Nick Jenkins
@nickjhistorian.bsky.social
Journalist and historian, specialising in the First World War and its aftermath. Especially its aftermath.
Lunch today at the Olde Hob Inn, near Preston, where the Battle of Bamber Bridge kicked off after closing time on June 24 1943.
The "battle", between US military police and black GIs, highlighted the segregation that American authorities tried to impose on British communities.
The "battle", between US military police and black GIs, highlighted the segregation that American authorities tried to impose on British communities.
January 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Lunch today at the Olde Hob Inn, near Preston, where the Battle of Bamber Bridge kicked off after closing time on June 24 1943.
The "battle", between US military police and black GIs, highlighted the segregation that American authorities tried to impose on British communities.
The "battle", between US military police and black GIs, highlighted the segregation that American authorities tried to impose on British communities.
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Alice Vickery died #OTD in 1829. She was an English physician, campaigner for women's rights, and the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist. #WomenInSTEM
She actively supported a number of causes, including free love, birth control, and the destigmatization of illegitimacy.
She actively supported a number of causes, including free love, birth control, and the destigmatization of illegitimacy.
January 12, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Alice Vickery died #OTD in 1829. She was an English physician, campaigner for women's rights, and the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist. #WomenInSTEM
She actively supported a number of causes, including free love, birth control, and the destigmatization of illegitimacy.
She actively supported a number of causes, including free love, birth control, and the destigmatization of illegitimacy.
Concert halls were blacked out during the Second World War but pianist Myra Hess organised lunchtime concerts in the National Gallery to entertain Londoners.
She put on 1,698 concerts and played in 150 of them. For her morale-boosting efforts, she was made a Dame in 1941.
She put on 1,698 concerts and played in 150 of them. For her morale-boosting efforts, she was made a Dame in 1941.
January 12, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Concert halls were blacked out during the Second World War but pianist Myra Hess organised lunchtime concerts in the National Gallery to entertain Londoners.
She put on 1,698 concerts and played in 150 of them. For her morale-boosting efforts, she was made a Dame in 1941.
She put on 1,698 concerts and played in 150 of them. For her morale-boosting efforts, she was made a Dame in 1941.
I do love a historically accurate birthday card. But I like a funny one better.
Bravo, Hysterical Heritage, by Ian Blake.
Bravo, Hysterical Heritage, by Ian Blake.
January 11, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I do love a historically accurate birthday card. But I like a funny one better.
Bravo, Hysterical Heritage, by Ian Blake.
Bravo, Hysterical Heritage, by Ian Blake.
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Detectorist who 'dug up Roman brooch' actually bought it on eBay - BBC News share.google/vc6DEc2uzvIh...
Detectorist who 'dug up Roman brooch' actually bought it on eBay
Funeral director Jason Price "deceived thousands" of people by planting the Leasingham horse brooch.
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January 10, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Detectorist who 'dug up Roman brooch' actually bought it on eBay - BBC News share.google/vc6DEc2uzvIh...
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Mathematician Ruth Moufang, known for extending Hilbert's axioms for plane geometry to projective geometry, was born #OTD in 1905.
The Nazis dismissed her from teaching, but she later became the first woman officially titled as professor of mathematics in Germany. 🧪 👩🔬
The Nazis dismissed her from teaching, but she later became the first woman officially titled as professor of mathematics in Germany. 🧪 👩🔬
January 10, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Mathematician Ruth Moufang, known for extending Hilbert's axioms for plane geometry to projective geometry, was born #OTD in 1905.
The Nazis dismissed her from teaching, but she later became the first woman officially titled as professor of mathematics in Germany. 🧪 👩🔬
The Nazis dismissed her from teaching, but she later became the first woman officially titled as professor of mathematics in Germany. 🧪 👩🔬
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The paperback copy of _Strike_ is out and I have an extra 10 copies. If you are a grad student, please message me with your address if you want a free one! 📖
January 10, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The paperback copy of _Strike_ is out and I have an extra 10 copies. If you are a grad student, please message me with your address if you want a free one! 📖
Scott Fitzgerald called it "utterly immoral"... Simon Called Peter was a scandalous autobiographical novel written by ex-WW1 chaplain Robert Keable about a padre who had an affair with a nurse.
The book was a bestseller in the UK and the US - but Keable is now largely forgotten.
The book was a bestseller in the UK and the US - but Keable is now largely forgotten.
January 10, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Scott Fitzgerald called it "utterly immoral"... Simon Called Peter was a scandalous autobiographical novel written by ex-WW1 chaplain Robert Keable about a padre who had an affair with a nurse.
The book was a bestseller in the UK and the US - but Keable is now largely forgotten.
The book was a bestseller in the UK and the US - but Keable is now largely forgotten.
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#NollaignamBan
During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...
During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...
January 9, 2026 at 8:38 AM
#NollaignamBan
During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...
During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...
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Credenhill war memorial. Credenhill, Herefordshire. First World War. #LestWeForget
January 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Credenhill war memorial. Credenhill, Herefordshire. First World War. #LestWeForget
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime" - British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey on the eve of the First World War in 1914.
January 9, 2026 at 5:49 PM
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime" - British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey on the eve of the First World War in 1914.
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#OnThisDay, 8 Jan 1816, mathematician Sophie Germain wins the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elasticity theory.
#WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
#WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
January 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
#OnThisDay, 8 Jan 1816, mathematician Sophie Germain wins the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elasticity theory.
#WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
#WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
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Yeah... so remember when I said I should stop buying old photo albums for a while?
I've sinned again.
I've sinned again.
January 8, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Yeah... so remember when I said I should stop buying old photo albums for a while?
I've sinned again.
I've sinned again.
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The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States.
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?
PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender
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January 8, 2026 at 9:34 AM
The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States.
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
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📷 The ruins of the gas chamber and crematorium II at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site. The remains of the crematorium hall.
▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
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Video: https://www.instagram.com/luigiwalt/
▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
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Video: https://www.instagram.com/luigiwalt/
January 8, 2026 at 5:01 PM
📷 The ruins of the gas chamber and crematorium II at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site. The remains of the crematorium hall.
▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
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Video: https://www.instagram.com/luigiwalt/
▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
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Video: https://www.instagram.com/luigiwalt/
I got the birthday present I really wanted. Thanks, Lili and Mark!
@alexmayhew.bsky.social
@alexmayhew.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I got the birthday present I really wanted. Thanks, Lili and Mark!
@alexmayhew.bsky.social
@alexmayhew.bsky.social
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Where Wilfred Owen wrote or revised 'Conscious', 'A Terre', 'A Tear Song', 'Miners', and 'Strange Meeting'.
The Society is delighted to see that the Clifton Hotel in #Scarborough has been listed at Grade II. Wilfred Owen worked on his World War I war poetry whilst billeted at the hotel during the conflict. He worked from the tower whilst convalescing. Read the excellent list entry here: bit.ly/4jDs9uk
January 8, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Where Wilfred Owen wrote or revised 'Conscious', 'A Terre', 'A Tear Song', 'Miners', and 'Strange Meeting'.
Robert Clive's brutal record in Bengal has clearly not been forgotten in his homeland.
January 8, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Robert Clive's brutal record in Bengal has clearly not been forgotten in his homeland.
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On this day in 1924 a French Jewish woman was born. A member of Jewish Communist Youth she was arrest on the 11 Mar 1943 and beaten during interrogation. On the 23 Jun 1943 she was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz where she perished. Her name was Ruta Kurchand.
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
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January 8, 2026 at 9:22 AM
On this day in 1924 a French Jewish woman was born. A member of Jewish Communist Youth she was arrest on the 11 Mar 1943 and beaten during interrogation. On the 23 Jun 1943 she was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz where she perished. Her name was Ruta Kurchand.
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
90 minutes… the length of a football match. And there was no added time to George’s life.
January 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
90 minutes… the length of a football match. And there was no added time to George’s life.
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Hull-born Amy Johnson’s plane crashed, off-course in foggy weather over the Thames Estuary, on this day 1941. She was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia and broke many long-distance records. Her corpse was never recovered. She was only 37.
January 5, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Hull-born Amy Johnson’s plane crashed, off-course in foggy weather over the Thames Estuary, on this day 1941. She was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia and broke many long-distance records. Her corpse was never recovered. She was only 37.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Residents outside their frozen flats in Birmingham during the big freeze of 1963. 📷 Birmingham Live
January 5, 2026 at 9:29 AM
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Residents outside their frozen flats in Birmingham during the big freeze of 1963. 📷 Birmingham Live
In 1978 the National Theatre's brilliant Lark Rise To Candleford ended with the vicar reading a list of the village's future WW1 dead.
"E. Timms? That's me," said the heroine's little brother.
And the Albion Band launched into Battle of the Somme. A moving moment.
youtu.be/DoT50TLeO_k?...
"E. Timms? That's me," said the heroine's little brother.
And the Albion Band launched into Battle of the Somme. A moving moment.
youtu.be/DoT50TLeO_k?...
Th Battle Of The Somme
YouTube video by The Albion Band - Topic
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January 6, 2026 at 12:01 PM
In 1978 the National Theatre's brilliant Lark Rise To Candleford ended with the vicar reading a list of the village's future WW1 dead.
"E. Timms? That's me," said the heroine's little brother.
And the Albion Band launched into Battle of the Somme. A moving moment.
youtu.be/DoT50TLeO_k?...
"E. Timms? That's me," said the heroine's little brother.
And the Albion Band launched into Battle of the Somme. A moving moment.
youtu.be/DoT50TLeO_k?...
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Halifax, 1979, photo by Martin Parr.
January 5, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Halifax, 1979, photo by Martin Parr.
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PERSON OF THE DAY. 5 January 1941. Record-breaking British pilot Amy Johnson’s plane went off course in foggy weather over the Thames Estuary. She bailed out before the plane crashed and she was presumed dead, but her corpse was never recovered from the river. She was only 37.
January 5, 2026 at 9:14 AM
PERSON OF THE DAY. 5 January 1941. Record-breaking British pilot Amy Johnson’s plane went off course in foggy weather over the Thames Estuary. She bailed out before the plane crashed and she was presumed dead, but her corpse was never recovered from the river. She was only 37.