31 March 1915 Pte Edwin Curley (2369) of 2 Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and buried in the La Laiterie Military Cemetery. Edwin was 19.
Edwin is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
31 March 1918 Pte John Thornley (244238) 10 Bn Cheshire Regiment and former football league player with @glossopnorthend.bsky.social
@manutdfc.bsky.social died from wounds and was buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
Found this review on Goodreads for my non-fiction account of Arctic Convoy PQ18, which took place in Sept '42
Published by Pen & Sword
#Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Arctic-Convo....
Pen & Sword: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Arctic-Convo...
#WW2 #books #BookBoot #BYNR #HistoryMatters
Jesus before Pilate stated his kingdom is "not of this world" (John 18:36). In his time, Jesus rejected the approaches of groups like the Zealots, who wanted to use violent, nationalistic means to restore a physical kingdom.
#HistoryMatters
Pictured: Jesus before Pilate (1921),
Eric Gill
What Jesus Was Really Killed For: andrewspringer.medium.com/what-jesus-w... @mediummagazin.bsky.social
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“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane”
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968)
#HistoryMatters
The only remaining German A7V Sturmpanzerwagen tank in the world from World War I.
Kept safe in a bubble at the Brisbane Museum in Australia.
#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
30 March 1692
Catherine of Braganza, widow of Charles II finally leaves England for Portugal
William and Mary wanted her gone.
She died in Lisbon at the end of 1705.
#History #HistoryMatters
30 March 2017
SpaceX made history
For the first time ever, an orbital class rocket flew twice
SpaceX successfully launched and landed a previously flown Falcon 9 booster.
#History #HistoryMatters
30 March 1778
Voltaire was crowned with a laurel wreath at the Théâtre Français to celebrate his intellectual achievements during the Enlightenment.
#History #HistoryMatters
30 March 1651
The 335 Year War begins after Dutch Admiral Maarten Tromp declares war on the Isles of Scilly, during the English Civil War.
The Dutch sided with the parliamentarians so the Royalists and Dutch were at odds.
The bloodless war ended in 1986. #HistoryMatters
30 March 1940
Operation Pike, the British conduct a reconnaissance mission in the Soviet Union as the Allies prepared to bomb the Soviet oil industry.
Though the Soviets were neutral, Britain believed the Nazi-Soviet Pact made them allies with Germany.
#History #HistoryMatters #WW2
5 March 1892
Newton Heath FC players pose in their new kit - as colourised by Paul Nagel, of the Match2Match series.
h/t @NewtonH57888659
#History #HistoryMatters
Gaza didn’t become a war zone overnight. It’s been a target since imperial trench lines carved through it in WWI. Same land, same logic—different century. #HistoryMatters #SankofaCut
A remarkable photo from 1934, in which Anthony Eden looks furious to have been snapped by a Tatler photographer dining with Maria, wife of British diplomat Archibald Clark Kerr.
Eden has the look of a man who had assured his wife that he would be dining in Durham that evening.
#HistoryMatters
A sewage system construction project in a Norwegian city turned up a surprising archaeological find: three seventeenth-century oak barrels, buried under a layer of demolition debris.
Their contents may reveal how the wood survived the centuries
archaeology.org/news/2026/03...
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What Euston Station had until the architects decided to vandalise it with concrete
#History #HistoryMatters
14 July 1966
BR Standard Class 5MTs 73118 & 73022 seen at the platform end of Waterloo station. #History #HistoryMatters
29 March 1430
The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessaloniki, now part of Greece, from the Republic of Venice.
#History #HistoryMatters
29 March 1941
During World War II, British naval forces defeat the Italian fleet off of Greece during the Battle of Cape Matapan, securing Allied control in the eastern Mediterranean.
#WW2 #History #HistoryMatters
30 March 1856
The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, United Kingdom, France and Sardinia.
The Black Sea is made neutral.
Russian influence in the region suffered as a result.
#History #HistoryMatters
The First Continental Congress formed in response to the Coercive Acts of 1774, and the British Parliament doubled down when they passed the Restraining Act of 1775. #History #HistoryMatters
30 March 1775
The British Parliament passes the Restraining Act, which prevents the colonies from trading with anyone except Great Britain and prohibiting fishing off New England and Newfoundland.
#History #HistoryMatters
30 March 1945
Hitler revises his scorched-earth policy to destroy all production in Germany and instead calls for a temporary paralysis of industry, partially as a result of Armament Minister Albert Speer's urging.
#WW2 #History #HistoryMatters
30 March 1867
U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signs the treaty to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
Russia wanted to sell the Alaska territory, fearing it would be lost to the United Kingdom in the event of war.
#History #HistoryMatters
30 March 1856
the Crimean war was formally brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Paris
#History #HistoryMatters
30 March 1987
Christie's auction house in London sells one of Vincent van Gogh's iconic Sunflowers paintings for £24,750,000.
#History #HistoryMatters #artㅤㅤㅤㅤ #ArtLife
