iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

One of the most debated doors in the country, the south-west door of St Helen’s Church in Stillingfleet is one of the oldest in England, possibly dating back in part to the 10th/11th century. It was studied in the 1970s and confirmed to be at least as old as the original Norman

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Chester FC @chesterfc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

FT: #ChesterFC 2-1 Buxton FC. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗮! 🕺 We'll see you in Kidderminster, Seals. 💙 #CFCBUX | #UTS

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Two of the finds from the Roman town of Cataractonium, located near present-day Catterick. It was once a key military and civilian settlement. Today, much of Cataractonium lies hidden beneath the modern landscape. Despite this, excavations have revealed glimpses of its former life granaries,

a pottery mask, probably used in religious theatre.

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 01/04/2025

Trevor Lock, the police officer who played a critical role as the drama unfolded at the Iranian embassy in 1980, died on Sunday. Here's what he told me | ✍️ Ben Macintyre

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Embassy siege hero just wanted a quiet life. Here’s what he told me

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York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It's National Lottery Open Week - that means you can visit us for free with a lottery ticket. www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/open-week/of...

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York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

20th Century Soldier Living History group are with us today and tomorrow - drop in to chat to them about all things Cold War.

Military jeep painted in camouflage green and black. Jeep is parked outside the museum.

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Museums + Heritage @museumsandheritage.com · 20/02/2025

Out now! This week's round-up of news and features from across the sector in our weekly newsletter ✉️ Top story: £270m package to support museums and heritage venues mailchi.mp/museumsandhe...

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

All I'm saying is that there are times when a stiffly-worded letter just won't cut it

Oscar Parkes painting featuring HMS Lord Clive doing something unspeakable to something a very long way away with its massive 18" gun, and the even more absurdly massive turret built to hold it. It's in the nature of monitors to look ungainly (the other is GUN) but the Lord Clives took it further than most. Despite the huge bulk of the ship the gun still looks too big for it.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

#OTD in 1940, France. A soldier from 2 East Yorkshire. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Many people are unaware that there were black sailors in the Royal Navy during the age of sail. If you mention it they assume you must have searched desperately to find some representation. But do you know who really wanted to ensure these sailors were represented? People at the time.

Detail from the Death of Nelson, by Maclise - a black sailor is downpointing out the French sniper who bagged Nelson

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York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This woolly guy from the York ice trail needed a safe place to strut his stuff. We were delighted to give him some space. No 10 on the trail - woolly rhinoceros - thanks to the York BID @visityork.bsky.social

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Critical Threats Project @criticalthreats.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

NEW | Russia has continued to strengthen its military presence in Libya & Mali as it withdraws assets from Syria. The Kremlin’s decision to send armored vehicles to Mali, particularly T-72 tanks, is significant given Russia’s vehicle losses in Ukraine. 1/8 🧵[Images: Maxar Technologies]

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York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Thank-you to the East Yorkshire Regiment Living History Group for their display and fantastic engagement with our visitors this weekend.

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Catherine Warr @cathwarr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

WHOOSH! What's that sound? Oh, just us breaking more records. We've already surpassed our all-time record for views in January, and this video has racked up over 10,000 views in two days. Haven't watched it yet? Make sure you see what all the fuss is about!

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York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Hundreds of visitors enjoyed object handling at the museum this weekend with the help of our lovely team of volunteers. We hugely appreciate their support.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A wonderful belt buckle dating to the late 4th or early 5th century, it was excavated at Catterick Roman Fort. It comprises of a pair of seahorses and an upright dolphin at either end. The curators report states that it was probably from the belt of an officer

A belt buckle dating to the late 4th or early 5th century, it was excavated at Catterick Roman Fort.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/01/2025

Ben Jennings on Prince Harry settling his case against the Sun’s publisher – cartoon

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Ben Jennings on Prince Harry settling his case against the Sun’s publisher – cartoon

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Graeme Green @goose563.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Surprised there isn't a greater interest in AR over FPV VR. The latter while immersive is expensive and technically demanding in maintenance and reliability. AR on the other hand affords multiple access and potentialy different selected experiences depending on the users demand in the same space.

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Graeme Green @goose563.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Nothing new here if you're on the coal face. The issue is encouraging museums (trustees) to invest their funds in these mediums. Footfall, physical and digital is symbiotic and both are needed to sustain and promote your museum and improve both physical and intellectual access to your collections.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

#OTD in 1944, Gosport. Trials with a Valentine Duplex Drive tank at 79 Armoured Division School. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Chester FC @chesterfc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

HT: @LeamingtonFC 0-4 #ChesterFC. 4⃣ up at the 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗸𝗲. 😉 #LEACFC | #UTS

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York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This second image is an ambrotype on glass of Sergeant John Loade, 4th Dragoon Guards c.1800s in its original wooden case.

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York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It’s #HeritageTreasuresDay! To celebrate we have chosen two objects from our collections that we have recently acquired. The first image is of a leather money belt from the 1930s that was likely made during The 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment’s deployment to India.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 13/01/2025

Start your Fellowship journey for free with an inclusive FMA place 🤝 The FMA is a professional development programme that recognises significant contribution, impact and legacy in the museum sector, and we're offering five funded places as part of our commitment to diversifying the sector.

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Inclusive FMA places - Museums Association

We're offering five free places to kick-start your Fellowship journey

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Catherine Warr @cathwarr.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

It's easy to view history in a detached sort of way, just an abstract series of dates and events, but I've had a lot of comments on my Elizabeth Howe video from her descendants, and it really struck me that it's never just something that happened a long time ago. It's real.

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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Another great report on drones in warfare, full of useful insights, from @rikefranke.bsky.social

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 09/01/2025

Lebanon appoints army chief as first president in two years. Joseph Aoun’s election raises hopes that the country can end a six-year economic crisis and secure a long-term peace deal with Israel ⬇️

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Lebanon appoints army chief as first president in two years

Joseph Aoun’s election raises hopes that the country can end a six-year economic crisis and secure a long-term peace deal with Israel

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

9th January 1941. First flight of the prototype Avro Type 683 Manchester III - soon to become the Lancaster. Almost 7,400 ‘Lancs’ were built, becoming the backbone of Bomber Command. Along with the Halifax and Mosquito, its contribution was critical as the RAF night offensive intensified. 🧵 1/10

(Formation of three RAF 4-engined, twin tailfin heavy bombers at medium altitude over countryside, with scattered white clouds)

Lancasters of 44 Squadron, based at Waddington, on 29th September 1942. The rearmost aircraft (W4187) was lost two nights later on a raid to Wismar, the entire crew being killed.
📷 IWM TR 197

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 07/01/2025

News | Cultural engagement brings health and wellbeing benefits worth £8bn – research uses new methodology to show monetary value of cultural investment

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Cultural engagement brings health and wellbeing benefits worth £8bn - Museums Association

Research uses new methodology to show monetary value of cultural investment

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I shocked myself when I posted this image elsewhere this morning. It is Bradford in 1969, a year that seems like yesterday. It looks however like a different world and so dated. Yet, I was a child just outside Wakefield at the time. You just don't notice how things change when they do so

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Pretty special footage of a Sturmtiger in action. The rocket propelled round used angled exhausts to impart the spin rather than rifling in the very short barrel. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

In the past 48 hours, reports have emerged of a Ukrainian attack on Russian positions near the village of Lyptsi in the Kharkiv region. The attack utilised dozens of uncrewed ground combat vehicles (UGV) and FPV drones. 1/4 🧵🇺🇦

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I have loved books as a Christmas present ever since I was a small child and received the Teddy Bear Annual amongst others. These days bookshops as much as the books are a delight for me from small and intimate to large where I can sit with a coffee like this one. A favourite Yorkshire

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

December 21st, 1941. The Royal Navy’s first escort carrier, HMS Audacity, was torpedoed and sunk by U-751. Her Martlet fighters had proved effective in deterring U-Boat attacks and Condor reconnaissance flights. 73 men died; among the 225 survivors was future test pilot Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown. 🧵1/5

(Small aircraft carrier in choppy seas, with another ship visible in the background)

HMS Audacity in convoy HG-76, shortly before she was sunk, with Martlets visible on deck. As well as the carrier, an escort vessel and two merchant ships were lost, but 5 U-Boats and two Condors were destroyed.
📷 IWM (HU 54361)

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Christmas cards sent from the front line helped maintain a connection between soldiers and their families. Often simple in design owing to wartime constraints, these cards carried messages of hope, love and longing. Regimental cards often bore the unit’s insignia. For families, receiving these

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Rivets and Pins @rivetsandpins.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It's #TankTuesday or, in this case, #TankTechnologyTuesday ! The 1930s saw huge advances in tank development & technologies. All tank-building nations tried new ideas to see how useful they might be. One such idea was the German Auslegearm für Flakabwehr, or 'AA MG outrigger mount'. 1/

A black & white photo of a German PzKw III Ausf. B. We are looking at the vehicle from a 10 o'clock view. The vehicle has 8 small roadwheels, similar in appearance to the PzKw IV. The vehicle is very neat and clean. In the commander's cupola on the turret turret is a German officer. A crew member is sat in the loader's hatch on the left side of the tank.

A yellow arrow has been added to the photo to point out the metal traiangular frame on the left side of the superstructure. This is the Auslegearm für Flakabwehr, the subject of the thread.

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York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Explore York Army Museum with our digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. Our free guide features: artworks from the collections; a top ten of visitor and volunteer favourite objects, exhibitions and some military music Link below 👇👇 bit.ly/YAMBloomberg...

Hand holding a mobile phone so screen is showing to the camera. The screen has a picture of the inside of a museum with a horse sculpture on display.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Researchers: NARA has digitized hundreds of thousands of operational reports from US units in the Pacific Theater of WWII, to include divisional reports with regimental reports, maps, and sketches. It’s a gold mine. Go nuts catalog.archives.gov/id/305275

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The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.

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Graeme Green @goose563.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

And that Type 25 Pill Box is still accessible at low tide on Studland South Beach. www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/psgwordpress...

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OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Russian forces have evacuated their S-400 long-range SAM battery from Khmeimim Air Base in western Syria. Multiple 5P85SM2 TELs were spotted earlier today driving south down the M1 highway towards the port of Tartus.

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Kitty Ross @curatorkitty.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQaofO/abbey... If you are not familiar with Abbey House Museum #Leeds which is now threatened with closure, here is a lovely video from @leedsmuseums.bsky.social to show some of what would be lost.

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Abbey House Museum

Explore the Victorian streets, reminisce in the childhood galleries and discover Leeds' social history.

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Graeme Green @goose563.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Work hard, be passionate and enjoy what you do. Be professional. Equally if it's time to move on, move on. BLUF be in control. Acquaintances will drift by, friends are there forever.

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York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Behind door 4 of our #adventcalendar today there's something sporting from our archives #exploreyourarchives yorkarmymuseum.co.uk/york-army-mu...

Black and white photograph of military sports team blended with colour photograph of present day team.

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York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

📸: the photograph which we used for the background of our calendar is from an album of black and white photographs in the museum archive, taken in Fallingbostel, Germany 1958-1959 by service personnel stationed there.

Black and white photograph of trees covered in snow.

Black and white photograph of trees covered in snow and a white building in the distance.

Black and white photograph of two men in winter clothing on a small sledge pulled by a small black horse, with two dogs following them. Snowy covered ground in the foreground and snow covered trees in the background.

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York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Morning all on Bluesky. 1 December and we've had a busy old year, as it draws to a close we'd like to share some of our highlights, key objects and exhibitions with you. 👉 bit.ly/YAMChristmas... 👈 Each day until Christmas Eve click on a door and discover something about our museum & collections.

Twenty-four square red doors, numbered one to twenty-four, superimposed on a black and white photograph of a snowy forest.

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Robert Glennie @robertglennie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Continuing with Sgt Charles Hewitt’s work, #OTD 25th November 1944. A Sherman III (M4A2) from 4/7 Dragoon Guards (both A and C Sqn were here), 8th Armoured Brigade, receiving some attention from REME in the mud and rain, near Gillrath, Geilenkirchen. IWM B 12087 #8Armd #SWW #History

British soldiers from REME fixing a track of a Sherman III tank in the mud and rain. IWM B 12087

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