It is not every day an assignment means you can watch Waterloo (1970) as research! #history

First round of MA assignments completed... Finally time to give this a go #EU5

Great experience attending the Beyond Black History Month Symposium at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Insightful listening to @davidolusoga.bsky.social speak on Black British History from the Tudors to Trafalgar. #history

Managed to pick up some historical literature all for less than £10!

Particularly looking forward to reading Stowe while researching Victorian anti-slavery.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Using the summer break to catch up on some reading. Extending my reading into some long eighteenth century stuff.

Both interesting reads, but I think I’m still in the long nineteenth century camp.

#history #historybooks

Quite concerning that Waterstones now has an “alternative history” section, with books on 9/11 conspiracies and ancient aliens.

Pseudoscience/history can be dangerous and should not be promoted nor legitimised.

Source: Arrowsmith, John. ‘Map of the West Coast of Africa, comprising Guinea and the British Possessions at Sierra Leone, on the Gambia, and the Gold Coast, together with countries within the courses of the Rivers Senegal, Gambia, and Kowara. Compiled from official documents by John Arrowsmith, London, 1858’, 1858, CO 700_WEST AFRICA15, The National Archives.

Map dated 1858 showing the extent of the Asante Empire and British possessions in West Africa. Interestingly many British forts are simply underlined red, showing the lack of British influence and jurisdiction outside of its 'Bridgeheads' (John Darwin, 2013, p.8-9). #History

Although I fear more practice is required to impress Mr Sharpe with 3 rounds a minute.

A Graduation present to myself! An (Inert) India Pattern Brown Bess Reproduction.

French E-3 Sentry.

Red Arrows Display Team.

C-27J Spartan.

Finnish F/A-18C Hornet

RAF Eurofighter.

JAS 39 Gripen.

British Army Air Corp Display.

C-130.

JF-17 Thunder.

Pakistan Airforce JF-17 and C-130.

M-2000.

Eurofighter.

JAS 39 Gripen.

F-16.

Selection of NATO Static Displays. 2/2

U-2 Dragonlady

B-1 Lancer

UH-1 Iroquois (Huey)

F-16, Tornado and Eurofighter

Selection of NATO Static Displays. 1/2

I was very kindly given tickets to attend #RIAT25 this year, although belated I thought I might share some highlights in a thread:

A successful initial escapade into gardening. Nicotiana Alata (I think) grown over the course of a year.

First Class Graduate in History 📚

Leach, Jonathan. Captain of the 95th (Rifles): An Officer of Wellington’s sharpshooters during the Peninsular, South of France and Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 2019), 206.

Leach, Jonathan. Captain of the 95th (Rifles): An Officer of Wellington’s sharpshooters during the Peninsular, South of France and Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 2019), 207.

Leach continues and provides his own opinions on the argument.

#history #waterloo

Leach, Jonathan. Captain of the 95th (Rifles): An Officer of Wellington’s sharpshooters during the Peninsular, South of France and Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 2019).

Following the Battle of Waterloo, towards the end of June, Captain Jonathan Leach of the 1st Battalion 95th Rifles, while stationed at St. Denis noted in his journal a ‘curious dialogue’ between soldiers of his division. It provides an interesting window into the variety of Wellingtons force.

A few academic additions to the ever-growing library, picked up after helping out at the @batw.bsky.social conference at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social.

I would agree, although I feel the battle and I would suppose nature of the battle (in Wellington’s words “the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life”), provides a sort of spectacular finish to the wars and that period of history.

I went with Waterloo being the final act, however Trafalgar was a close second. Sets up Britains naval domination into the 19th Century.

Waterloo? Ends a quarter-century of revolution, war and death across Europe.