a week to go until this talk about COPP's Normandy D-Day operations from a man whose father took part! Still time to get a ticket of you're in the Lymington area ⬇️ 022
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonDr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026And following that we’ve got Family History Fest in October, featuring me, @wbutlerhistory.bsky.social and @househistorian.bsky.social, of which more here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve... Everyone welcome. Come along and ask me questions!nationalarchives.gov.ukDiscover your family history dayWant to research your family history but don’t know where to start? Or have you hit a brick wall piecing together your ancestors' stories? 082
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonDr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I’ve got some events coming up, which regular readers may enjoy. First up, I’ve got a webinar on #localhistory and getting started next week. Details here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...nationalarchives.gov.ukResearching your local historyUncover your local history with The National Archives. 2127
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonDebbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Lovely article about female artists of #WW1 who served with the Red Cross #WomensHistory www.redcross.org.uk/stories/our-... 065
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonNina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Ferguson, Mountbatten-Windsor, HarrynMeghan, etc should all take a lesson from the late John Profumo. Disgraced by his shenanigans & security risks, he left public life & devoted the rest of his life to charity work, as a volunteer for a poverty/homelessness charity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukSarah Ferguson expected back in the UK shortly, source tells BBCThe former Duchess of York is renting a six-bed house in the Home Counties, reports say. 151
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonThe Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Today is the 180th anniversary of Elsie Inglis's birth. She obtained the Triple Qualification in medicine in 1892, founded a maternity hospital in Edinburgh, spoke at suffrage events organized by Milicent Fawcett, and during WWI created the Scottish Women's Hospitals. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️ 07432
Reposted by Bobbie Johnsondarkdaysusa-uk.bsky.social. @darkdaysusa-uk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026For once, wouldn’t it be glorious to see a slick, self-serving politician absolutely flattened by a lovable, chaotic town hero — someone who actually improves the place instead of treating it like a launchpad for their own ambitions? 133
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonLucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Back at the National Archives on Wednesday for some more commissions covering air, land and sea! If you’re in need of some research or even just some copying because you can’t get to the archives, hit me up. I’m forever hustlin’ 2296
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonJames Taub @taubhistory.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A little bit of an odd request. Does anyone know any textile history experts with knowledge on the linen trade in Brittany, Normandy, or Flanders during the 18th century? Trying to identify a marking on an object in our collection! 21132120
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonSlightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Brig H L Glyn Hughes, Deputy Director of Medical Services and commander of the British relief effort at Belsen, in his caravan, June 1945. The photographer is reflected in the mirror. Flowers, a toy horse and a china cat homely touches contrasting with his severe look. IWM (BU 8226), Sgt McArdle 1113
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonNettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week. 17270822919
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonMax B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 04/08/2026Lies. Damned lies. And Statistics? 03112
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonArt & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 04/08/2026#Painting #ReadingOnBeach #Summer They float over the sand like sets of musical notes The waves tempt me from the soft adventure of reading on the beach. 🎨 Karen Hollingsworth 120333
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026"I said it's a bold move by Reform to use the Navy to return migrants. What did I say Roy?" "You said it's an unworkable load of bollocks designed to win back some racist numbskulls from Rupert Lowe and distract attention from Farage's £5m bung" 4642180
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials. 551068655
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonLucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Right, bills weigh me, and the coffers are close to empty. Who needs some research done/archive records copied? I’m excellent and there‘s no project too big or small! 11524
Reposted by Bobbie Johnson𝟙𝟜𝟙𝟠𝕔𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤 @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 27/07/2026Bit of very local knowledge sought here, please! There was a sanatorium / isolation hospital located south of the main Llandough Hospital near Penarth in Glamorgan (1940s-50s). I can't find its name, but could it have been known as Caeran Hospital? #wales #penarth #cardiff #glamorgan #hospital 514
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonArt & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 27/07/2026#Poetry #Painting #VillervilleNormandy The sea and sand being of beauty Now limbless, face down on a Normandy beach drowning. Then darkness Silence Peace - Michael Wolff 🎨 Félix Vallotton, 1922 13613
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonBindyp @bindyp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This isn’t just about Cadburys. Kit Kat, Hotel Chocolat, Mars, & a load of other UK confectioners. All bought out by US companies and ruined by palm oil and other processes. If you love chocolate watch to the end where a number of genuinely British companies are making decent chocolate. 288
Reposted by Bobbie JohnsonDebbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 26/07/2026#SailawaySunday Nurses of the QAIMNSR or the TFNS and the RAMC Medical Officers having tea aboard hospital barge. Watten, 8 June 1918. © IWM (Q 8893) #WW1 #NursingHistory iwm.org.uk/collections 052