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Judith Jones

@jellyjudith.bsky.social

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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

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Judith Jones @jellyjudith.bsky.social · 2d

Because every day is a mental health day…

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3/ The artwork of the children of Theresianstadt

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2/ The names of the Czech victims of the Holocaust on the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue

Judith Jones @jellyjudith.bsky.social · 5d

Things that have left me speechless today
1/ The stained glass in St Vitus Cathedral

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 10d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Judith Jones @jellyjudith.bsky.social · 12d

There’s still room to squeeze in a few more at the Great War Group Conference. Tickets available from www.greatwargroup.com/shop
We’d love to see you there!

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 13d

Portlanders — show off your corner of war-ravaged Portland below.

Cats Pajamas @katzpeejays.bsky.social · 14d

Our corner of war-ravaged Portland.

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The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 16d

Why do the boxes in our storeroom look so worried all the time!?

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Judith Jones @jellyjudith.bsky.social · 17d

Did you do a little dance?

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Nicolai Eberholst (Pike Grey 1914-1918) @pikegrey1418.bsky.social · 17d

Big moment! 😊 First time seeing @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I's book "Ring of Fire" in a bookstore in Denmark!!! So if your i Copenhagen, you can get it at @politiken.dk boghal!

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Judith Jones @jellyjudith.bsky.social · 17d

It'll be recorded and edited before it pops up on the GWG YouTube channel in due course.
(Sorry for butting in 😊)

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 19d

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 20d

Our @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is a month away! So many talks and seminars to choose from.
@pikegrey1418.bsky.social will be giving an exclusive talk about the Battle of Galicia. This oft-ignored scrap in 1914 consumed a million casualties along a 200 mile front in three weeks!

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 20d

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 20d

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Emmett Kelly is going to tackle the story of how Canada went from a tiny army/navy to mobilising men up to 11,000km to get them to war in 1914! Ticket details 👇

Men queuing to enlist in Toronto at the beginning of the war

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 20d

Our @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. From the Royal Logistics Corps Museum, Samantha Jolley is going to be telling us all about tank drivers from the Army Service Corps!

(Photo of tank drivers in training via the Tank Museum, Bovington)

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 20d

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Phil Watson will be kicking off our Friday night on all things Haig by talking about the BEF chief’s command philosophy. Ticket details👇🏼

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Judith Jones @jellyjudith.bsky.social · 20d

The spreadsheet is filling up nicely with old friends and new. Don’t be shy; we are a very friendly, inclusive and occasionally slightly bonkers group with masses of knowledge and enthusiasm to share. We’d love you to join us.
Tickets are still available from www.greatwargroup.com/shop

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 21d

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."

A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 20d

The only problem with a Popular Front is that none of the people who would front it are that popular.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 21d

The flag of the last British High Commissioner for Palestine, General Sir Alan Cunningham. Flown from HMS Euralyus as Cunningham departed Haifa, May 1948.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 21d

Flag of the Arab Revolt, flown from a house occupied by Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al Hashemi in Damascus in September 1919, and given by Faisal to T E Lawrence.

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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 20d

Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert... etc

All looks very familiar.

Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders BERLIN, Feb. 4- (U.P.)-When Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels yesterday blasted Germany's cafe society, he called it "society rabble and intellectual snobs," for laughing at comedians who make Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes. Goebbels turned his anger upon the "society rabble" after an-nouncing that German five actors had been banned from the stage for publicly rediculing Nazi party and state functionaries. He denied that there was any lack of humor in Nazi Germany, but said that it must be kept "good-natured, decent and clean." a "There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough," he said in three and one-half column editorial in the Nazi party's newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter, "But we do not per-mit ourselves to be ridiculed." The five actors were Wer-ner Finck, actor-author: Pete Sachse, vaudeville comedian, and Helmut Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi, the latter three members of a vaudeville combination known "The as Three Rulands." The five were said to have been warned re-peatedly to stop making jokes about the Nazis.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 24d

Love this. Humour with a historical sentiment.

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Judith Jones @jellyjudith.bsky.social · 24d

Not yet. But the bed socks are back.