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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Really interesting to see the exhibition on the Norfolk Regiment at Norwich Castle. My great uncle was in this Regiment, and never made it home from Singapore - he was executed as a POW at Changi. Quite moving to see this.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Summer holiday auntie antics are jolly good fun. Took my best little bud to Fossils Galore, where put all of our archaeology practice to good use, and ended the day driving around on a tractor-trailer firing water pistols at unsuspecting victims. I’ve never been more proud.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Car shows are for dreaming. I could stand and look at this old girl ALL DAY. If I end up on the run or in jail, this car will be why.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Went to Sheringham in Norfolk to spend some time by the sea, and discovered an absolute gem of a model shop! Smiths Model Railways is the best model shop I’ve been in so far!! Got some filler for my aircraft wing roots and a delightfully thin paintbrush 😊

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I love stumbling across history. This is a WWII Starfish decoy control bunker, designed to create localised fires to fool enemy bombers targeting Swindon. Found it up by Liddington Iron Age hillfort, where King Arthur is said to have defeated the Anglo Saxon Armies!

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

THEY'RE HERE!! The Lancaster Story paperbacks have arrived ahead of the release on 22 May! I'm not going to lie, but the first thing I did after unpacking them was... sniff them.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Had a blast filming Who Do You Think You Are with the wonderful LaytonWilliams! What a treat to get to sit aboard one of the "Little Ships" and chat Dunkirk history! Catch us on BBC iPlayer to find out all the things...

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I had a blast filming Who Do You Think You Are in Casablanca in Morocco, with the wonderful Ross Kemp! Catch up on BBC iplayer to find out what we chatted about! And when the camera wasn’t rolling, we chatted a lot about our native Norfolk - good times!!

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Practical Tips for Flying In Spitfires: Tip 2 New tip every Friday! Check out the channel for more Spitfire flight tips: youtu.be/-TphlaCKaME

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

VERY chuffed to have received my signed copy of ‘The Invisible Campaign’ from the brilliant @lydiajane13.bsky.social!! It’s an absolutely cracking book based on excellent research, and an extremely important and novel contribution to military history (and it has very sexy colour maps)

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I am VERY excited to announce the launch of 'A Touch of History', which I will be presenting! Find out more @ the bottom of this page: sarah-louisemiller.com/media-work More info soon, but for now, here are some practical tips for flying in Spitfires. Tip One:

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Getting into model building means that things like buying 300 cotton buds brings you a lot more joy and excitement than it ever has before… What are some of the most useful tools/bits and bobs you use to build models?

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Couldn’t decide so got both. Now I can’t decide again… which to build first 🤔

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

We found some amazing things while filming the new series of WWII: Secrets From Above for National Geographic and it was wonderful to explore and work with the lovely team at the Arctic Convoy Museum in the Highlands of Scotland! Catch me across the series, out now on National Geographic TV

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Filmed this BBC series in Liverpool last year, and it’s now out on BBC iplayer if you’re looking for some telly to watch! It was wonderful to film at the brilliant Western Approaches museum, and to demonstrate the work of the Western Approaches Tactical Unit!

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

And she’s done - build no. 3 is complete! I do love a P-51. I have now built all the models I bought - need to buy a new one to work on. Thinking probably a Hurricane. Working my way up to the Lanc and B-17.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Catch me in the new series of WWII: Secrets From Above by National Geographic! Had a blast filming this series! Especially the eps at RAF museum, aboard HMS Belfast, and in the Highlands! I even managed a whole day of shooting with the drone without falling over or walking into a sheep!

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Spent yesterday with the wonderful Royal Navy at Portsmouth, aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth II (aircraft carrier), HMS Duncan (type 45 destroyer) and HMS Ledbury (mine hunter). Also spent some time with the Wildcat maritime force. Brilliant people, amazing kit, best day! Love my job!

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Generic ‘a TV show what I am in, is starting soon’ skeet. Great fun filming, a big thank you to Peter Monk and the team at Biggin Hill for their hospitality. Keep your eyes peeled for my compadre @sarahloumiller.bsky.social too www.natgeotv.com/uk/shows/nat...

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National Geographic - World War II: Secrets From Above

Revealing the most extraordinary stories of WWII from a brand-new perspective, this series reconstructs: the battle in the skies over Britain, the hunt for the deadly Nazi U-boats, the spectacular par...

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What a tremendous honour to be at IBCC yesterday for the unveiling of these beautiful silhouettes of women in war - deeply moving, and very important. Wonderful to join @lydiajane13.bsky.social, @claremulley.bsky.social & Jeannie Benjamin in conversation afterwards too. Brilliant work, @IntBCC

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Panel from the 'Writers of War' from the 'Women at War' book festival at the IBCC in Lincoln yesterday. A wizard session! Jane's book is out now and it is a game changer for Bomber Command types. Get a copy folks! @lydiajane13.bsky.social @claremulley.bsky.social @sarahloumiller.bsky.social

Chair Suzanne Raine, IBCC Trustee, Sarah-Louise Miller, Jane Gulliford-Lowes, Clare Mulley, and Jeannie Benjamin on chairs as the panel. Table with Jane's new book, The Invisible Campaign on it in the foreground.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The parents (because they are legends) picked this up for me at a Dutch antiques shop. Can’t stop looking at it!!

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It’s Friday night, and the tools are out, and Sarah has had a long day. But it’s weekend now, and it’s modelling time… so Frankie has come out to play.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

My very clever uncle has written 'Bowieland', a book of walks that "uncover hidden layers, and make fresh connections to key Bowie stories, revealing influences conscious and subconscious". It is being launched 15 April - join us in Oxford at 5.30pm! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-carp...

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Peter Carpenter 'Bowieland'

Carpenter travels suburban lands creating a new, very real place, that anyone can visit if they take the time. Welcome to 'Bowieland'

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Build 1, build 2, and my next build (which I’m itching to start but it’s a school night 😭). Will be my Revell kit. Loving this hobby so far!! Just need to get brave enough to attempt to paint the canopy frame…

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

And she’s done! Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat, flown by First Lieutenant James E. Swett, VMF-221, Marine Air Group 12, USMC, Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 1943. Apt, because I was teaching on Guadalcanal while building it!

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Wildcat progress. Definitely not perfect, but considering I had to take a scalpel to the wings to remove them (because like a doofus I put them on upside down) then reattach, it could be worse. Second build almost complete. Decals tomorrow. Loving learning!!

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The paperback of my second book, The Lancaster Story, is due out soon - available for pre-order at Waterstones! I do love paperbacks - easier to lug around in your backpack.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Right, be honest. Raise your hand if you’ve ever stuck a part on, let the glue dry, and then realised it’s incorrectly placed and had to take a precision cutting tool to it to correct it. My hand is raised - a wing, of all things… placed upside down while trying to multitask…

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It’s been a few weeks since I could get the tools out. Pleased to be back in my happy place. Would be happier still if the cat hadn’t stolen part of the undercarriage and hidden it.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My dad just called, and when he asked how I was doing, I said, “I’m having massive problems with my undercarriage”. Short, awkward silence. The undercarriage:

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It doesn’t matter how many times I am treated inappropriately by chaps in my field - each time feels as jarring and distressing as the first, and is awful. It doesn’t do any good at all to stay quiet about it, so here I am to say - be appropriate, and be kind. It costs nothing.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It’s weekend now, and that can only mean one thing in the Miller house. It’s MODEL MAKING TIME!! Treated myself to some new tweezers for decal placement and I feel more excited than anyone should really ever be about tweezers.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A busy January so far working with the fantastic folks from the Royal Navy on the Maritime Intermediate Command and Staff Course at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. I truly have the most wonderful job and get to teach the most wonderful people! DSD Kings College London, Defence Academy

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

And she’s done!! It turns out that hell hath no fury like Sarah trying to apply decals when she’s very tired on a Friday night. But it’s weekend. Rude not to.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I absolutely love this piece, made for me by the very talented artist, Susan Lorna Brown. I love it because it's a shiny little reminder that even when the lines aren't straight and the road I'm walking is littered with unexpected loops and obstacles, it can still be beautiful.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

11.48 last night Husband: It’s snowing! Want to go outside and lob snow at each other? Me: Oh yes, let’s. May we never grow up.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Got my office calendar for next year. Trying very hard not to peek at January already…

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Interested in naval history? Join us online for a talk by my fantastic friend and KCL colleague, Dr Rachel Blackman-Rogers, about "how the Navy saved Britain, 1893-1798" - 10 December, 1300-1400! Talk will be followed by a Q&A. Don't miss it folks! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/dsd-r...

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DSD Research Seminar Series: How the Navy Saved Britain, 1793-1798

Discover how Britain’s naval strategy secured its survival during the French Revolutionary Wars in this compelling seminar with Rachel Blackman-Rogers

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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DSD Research Seminar Series: How the Navy Saved Britain, 1793-1798

Discover how Britain’s naval strategy secured its survival during the French Revolutionary Wars in this compelling seminar with Rachel Blackman-Rogers

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My “wall of things that make me smile” in the office. Everyone should have one of those.

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's always great to see a book you wrote in shops, but there is something really special about seeing it in your hometown! I visited Words & Wonder in Downham Market and spotted the Lancaster Story! Beautiful independent bookshop, fully recommend! wordsandwonderbooks.com

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

When you tell yourself you're buying them as Christmas presents for other people but you know full well they aren't ever leaving your house...

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Three books published in two years. Writing history books is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I don't plan to ever stop. Huge thanks to everyone who has helped me along the way - too many to name here. What a privilege to be able to do what I love!

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

How it started, and where it is now - released today! From PhD thesis to book with Bloomsbury Academic. I'm not going to say "where it finished", because I believe there is still a lot more work to be done to build on this project - and I can't wait to do it! bloomsbury.com/uk/women-in-al…

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Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I've discovered that tank slippers are a thing and now I can't think about anything else... Thinking about getting different tanks for different family members and battling it out on Christmas Day... Thanks for this glorious creation at the Tank Museum! tankmuseumshop.org/collections/sl…

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