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Harlequins @harlequinsrugby.bsky.social · 7h

For London 🏙️😤

#COYQ | #HARvSAR

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Norfolk Record Office @norfolkro.bsky.social · 8h

On this day nurse #EdithCavell and #PhilipeBaucq were shot at dawn for helping allied soldiers to escape Belgium during the First World War. This is a letter from one of those soldiers.

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Bethany Moore @historyandmoore.bsky.social · 10h

#OTD in 1917, Pte Captain Law of Blackheath, Staffs was killed serving with 1st Bn Royal Warks Regt near JOLIE FARM during the First Battle of Passchendaele. Aged 22, Captain's body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

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Bethany Moore @historyandmoore.bsky.social · 10h

#OTD in 1916, Pte Ernest Smith of Old Hill, Staffs was killed serving with 1st Bn Warks Regt in trenches east of Les Boeufs. Aged 21, Ernest's body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 12h

"I've heard that @coldwarpod.bsky.social is worth a listen..."

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 13h

"Hellfire Corner" taken by the Australian photographer Frank Hurley, who combined three separate images into a single negative to produce this incredible picture. His technique brought him into conflict with the authorities. Find out more about war photography in WW1 in a future podcast #WW1 #FWW

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 13h

Groundsman inspects a crater in the middle of the pitch at Old Trafford cricket ground after a German bombing raid on December 22nd 1940.

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 15h

Captain Clarence Jefferies VC was killed on 12th October 1917 leading an attack on a machine emplacement for which he was awarded his Victoria Cross. His body was initially lost but was recovered and identified in 1921.

📍Tyne Cot Cemetery 🇧🇪

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 15h

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A stunning image of Christ the Redeemer (unveiled #OTD in 1931) seemingly holding the Moon in Rio de Janeiro (2024). 📷 Leo Sans

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 15h

FACT OF THE DAY. 12 October 1984. Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher survived an assassination attempt when an IRA time bomb exploded at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the period of the annual Conservative Party Conference.

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Colchester Civic Society @colcivicsociety.bsky.social · 16h

#OnThisDay - 12 October 1577, a return from #Colchester to the Privy Council listed the number of establishments that provided drink and hospitality.

At that time, the town had 9 taverns that sold drink including wine but did not take in lodgers, 5 inns and 38 alehouses.

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Mark Over @markover74.bsky.social · 16h

Don’t tell him Pike

a man in a military uniform with the words " do n't tell him pike " above him

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🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 17h

Your name will also go on the list! what is it?

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Mark Turnbull Author @1642author.bsky.social · 1d

📅#OTD 1642. The House of Lords receives a letter from Baron Stourton, a Catholic peer, with complaints about the 'violences' of parliamentarian troops.
Three hundred hacked his gate down with axes, yelling that they would slit the throats of of every man, woman, and child in his house.

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Mark Over @markover74.bsky.social · 16h

Doing alright 👍, ask me later after the rugby 🏉 😂. Hope you’re doing well and thank you for doing the pod

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 1d

#BOOKGIVEAWAY - The #KGB #defector who saved #MI5 and changed the #ColdWar

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Mark Over @markover74.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 1d

13/18th Royal Hussars during an exercise near Vimy, on 11 October 1939. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, the regiment was transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps and fought as a reconnaissance unit in the Battle of France in 1940, before being evacuated at Dunkirk.

📸 IWM (O 117)

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 1d

#BOOKGIVEAWAY - The #KGB #defector who saved #MI5 and changed the #ColdWar

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Bethany Moore @historyandmoore.bsky.social · 1d

Bits and pieces seen left on the wall at Ulster Tower yesterday afternoon, which the group were fascinated with. Including a driving band, a round still with cordite in and the remains of a boot. I wonder who it belonged to...

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 1d

A pedestal marker (sometimes called a Gallipoli marker) used to remember Pte Victor Cantrill, a Coventry man who served with the Canadian forces. Time and the elements had not been kind to the lead lettering used on his original memorial.

📍Coventry (Windmill Road) Cemetery 🇬🇧

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 1d

Restoration work being carried out on the Buttes in Polygon Wood therefore is currently off limits to the public walking up there. The cemetery is still accessible to the public.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 1d

PHOTO OF THE DAY. The famous Hollywood sign which was originally called Hollywoodland (1923) 📷 S H Woodruff

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 1d

FACT OF THE DAY. 11 October 1982. Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII’s English fleet, which sank on 19 July 1545, was raised in the Solent. The warship is now preserved at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth.

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