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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 23h

Flight Lieutenant Ken V. Robertson, Cotton’s chief test pilot, wearing the CAAG. It was Robertson who persuaded the pilots of 452 Squadron to give the suit a chance.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 1d

Australian soldiers moving up to the front in 1918. Despite their depleted numbers, AIF troops retained a reputation as ferocious fighters and were among the most effective shock troops the Empire would deploy. Read more �‘‰ https://lttr.ai/AkI6r #history

History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 1d

Britain had been wary of foreign agents operating within its shores in the run up to the First World War, and the Secret Service Bureau – now commonly known as MI5 – had been established in 1909.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 1d

Women cleaning the coal, April 1898. Though their work was legal and essential, it was constantly challenged for being seen as ‘unfeminine’.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 2d

Joseph of Arimathea is important in making the connection to Glastonbury’s Celtic origins – the belief that Joseph founded a church of British Christianity that predated the Roman mission to England (from 597 CE).

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 3d

Historians once ignored the environment—now they can’t afford to. Environmental history brings together science and the humanities to understand how we got here.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 3d

But detailed historical research on the colonial frontier unequivocally supports the idea that Aboriginal people were subject to attack, assault, incursion, conquest and subjugation: all synonyms for the term “invasion”.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 4d

The Labour government despatches a three-man Cabinet Mission with the objectives of securing Indian agreement to a representative government to whom power would be transferred and of arresting the apparent slide towards civil war. Read more �‘‰ https://lttr.ai/AkBT6

History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 4d

"And how marvellous they all were helping each other and then we were flat out with nobody to help. Because it was so stretched, but the boys themselves, anyone that could get up and help would, and all they wanted to do was get back to see how there mates were."

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 4d

A private toilet under the stairs in Herculaneum’s Casa del Gran Portale.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 5d

But there is no clear evidence for population movement or economic and technological change in the past 10,000 years.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 6d

1. Where did the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War take place?
History Guild Weekly History Quiz No.289
See how your history knowledge stacks up!
https://historyguild.org/weekly-history-quiz-no-289/

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 6d

Russell lists the dead and wounded – as a cavalryman, he also mentions the horses that suffered – before concluding that it was, “the sorest stroke any Cavalry Regiment has suffered at one day’s fighting since the memory of man”.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 7d

An Italian plane, a Savoia Marchetti SM 79, during an attack on a convoy bound for Malta during the Second World War. Read more �‘‰ https://lttr.ai/Aj6MI #history

History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 8d

Ruled by Philip the Bold, Burgundy quickly became one of Europe’s most advanced gunsmiths, having sent out explorers and spies to the Middle Eastern kingdoms to gather knowledge on gunpowder technology.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 10d

On Easter Monday 1916 nearly 2000 Irish men and women drawn from nationalist and socialist strands seized buildings across Ireland’s capital Dublin and declared an Irish republic.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 11d

The United Nations deployment to Rwanda seemed like a straightforward peacekeeping mission back in 1993. Instead of overseeing national reconciliation, U.N. soldiers became eyewitnesses to genocide.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 12d

1. Who was an Official Australian Photographer during both WWI and WWII, as well as accompanying three Antarctic Expeditions?

WWII History Quiz, try all 10 questions!

https://historyguild.org/wwii-history-quiz/

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 13d

1. Which of these Naval commanders led an expedition around the world?

History Guild Weekly History Quiz No.288
See how your history knowledge stacks up!

https://historyguild.org/weekly-history-quiz-no-288/

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 13d

Humans have always loved predicting the future. From ancient divination in the Roman Empire to newspapers and pundits such as John Watkins in 1900, foreseeing events in the future correctly has ranged from an apparent valued skill to a fun past-time.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 13d

Napoleon Bonaparte may have died 200 years ago, but the vast ramifications of his rule can still be felt – and not only in France.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 14d

WWII Aircraft Recognition Quiz – General

10 randomly selected WWII aircraft each time you take the quiz. Try again when you are finished for a new selection of aircraft!

https://historyguild.org/wwii-aircraft-recognition-quiz-general/

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 14d

The Menzies government’s announcement threw Australian troops into a military “quagmire” of Washington’s making.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 14d

The items, which show signs of preservation, date from around 2100 BCE to 600 BCE. This collection, it is generally thought, was the world’s first known “museum”.

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History Guild @historyguild.bsky.social · 15d

Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross formed the most infamous spy ring of the 20th century: the Cambridge Five.

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