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Andrew Burtch

@postwarhist.bsky.social

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Historian, Post-1945 at the Canadian War Museum. Love history, games, books, also books. And books.

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Andrew Burtch @postwarhist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Andrew Burtch @postwarhist.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Honoured to have been on the CBC national live commentary for this year's Remembrance Day coverage. It was cold.

Bald bearded man wearing suit and beaded poppy in front of the National War Memorial.

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Andrew Burtch @postwarhist.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Did no one else watch Jurassic Park? Just me?

Guideline for using AI-generated "historical" images in the classroom. "Image should be clearly marked as AI generated and with explicit discussion as to how the image was created."

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Andrew Burtch @postwarhist.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hereby petitioning that all military histories feature a cover with a wet-nosed mammal. (Wherein a glitch in an online catalogue becomes an overnight publishing sensation)

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Andrew Burtch @postwarhist.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I had a thought about a possible article - representation of Canada/Canadian units in video games, so I started a spreadsheet. I was interested to see that Rainbow 6 Siege had 2-3 "operators" based on Canadian or Indigenous characters like "Frost" here. Other leads welcome!

Camouflaged and masked soldier holding a combat knife

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Andrew Burtch @postwarhist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

and let's not forget this painting which shows a pig... um... sleeping. Donald Kenneth Anderson's Pig for Dinner, painted April 1945. www.warmuseum.ca/collections/...

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Andrew Burtch @postwarhist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

At the Canadian War Museum we have hog-adjacent content. For example, this "pig suit" (19840462-031) used in testing at Canadian Forces Base Suffield to see if materials were suitable for safeguarding personnel against biological and chemical agents. www.warmuseum.ca/collections/...

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Andrew Burtch @postwarhist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Introduce yourself with four video games:

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Andrew Burtch @postwarhist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hey bluebuddies (it's a thing, definitely a thing not weird at all to say), anyone out there seen good photos of the Canadian TLAV engineering variant at work in the field? Ours just went up on display and look at that impact seating.

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Andrew Burtch @postwarhist.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Gerald McGregor of Birch Island, Whitefish River First Nation was part of the group that traveled to Cyprus last week. Gerald served in the PPCLI in Cyprus in 1984, and later served in the Canadian Airborne Regiment. We took this photo in Nicosia War Cemetery, in the UNFICYP buffer zone, on 10 Nov.

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Andrew Burtch @postwarhist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

One of the highlights of my last week in Cyprus was catching up with Korean War and peacekeeping/Cold War veteran George Slade. 91 years old and going strong, served in Cyprus in 1966!

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