IBCC Lecture & Supper Series – The Invisible Campaign – Bomber Command Gardening Operations 1940-1945.
Speaker: @lydiajane13.bsky.social
Venue: International Bomber Command Centre
📅 5th March 2026
🕰️ 6:30pm - 9:30pm
🎟️ £15.25
Full details at internationalbcc.co.uk/about-ibcc/n...
Well that’s my X gone. Will it impact what I’m going to be writing for my website and my public profile. Probably not in the long run, as other sites become more popular with the public.
It’s been a while since I remembered to post on here. Busy with life and my job and hobbies. 2025 was brilliant. Two trips to the battlefields, my website up and running, a community history went well. Let’s see what 2026 brings.
The joys of editing a lecture and make it fit for the group I am delivering it to. Highlighter and coloured pens at the ready.
I know my blog post is incomplete… update will be coming soon. But 3 more views to 1000 views on the site. major-history.co.uk/2025/07/02/t...
New post is live - The First World War, an Empire at War – Canadian First Nations at War - major-history.co.uk/2025/07/02/t...
But there’s still places on the aluminium cables up here. But I often get half way through a streaming programme for it to then crash out with the wheel, loading again.
I’ve got VoIP, it works well, as long as the bandwidth isn’t being stretched. I needed the landline as mobiles don’t work in my house. I remember seeing a map somewhere with internet speeds. The next village along is in the 2020s, my village is in the mid-2000s. Gaming and streaming is the lag.
Totally get that. Thankfully only had the one power cut so far. But yes, broadband barely fast enough to stream or game, phone signal that’s barely working, one transport link if your lucky that’s not reliable. Roads don’t get me started, road running is not as fun due to them becoming overgrown too
Well I’m back, been busy with life. New post on the blog will be soon. Community project on the go too.
As a musician and historian, the link between music and morale, is present, in military history. This was especially true in the Second World War. There is a campaign to create a memorial for ENSA at the National Memorial Arboretum. It is a memorial Id love to see unveiled. ensamemorialappeal.co.uk
At least the hood kept some of the wind out on yesterday’s walk.
Nice little notification. Come and have a look at major-history.co.uk
Can’t wait for mine to arrive, and love the idea of the silky ribbon bookmark.
I remember looking into CFS and morale for my undergraduate dissertation. It strikes me how similar some of the “warning signs of a pre-neurotic state” overlap with CFS. Have you found that CFS could explain many of the cases of LMF?
Looking at digitised photos from the First World War Egypt and Palestine and Gallipoli. That moment the photos change from that almost “holiday photography” to photography of war and the cost of war is definitely something that hits it home a little bit more.
List of home defence sites in the North East of England.
Research for a future blog post… defence of the North East of England in the Second World War.
Link in bio to the blog.
What about thanksgiving…
So does that mean Canadians and Europeans are to be suspended… 😂
That’s without even considering any form of compartmentalisation.
And every role within from Air Staff down to pilot, to radar operators and the filter staff to ops rooms, to even making the tea for them. From stoker to admiral.
I sense there will be more of this going forward.
A little later than I had planned. But a new post is live on my blog on the Bombardment of Hartlepool, Whitby and Scarborough. Link in bio.
New post on Pegasus Bridge live now on Major History. www.major-history.co.uk
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