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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

It’s the 114th anniversary of the 114th meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defence on 23 August 1911, one of the many stepping stones towards British involvement in a general European War. The minutes are transcribed at The Dreadnought Project. #history t.co/uNUV6MMWRQ

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Finally gotten around to reinstalling Bluesky after my phone was stolen in London in June. Did I miss anything?

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I’ve finally started cataloguing letters I’ve copied and hit 300 so far. Now I see why archives aren’t that keen on doing it. Going through one collection and it’s interesting to see how many letters had incomplete or obscured dates, and how many I’ve missed pages from. 😬

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the worst AI book cover yet.

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I just heard that the historian Jon Sumida passed away on 8 February. Ave atque vale.

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Going through recent archival material …

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Last night I found a 50 year old Rupert the Bear annual on the charity bookshelf at Barrow-in-Furness railway station. The content was a little raunchier than I remember.

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is the most batshit crazy aircraft listening ‘device’ I’ve ever seen. Venice, First World War. #history

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

On 26 October 1918 the Grand Fleet had 867 Royal Air Force personnel and 114 aircraft afloat. 56 aircraft were at shore stations attached to the fleet and 183 were under repair.

A photograph of H.M.S. Argus, aircraft carrier.

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A social media platform is its people, so if everyone flooding here suddenly realise they were the problem all along …

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

“Show me your proposed DMZ.” “OK.” “WTF? I said show me your proposed DMZ.” “I did. Everything in dark green.”

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Checking in, but I’m still over at the dead bird place.

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

I spent too much time yesterday working out that Arthur Pollen (l) and William Goodenough (r) weren’t cousins as a few books claim but second cousins. They shared the same grandparents who died decades before they were born.

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Heading to London to hit the Imperial War Museum and The National Archives. God help me.

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Simon Harley @simonharley.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Telling Paul Kennedy “No historian is without sin” sounds worse than it actually was.

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