Dame Averil Cameron obituary Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer

And Dame Averil Cameron (1940-2026), historian of the Byzantine empire bit.ly/4ex8POD #Skystorians

I would like a Secretary of Defense who has read one (1) book on the history of warfare; preferably one that discusses the impact of disease on armies.

George Washington?

Woke.

When you order your Roman wolf mosaic on Temu.

One of the best mosaics tbh.

This artwork is a depiction of the city of York, specifically showing a panoramic view of York from the Windmill without Castlegate, c. 1700. The drawing captures a historical skyline dominated by the York Minster. It was created by artist Francis Place, known for topographical depictions of the countryside and important cities in the 17th and 18th centuries. The scene highlights the historical layout of York, including the city walls and various churches.

The Siege of York (22 April – 16 July 1644) was a pivotal First English Civil War conflict where a combined Scottish and Parliamentarian army besieged the Royalist-held city. The city was initially relieved by Prince Rupert on July 1, but a decisive Royalist defeat at the Battle of Marston

There's a real influx by Starmerstans with low-to-nonexisting follower numbers here in recent days.

Labour senior ministers' meet

21 Apr 1942 // HM Trawler Jade was sunk in Grand Harbour, Malta, during an air raid. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

And sorry that’s WO201/450 Initial Lessons Ops December 1941 issued by the CGS. 357 is the Lessons document for BATTLEAXE. 352 is COMPASS and 2738 is Greece with a special 2665 for artillery lessons associated with it.

They barely managed Beda Fomm, and the administrative situation forward of Tobruk was catastrophic, and IMO couldn't have supported an immediate advance with combat. Happy to be told otherwise, there are two histories coming soon I think.

It appears to me that Hitler got it right, by shoring up the position of the Italians in North Africa with the DAK in February, thereby forestalling British attempts to threaten Italy seriously at low cost.

I think that the other British option (go for Tripoli in February) wasn't realistic.

It just was to come after Barbarossa, in autumn 1941, but it was to come.

Similarly, the British wanted to turf the Italians out of North Africa, but didn't have the resources to do that and the Balkans, so de-prioritised this. But it was definitely planned, and dusted off again for post-CRUSADER

Misplaced Optimism – Hitler’s Directive 32, 11 June 1941 Background At the beginning of the war, Hitler directed the war by general instructions (Weisungen in German), which compelled armed forces commanders to act in a certain way. The implementation an…

Sorry, I was thinking about this and then forgot to respond. First off, both of them were right about the other's intentions, just not in time (which makes them being right rather pointless).

The Germans had a southern strategy in the back of their minds, which was fully set out in Directive 32.

I’m guessing she’s got the same issue Badenoch, Patel and Bravermann have - thinking they owe their career to nobody other than themselves because they are so awesome that decades of chipping away at misogyny and racism don’t matter, they would have made it anyway.

Sorry to be dense, but isn’t it also racist to have a go at white people criticising her for her policies because we are, well, white? Or am I missing the point in a major way here?

Bombing to Win with Weapons from the Future: I Would've Won Vietnam

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Today's #ConfederateHeritageMonth post is about Southern Unionist John Frémont and immigrant Charles Zagonyi, because no true American patriot simps for slave-owning traitors who lost the war they started. READ: open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficia...

I'm looking for colleagues in the UK, #HistSTM, #HistMed, or #STS who work in institutional settings where they find it is difficult to place them in the right Unit of Assessment for REF2029. DM if that's you?

bart simpson and lisa simpson from the simpsons are sitting at a table with a pile of envelopes . ALT: bart simpson and lisa simpson from the simpsons are sitting at a table with a pile of envelopes .

It's interesting there was a lessons learned report on 5 Dec from NZ Div and it lauded the German tk/inf cooperation. "Cooperation between German tanks, [anti-?]tank guns and infantry was good. Artillery was poor. [...] Infantry protected the tanks to get them into good hull down positions[...]"

Make that meaningless in ANY form of combat. It could provide local security against thieves, guard POWs to the rear, provide some light local recce. Nothing else. Again, 22 Armd Bde had one coy of Motor Inf with a strength of just over 90 men. That’s one infantry man per two tanks.

'A proportion' is not a military unit. It's a term that you use when you try to hide the awkward reality that the infantry component was so weak that it was meaningless for any offensive purposes.

And since the real military historian has blocked me now I am going to be clear. IMO the person who wrote or instructed to write the entry in WO201/357 'contained a proportion of infantry' deliberately chose the term to mislead because he didn't want to admit that the inf was just for protection.

There’s zero evidence for combined arms, TBH. It’s unsurprising because the formations were not structurally capable of generating a combined arms force. You cannot combine what you don’t have.

You need to go back to COMPASS and see how they did it then and that dismissed that claim, unless Eighth Army utilised time travel. To corroborate you can look at the actual engagements and two where I have done that in excruciating detail are Gabr Saleh and el Gobi 19 Nov 41.

What takes more time is to dismiss the other, implied, part of the claim, ie that the Brigade Grp structures that did operate (Inf Bdes with I-tanks) were set up thus because of lessons learned from the Germans in BATTLEAXE.

Not that simple, see 11/12/13 of the thread. There’s no official disavowal or combined arms, it was just conceptualised quite differently.

What you can substantiate with a quick trawl of the war diaries is that there wasn’t an attempt to make the armoured brigades into balanced brigade groups.

With that attitude we'd still call Johnson our PM.

Trump considering rejecting Mandelson as Starmer’s nominee for ambassador to the US Exclusive: With Donald Trump set to be sworn in as the 47th US president on Monday, the nomination of Lord Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to the US is still causing problems

According to the Independent it was 'sources within the Trump team' www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Fascists and Nazis hate history, and historians; but understand the power of history. Thats why, across the world, they work so hard to control HOW we tell stories about the past, to drive out diverse critical voices and perspectives, to ensure a narrative that makes them look good.