Simon Mawson
@smawson44.bsky.social
History Teacher. My passion is visiting/educating about historical spaces.
Casablanca: Sam plays it again
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Casablanca: Sam plays it again
This reminds me a college classmate of mine had a question about sources for a paper in an intro level Middle East class. So naturally he called Bernard Lewis on the phone. In 2004.
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This reminds me a college classmate of mine had a question about sources for a paper in an intro level Middle East class. So naturally he called Bernard Lewis on the phone. In 2004.
I’m guessing the Golden Dome
June 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I’m guessing the Golden Dome
Any idea the navigator’s name?
May 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Any idea the navigator’s name?
There is always the argument “why are we giving money to country X, when ….” But the when part just becomes tax cuts to millionaires.
April 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
There is always the argument “why are we giving money to country X, when ….” But the when part just becomes tax cuts to millionaires.
Good. Asking would be considered a nuisance. (JK: It’s from the war rooms at Malta.)
March 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Good. Asking would be considered a nuisance. (JK: It’s from the war rooms at Malta.)
I always thought the most interesting thing about the gallery was not the medals but the artifacts that were associated with them. Does Lord Ashcroft own just the medals or everything in the galleries?
February 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I always thought the most interesting thing about the gallery was not the medals but the artifacts that were associated with them. Does Lord Ashcroft own just the medals or everything in the galleries?
No that is in the separate WW2 gallery. It is the jolly boat from the SS Anglo Saxon. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
boat, Jolly Boat from SS Anglo-Saxon
A small wooden, clinker-built boat from the SS Anglo Saxon, used for light tasks and as a lifeboat. Complete with wooden mast.
www.iwm.org.uk
February 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
No that is in the separate WW2 gallery. It is the jolly boat from the SS Anglo Saxon. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
As far as I’ve seen there is no definitive book. Sledge and Leckie are great for the Marines. John McManus has a great book on the US army.
January 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
As far as I’ve seen there is no definitive book. Sledge and Leckie are great for the Marines. John McManus has a great book on the US army.
I was dissuaded from his book when David included William Manchester’s account as factual. Manchester almost completely made up his book Goodbye Darkness. If David had even done the least amount of fact checking by looking at Wikipedia he would have found this out.
January 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I was dissuaded from his book when David included William Manchester’s account as factual. Manchester almost completely made up his book Goodbye Darkness. If David had even done the least amount of fact checking by looking at Wikipedia he would have found this out.
So we can finally salvage her?
January 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
So we can finally salvage her?
Isn’t the correct assumption that he should then have known better, and it wasn’t an accident?
January 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Isn’t the correct assumption that he should then have known better, and it wasn’t an accident?
I haven’t been disappointed by one yet. Trial by Battle really stood out to me. Warriors for the Working day is rightly also highly regarded. Baron’s was great as well.
January 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I haven’t been disappointed by one yet. Trial by Battle really stood out to me. Warriors for the Working day is rightly also highly regarded. Baron’s was great as well.
Also the Russian cruiser Aurora. Is there any other naval battle in which a ship is preserved from both sides? Implacable was close.
November 30, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Also the Russian cruiser Aurora. Is there any other naval battle in which a ship is preserved from both sides? Implacable was close.