Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 28/11/2025Nothing beats old school lighting for a relaxing night. 030
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 01/10/2025US-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 030
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 18/06/2025www.faz.net/aktuell/gese... Danke @hemicker.bsky.social #waterloo210faz.netWaterloo-Fälschungen entlarvt: Historiker decken Täuschung aufZum 210. Jahrestag der Schlacht von Waterloo zeigen Forscher, dass die Geschichte in Teilen neu geschrieben werden muss. Ein Großteil der in Sammlungen und Museen vorhandenen Überbleibsel des Kampfes ... 031
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 18/06/2025am thrilled to announce the publication of our latest peer-reviewed research, "Sowing Eagles: 200 Years of Forging Waterloo Battlefield Relics." From October in the 'Revue belge d’Histoire Militaire' you can read online here already: sramakvvl.be/en/sowing-ea... @bernardwilkin.bsky.socialsramakvvl.beSowing Eagles: 200 years of forging Waterloo battlefield relics. - SRAMA – KVVLBERNARD WILKIN (State Archives of Belgium), ROBIN SCHÄFER (Independent historian) et ARNE HOMANN (Director of the Schloss Salder Municipal Museum, Salzgitter, Germanyne) Introduction ‘Sir!’ exclaimed ... 031
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 10/05/2025No 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 1120
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 05/05/2025I 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 140
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 23/04/2025Very happy that this chapter is now publicly available via academia. "The economic exploitation of 'hero's bones' and other human remains: A Central European Perspective (1800-1930)" by Arne Homann and myself. www.academia.edu/128964647/Th... #history #archaeology #battlefieldsacademia.eduThe economic exploitation of "hero's bones" and other human remains: A Central European Perspective (1800-1930)This paper provides a concise overview on the usage of human bones for industrial purposes (fertiliser, charcoal for sugar refining) in 19th and 20th century Europe. The bones used were mostly taken f... 020
Reposted by Robin SchäferDr Bernard Wilkin @bernardwilkin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025How did trade tariffs affect the bone industry in the 19th century? And how did it contribute to the exploitation of the bodies of the Waterloo fallen? Find out for free in our article www.journalbelgianhistory.be/en/journal/b...journalbelgianhistory.beThe real fate of the Waterloo fallen. The exploitation of bones in 19th century Belgium 054
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 28/03/2025That's likely to be spot on! Excellent! Thanks so much 000
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 28/03/2025Haven't done one of those shout outs on here before. Can anyone shed light on the first names of: Second Lieutenant (in 1916) A.C. Harrison, 15th Royal Scots @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social Any help appreciated #ww1 #history 110
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 28/03/2025Merci @hemicker.bsky.social Can't wait to get started! #history #Germany 061
Reposted by Robin SchäferBattlefield Design @battlefieldgd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Two more revamped covers... 1112
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 22/02/2025After approx 140 years this lamp is still doing it's duty without complaints 060
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 19/02/2025In 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 120
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 03/02/2025The comments on this article are as frightening as they are stupid 280
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 03/02/2025Zero educational value. There are things you can't portray. 210
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 03/02/2025Was asked today what I think of #WW2/Nazi reenactment (German in particular) www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... #history #livinghistorydailymail.co.ukRow breaks out among Nazi re-enactorsRules of attendance at the 'Spirit of Wartime' event in Nottinghamshire have been changed after participants were allowed to fly Swastika flags and wear uniforms resembling the Waffen SS last year. 3130
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 14/01/2025I have someone on my wall who fought in it. Émigré Jean Baptiste Pasquanet Baron de Pierre Brune (*1766), photographed in 1845. 143
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 14/01/2025I had it a few times in pubs when Dawn and I walked the Hadrian's Wall. Never can find it down here. I have become a lot 'drier' than I used to be. More cups of tea now, getting old.. 110
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 14/01/2025I love Thistly Cross, but that's not available anywhere sadly 220
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 14/01/2025When it comes to readily available #Cider, is there anything in the UK which beats Weston's Vintage? Any recommendations welcome. #booze 230
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 12/01/2025Five years today since I stopped smoking. One of the best decisions of my life. Hard to describe how much everything is better since then. 050
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 08/01/2025Do you have to pay for this kind of work in the UK? Shocking! Good luck bud!! 210
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 08/01/2025So 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. 100
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 06/01/2025Old 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 050
Reposted by Robin SchäferJack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Don’t know what to do. Just found out my wife doesn’t like Groundhog Day. 691
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 01/01/2025Ggf geht auch der ein oder andere Daumen fliegen. 010
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 31/12/2024Heavy trip Marathon with @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk 020
Reposted by Robin SchäferRobin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 24/12/2024www.thetimes.com/article/0550... The only press article about the #ChristmasTruce worth reading this year. Beautifully written by @hackblackburn.bsky.social A stunning discovery by my old friend @profpeterdoyle.bsky.socialthetimes.comSpice tins given to Germans prove Indians were at Christmas truceThe cases, given to some Indian troops instead of smoking kits in the First World War, became part of festive exchange between enemy soldiers, research reveals 0174
Reposted by Robin SchäferJack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024On Christmas Eve night… A story about the Christmas Truce 110 years ago and how we now definitely known that Indian soldiers were a part of it Spice tins given to Germans prove Indians were at Christmas truce www.thetimes.com/article/0550...thetimes.comSpice tins given to Germans prove Indians were at Christmas truceThe cases, given to some Indian troops instead of smoking kits in the First World War, became part of festive exchange between enemy soldiers, research reveals 0146
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 24/12/2024www.thetimes.com/article/0550... The only press article about the #ChristmasTruce worth reading this year. Beautifully written by @hackblackburn.bsky.social A stunning discovery by my old friend @profpeterdoyle.bsky.socialthetimes.comSpice tins given to Germans prove Indians were at Christmas truceThe cases, given to some Indian troops instead of smoking kits in the First World War, became part of festive exchange between enemy soldiers, research reveals 0174
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 24/12/2024It is fantastic. Best apple juice I ever had. Made by les Vergers de Navarre at Vincy-Manœuvre 010
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 17/12/2024If you need more have them send to Dawn and we drive them over 000
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/12/2024I take it you are talking WW2? There is no online record access for starters. Feel free to PM me 000
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/12/2024As 'Vörwarts' sounds more like a skin disease :) 010
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/12/2024There is no one-fits-all reply here. Would need far more detail 100
Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/12/2024Spelling (Marschall) 'Vorwärts' with the correct Umlaut would surely be beneficial for the project. 110