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Jonny Dyer
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TV legal chap. First World War MA (Wolverhampton MAfia) and PhD candidate. Studying the performance of 6 BEF divisions on the Western Front 1917-1918. It’ll be mostly that on here, just so you know. Plus some general nonsense. And a bit of the Chels too.
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Goodness, lots of new followers. I’d best do one of those intro posts.

Me - fifty something chap working in kids TV. That’s the day job. But after some soul-searching a few years back I decided to take my interest in the First World War a bit further. This is an understatement, as you’ll see. 1/x
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Verdun in 5 minutes.

Insanely hard to condense the longest battle of WWI into a short video, but here’s my first attempt.

300 days and 300 nights

Unimaginable cost and hardship

Hope I did it justice.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/tCfa-nUOLlM
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November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Today’s article is for the paid subscribers (which, for less than your finest pint in London or a McDonald’s breakfast a month, you to could be…)

jerijerod14.substack.com/p/a-german-a...

Stumpf describes the feelings of the High seas fleet and describes the damage.

#ww1 #navalhistory
A German at Jutland pt. 2
Reinhard Stumpf's account of the fleet after Jutland.
jerijerod14.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
RAF Kenley, first thing this morning. #history #ww2 #RAF
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🎥 Then & Now

The Lost Generation | Where they fell

Verdun, Champagne, the Chemin des Dames, Somme, where over a 1.3m young and old French soldiers fell.

Then & now, where they fell, their faces and their memory 🥀

Glimpse below, for the full film 👇 youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10?si…
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Our Cassino tour for 2026 is now live! Find our more about this immersive six day trip with @alexchurchill.bsky.social via the link below #WW2 www.istoriatravel.org/cassino
CASSINO | Istoria Travel
Join us for this six-day, immersive look at a seminal part of the Allied campaign in Italy.
www.istoriatravel.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Aspects of Hunted have always been a bit questionable, but it’s become a scripted drama now. #Channel4 #Hunted
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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When I thought it couldn't get better than Alan Carr's never-ending panic last week, Celia Imrie has proven me wrong
THIS MOMENT DESERVES A BAFTA #CelebrityTraitors
October 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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The Great War… of Great Moustaches

Here are some of my top 10 Greatest Moustaches of World War I 🥸from Hindenburg’s to papa Joffre’s walrus.

What your favourite?

🎥 Watch the full 👇

youtube.com/shorts/zZM1-...
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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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!
September 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. It’s all very well capturing enemy guns for the win. But what do you do with them afterwards? Mike Taylor is going to tell us!
September 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Reminded me of the best editorial email of all time:
September 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Ta-da! Here are the details of Friday night at our @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference! The Haig Project is drawing to a close; and we’re looking excited to tell people more!

Tickets available at www.greatwargroup.com/shop
September 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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In sad withdrawal after We Have Ways? Join us at @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social for a whole (indoors) weekend of the prequel… @pikegrey1418.bsky.social @peterhart.bsky.social @bigandylock.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Why is that hectoring moron Nick Robinson still in a job? Useless.
September 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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After the guns, we paid our respects to all of the Frenchmen who fell during the #Gallipoli campaign. There are 12,000 in the ossuaries alone.🇫🇷 @peterhart.bsky.social @istoriatravel.bsky.social @seaspitfires.com @danielmcandrew.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I see the usual transfer window bed wetting has commenced. Calm down and have a cup of tea or something. #CFC
August 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Somewhere in an ideal world there is an Amorim / Potter / Martin job swap triangle to keep the nation amused in these dark times. #thefootball
August 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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How Australia has lost out so much relative to Norway…. By giving its natural gas for peanuts to oligopolistic oil giants.
August 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Suffolk Cemetery, Ypres on Sunday.
August 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Godezonne Farm Cemetery, south of Ypres on Sunday.
August 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Gwalia Cemetery, Ypres on Sunday.
August 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Graves of Chinese Labour Corps casualties at Gwalia Cemetery, Ypres on Sunday.
August 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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The first of our conference speakers is GWG trustee Jim Smithson whose WW1 interest is all things Arras 1914-1918. He will be talking about innovation in the French army between 1915-1918. 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

Tickets for the conference are available here!

greatwargroup.com/product-catego…
August 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Just going to leave this here and hope you’ll forgive the fact that @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I are are very excited (thanks to @wsj.com) at our new best seller tag…
August 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
To Folkestone, for wrong war nerding and concrete bothering. #History #WW2 #concretebothering
August 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM