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We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
humanists.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Recycling WW1.
March 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Recycling WW1.
Toc-H today
March 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Toc-H today
Solferino Farm cemetery
March 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Solferino Farm cemetery
Poperinge for lunch. Rude not to have a Hommel beer.
March 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Poperinge for lunch. Rude not to have a Hommel beer.
Constructive criticism
March 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Constructive criticism
Christchurch, Oxford
March 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Christchurch, Oxford
Solferino Farm Cemetery
March 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Solferino Farm Cemetery
Messines Church.
March 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Messines Church.
Aeroplane Cemetery
February 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Aeroplane Cemetery
Nine Elms & Soferino Farm Cemeteries.
February 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Nine Elms & Soferino Farm Cemeteries.
RE tunnel on Inchcolm Island. Built in 1916 to service gun positions defending the Forth.
February 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
RE tunnel on Inchcolm Island. Built in 1916 to service gun positions defending the Forth.
Christchurch College, Oxford.
February 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Christchurch College, Oxford.
Home for the next three weeks. WW1.
February 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Home for the next three weeks. WW1.
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Engraved stones probably show fish caught in Stone Age nets!
15,800-year-old engraved plaquettes from Germany depict fishing techniques, including the use of nets, not previously known in the Upper Paleolithic ...
Upper Palaeolithic fishing techniques: Insights from the engraved plaquettes of the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, Germany
The ~15,800 year-old Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, in Germany, has produced 406 engraved schist plaquettes which have been extensively studied in the past. The introduction of advanced imaging tech...
journals.plos.org
February 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Engraved stones probably show fish caught in Stone Age nets!
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It was a remarkable experience to take part in this unique research in Reningelst! Together with archaeologists from Flanders and China, we searched for traces of the Chinese Labour Corps. The first results reveal structures of the camp. #FWW #Archaeology
February 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It was a remarkable experience to take part in this unique research in Reningelst! Together with archaeologists from Flanders and China, we searched for traces of the Chinese Labour Corps. The first results reveal structures of the camp. #FWW #Archaeology
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Now on video! 🎥 The Shindig #Podcast episode I did with Tom and Luke is now available with incredible photos that bring our discussion to life. See the preserved trenches, remarkable finds, and powerful stories.
Watch here: youtu.be/EYUniJ_NZuo?...
#WW1 #Archaeology #History
Watch here: youtu.be/EYUniJ_NZuo?...
#WW1 #Archaeology #History
Echoes from the Trenches: WW1 Unearthed – with Simon Verdegem
YouTube video by Red River Archaeology Group
youtu.be
January 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Now on video! 🎥 The Shindig #Podcast episode I did with Tom and Luke is now available with incredible photos that bring our discussion to life. See the preserved trenches, remarkable finds, and powerful stories.
Watch here: youtu.be/EYUniJ_NZuo?...
#WW1 #Archaeology #History
Watch here: youtu.be/EYUniJ_NZuo?...
#WW1 #Archaeology #History
Read more about the Carron munition workers at theypressalient.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Read more about the Carron munition workers at theypressalient.com
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As a historian, the scale and sinister brutality of the Holocaust terrifies me. And as a descendent of people who were sent to Auschwitz, hearing this testimony always brings me to tears
This is my own family story, which I’m ashamed to say I only learned in 2017 www.gregjenner.com/my-family-an...
This is my own family story, which I’m ashamed to say I only learned in 2017 www.gregjenner.com/my-family-an...
Discovering My Family's Holocaust History (it's been a strange week...)
A blog about my own family's painful revelations coinciding with awful statements about the Holocaust by Marine Le Pen, Sean Spicer, and Ken Livingstone
www.gregjenner.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
As a historian, the scale and sinister brutality of the Holocaust terrifies me. And as a descendent of people who were sent to Auschwitz, hearing this testimony always brings me to tears
This is my own family story, which I’m ashamed to say I only learned in 2017 www.gregjenner.com/my-family-an...
This is my own family story, which I’m ashamed to say I only learned in 2017 www.gregjenner.com/my-family-an...
I have chosen ten themes each of which takes you through the Salient. The ten themes have been designed to be read as bite size pieces so, get a brew and discover more! theypressalient.com/post/introduction-the-ypres-salient-in-ten-themes
The Ypres Salient in Ten Themes
The ten themes have been designed to be read as bite size pieces and cover Death, Wounded, Last Leave, Trench Life, Behind the Lines....
theypressalient.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I have chosen ten themes each of which takes you through the Salient. The ten themes have been designed to be read as bite size pieces so, get a brew and discover more! theypressalient.com/post/introduction-the-ypres-salient-in-ten-themes
Holz brothers William, Ernest & Allan. On the 13 June the three brothers were in billets at Pont-de-Nieppe when a German shell landed on the room they were sleeping in and killed Allan and Ernest and severely wounded William, he married in 1919 & died in 1959 www.theypressalient.com/post/motor-c...
January 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Holz brothers William, Ernest & Allan. On the 13 June the three brothers were in billets at Pont-de-Nieppe when a German shell landed on the room they were sleeping in and killed Allan and Ernest and severely wounded William, he married in 1919 & died in 1959 www.theypressalient.com/post/motor-c...
This WW1 Tour is a circular route that takes in five cemeteries located on the southern tip of the Ypres Salient. The WW1 battlefield here saw some of the early fighting of 1914 and 1915, including the Christmas Truce of 1914. www.theypressalient.com/post/five-ce...
January 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This WW1 Tour is a circular route that takes in five cemeteries located on the southern tip of the Ypres Salient. The WW1 battlefield here saw some of the early fighting of 1914 and 1915, including the Christmas Truce of 1914. www.theypressalient.com/post/five-ce...
The Stone of Remembrance. There is one in every CWGC cemetery with more than 1k burials. It is designed in a deliberately abstract style to appeal to people of all faiths and none. The 'great stone' was the idea of Edwin Lutyens & the font is by Macdonald Gill.
December 29, 2024 at 12:56 PM
The Stone of Remembrance. There is one in every CWGC cemetery with more than 1k burials. It is designed in a deliberately abstract style to appeal to people of all faiths and none. The 'great stone' was the idea of Edwin Lutyens & the font is by Macdonald Gill.