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Zeitgeist Tours for Schools @zeitgeisttours.com · 13/01/2025

And for the first time in 2025, the Doctors are IN. A two-day Zeitgeist #school history #workshop in support of AQA's "Britain: Health and the People" syllabus. #gcse #AQA (and yes, we have an #edexcel version too).

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 10/12/2024

Ooh! Hello! Fancy meeting you here 😁

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 30/11/2024

They are sooooo cool! Who's the lucky winner? And how would I go about ordering one of your fantastic creations as a UK dweller?

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 29/11/2024

Packed with full-on, energetic activities to make sure that everyone kept warm - no standing around shivering on a Zeitgeist WWI UK Trench Experience Day!

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 24/11/2024

Yesterday it was my acrylic ink profile of 'Küken' Hubrich's Albatros D.Va from 1918. Today it's my profile (from the same 'In Different Skies' series) of his Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-4 that Hubrich was flying 22 years later in 1940. No cute chick and egg painted on the side of this one!

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 24/11/2024

It was a very late, wild and messy pre-birthday night, last night, but unlike those of my younger days (🥳🍾🍸🍷🍹🍺💃🎉), the reason was a very poorly Princess Pickle Pooch having a severe IBD attack in a top floor apartment 😞😵‍💫🥴 Thankfully she's now sleeping soundly, bless her little heart... 🤞🤞🤞

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 23/11/2024

A pleasure! I hope you raise loads of money! 🤞🤞🤞

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 23/11/2024

I'm in! Fingers crossed that I win - they are totally awesome!!!

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 23/11/2024

A bit of art to start the weekend. Albatros D.Va of Gerhard 'Küken'(Chick) Hubrich, Marine-Feld-Jagdstaffel IV, 1918. Hubrich was a German fighter pilot during both the First AND the Second World Wars - I'll post (skeet?) my profile of his Bf 109 E-4 tomorrow. All of my profiles are acrylic ink.

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 22/11/2024

The best military history magazines are published in France (you can trust me on that one). Follow @3945km.bsky.social for brilliant reviews of all the glossy, nerdy military history published in La France.

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 22/11/2024

Thurleigh! My home turf! I grew up a few miles down the road.

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Medium Historian At Large @one0nine.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Someone's done their homework with that Stab/JG 54 Bf 109 G-2... that's nice to see. :)

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 22/11/2024

Very much looking forward to the resulting documentary. The VO artist recording the 'Voice of God', today, was mindblowingly good! (I wasn't sitting across the room, only pretending to work while I listened, in complete awe of her talent - honest! 😇😁)

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 22/11/2024

Thanks! I spend such a long time poring over photos before I ever put anything onto paper! I've been known to stop halfway through a drawing, scrap it and start a completely new artwork because I've suddenly noticed that I made an error. With acrylic inks there's nowhere to hide!

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 22/11/2024

I have very much missed the regular snippets from the MacDonogh household 😁 You must come and visit Pork Pie Central again once we're back in residence, Giles!

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 21/11/2024

Full review in the link. A fresh approach to battlefield touring for UK schools 🧐

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 21/11/2024

That's good to hear! My sublimation printer gave up the ghost a couple of years ago and I haven't got around to replacing it - major upheavals in life put that particular area of production onto a back burner - so there haven't been any hand signed mugs for quite a while. One day, though... 🤞

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 21/11/2024

Yes, you do! I'd forgotten about that!

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 21/11/2024

Time for a brew in the @zgtours4schools.bsky.social office ☕ It's nice to be able to combine both sides of my life 🎨🖌️

Spitfire mug and Bf.109 mug - Dawn Monks Military Art

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 21/11/2024

It's what we do! Never a day goes by when we're not thinking about how we can improve our service, make tours more educationally valuable, provide better exam relevance. It's really lovely to know that we're hitting the spot! Way to go, team! 💪 #WeAreZeitgeist

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today is the day these two finally depart the collection & start their journey back to active service The guys working on them over the last few days have performed miracles getting the kit out & reverting them both back to APC shells ready for Ukraine 🇺🇦 prep We will miss them though

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 19/11/2024

That's not good... Especially with the cold weather! I hope you get it sorted soon! 🤞

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 19/11/2024

You are Superwoman, Mary! I don't know how you do it! (Could have sworn I'd already sent this reply this morning, but obviously my memory is playing tricks on me again! 🤪)

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 19/11/2024

Brrrr, indeed! It's not snowing in this part of the Fatherland at the moment. Forecast for the end of the week, though ☃️🌨️❄️

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 18/11/2024

Hello Mary! All the best people seem to pop up here 😁

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 17/11/2024

Today I am prepping a public talk that I'll be delivering next month at the 'Hooge Crater Museum' near Ypres. The 'touristic' experience of a young German volunteer who found himself on the Flanders front in 1914-15 based on his personal diaries and letters. What are you guys up to?

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 17/11/2024

Here's a bit of art for today: my von Ribbentrop Panzer IV profile in acrylic ink, painted a few years back for a British magazine about German military history. For anyone new to following me, I very much enjoy painting things with gears/levers/springs/valves/rivets/sprockets/twiddly bits/etc.

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/11/2024

If you woke up this morning and asked yourself "what might be the bestselling book in the #museum shop on the Waterloo battlefield?", I have the answer for you. #History #archaeology French edition out soon! bernardwilkin.bsky.social

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 17/11/2024

Yep, and I have no doubt that it will continue for centuries to come 🙂 I'm just an obsessive gatherer of teacher feedback: what was good for your students? What was not so good for your students? What was the most valuable learning experience? How can we improve things for them?

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 15/11/2024

This Daguerreotype of Jean Baptiste Pasquanet Baron de Pierre Brune is the oldest photograph in my collection (1845). Pasquanet, born in 1766, was an émigré who fought the armies of Revolutionary France in the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797)

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 17/11/2024

And when students leave the ceremony saying "Was that it?", having been packed like sardines for the best part of an hour, unable to see anything... It's far more poignant for them to have a small, school-specific wreath laying at another location and then visit the Gate when it's quiet.

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 17/11/2024

That's good to hear! All's well in the Monks-Schäfer establishment 🙂 Non-stop, but we wouldn't have it any other way!

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Zeitgeist Tours for Schools @zeitgeisttours.com · 16/11/2024

Make sure to follow us on Instagram www.instagram.com/zgtours4scho... Fun, hands-on, exam-relevant battlefield tours. #gcse #history

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/11/2024

If you teach history in the UK, make sure to follow @zgtours4schools.bsky.social for modern, exam-relevant and engaging battlefield tours and school workshops.

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 16/11/2024

Actually, what am I saying?! Here's very much to new times, too! 🥂

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 16/11/2024

I think you'll find that I'm first in line 😇

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 16/11/2024

Received an email, yesterday, from a chap who had ordered an Eric Lock Spitfire mug. Turns out he'd ordered it as a gift for his 92 year old father whose cousin married Eric in July 1940, 13 months before he was lost. Brought a tear to my eye. Happy that my artwork makes connections down the years.

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 16/11/2024

This is what we do 💥 Always looking for new ways to make history memorable for today's students, and tomorrow's students, and the day after tomorrow's students.

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 16/11/2024

Having only just arrived here, it really does feel like travelling back in time. How lovely to again have a news feed full of positive, interesting stuff! I have missed that so much! And so many "old" names from the good old days on Twitter. Hello old friends! I'm a very happy bunny 🐰

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 16/11/2024

You old daftie, you ❤️ Here's to old times 🍻

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Dawn Monks @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk · 16/11/2024

I'm told that over here there's a magical platform where it's possible to travel back in time to those halcyon days when everything was lovely... That's probably a bit of an exaggeration but I'm keeping my fingers crossed 🤞😁

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