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Military & Animal Historian🗡️ 🇲🇲🐴 🐎 Author Burma Star Memorial Fund Scholar PhD candidate KCL Works with old ✈️ Freaking out in a Moonage Daydream…

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 6h

Oooh I’ll follow this thread for your thoughts though I’ve now forgotten my own thoughts about it. I think I only got to episode 2 :/

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Osprey Publishing @ospreypublishing.bsky.social · 11h

Tomorrow at 7pm BST Lucy Betteridge-Dyson will be appearing on WW2TV to talk about her new book Jungle Commandos.

You'll be able to watch the livestream here: https://bit.ly/4pU1uvT

#Historysky #Booksky

Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945

Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945With Lucy Betteridge-DysonPart of our Burma (Myanmar) in WWII serieshttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDG...

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Carla-Jean Stokes @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social · 8h

I love reviewing Canadian official First World War photographs in real time. Fall is an especially great season for this.

👇Here's why.

Canadians looking at German trench mortar ammunition, William Rider-Rider, October 1918, Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3397962.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks James. So glad you enjoyed it!

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 12h

Tomorrow at 19:00BST I’ll be on @ww2tv.bsky.social having a chat with Woody about Jungle Commandos and answering your questions! So if there’s something you want to know about the Third Arakan and/or the book, now is your chance to ask! ☺️

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks dude 🐱

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 23h

"What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you 🩷. Inconsolable tears from Ted and me today, hadn’t realised how burnt out I was until today. Crept up on me.

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 23h

Yeh, hoping you have a better one.

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 23h

Yes this makes sense - I didn’t realise how I was running on fumes until this thing with my car today which I was just unable to cope with emotionally.

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 1d

Today has been really tough.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 1d

I’d have lost it! Love my cars a silly amount. Sold my last one earlier this year - owned from new for 11 years. When I sold it it still had the factory covering on the steering wheel column adjuster. Sad or what.

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus! Honestly I wouldn’t risk it from safety perspective and as car is practically brand new im just getting it replaced. Serve me right for not paying attention.

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a joke, did you claim against council? Expect mine won’t be far off. Need new 17” alloy and tyre. Doesn’t appear to be any other damage fortunately but just a sod as car is 3 months old!

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Bobbie Johnson 🇺🇦 @bj13johnson1.bsky.social · 1d

Portsmouth cathedral
@lmbd1418.bsky.social

Burma Star memorial window in Portsmouth cathedral

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 1d

What an awful day I’m having. Hoping it’s peaked at driving down a massive hole leaving my brand new car needing new wheel and tyre. Sigh. 😞 so tired.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 2d

Seconds out! Round one!

THE DEVIL'S DANCE FLOOR

This isn't an official announcement from Duckworth. It's a page from my agent's newsletter and book fair rights catalogue, which is public. So, a tiny-text soft launch? Details subject to change.

A lot of thank yous and less Disney, to come.

🐻🥊👊🏾👊🏻🦁🍺

Page from literary agency Curious Minds rights guide for Frankfurt Book Fair etc. Alongside a photo of me looking slightly drunk and a lot hostile, it says, in tiny font:

NEW DEALS
AGENT - Eli Keren
PUBLISHER - Duckworth
PUBLICATION - Spring 2027
STATUS - Manuscript due April 2026
LENGTH - 80,000 words
RIGHTS SOLD
World English (Duckworth)
The Devil’s Dance Floor
Late-Victorian London and the Last Bareknuckle Boys
SARAH ELIZABETH COX
An 1880s’ group biography of the last of Britain’s
bareknuckle boxers from the historical consultant behind
A Thousand Blows (Disney+/Hulu)
THE DEVIL’S DANCE FLOOR is the first popular book from Sarah Elizabeth Cox,
the historical consultant behind Steven Knight’s television series A Thousand Blows
and author of the historical blog ‘Grappling with History’.
A group biography of Victorian boxers, THE DEVIL’S DANCE FLOOR is a cultural
history that does far more than recount the true story behind the fictionalized
version now streaming. Taking a narrative approach, Cox charts the decline of
bareknuckle boxing over the 1880s, and, in doing so, explores subjects ranging
from policing and healthcare to the press and entertainment – all while offering a
personal-scale view of the melting point of Victorian London (think Hallie
Rubenhold’s The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper but
with a lot more getting punched in the face).
The subjects themselves hail from as far afield as London’s East End and the North
to the United States and the Caribbean. Each has a unique story to tell and reveals
something not only about our shared history but also about the world we live in
today.
Sarah Elizabeth Cox was a historical consultant on season one and two of Steven Knight's
1880s’ boxing and crime TV drama A Thousand Blows. She researches biographies of
Victorian and Edwardian boxers and wrestlers for her website ‘Grappling with History’ and
works as the British Science Association’…

1888 portrait of boxer Hezekiah Moscow, a slim Black or Black/East Asian mixed heritage man, taken by Harry Carpenter. He is shirtless, fists raised, wearing white tights and a chequered sash at the waist. There are painted palms on the studio backdrop.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 2d

It’s those invasive Harlequin ones round here which is what I hate.

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 2d

No I enjoyed that choice of words. Imagined them in tiny little medieval military uniforms.

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 2d

Is it me or are there a huge number of acorns around this year as well as those horrid invasive ladybirds?

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 2d

I welcome such pedantry - and I do agree.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · Nov 25

Not just any mule would do! During the FWW the British army categorised mules as either: heavy, gunner, carter, special carter or pack types, with the majority being purchased in Missouri & Kansas.

#MuleMonday
📸 by Lionel Edwards for ‘The Horse & the War’, 1919

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · Nov 25

Well this is terrifying.

'Two clowns and two mules of the 1st US Division Circus, Cologne, Rhenish Prussia, Germany'

📸Sgt. JG Jones #MuleMonday

catalog.archives.gov/id/100310332

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