Judith Jones
@jellyjudith.bsky.social
Very amateur historian, particularly WW1. Wife, mum and community volunteer. OBS, DCA Proud member, trustee and ADC of the Great War Group. SACS 😉
I knit so I don’t kill people
I knit so I don’t kill people
'Bitter and pungent' Discuss 😉
Of course when we think of war poetry we think of Owen & Sassoon and their bitter & pungent poetry of WW1, but it is a much broader field than that. Here is "Some Volunteer Verse" from 1905 from The Inns of Court Rifles: lawyers with guns!
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
'Bitter and pungent' Discuss 😉
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We are visiting the 1916 Somme battlefields from 5-8 June 2026 and telling the stories of the men involved in that tragedy. And who better to do experience it with than Peter Hart, Richard van Emden and Alex Churchill.
Mark in your diary and book today: www.istoriatravel.org
Mark in your diary and book today: www.istoriatravel.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
We are visiting the 1916 Somme battlefields from 5-8 June 2026 and telling the stories of the men involved in that tragedy. And who better to do experience it with than Peter Hart, Richard van Emden and Alex Churchill.
Mark in your diary and book today: www.istoriatravel.org
Mark in your diary and book today: www.istoriatravel.org
Huzzah!
The nights have drawn in and our virtual pub opens its doors again this week! Members are invited to join us for convivial #WW1 chat and inevitable chuckles from 8pm on Friday 28th November (UK time) Appropriate link will be emailed to all members 24 hours before 🎉 🥂
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Huzzah!
Found this cracking picture of Charles Townshend yesterday. I think all the braid must have gone to his head. Survivor of two sieges, which is more than can be said of most of the men under him.
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Found this cracking picture of Charles Townshend yesterday. I think all the braid must have gone to his head. Survivor of two sieges, which is more than can be said of most of the men under him.
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I've written a piece for the Write On! Magazine about my weekend with @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social last month and my first steps into learning to "do history". Please give it a read and let me know what you think..
pentoprint.org/thursday-con...
#history #ww1 #writing #pentoprint #greatwargroup
pentoprint.org/thursday-con...
#history #ww1 #writing #pentoprint #greatwargroup
Thursday Connectors: The (R)evolution Of Stories – Pen To Print
pentoprint.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I've written a piece for the Write On! Magazine about my weekend with @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social last month and my first steps into learning to "do history". Please give it a read and let me know what you think..
pentoprint.org/thursday-con...
#history #ww1 #writing #pentoprint #greatwargroup
pentoprint.org/thursday-con...
#history #ww1 #writing #pentoprint #greatwargroup
New online course. The perfect gift for the nerd in your life.
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New online course. The perfect gift for the nerd in your life.
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We lived in a pub when I was growing up and when I was 3 (50 years ago!) we had someone in to draw the pub for a business card. I sat next to him and watched him draw every line. I was transfixed and it was a huge inspiration for me. I’ve dreamt about owning that drawing for years…
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We lived in a pub when I was growing up and when I was 3 (50 years ago!) we had someone in to draw the pub for a business card. I sat next to him and watched him draw every line. I was transfixed and it was a huge inspiration for me. I’ve dreamt about owning that drawing for years…
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Places are going fast for this. Your chance to start bridging the gap between passionate enthusiast and thinking historian…
November 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Places are going fast for this. Your chance to start bridging the gap between passionate enthusiast and thinking historian…
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Today come with me on a bonkers jaunt to Arabia in WW1… achurchill.substack.com/p/free-featu...
FREE FEATURE: A Very Arab Revolt, Pt.I 1916-17
In June 1916, gunfire resounded around the sacred city of Mecca and the Ottoman garrison there found themselves imperilled.
achurchill.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Today come with me on a bonkers jaunt to Arabia in WW1… achurchill.substack.com/p/free-featu...
Hand-knitted in Pudsey by my beautiful mum and still inspiring donations many years later.
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Hand-knitted in Pudsey by my beautiful mum and still inspiring donations many years later.
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk
This is going to be brilliant! I’m in 😁
This January I’m launching an online course for people passionate about History. This isn’t a historian telling you things, it’s designed to turn you from a vociferous reader into someone who is starting to think like a historian themselves… Sign up details: introtohistory.eventbrite.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is going to be brilliant! I’m in 😁
@cwgc.bsky.social This needs a serious and proper response. It shouldn’t take one man to make something happen, but anger is building and a great many people are watching to see what happens next.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Iraq war graves: One man's mission to campaign for cemetery restoration
Tens of thousands of UK and Commonwealth soldiers died in Iraq in the two World Wars.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
@cwgc.bsky.social This needs a serious and proper response. It shouldn’t take one man to make something happen, but anger is building and a great many people are watching to see what happens next.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tell me more about ‘Sleepy Joe.’
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Tell me more about ‘Sleepy Joe.’
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Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
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The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
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Never forget this. Monster.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Never forget this. Monster.
Still trying to get my head round this stuff so I'm going in for a second time.
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Still trying to get my head round this stuff so I'm going in for a second time.
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Some commentators losing their minds that the perpetrator is named Anthony Williams and the hero named Samir Zitouni.
Bloody foreigners coming over here saving people’s lives.
Bloody foreigners coming over here saving people’s lives.
November 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Some commentators losing their minds that the perpetrator is named Anthony Williams and the hero named Samir Zitouni.
Bloody foreigners coming over here saving people’s lives.
Bloody foreigners coming over here saving people’s lives.
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
The morning after Halloween @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social By mid-afternoon everything was completely back to ‘normal’.
November 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The morning after Halloween @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social By mid-afternoon everything was completely back to ‘normal’.
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Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.
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Kyiv
has many cozy bookstores.
They offer food for the brain (books)
and coffee for long, often sleepless nights.
Nations that read can think critically.
Please, read books.
has many cozy bookstores.
They offer food for the brain (books)
and coffee for long, often sleepless nights.
Nations that read can think critically.
Please, read books.
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Kyiv
has many cozy bookstores.
They offer food for the brain (books)
and coffee for long, often sleepless nights.
Nations that read can think critically.
Please, read books.
has many cozy bookstores.
They offer food for the brain (books)
and coffee for long, often sleepless nights.
Nations that read can think critically.
Please, read books.
Born and bred in Pudsey but now an exile in the south, I can’t wait for this.
Sara Cox takes on five marathons in five days to carry Pudsey to Pudsey for BBC Children in Need this November
Sara Cox takes on Radio 2’s longest Children in Need challenge
Sara Cox takes on five marathons in five days to carry Pudsey to Pudsey for BBC Children in Need this November
radiotoday.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Born and bred in Pudsey but now an exile in the south, I can’t wait for this.
Ready for the biggest two mights of the year @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ready for the biggest two mights of the year @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social
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Just a stab in the dark but I feel like we may have our big halloween thing coming up again!
October 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just a stab in the dark but I feel like we may have our big halloween thing coming up again!