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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks everyone. Long wait but started the process today!

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International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · 13h

We are excited to announce that the call for papers for our 15th Conference is now live! It will take place on 29 Sep-1 Oct 2027 at the University of Kyoto, Japan. The theme is 'Observation'. The deadline for paper and panel proposals is 1 May. firstworldwarstudies.org/kyoto-2027/

The World Watches the European Conflagration, Itō Chūta, 13 September 1914

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have any of my British followers whose Grandparent was born in Ireland successfully applied for Irish citizenship? I know I’m eligible but want to know real world experience before I apply.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A while back I spoke to Emily at History Extra about the Third Arakan and Kangaw, and the episode has just dropped 👇

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WW2's bloody battle for Arakan

HistoryExtra podcast · Episode

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unpopular opinion but if you’re incredibly successful and still feel the need to repeatedly post about your struggle with imposter syndrome and how hard it is being a high achieving perfectionist, I think you ought to invest in therapy rather than relying on regular external validation

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In other nut based news, please enjoy my Peanuts nails by my amazing nail tech Paiwa.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m sorry but I just can’t get on board with pronouncing ‘almond‘ AL-mond. It’s AH-mond as far as I’m concerned.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Shared a stage with Churchill’s grandson and Slim’s grandson tonight. Pretty cool.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Instantly in tears reading this. Predictable.

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My wife shouting from the living room: "I hope you haven't spent your entire month's salary on something unnecessary and expensive again" Me: "DON'T COME IN THE BATHROOM"

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My new project (with my pal Ash who rudely doesn’t have Bsky) @shellshockedanded.bsky.social now has a website! Check it out and get in touch if you’ve got toys for us to play with / want to set us some kind of ridiculous challenge.

shellshockedandeducated.com

Shell-Shocked & Educated

Military History, but make it interesting

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Osprey Publishing @ospreypublishing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last weekend @lmbd1418.bsky.social gave a very well attended talk at We Have Ways Fest on her book 'Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945'. Thank you to everyone who stopped by! Lucy's is the granddaughter of a Commando veteran who fought at Arakan. bit.ly/3IYyMci

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson giving a talk about her book in a tent at we have ways fest. Lucy is on the stage in the top right of the picture. There are multiple rows of chairs in front of her packed out with attendees

A crowd of people is stood outside a packed out tent at We have ways feast listening to Lucy Betteridge-Dyson talk

A courtyard with tables against the outbuildings. Author Lucy Betteridge-Dyson is sat at a table signing copies of her book. There is a queue of people waiting

Table in a bookshop stacked with books including Jungle Commandos by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh by the way, I can now officially call myself an ‘award winning author‘ which is lovely (more details coming soon 👀). I probably won’t though, because I’d worry it makes me sound like a right twat.

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My mad September continues with the Hereford Military History Festival. Hope to see you there !

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Buddha said life is suffering. Guess he was a Man Utd fan

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s it folks, the hedges have been topped = winter is coming.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m a strong, independent woman, with an engineering degree. I just discovered my boiler had no power and within 5 minutes was on the phone to my dad who is now coming over.

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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

THE LAND OF ROBERT BURNS (1956)

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

POV you are a Lancer of the Imperial Guard at the Battle of Waterloo

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m trying to get in contact with someone at the Household Cavalry - can anyone here help? 👀

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran may have sold more than 120 million records but he’s still shit.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New project coming soon, because I felt there just wasn‘t enough military history social media channels out there - jokes, it’s effin’ saturated but Ash & I are doing something a little bit different… 👇

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thanks @ssyu.bsky.social for my socks, rather chuffed with them! 🩷

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you missed my talk at WHWF6 then how rude, where the hell were you? but you’re lucky, I will give you a second chance as I’ll be joining the REHS for a webinar this Thursday 17th

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Lucy @lucyt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Great weekend at #whwf6 after missing last yr. So many great talks incl Alex Ritchie, @waitmanwbeorn.com , John McManus, Jon Parshall, @silenceinpolish.bsky.social , @rednavy70.bsky.social , Katya Hoyer, David Stahel, @lmbd1418.bsky.social , @newsofthewar.bsky.social & @jonathanfennell.bsky.social

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who showed up to my talk at WHWF6 and sorry that you couldn't get in and that I only got 30 mins to talk 💅💁‍♀️ I'm not one for tagging dozens of people, so will just say it was great to catch up with friends old and new.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

War is so fucking stupid. Schlieffen Plan? Drive at Paris. Fall Rot? Drive at Paris. Barbarossa? Drive at Moscow. Desert Storm? Drive at Baghdad. Invasion of Ukraine? Drive at Kyiv. Prigozhin? Drive at Moscow. HTS? Drive at Damascus. IT'S ALL JUST DRIVING ON HIGHWAYS AT FUCKING CAPITALS

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In tears listening to radio coverage of 25th anniversary of 9/11. I remember coming home from school and watching it on TV. We understandably focus heavily on what 9/11 led to, but my heart aches for the individuals involved in the initial attacks and what their last moments must have been like.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can’t describe the rage that goes through me when sleeve meets door handle

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not got my book in stock which is outrageous because it’s fucking excellent. Have a word @curatorian.bsky.social ! 😂

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

En route to the IWM for a spot of research !

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Betteridge is an Anglo-Saxon surname meaning ‘battle strong’ so I feel as if the Bayeux Tapestry is trolling me a bit tbh.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today is supervisor meeting and dealing with this kind of nonsense

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just had a catch up with my old boss and sad to report that Peggy, my magnificent chicken pal, has finally pegged out.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The thing I love most about doing talks is the people you meet after ! I’ve spent the last hour in a Ottoman Empire horse shoe rabbit hole helping to identify some items found on a Grab Arab Revolt Project dig and have been enjoying this book given to me at @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social conf

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026

as so often, Terry Pratchett had it nailed.

Death and Susan talking in Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET— Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The endless politics and squabbling in the military history world is effin’ exhausting. I am increasingly of the belief that the people who genuinely care about the history, remembrance and importance of what we do stay out of gossip/drama whilst those involved have different priorities in life.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.
Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

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Osprey Publishing @ospreypublishing.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We're delighted to be a talks sponsor at We Have Ways Fest this weekend! If you're joining, head to the Arsenal Stage on Saturday at 11am to hear Lucy Betteridge-Dyson discuss her book Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945.

We have ways fest banner. 11th-13th september 2026. There is an illustration of three planes

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fascinating article on the return of horse power to modern warfare in the latest edition of Soldier magazine. I feel vindicated !

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘Morrissey’s Fridge’.

Morrissey’s Fridge

Morrissey
was filled
with sudden
self-doubt,

as he shut
his fridge door –
did the light
never go out?

Brian Bilston

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

An Australian soldier carries a cross for a war grave up to the front, near Ypres, #OTD 6 September 1917. Photo: Ernest Brooks. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/... #WW1

Black and white photo of three helmeted soldiers on horseback on a road. One turns to look at the photographer, he carries a wooden cross on his shoulder.

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Gallipoli Association @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@lmbd1418.bsky.social Lucy Betteridge-Dyson is providing a super talk on the use of Mules and the Army Veterinary Corps at Gallipoli, "Carrying the Campaign".

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The matriarch of our family, my lovely Grandma Celia is 89 today! 🩷

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