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Nick Short 🇺🇦

@nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social
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It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. The background picture is part of a painting I am lucky to own called 'The Isles of Sinodun' by the talented artist @annadillon.bsky.social.

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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
June 28, 1914. A bad day in #History. A very bad day.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Softly the evening came with the sunset ...
Sunset in rural Suffolk.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It's a dreadful world in many places and for many reasons. And sometimes, I'll be honest, I come close to losing hope. Then I look at this peaceful view and it calms me. Or anaesthetises me. I certainly feel better for it, if only for a while. Night, all.
Suffolk sunset across farmland.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I found historian Roger Morehouse in a pub in Piccadilly this evening. Honestly, you can't go anywhere for a quiet drink these days.
Roger Morehouse & Nick Short in a London pub.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Goodnight from me and the girls.
Suffolk sunset. MGB portscar. Spirit of Ecstasy on Rolls-Royce.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
My father died in the sea in Sardinia #OTD in 1974. I was with him and just survived the undercurrent. He was 58, I was 16. I've missed him every day since. I miss the conversations we never had. The moments we never shared. And I will remember him until the day I too die.
Sub-Lieutenant Thomas Edward (Ted) Short, RNVR. My father.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair than the high cloudlets in the sky.
Evening sun over a field near Lavenham in Suffolk.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I shall never tire of living in this beautiful place. #Lavenham
Lavenham Guildhall.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I've been astride Tommy again for an hour and a half.
English garden.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
A wonderful painting of #Southwold by a good - and very talented - friend of mine.
Painting of Southwold in Suffolk.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I loved visiting #Dresden.
Dresden.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Interior of #Lavenham parish church today, with the US flag and memorial to the brave boys of the USAAF who served locally in #WW2 on display. #MemorialDay
Interior of Lavenham parish church, Suffolk, UK.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
A further wake-up call.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A hidden gem. Columbine Hall, Stowupland. 📷 Julie Davis. #Suffolk
Columbine Hall, Suffolk, UK.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
#England is such a lovely country. Feel very blessed to call it home.
Great Chalfield Manor, Wilts.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Gosh. You live and learn.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Rosie sends her regards ...
1969 MGB Roadster.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
So when for me life’s latest hour soft passes to its end, may glory, born of earth and heaven, the earth and heaven blend. Flooded with light the spirits float, with silent rapture glow, till where earth ends and heaven begins the soul shall scarcely know.
Suffolk sunset.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 08/05/2025
The Kyiv Independent’s Chris York sat down with author, historian, and President of the Ukrainian Society of Switzerland Andrej Lushnycky who sheds some light on the things Putin would rather you didn’t know about World War II.
youtube.com
What Putin won’t tell you about Russia’s ‘Victory Day’
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
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Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My latest for New Statesman: how Putin and the Patriarch's religion of war hails violence as the path to spiritual salvation. Putin's Russia may not be a Christian nation, but it is a religious one.
newstatesman.com
The religious fever of Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day
In today’s Russia, state, Church, and War have become inseparable.
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Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Chinese cyber menace exceeds threat from Russia, Dutch spy chief warns www.politico.eu/article/chin...
politico.eu
Chinese cyber menace exceeds threat from Russia, Dutch spy chief warns
Top intel director tells POLITICO that Moscow’s new military buildup is concerning — and Donald Trump’s election has been a wake-up call for European spies.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Allenstein in Ostpreußen, #Germany, as was. Olsztyn in Warmia, #Poland, as is. The latter, my 📷 from November 2016. #Europe #History
Allenstein in Ostpreußen.Olsztyn in Warmia.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A bright morning in #Bath. The view from my flat.
Morning in Bath, UK.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Field of dreams.
Somerset County Cricket Club.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
26°C in #Bath today. Thinking of getting into my Borat-style swimming costume and going for a plunge.
Bath, UK.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Books, books, books ...
My library.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
There is no time like Spring,  Like Spring that passes by;  There is no life like Spring-life born to die,  Piercing the sod,  Clothing the uncouth clod,  Hatched in the nest,  Fledged on the windy bough,  Strong on the wing:  There is no time like Spring that passes by …
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This should keep the beastly forriners at bay ...
Orford Castle in Suffolk.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Glorious #Suffolk on a glorious Sunday.
Orford Ness.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Yay! #SURvSOM
The Oval cricket ground, London.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!! This is HUGE news. Many congratulations to my good friend Jane Thynne, Philip Kerr's widow. I just cannot wait for this. I'm a massive Bernie fan.
Announcement that Apple will be making a Bernie Gunther series.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Fancy Monty's motor? His 1936 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Touring Limousine is up for auction. HM King George VI, Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower were all driven in this car. Estimated sale price: £115,000 - £130,000. I've bought a lottery ticket!
A 1936 Rolls-Royce formerly belonging to Field Marshal Montgomery.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/04/2025
Great example for a health behavior where people will be like “everybody does X, it’s never going to change” until it actually does change within a rather short time span, from a historic perspective.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Just back from my little morning ramble, and while there is unfortunately no sun on this Easter Monday, the earth smells fresh and wonderful after a much needed rain shower. Now back indoors for a nice cuppa tea. Hope you all have a good day. #simplepleasures
Suffolk countryside on an overcast, rainy morning.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
So who remembers these two?
1960s TV stars.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
An Easter message.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
*hyperventilates*
A vintage Hispano-Suiza in a sun dappled English lane.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Glorious.
Ely Cathedral.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Informative.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
My bro and s-in-l are on a cruise atm. Just got this message from him: "Formal night tonight, we can wear our medals. Butlins beaver club badge polished." You can always rely on a Short to maintain standards.
Butlins Beavers Club enamel badge.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Pondering installing #Linux Mint on my Windows 10 laptop. Heard great things about it. But I'm such a technical numpty that even the easy-to-follow instructions defeat me. <sigh>
media.tenor.com
a man is using a dell computer while a woman looks on
Alt: a man is using a dell computer while a woman looks on
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Good chap and excellent historian.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Tomorrow's destination.
Ely Cathedral.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Astonishingly good series. Great performances all round, but Peter Barkworth gives a master class.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
After a successful visit to my lovely dental hygienist this morning, I'm now back at home celebrating with a full English. It's what she'd want.
Full English breakfast.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Killed in Action 80 Years Ago: Major General Maurice Rose, killed in Germany on March 30, 1945. Rose is buried at Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial at Limburg, Netherlands. He was 49 years old and was the highest ranking US officer KIA in Europe in #WW2.
US photographed in Cologne in March 1945.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
View from the front of my flat. #Bath is so delightful.
Street in Bath, UK.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Guess who I support?
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Well, what a lovely day. God is in His heaven, and I'm in #Taunton. It may well be the same place. #WeAreSomerset #Cricket
Somerset County Cricket Club.
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Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
So excited to be back. Ever onwards! #WeAreSomerset #Cricket
County ground at Taunton.
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