On the 280th anniversary of Culloden we are pleased to release the first longer video on The Wars Beneath Our Feet. youtu.be/u_0gwZQ-FvI?si…
Posts by Louise Provan
Gosling Press has just produced a volume with all 96 issue of peninsula Press, the newsheet produced during the Gallipoli Campaign. This is we believe the first time all issues have been available. For more information go to goslingpress.co.uk/peninsula-pr...
British Army veteran and University of Wolverhampton PhD candidate Phil Watson joins the podcast for a fascinating discussion on British doctrine in the Great War. (Which YES, they did have a doctrine.)
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Royal Navy destroyer HMS Hardy, lost at Narvik on 10 April 1940. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. Description: a starboard side profile view of a destroyer under way in the open sea.
10 Apr 1940 // Destroyer HMS Hardy was heavily damaged fighting to her last torpedo and shell against German destroyers off Narvik, and capsized after being beached. 32 men died. Captain B A W Warburton-Lee was awarded a posthumous VC. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
It was a shame it was so windy up on the hill as it’s obscured the sound of the Spitfire on the video ☹️
Spitfire! ❤️
🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
⚓️ Nelson never got to carry out his own battle plan — and @zwhitehistory.bsky.social of @napwarspod.bsky.social explains why in our newest episode 🤯
Listen now: pod.fo/e/3c9366
#HistoryRage #Nelson #Trafalgar ⚔️
Psst… have a new book out in October! SLEUTH-HOUND tells the story of Scottish surgeon Joseph Bell, who inspired Sherlock Holmes. Expect Victorian forensics, Jack the Ripper, and even a ballistics expert named Dr. Watson. Follow me on Goodreads for more updates! www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
This evening’s TV.
Where is that Nazi gold?
@guywalters.bsky.social
The museum of communism in Prague. A fascinating and terrifying story.
Thrilled that The Last Hunt for Nazi Gold is a Sunday Times pick of the day. Do tune into Sky HISTORY at 9 p.m. on Monday!
Sunsets and sundowners. Thanks @guywalters.bsky.social for the negronis and stunning rooftop views of Prague. x
Operation Anthropoid and the crypt of St Cyril and St Methodius Cathedral, Prague
The Undefeated by Bill Robertson is out now. Published by Barnthorn publishing and available here www.barnthornpublishing.co.uk
@bill1940.bsky.social @thehighlandic.bsky.social
Not the Western Front Conference 2026 Following last years great conference will take place on Saturday 31st October in Wakefield West Yorkshire just of the M1. Tickets cost £29 including lunch.with 4 great speakers. Earlybird tickets available for £25 before May www.trybooking.com/uk/FPHV
Issue 2 of the Not The Western Front Society Journal is now available. Articles include The Siege of Tsing-Tao, Part 2, An Armoured Car Experience, In German East Africa The Devil My Friend.
All this for just £7.50 a year you can sign up at www.trybooking.com/uk/ESJZ
A few of my pieces have been framed for the Spring Exhibition at Churchgate Gallery in Porlock, and I think the framer has done a wonderful job.
Here’s my ‘Storm at Crowcombe, 1724’.
#art #artist #architecture
NTWFS is a group for those people interested in WW1 but who are looking for more than the western front in France and Belgium, as interesting as that is WW1 is so much more.
Its just £7.50 a year for subscriptions and you can sign up at www.trybooking.com/uk/ESJZ
🚨GWG Free Talk
Thursday 20 November at 20:00 UK time.
We'll be joined by Nick Higham whose talk is based on his book Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War 1
Link below
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Meeting ID: 853 8158 5115
Passcode: 161943
“An action-packed tale of imperial British braggadocio, bravery and blundering on a grand scale.” A splendid review of Mavericks in the Times by Justin Marozzi, no mean writer and historian himself…
This 1918 British operation was an imperial Mission: Impossible
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GWG Director Alex Churchill will be tackling the topic of the Philippines in 1945 at the premier World War 2 festival We Have Ways Fest next weekend at Blackpit farm, near Silverstone
Tickets here wehavewaysfest.co.uk
Last weekend GWG members Bruce and Mags Hubbard organised a day out for GWG members as part of the GWG 5th birthday celebrations. Their visit took them to all things Great War related in Caernarfon and included a short commemoration and wreath laying at Caernarfon war memorial.
Phil Watson giving his presentation “Lance -v- lance 1914 -The Last Lance Actions of the Great War” at the branch meeting of the WFA Tayside on Saturday afternoon
Topic: GWG free online talk. The Spy Who Disappeared - A Transcaspian Adventure
Time: Jul 24, 2025 08:00 PM London
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As always, the talk is free to all and registration isn't needed
🚨🚨 Free online talk!
Louise Provan will be talking about Reginald Teague Jones - The Spy Who Disappeared. This is a true story of espionage, banditry and derring-do in a little known (in the West at least) part of the world - Transcaspia and the Caucasus.
Details below