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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The sooner I can get a #F1 commentary feed that does not involve listening to Croft’s juvenile babble while he tries to get us excited about rechargeable batteries - the better. Can’t happen soon enough.

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Josephine Tey's early death denied her a rightful place among the pantheon of crime writers. The forgotten queen of crime fiction | @alecmarsh.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/portraits/th...

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The forgotten queen of crime fiction

Josephine Tey's early death denied her a rightful place among the pantheon of crime writers.

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A lap round Silverstone - easy! Well, probably not with a new knee - but I'm giving it a go on Friday 12th September. I'm fundraising for Women's Heartbeat. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving www.justgiving.com/page/brian-c...

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Brian's fundraiser for Women's Heartbeat

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Very disappointed with Silverstone Festival - we went specifically to see a large collection of Group C cars, as promised in the advertising and re-emphasised on the Silverstone Events app (“Expect iconic Jaguars, Porsches, Mercedes”) - none of the above marques were there #FAIL

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Overshadowed by VJ Day but not forgotten - Operation Dragoon on 15th August 1944 when French and American forces landed in the Var. #operationdragoon #var #1944 #worldwartwo

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Looking forward to getting stuck into this - David Keable-Elliott’s ‘The Doctrine of the British Army’ from Helion. #HistBookChat

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

It's not bad when one of your musical heroes doesn't disappoint when you finally get to see them. #Kraftwerk #ForeverNow

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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

For the third time this century the government of the USA is about to get involved in a situation it has not taken the trouble properly to understand, which it thinks it thinks it can quickly resolve by using limited military force. To learn none of the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan is criminal.

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

That is some pretty intense ducting going on under the @astonmartin.bsky.social Valkyrie hypercar! #WEC #AstonMartin #Valkyrie #LeMans

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

If you need an example of the financial insanity of the National Health Service - this equipment, not all of it actually used, is going to the skip as the hospital that issued it is not allowed to take it back due to the danger of cross-contamination. #nhs #wesstreeting

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Aw, that’s sad news - one last time: “Norm!” #Norm #Cheers #GeorgeWendt

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A superb day that fully got into the geopolitical situation that Robert Bulwer-Lytton took on in 1876 - and where better to hold it that at his family home, @knebworthhouse.bsky.social. @henrycobbold.bsky.social & @hisbpf.bsky.social were perfect hosts.

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

F1 coverage down from 85 pages to 75; only four pages for the Eddie Jordan obituary and the Lawson/Tsunodo switch only gets a mention in the Intro - not really the F1 coverage we used to get from GP Racing. Time to say goodbye @autsport-com.bsky.social #F1 #FormulaOne

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

New arrival - ‘Reporting the First World War: Charles Repington, The Times and the Great War by AJA Morris #histbookchat

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This is such horrible news - he was one of the real characters in F1 and was very public about his illness and the fight he was undertaking to try and conquer it. A hero in every sense of the word. RIP #EddieJordan

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A fantastic graphic that really makes its point very quickly

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Vote for Pole-Carew - the Unionist Candidate. A strong navy and tariff reform. A service man for service men. [1910 general election] #polecarew #1910generalelection

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

So I’m doing a study of the members of the Bullingdon Club in the 1860s and 65% of them are from Christ Church - what’s the link? #bullingdon #oxford

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Red River Road starts in Port Arthur and continued to what is now Winnipeg. The “road” took weeks to traverse, which Colonel Garnet Wolseley found out the hard way, sent to quash the Red River Rebellion in 1870.

RED RIVER ROAD
THE FIRST HIGHWAY TO THE WEST

Continents and oceans, geography and history, the Great Lakes and the inland watenways: they all meet here, on this waterfront, at the mouth of a river called the Kaministiquia, The name has been translated from the Anishinabek language as "meandering river." Its upriver route was the first "highway" to the North American west. The First Nations of this region paddled it in canoes for thousands of years, and in the 1700s the fur traders began using the route, too. In 1868, work began here on a new highway With a patchwork of portages, it linked rivers and lakes into a road at the heart of Canadian history: the Red River Road.

THE ENGINEER, THE COLONEL, AND THE MÉTIS HERO
Three names feature in the history of the Red River Road: Simon Dawson, Garnet Wolseley, and Louis Riel. Simon Dawson was an engineer who, in the 1850s, surveyed a road from this port to Fort Garry on the Red River, in what is now Manitoba, In 1868, Canada's new Confederation government decided to open up the north west and told Dawson to build his road. Two years later, the government sent the British Colonel Garnet Wolseley and his Red River Expeditionary Force up the new road. Their mission was to assert federal authority at fort Garry, where the Métis leader Louis Riel, who had fought to have his settlement entered into Confederation, was in conflict with forces opposing him. As Wolseley and his men arrived at the settlement, having endured 54 days of mud and 47 portages, Riel was leaving. The conflict was over. Although he was elected to the House of Commons three times, Riel remained in exile until 1885, when he led an uprising in Saskatchewan. That same year, he was convicted of high treason and executed. A century later, in 1992, he was given status as a founding father of Manitoba. Of the Red River Road's three names, it is Louis Riel's that still resonates.

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A nice eBay purchase - a signed carte de visite of Garnet Wolseley. I am 95% confident the signature is authentic as it matches very closely indeed other examples and is clearly inked onto the CDV. #Wolseley #GarnetWolseley #CartedeVisite

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

So who exactly was Louise Wolseley? open.substack.com/pub/bpc59/p/...

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Brian Curragh MA @briancurragh.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Currently recovering from knee replacement surgery so I thought I’d give Bluesky another go. And just a reminder that all my scribbles on random bits of history are now collected over on @SubstackInc - subscribe (free) here - bpc59.substack.com

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