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Robin Schäfer

@robschaefer-historian.com
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Verified, travels back and forth a lot, military historian, author, script writer, media adviser, researcher, egodocument-wallah. Cracked the mystery of the Waterloo dead. robschaefer-historian.com independent.academia.edu/Sch%C3%A4f…

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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 28/11/2025
Nothing beats old school lighting for a relaxing night.
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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 · 01/08/2025
#mooh
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 18/06/2025
www.faz.net/aktuell/gese... Danke @hemicker.bsky.social #waterloo210
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Waterloo-Fälschungen entlarvt: Historiker decken Täuschung auf
Zum 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 ...
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 18/06/2025
am 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.social
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Sowing Eagles: 200 years of forging Waterloo battlefield relics. - SRAMA – KVVL
BERNARD WILKIN (State Archives of Belgium), ROBIN SCHÄFER (Independent historian) et ARNE HOMANN (Director of the Schloss Salder Municipal Museum, Salzgitter, Germanyne) Introduction ‘Sir!’ exclaimed ...
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 11/05/2025
Rain hood
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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 · 23/04/2025
Very 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 #battlefields
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The 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...
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Dr Bernard Wilkin @bernardwilkin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
How 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...
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The real fate of the Waterloo fallen. The exploitation of bones in 19th century Belgium
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 28/03/2025
That's likely to be spot on! Excellent! Thanks so much
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 28/03/2025
Haven'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
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 28/03/2025
Merci @hemicker.bsky.social Can't wait to get started! #history #Germany
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Battlefield Design @battlefieldgd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Two more revamped covers...
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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
Harry (History Editor) is a good guy.
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 03/02/2025
Merci kind Sir
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 03/02/2025
Again! They never stop.
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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 · 03/02/2025
Zero educational value. There are things you can't portray.
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 03/02/2025
Was asked today what I think of #WW2/Nazi reenactment (German in particular) www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... #history #livinghistory
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Row breaks out among Nazi re-enactors
Rules 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.
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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
Not bad
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 14/01/2025
I 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..
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 14/01/2025
Look at my follow-up post ;)
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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 · 11/01/2025
Isn't she lovely 😍
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 08/01/2025
Do you have to pay for this kind of work in the UK? Shocking! Good luck bud!!
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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 · 02/01/2025
New bed for the Labradork
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Don’t know what to do. Just found out my wife doesn’t like Groundhog Day.
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 01/01/2025
Noooooo
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 01/01/2025
Ggf geht auch der ein oder andere Daumen fliegen.
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 01/01/2025
Seconded
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 31/12/2024
Don't get my hopes up
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 31/12/2024
Heavy trip Marathon with @dawnmonksillustrations.co.uk
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 24/12/2024
www.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.social
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Spice tins given to Germans prove Indians were at Christmas truce
The 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
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
On 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...
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Spice tins given to Germans prove Indians were at Christmas truce
The 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
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 24/12/2024
www.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.social
thetimes.com
Spice tins given to Germans prove Indians were at Christmas truce
The 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
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 24/12/2024
It is fantastic. Best apple juice I ever had. Made by les Vergers de Navarre at Vincy-Manœuvre
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 17/12/2024
If you need more have them send to Dawn and we drive them over
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/12/2024
Where is my copy? :)
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/12/2024
I take it you are talking WW2? There is no online record access for starters. Feel free to PM me
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/12/2024
As 'Vörwarts' sounds more like a skin disease :)
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/12/2024
There is no one-fits-all reply here. Would need far more detail
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Robin Schäfer @robschaefer-historian.com · 16/12/2024
Spelling (Marschall) 'Vorwärts' with the correct Umlaut would surely be beneficial for the project.
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