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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Happy Birthday Rin Tin Tin! (Approximate date.) Acclaimed 1920s movie star. Rescued in the rubble of a village abandoned by the retreating Germans during the Saint-Mihiel Offensive. Nursed to health by his new master, he returned with him to the US and became a Hollywood legend. #WW1 #FWW #GreatWar

Black and white photo of Rin Tin Tin on a movie set with a young female co-start. He is standing on the floor with his front paws on a small wooden table. Tongue out staring to his right. The little girl is smiling at the camera and wearing a long skirt, dark still, and a bonnet. Wall behind them.

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you to everyone who attended and made it a very special weekend.

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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🇷🇺🇺🇸The first shipment of Russian diesel is arriving on the US East Coast less than 24 hours after the announcement that sanctions would be lifted. The Russian tanker MINERVA left St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 22 and appears to have been heading toward the US East Coast throughout this time.

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Italy follows up recent progress with attacks to extend the Gorizia bridgehead. Night attacks and brutal fighting allow the Italians to seize vital trenches just a few kilometers from Trieste. Austria-Hungary will shorten their lines along Mount Santo and the Hermada Hills. #WW1 #FWW #GreatWar

Upper Left: Black & White Photo of a machine gun crew in action. In the background are soldier with rifles firing. The position is amongst rocks with a mountain in the far background.
Upper Right: Black and white photo of a single soldier behind a rock wall overlooking a valley and a small settlement underneath snowy mountains.
Bottom Left: Black and white photo of fully laden troops marching up a path among cannon blasted trees and desolate landscape toward a white church on a small hill. Mountains in the background.
Bottom Right: A group of soldiers in a trench built into a steep mountainside. Beyond them is a covered shelter against the hillside. They are looking down below them. In the background are misty mountain ranges.

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Shameful.

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 09/10/2026

NEW BOOK: my first children's book is out this week. It's an encyclopedia of Europe for 8-12s.

Cover of book called Extraordinary Europe with the title in shiny letters and a map of Europe in the background.

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Peter Hart @peterhart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Next up in LAUGH OR CRY is THE MEN ALL LOVED ME. It refers to the belief amongst some officers that they were popular with the other ranks. Sometimes they were; sometimes they weren't! Please share and buy the book! open.spotify.com/episode/6z9L...

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SPECIAL: Laugh or Cry - The Men All Loved Me!

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Happy Birthday Eddie Rickenbacker! The most famous US Ace of WW1. Started the war as a driver for Col Billy Mitchell (Father of the US Air Force) and he helped get him into the air service where he excelled. Incredible life after the war. Wrote a great memoir of his war service. #WW1 #FWW #GreatWar

Black and white photo of Rickenbacker standing next to his fighter plane. He is in uniform with tall leather boots. Wearing his airman's cap. His plane has a star spangled hat upside down next to him and below his seat. Behind him you see the large number 5. Small crowd behind him on other side of the plane. Ground is muddy.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 08/10/2026

🧵 The Wehrmacht was a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION responsible for mass crimes against humanity and genocide.🧵 🔥The mother of threads.🔥 Click below for an exhaustive discussion of the criminality of the German Army during WWII as I try to once again kill the cockroach that is the Clean Wehrmacht Myth!

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The Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales @wtsww.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The results are in... Today The Bank of England has announced which wildlife species will be stepping into the spotlight on our new notes. And the winners are: 🦉 Barn Owl 🦔 European Hedgehog 🐝 Buff-tailed Bumblebee 🐧 Atlantic Puffin Four important and iconic species.

A Hedgehog coming through a gap under a fence.

A close up of a Puffin on a blue background.

A pale brown and white owl flying through the air.

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Merryn @merrynwalters.uk · 08/10/2026

Getting into London, getting back into the London Bomb Map, and reminded that layersoflondon.org ties these sheets to an image archive, well worth exploring.

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In 1853 the Russian navy defeated the Ottoman fleet anchored at Sinop. They managed to avoid the shore defences and used shells to decimate wooden ships for the first time. This week’s free to read; jerijerod14.substack.com/p/russia-vic... #history #navalhistory

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Russia victorious

The Russian fleet’s sweeping victory at Sinop in 1853

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Edith Pechey-Phipson was born 181 years ago today. A trailblazer in the push for women's medical education, she was also a pioneering woman surgeon, the driving force behind the Cama Hospital, and a key figure in fighting the 1896 Bombay Plague. tinyurl.com/2mbhhcdx #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory ⚕️

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One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga of Dr Edith Pechey-Phipson.

In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim 10 million lives over the following decade as the government stumbled after a consistent heal...

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This week’s podcast is out - three ships you’ve probably never heard of doing things you probably have. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m... #history #navalhistory

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Ratler, Racehorse and Chatham

Podcast Episode · Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged) · 7 October · 23min

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

7 October 1897 | A French Jew, Roger Lucien Levy, was born in Boulogne. In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

Vintage portrait of a man in military uniform, wearing a beret.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And the relaunch is live! WW1TV is back with @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social at the helm - Henry was in charge for this one, whilst I rattled on about Africa and the outbreak of the war… m.youtube.com/watch?v=kTZ1...

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Africa on the Outbreak of War

YouTube video by WW1TV

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The striking “Death or Glory” badge of the 17th/21st Lancers on the headstone of Major Desmond Miller. The 39-year-old Royal Armoured Corps officer was mentioned in dispatches for distinguished service in connection with operations in Norway. 📍Rugby (Clifton Road) Cemetery 🇬🇧

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𝟙𝟜𝟙𝟠𝕔𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤 @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 06/10/2026

This is quite old now but seems to be holding up quite well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCN...

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How to trace a British prisoner of war in Red Cross records

YouTube video by Chris Baker

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

www.youtube.com/live/kTZ1rqu...

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just click on the link to join www.youtube.com/live/kTZ1rqu...

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Debout les Morts ! @vingtfrong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

« Verdun, petite vieille ville, probablement somnolente d’habitude, rendue étrange d’aspect par l’état de guerre : des boutiques fermées, cafés transformés en dépôt de comestibles ou vendant du matériel de campement, quelques-unes offrent des tenues bleu ciel ;

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interest in the war was popular way before social media posts and Great War Groups. The exhibitions showing the front and the general experiences of the war, were very popular with the public. Albeit featuring censored, vetted and sometimes staged images. #ww1 #WarHistory #HomeFront #entertainment

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midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org · 06/10/2026

We can see ALFOST in the Background. ALFOST admiral in charge of French deterrence. (4-SSBN 6-SSN) Admiral Xavier Petit, Youngest submarine Captain of the French Navy (SNA Casabianca) at 34. 25 000 hours under the sea...

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𝟙𝟜𝟙𝟠𝕔𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤 @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 06/10/2026

A long shot, perhaps, but is anyone due to visit the British Library soon and who could consult an Indian Army officer's service record for me? I am just after one or two specific details. #ww1 #genealogy

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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are about ten billion better ways to spend this money on defence than on this nonsense

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COPP Survey @coppsurvey.uk · 06/10/2026

🗓️ #OTD in 1942 – Nigel Willmott is in the Med with a thrown-together team doing beach recce ahead of Op Torch. In his absence, back in the UK his long-standing plea for beach recce to be taken seriously is starting to produce permanent results. (📸 IWM A 17721, illustrative) #NavalHistory 🧵

Landing Craft Assault (LCA) training at the Combined Training Centre (CTC) in Kabrit, Egypt, where earlier in the war Nigel Willmott had been on the staff and had lobbied for the establishment of a permanent beach-reconnaissance unit.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On 5 October 1915, sixteen members of the Royal Malta Artillery were tragically killed in an explosion while filling hand grenades at the Malta Dockyard. One of those killed was Gunner Carmelo Farrugia. 📍Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery 🇲🇹

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Debout les Morts ! @vingtfrong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As someone who recently traveled by train through the forests of the Charente, it’s good to see that during the Centenary (and since), local French groups have perpetuated the memory of the Canadian and US units (and the French) who worked to supply the Allied armies’ insatiable demand for wood #WW1

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

By the end of the war around 17,000 Canadian foresters were working in Britain and France.

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Tom Isitt @tomisitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s not too late to sign up for this wonderful event. I’ve done an all-new, mountain-specific presentation, and will be giving my talk while dressed thematically. @ntwf.bsky.social

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Merryn @merrynwalters.uk · 05/10/2026

So, Monday's off to a spluttering start, then. If you've sorted the flash floods in your inbox, and already feel like setting fire to this week's calendar, you could have a cup of tea - coffee - Un Petit Pause - and read this instead. www.merrynwalters.uk/p/montelimar...

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Montelimar: The What, The Where

What a Sketch Map Can Do, and A Detailed Map Does Not

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tenue31 @tenue31.fr · 05/10/2026

Le vaguemestre vient de passer pour @laurentalbaret.bsky.social ✉️ #histoiremilitaire

Carte postale ancienne de vaguemestre.
En vente sur https://www.vinted.fr/items/10163597449-carte-postale-ancienne-19001914-nouvelles-du-regiment

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Merryn @merrynwalters.uk · 05/10/2026

One of the mapmakers: a chap named Mayne, I believe ~ no, not that Mayne, another Mayne ~ sorting out the mapping for 2 NZ Division's advance up through Italy in June 1944.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#OTD 5 October 1917, Frank Hurley took this photograph during the Third Battle of Ypres. Soldiers of the 1st Australian Division near Hooge follow a duckboard track to relieve comrades whose attack on 4th took Broodseinde Ridge. The next objective was Passchendaele. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Black and white photo soldiers silhouetted on the skyline and reflected in water.

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

By the end of the war around 17,000 Canadian foresters were working in Britain and France.

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lt Gen Vyvyan Pope DSO MC & Bar took comd of newly formed XXX Corps in Sep 41. On 5th Oct 1941 he was traveling with his ADC Capt George Amery RTR and 2 Brigadiers in a Hudson from 267 Sqn RAF. The plane lost power, crashed nr Abassia, and caught fire. The 4 aircrew and 4 passengers were all killed.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For the next week or so I’m going to be looking at British prisoners in 1940 - starting with an inter-continental yarn… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-th...

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧵One hundred and ten years ago today Private Ernest Taylor (1896 - 1916), from Horbury and of the York and Lancaster Regiment died in the Battle of the Somme He was one of those whose stories I included in the book Silent Witnesses. I included two letters which tell of the horror of war. On his

Contay British Cemetery, France CC BY-SA 3.0

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COPP Survey @coppsurvey.uk · 01/10/2026

🗓️ #OTD in 1942 – Party Koodoo (a pre-COPP unit assembled at short notice by eventual COPP founder Nigel Willmott) starts carrying out beach reconnaissance near Algiers and Oran ahead of Operation Torch, next month's landings in Vichy French-held north Africa (🗺️ from London Gazette). #NavalHistory 🧵

Sketch map of the Operation Torch landings at Algiers, reproduced from Admiral Andrew Cunningham’s post-operation report which was published in the London Gazette.

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Irlams o' th' Height had a female Station Master and a fully female compliment of staff. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway hired many women during the war. They took on roles such as Station Master, porters, locomotive and carriage cleaners, and ticket collectors. #ww1 #WomensHistory #Railway

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On 1st October 1918 the Egyptian Expeditionary Force captured Damascus. The 10th Australian Light Horse were the first unit to enter the city.

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T. Vallé @thibval.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#1GM #genealogie Nouvelle biographie croisée de Marguerite et Suzanne, infirmières à Mâcon durant la Première Guerre grâce à @b1geamain.bsky.social 2 parcours singuliers tombés dans l'oubli, liés par un lien particulier à découvrir angesblancs1418.e-monsite.com/blog/marguer...

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Marguerite et Suzanne RIVIERE, mère et fille, ou presque

Il y a des recherches qui paraissent impossibles. Des parcours perdus dans les méandres des décennies écoulées. Mais, avec la numérisation de plus en plus de sources, et la chance qui va avec, il est ...

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