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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 10h

Look after your menthol elf folks. #worldmentalhealth Day

Midcentury Christmas Pixie Elf Figurine Gift, Set of 2, 1950s Josef Originals, MCM Vintage Ceramic Santa's Green Elves

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 15h

I was second guide for a tour of the tower at @lincolncathedral.bsky.social this morning. It was a bit breezy.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Me as smart as I get, chatting at the launch of the After me the flood exhibition... It's at the IBCC in Lincoln until Feb 2027. You can see items in the Möhnesee collection in the IBCC Digital Archive. #History #WW2 ibccdigitalarchive.omeka.net/collections/...

Dan in a 'Shite Shirt' and grey waistcoat being interviewed by a chap with a TV camera in front of the 'After me, the flood' exhibition interpretation boards. Captioned 'After me, the flood' and 'This exhibition reveals the devastation of the raid and the human stories that followed.'

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Joe Soap the Erk keeping the fliers waiting while lights his cigarette...

Four airmen in uniform with chip hats, at airfield. One airman with Leading Aircraftman rank insignia, one with pilot brevet, one with Flight Sergeant ranking and navigator brevet. An airfield ambulance can be seen in the background. On reverse, handwritten note 'G A Studdent (sic) Kennedy' and separate note 'Jack at Right RAF WWII' (sic). The LAC is lighting a cigarette.
IBCC Digital Archive item #62510

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm wating for this sort of backlash to the new exhibition at the IBCC on what the Dam Busters left behind.

Debris strewn around three destroyed houses and over a railway.
IBCC Digital Archive item #63039

In the foreground are residents repairing damage. In the background is St. Johannes Baptist church and factories damaged by the flood. In between is the river, still in flood.
IBCC Digital Archive item ##63042

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was just about to post this quote... 'to the heroism of our glorious dead.' FFS.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The repaired Möhne Dam photographed #OTD 7 Oct 1944. #History. Go and see the new exhibition 'After me, the Flood' at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln folks! See even more images of the Möhnekatastrophe and the repair of the dam in the IBCC Digital Archive.

A vertical aerial photograph of the dam showing the empty equalising basin, the boom, and construction works.

Sows the wider area, the reservoir and the bridge over the lake.
IBCC Digital Archive item #63003

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The net across the Möhnesee had explosives on it.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think 487 squadron converted to Mosquitos in August 43.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The photographs show how the dam was rebuilt in 4 months using forced labour and diverted resources. They also show the defences put in place to stop a repeat attack – almost as inspirational and ingenious as the concept of the bouncing bomb. 5/6

Two steeplejacks at the top of a pylon. In front of them is an insulator on a heavy wire.
IBCC Digital Archive Item #62742

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This collection and the exhibition at the IBCC shows what happened on the ground. The losses and destruction, its incredibly rapid reconstruction, and the new defences put in place. As a historian of Bomber Command, I was amazed to see the photos and film of the reconstruction and the defences. 4/6

Wooden Scaffolding at the breach of the Möhne dam. IBCC Digital Archive Item #62625

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The film often symbolises the acceptable face of the bombing campaign in popular British memory. It doesn’t tell the full story. The target, the dam, is an inanimate object and the focus of the film is on the jeopardy of the aircrew. Only 67 seconds of the film show the damage on the ground. 3/6

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When Bomber Command is remembered favourably in this country, it is often through the lens of the boys’ own simplicity of the 1955 film ‘The Dam Busters’. It’s a comforting and familiar narrative of plucky brits against adversity, and an excentric backroom boffin with a problem to solve. 2/6

Cleared debris with the breached Möhne dam behind. IBCC Digital Archive Item #62541

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On the night of 16/17 May 1943, Operation Chastise used bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis to breach the Eder and Möhne dams. 53 aircrew were killed and over 1,300 women and men on the ground – many were forced women labourers trapped in their accommodation. 1/6

A twisted water pipe with a man standing on it in front of the breached Möhne dam IBCC Digital Archive Item #62556

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The new 'After me the flood' exhibition is opens today at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln. I was on the local news talking about. From 15:20: www.itv.com/watch/news/c... #History #WW2

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Only 1 minute 7 seconds of the film 'The Dam Busters' shows the damage on the ground after the dams broke. The new exhibition at the IBCC in Lincoln will show the Möhnekatastrophe and what happened next. #History #WW2

The breached dam viewed from downstream. Buoys and netting from the anti-torpedo boom are washed up in the foreground.

Luftwaffe gunner, Corporal Karl Schütte with a white ‘kill ring’ painted on the barrel of his 20mm anti-aircraft gun. He was credited with shooting down John Vere Hopgood’s Lancaster.

A sketch plan of the railway network created to transport the materials used to rebuild the dam.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My drawings and then the design company's mock up. The 'After me the Flood' exhibition opens at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln 6th October. #History #WW2 @nmtdambusters.bsky.social

Dan's doodles over a b/w photocopy of the digital design of museum panels at the IBCC.

Computer drawn impression of what the exhibition will look like in situ.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

She has shorts on her YouTube Channel...

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

192 Squadron types. Probably at RAF Foulsham, possibly including flight engineer, Philip Albert Evan James MBE.

Aircrew and WAAFs arm-in-arm walking towards the camera. Halifax aircraft behind them.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wartime defences to stop the Nazis invading Skeggy.

Rusty scaffolding sand sea water and sky at Gibraltar Point.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When my day job, my volunteer role, and Mrs E's day job line up. photo of Lincoln Cathedral taken #OTD 28 Aug 1945. from the IBCC Digital Archive. #History

Oblique aerial view of Lincoln Cathedral taken by Len Dorricott. On the reverse 'Leica Neg album P10 No ISA 28.8.45 1/300 f5.6'.
IBCC Digital Archive item #7404

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I went to the IBCC today to test things I've been working on for the 'After me, the Flood' exhibition on the screen it'll be shown on. It works at that scale, so I just have to tidy it up a bit.

Dan in front of a large TV screen showing b/w photographs of the destroyed Möhne dam. In another photo men are standing around buoys that were once part of the anti-torpedo netting upstream of the dam.

Poster for the After me, the flood exhibition at the International Bombr Command Centre in Lincoln. It will run from 6 Oct to 28 Feb 2027 and will bring together photos and film from the aftermath of the Möhnekatastrophe (Möhne disaster) and the reconstruction that followed.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is anther wizard episode.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today was about MA students' dissertations, meeting with a PhD student, sending tasks to archive volunteers, and working on the new exhibition for the IBCC.

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Snoopy Snoopy Dance

Alt: Snoopy Snoopy Dance

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Westcountrybird @racheljs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Good morning Blueskyers. I’ve been a bit hopeless about tweeting photos from my time away. So here’s some pictures from #InternationalBomberCommandCentre at #Lincoln A very moving & interesting place to visit. Definitely recommend if you have any interest in aviation or military history.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A wizard review of the IBCC - The exhibition "doesn't try to tidy the story into something comfortable. It's honest about the scale of loss on both sides... it's portrayed considerately - that’s why it’s so moving." Expect more of the same with the new 'After me, the flood' exhibition in October!

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International Bomber Command Centre: A Review | Visit Lincoln

Discover what to expect at Lincoln's International Bomber Command Centre. Explore the exhibitions, memorial, peaceful grounds and why it's a must-visit attraction for history lovers.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I've just overheard a family discussing the interpretation I wrote for the tables in the café; working in the kitchens on a bomber station 'was like jankers everyday.'

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Spot of lunch at the IBCC before a meeting.

Sausage roll and a Guinness zero on a brown metal table.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm with @philipwblood.bsky.social, erasing the signature is more of a historical moment than someone scrawling with a pencil on hundreds of prints.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'll look tomorrow Mike, but I expect so!

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally...

Dan, with great big bushy beard and gold makeup, wearing a cloak and a hood. It's from a few years ago when I was playing a priest in Jesus Christ Superstar at Lincoln Cathedral.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I did a load more work on this today. I was wearing my Never Mind the DBs tee shirt while doing it though.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The exhibition, ‘After Me, The Flood’, on the aftermath of Operation Chastise will be unveiled at the IBCC in Lincoln soon. Folks know my thoughts on the DBs, but there are images in this exhibition that are astonishing. #History #WW2 @nmtdambusters.bsky.social

Poster. International Bomber Command Centre 'After me the flood'.
Canwick Ave Lincoln LN42LQ 6th Oct 2026 - 28th Feb 2027.
The exhibition brings together photos and film from the aftermath of the Mohnekatastrophe (Mohne Disaster) and the reconstruction that followed.
The image is of an empty bath tub sitting on the debris field with the breached dam in the background.

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you look carefully you can see me as an extra in the background.

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