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Simon Jones
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Writes about the First World War. FRHistS. Late museum curator. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
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Norfolk Record Office @norfolkro.bsky.social · 4h
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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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 2h
That's basically how I have to write, due to a lack of short-term memory, and the slow, painful process of making thoughts into coherent sentences.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 3h
He went on his way.
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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 4h
Modellers - the call you have been waiting all your lives for...!

Does anyone have any models of #WW2 aircraft they could drop by a school in Newbury tomorrow?

A group of students wants to film a scene - presumably with them going "Pew! Pew! Nerrrrr!"

Please share 🙏
three planes are flying in a row in a cloudy sky
ALT: three planes are flying in a row in a cloudy sky
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 3h
At the local watering hole.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 8h
It's always reassuring to discover that extremely successful writers are as desperately plodding and uncertain as you are.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Page of typescript which has been very heavily amended in manuscript.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 12h
“Farm workers follow where the spinner has passed and collect the potatoes in shallow baskets.
Picking up potatoes is back-aching work”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
On a misty day in autumn, a group of mainly women follow a tractor to gather potatoes. The figures are hunched over and you can almost feel the back pain.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 1d
The motivation means peace is unlikely.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you for your service to flapjack understanding.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 4d
Another of Jean Larrivé's models at the French Army Medical Museum at Val-de-Grâce, Paris. This one shows bearers carrying a wounded man into an underground trench dressing station.
Model of stretcher bearers in a trench wearing greatcoats and steel helmets carrying a prostrate man down steps into a dugout.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 5d
The swans have flown. All six cygnets made it.
Sunset and an empty pond.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 6d
Windsor this evening.
Deer in parkland, sun low.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 6d
Shocking plot twist.
During the writing, Gallagher disclosed another decades-old secret to his partner: when he speedily completed the crossword in her copy of the Guardian he had already done it earlier, in his own copy
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 8d
Looking at my old notes of visits to the site of No 8 Stationary Hospital on the cliffs at Wimereux, which was made a special hospital for fractures where Meurice Sinclair (centre) & Tudor Edwards (right) pioneered this method of the treatment of leg fractures using the Thomas splint. (IWM Q 33472)
Patient in hospital bed with leg in splint attended by female nursing sister and two male doctors.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 8d
It's wonderful.
Pages of funny drawings: HIS COAT OF ARDS 2 man in full armour was unrecognisable. A So each man wore a distinctive coat, by which he could be recognised, over his armour. This was called his coat "of armm These arms were displayed on his banner, shield and horsecloth, as well as on his cout- and came to be worn in civil life too. A s no two men in the same region could wear exactly the same coat of arm, these "arms" were soon used separately as personal symbols-and especially to mark theit owners' possessions, became few people could read in those days. Such a coat of arms is usually depicted on a shield. D HIS HELMET AND CREST personal "crest" of light wood or boiled leather A came to be worn-like a cock's comb on top of the helmet, Below the crest a silken mantle hing down to kerp the heat of the sun off the back of the armour. This "mantling" was kept in place by a wreath of twisted silk. Some great mem wote a "chapeau" or a crest-coronet instead of the wreath. Helmet, crest and mantling are usually depicted above the shield. GANG WARILY With the addition of a motto on a scroll, this forns the normal heraldic "achievement" of an ordinary gentlema
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 8d
How has my wife kept this book from me for so long?
Book SIMPLE HERALDRY CHEERFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY IAIN DONCREIFFE & DON POTTINGER
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 8d
How it's going... She has a fully-functioning cat flap but prefers to pretend that she's being held captive.
Ginger cat perched on the catch of a window.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 8d
Luckily I don't think it's that type of doll.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 9d
The mortality of femoral fractures was greatly reduced, as I understand it, using the Thomas splint.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 9d
The most disturbing model in the museum at Val-de-Grâce. The method of traction for leg fractures developed during the First World War.
Model with a doll in traction.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 9d
Attachments for a prosthetic arm, First World War, at Val-de-Grâce.
Steel arm with spoon attached, nine other attachments alongside.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 9d
Model of field latrines, Feuillées de campagne, by Jean Larrivé, at Val-de-Grâce.
Model showing pits in ground, soldiers robing and disrobing.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 9d
This statue of Napoleon ended up in the Seine at the fall of the Second Republic in 1870 but it seems no one knows how. It's now at Les Invalides.
Rear view of statue overlooking courtyard.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 9d
Yes, that exhibition is there and is the first of three scheduled I believe.
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 9d
I was so excited about the gas masks I forgot to photograph all of them. 🙄 The museum has some interesting photography exhibitions scheduled so a return visit will be on the cards.
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