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David Ulke

@davidulke.bsky.social
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Retired military nurse. Now into archaeology/metal detecting supporting Op Nightingale, Time Team, Wings To The Past. Enjoys single malts/good coffee. My research on veterans and archaeology is here: orcid.org/0000-0002-7551-4052

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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In London for the weekend and look who I bump into!
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
In this special episode with Professor Mark Connelly we explore the profound connection between landscape, memory, and national identity during the Great War, focusing on the significance of chalk landscapes in Britain and their influence on cultural memory and battlefield symbolism.
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Chalk, Englishness and the Great War
In this special episode with Professor Mark Connelly we explore the profound connection between landscape, memory, and national identity during the Great War, focusing on the significance of chalk landscapes in Britain and their influence on cultural memory and battlefield symbolism. We dive into how the beautiful, chalky terrains of England shaped the identity of soldiers during the Great War.
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
If you haven’t read it, go get it! Help me break the 3000 barrier ( just for fun, there’s no money in it!😁)
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
RAF MUSEUM NATIONAL COLLECTION Object Conditioning day: We have an extensive collection of WW1-era twin-blade and four-blade wooden propellers, and there is just something about them that I love. The craftsmanship is second to none, and they are surprisingly light as well. Check out the decals too.
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Stoked to learn the first of the latest Llyn Cerrig Bach assemblage recovered a few years ago is now on exhibition at Oriel Môn in Anglesey. The Terret ring I recovered now showing the remains of the red glass inlay in all its glory. ( Still hate that bloody photo of me, though😆). 📸 Paul Shanks
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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Fi @feebee69.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If only!😆 👇
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
An evening with Squeeze in London. The new album in full followed by a one hour set of greatest hits!
The band on stage at KoKo’s in London.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My cousin Charlotte and her friends are cycling hundreds of miles across Scotland, for the Doddie Triple Crown, raising money for research and support for MND patients. If you could help at all, donating or sharing this link, they - and I - would be so grateful. www.justgiving.com/team/grittyg...
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Team Miles for MND
Help Team Miles for MND raise money to support My Name'5 Doddie Foundation
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Done. My brother died from MND so happy to chip in x
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
RAF MUSEUM NATIONAL COLLECTION conditioning day. Two rather special First Pattern items: The approved pattern for the RFC brass shoulder title, and the sample that was approved for the RAF Pilot brevet, signed off on 8th August 1918. A great privilege once again to handle such important artefacts
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 04/03/2026
Isabel Oakeshott: anti-migration commentator, economic migrant to Dubai, possible future evacuee of the very British state she insists is broken. Isn’t it funny how mobility becomes acceptable when it’s your own?
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Isabel Oakeshott: Economic Migrant, Tax Exile, Future Evacuee?
The commentators who fled Britain for lower taxes have built careers sneering at the country they left - yet still rely on it when the world turns dangerous.
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Surprised? No...not really...
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Now don’t let accuracy get in the way of a 5-second compilation!😂
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Bloody Normans, coming over here WAY before their time, generating a butterfly event…
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Sorry! Couldn’t resist. I’ll get my coat…
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
All completely made up, but I couldn’t leave you high and dry!😁
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Having worked on various Op Nightingale and TT projects I always missed the chance to meet you (or visit ‘the tent’ re the Llyn Cerrig Bach recoveries), so here’s to your future adventures and a hope that tide will turn.
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
All done. Display options to consider next.
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
RAF MUSEUM NATIONAL COLLECTION conditioning day. Take a look at this Harvard & Boston Aero Meet competitor's medal and note the date... 1910 Just seven years after the Wright brother's historic first flight. Seven years...
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Excellent gig tonight at KK’s Steel Mill. Smith/Kotzen Band.
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Poorly. Watching it tomorrow. Promise.
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
What interested me most is how objects like this act as unofficial archives. Not heroic relics or medals, just things that travelled home with their owners, carrying stories that formal records often miss. Material culture can really earn its keep. #HiddenHistories #HistoryThroughObjects #POWs
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The suitcase lid is covered in names: officers who shared captivity in German POW camps during the First World War. Each inscription is a trace of a relationship: comradeship, survival, boredom, solidarity. Together they form a quiet social network, scratched into an everyday object. #RAF
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My latest research paper traces the lives of First World War RAF prisoners of war through something very ordinary, a suitcase, and what it reveals about captivity, friendship, and memory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ConflictArchaeology #MaterialCulture #PublicHistory #WW1History #RAFHistory
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The social history of a suitcase: tracing the lives of Royal Air Force prisoners of war through one captive’s keepsake
This article examines a First World War suitcase lid belonging to Lieutenant Reginald Alfred Charles Brie of the Royal Flying Corps, later RAF, inscribed with his name, those of twenty-two fellow p...
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My latest 1/35 scale project honouring the three paratroopers whose dog tags we have archaeologically recovered over the years.
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
First day out with the new detector today. I’ve re secured my local permissions, so as the weather and daylight improve you may see me out and about. Hopefully I will also have something interesting to show you from our local social history if anything interesting comes up and the land owner agrees
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
If you’re stuck for ideas for your archaeology loving family and friends, please consider this book. All profits go to SSAFA which will ultimately allow us to support more veterans in their archaeological journey…and you might spot me somewhere in it too 😁 the-past.com/review/books...
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Broken Pots, Mending Lives: The Archaeology of Operation Nightingale | The Past
REVIEW BY IAIN BANKS This is a landmark publication, summarising as it does the 12 years (and counting) that Operation Nightingale has been in existence. Du ...
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
German El.Z. Zt. bomb fuze: A complex, impeller-armed design that stays safe until 300–1000 rotations withdraw internal safety pins. It could be set for instant, short or long delays, and its intricate construction was meant to hinder defusing.
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
RAF MUSEUM NATIONAL COLLECTION Object conditioning day. We were back in the main hangar this morning sorting through various boxes of bomb fuse mechanisms. This one in unissued condition is a Pistol fuse (No75 Mk 3), a real workhorse component in the RAF’s aerial warfare campaign.
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
www.facebook.com/share/p/16iG... Remembering 2Lt Lester Lowry.
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Redirecting...
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Latest bit of research I played a small part in back in 2020 trickles through to the present! salford.figshare.com/articles/med...
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Women of Waterloo: Exhibition of board game prototype at the FutureLab exhibition. Shanghai West Bund Art Centre, Shanghai, China. November 2020.
This project uses board gaming as a means to address historiographical gaps concerning women’s roles in the Napoleonic Wars.While the period is often depicted as a predominantly male military effort, ...
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
www.justgiving.com/page/phil-ha... Please help Phil get to his target of £1500 to help vets into supported accomodation-a worthy cause!
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
RAF Museum object conditioning day: today’s standout find was a 1942 RAF uniform by Davies & Son, once worn by HRH The Duke of Gloucester, personal ADC to four monarchs: George V, Edward VIII, George VI & Elizabeth II. A royal career spanning army Lt to Marshal of the RAF: history in every stitch.
Tailors label identifying the jacket as HRH The Duke of Gloucester'sclose up of left breast pocket detailing RAF pilots brevet wings and three rows of medal ribbons.close up of the left shoulder board adorned with the royal ciphers of three kings and one queenclose up of the aiguillettes  adorned with the four royal ciphers
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
RAF Museum object conditioning day: a red-letter moment! While nearing the end of our clothing rack checks, we uncovered a 1920s era uniform of none other than Air Chief Marshal Lord Hugh Trenchard, Father of the RAF, and its first Chief of the Air Staff. A true privilege to handle such history.
photo of Lord Trenchard in the ceremonial uniform from the collection circa 1920Tailors label inside the jacket identifying it as Lord Trenchard's and dated 1920close up of the left shoulder board showing the king's crown and RAF motive in gold bullion threadClose up of the RAF pilots brevet badge in gold bullion thread
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Volunteering: object conditioning day at the RAF Museum collection at Stafford: chills seeing this uniform. William George Barker VC, Canada’s most decorated WWI airman. VC, DSO & Bar, MC & 2 Bars, Italian & French valour medals. Fearless Sopwith Camel ace whose courage redefined air combat.
a photo of the VC winner in his RFC uniformThe uniform jacket hanging up complete with dress trousersclose up of the left breast pocket showing the medal ribbons and RFC pilots brevet wingsclose up of the medal ribbons and wings
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Thank you. Could I prevail on you to forward them to Sandi with my compliments?
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
@rakshadigs.bsky.social some snaps of the scale model diorama commemorating Lester Lowry. (I couldn’t get down to site when you were filming so the model didn’t make the cut).
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Remembering my 2016 visit to Jersey to assist with the amazing Le Câtillon II, the largest hoard of Iron Age gold and silver coins, jewellery and ingots ever found in Western Europe. I got 4 days of hands on, supervised work with Reg, one of the finders, and this great team of specialists.
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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
To celebrate reaching 6000 followers, I am going to give away a free copy of my book The Road to Mons Graupius, which charts my journey along a Roman road through Scotland! To enter, follow me, then like and repost this post. I will choose a winner at random on Friday 16th May... #RomanSiteSaturday
My hand holding a copy of my book, the Road to Mons Graupius
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Time Team Sutton Hoo gig 2024, Episode 2.
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David Ulke @davidulke.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
We’ve been watching it all again on catch up. Just at the end of series 2 as of Thursday gone.
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