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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 28/11/2025

Nothing beats old school lighting for a relaxing night.

Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 01/10/2025

US-import torture pork must be one of those many Brexit-Wins (TM). Could maybe be used as Pork-a-Ceutical Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Bacon or to make Ractopamine-Relaxant Sausages. #Downfall

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 10/05/2025

No matter how cool you are, you will never be as cool as Oberleutnant Freiherr von Fabeck's dog, 'posing' for the camera after the Battles of Dybbol and Alsen, at the end of the Second Schleswig War of 1864. #photography #war #militaryhistory

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 05/05/2025

I could do with some servicing, but I guess this just what happens when you put "Profiter de vous et vous servir" directly into Google Translate. #FrenchGite

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 22/02/2025

After approx 140 years this lamp is still doing it's duty without complaints

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 19/02/2025

In addition to a 'Weisswurst Äquator' (white sausage equator) we Germans also clearly have an Idioten-Äquator (idiot equator). The people behind it are not desiring democratic participation & safeguarding of fundamental democratic rights, but rather the apparent security of an authoritarian state

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 03/02/2025

The comments on this article are as frightening as they are stupid

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 14/01/2025

I have someone on my wall who fought in it. Émigré Jean Baptiste Pasquanet Baron de Pierre Brune (*1766), photographed in 1845.

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 14/01/2025

I love Thistly Cross, but that's not available anywhere sadly

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 14/01/2025

When it comes to readily available #Cider, is there anything in the UK which beats Weston's Vintage? Any recommendations welcome. #booze

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 12/01/2025

Five years today since I stopped smoking. One of the best decisions of my life. Hard to describe how much everything is better since then.

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 08/01/2025

So this is how you get 5 Star reviews on Amazon.uk. Sell stuff and enclose official looking Amazon letter offering a 15 quid voucher in return for a 5-Star review.

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 06/01/2025

Old Pickle has an IBD flare-up, so she is now wearing her cuddly pullover, sitting on her heating blanket in front of the fire, lovingly observed by @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 10/12/2024

Coffee with 'french milk' on the side in our favourite war museum (even though it's closed today). Perfect afternoon with @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 24/11/2024

You should really follow @bernardwilkin.bsky.social Historian, great friend and writing partner.

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 23/11/2024

Kalkriese, Harzhorn, Agincourt, Nördlingen, Leipzigy, Waterloo, Verdun.. She has pooped on more historical battlefields than anyone else I know. She is a good girl.

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 19/11/2024

Today is spent virtually in a London studio 🎙️ recording VO for an upcoming documentary.

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 18/11/2024

Unusual place for an artist's signature

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 18/11/2024

So if 'we' were looking for a freelance wargame designer or experienced wargamer (with some Kriegsspiel or Planspiel experience) to assist with the development of a simple set of rules (paid job), who would be the person to contact?

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 18/11/2024

Any fashion historians here, who can put this rather interesting 'chain' into context? Is it a one-off? I can't find anything comparable. The portrait dates to about 1826-35 and was painted in West Prussia.

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

Nearly time to start looking for Xmas pressies In WW1 the Crown Prince of Prussia gave personal gifts to all the men of 'his' 5th Army: 1914: A superb porcelain pipe with his portrait. 1915: A leather tobacco pouch embossed with his gilded cypher 1916: A steel cigarette case with his portrait

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

WW1 mustard gas shell incident near Langemark. Luckily only the fuse detonated (causing quite extensive damage to the hay baler), while the Yperite shell itself remained intact. The iron harvest continues.

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

Two weeks ago today we allowed British GCSE students to climb into mine galleries in the Argonnes. We had a full day of private, unlimited hands-on access in a war museum and students drove in WW1 tanks. There is nothing like a @zgtours4schools.bsky.social battlefield tour for schools.

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

The woman I love,my business partner and my best friend have just joined this platform in the form of @dawnmonks.bsky.social Following her makes a lot of sense. I do that all the time.

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

Still my favourite German WW1 aircraft. The Halberstadt CL.II, in this case from Schlachtstaffel 19. Note the air gunner's valiant teddy bear assistant. #ww1 #history

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

German soldiers of Infanterie-Regiment 370 answering the call of nature in the ruins of La Fosse No. 9 (Mine Pit No. 9) Saint-Théodore in Lens in Summer 1918. #ww1 (own collection)

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

I collect photographs of French Napoleonic War veterans (and the occasional German). This superb tinted Daguerreotype arrived a few weeks back. Photographed in 1853 aged 83 years, this old warrior, a veteran of 14 campaigns, is sitting in his old National Guard uniform. Research ongoing

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 14/11/2024

In the 1930s, a German First World War veteran from Bavaria, posed for two striking portraits in his old Offiziersstellvertreter (deputy officer) uniform. His identity and the reason for the photographs remain a mystery to me, but the quality and expressiveness of the images is just mind-blowing.

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 05/01/2024

Half a page in/on @faznet.bsky.social tomorrow with the story of a murder committed 275 years ago. All beautifully written up by @hemicker.bsky.social

18th century oil portait of an officer with a powdered wig, white uniform with blue applications and gold braid.

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 01/01/2024

Lovely to receive a printed copy of this for the new year. +++ In 2024 you will read and hear a lot more sickening details about the industrial exploitation of human bones (not only from battlefields) from the 18th right into the early 20th century. ++ #history #waterloo

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 22/12/2023

I am used to the neighbours leaving a box of chocolates on the doorstep as a xmas present, or maybe a bottle of wine. Here the neighbours leave what they have shot last Tuesday - I kind of like this better. Love the countryside. Some work ahead tonight!

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 14/12/2023

It has been done. The first peer-reviewed paper it out. Published by the venerable Journal of Belgian History (Cegesoma). The paper is also available online (free) The real fate of the #Waterloo Fallen Next step 'the book' #history www.journalbelgianhistory.be/en/journal/b...

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 23/11/2023

"It's not a documentary" will remain the lame excuse for shite & shoddy #history movies for millenia to come. Directly followed by "Never mind, as long as it creates new interest in the period." #NapoleonMovie #youwerentthere

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/11/2023

Today, 10 graves of German Jewish soldiers who where killed during the First World War and buried at German military cemetery in Moulin-sous-Touvent im France were desecrated and destroyed. A pathetic and disgusting deed. #Antisemitism #ww1 #History

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 15/11/2023

A commercial 1915 #ww1 postcard showing German (Saxon) soldiers in a trench skinning and gutting rats. 'Menu' board in background announces that the special of 15 March 1915 is rat goulash. I honestly can't tell what these guys are doing. But more rat-themed photos coming up. #history

Printed 1915 photo postcard showing German #ww1 soldiers skinning and portioning rats in a trench. Behind them a menu sign promoting today's rat goulash special.

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