Monty The Horse (@montythehorse)

We're revealing the details for nearly TWENTY talks available at our online conference on 26th April. Pick and choose your favourites, or load up with snacks and settle in for a marathon!

Full details:
greatwargroup.com/product/online

12.03.2026 12:06 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social

26.02.2026 19:46 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

a stuffed animal wearing a chef 's hat and apron is asking for a friend while holding a card ALT: a stuffed animal wearing a chef 's hat and apron is asking for a friend while holding a card

Is it possible to have too many second hand books? Asking for a friend.

03.02.2026 20:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

a man in a leather jacket is making a funny face and saying `` how dare they '' . ALT: a man in a leather jacket is making a funny face and saying `` how dare they '' .

They made you verify?

03.02.2026 20:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Of course you needed them all. The very idea that might not have!

03.02.2026 20:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The story of how the older Honours of Scotland were hidden in the SWW is also very interesting.

30.01.2026 14:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world

Don’t let Farage, Badenoch, or any of their cronies tell you otherwise.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

12.01.2026 07:54 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

FEATURE: Charles de Gaulle’s First War On Tuesday I posted a free piece that looked into the legend of Charles de Gaulle: who he was, and where he came from; ending with his joining his regiment just prior to the First World War.

Today’s article is up and it’s a special feature all about the active part Charles de Gaulle played in #WW1 🇫🇷 ⚔️ achurchill.substack.com/p/feature-ch...

12.12.2025 07:40 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1

Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board and another (judgment and summary) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary Case number: 4104864/2024 Employment Tribunal, Scotland 8 December 2025 Before: Employment Judge A KempTribunal Member L BrownTribunal Member C Russell Between: Mrs Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board...

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.

She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

08.12.2025 13:33 👍 1794 🔁 671 💬 71 📌 142

Last few places available now!

17.11.2025 17:36 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Look forward to seeing it in print!

13.11.2025 23:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’

What a hideous man he is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

29.10.2025 17:21 👍 2448 🔁 722 💬 150 📌 29

Don’t hold back, Alex! 😂

30.10.2025 10:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Uncle Bill was at Cassino. Was part of an RA FOO party.

22.10.2025 20:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Free talk!
🚨🚨 The next free talk will be on 25th Sept at 8pm. GWG trustee Jim Smithson will be talking about the third battle of Artois.
Join via the link below - no need to register in advance.

us02web.zoom.us/j/8417994132...

18.09.2025 20:52 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2

Just going to leave this here and hope you’ll forgive the fact that @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I are are very excited (thanks to @wsj.com) at our new best seller tag…

16.08.2025 19:27 👍 81 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 1

Celebrate? Luxury!

01.08.2025 14:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Risky, but let’s try this. 1 like = 1 opinion on the First World War which might be unorthodox.

31.07.2025 19:45 👍 86 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 5

How about a mandatory retirement age? Like our Supreme Court?

28.06.2025 02:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Still drive manual. I do remember being the navigator on family holidays, using a road atlas. 😀

18.06.2025 19:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SOMME 1916 | Istoria Travel Join us for this long weekend as Peter Hart, Alex Churchill, and Richard Van Emden take you on an intensive tour looking at the human stories that shape one of the bloodiest battles in British militar...

NEW TOUR ALERT! Join us next summer for a Somme 1916 tour with THREE AUTHORS! You get self, @peterhart.bsky.social and the amazing Richard Van Emden, who’s going out into the battlefield with a tour group for the first time!

www.istoriatravel.org/somme

01.05.2025 15:58 👍 33 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 3

And another fantastic speaker has been added to the list for @GreatWarGroup conference in Bristol in October.

To book tickets and join fellow Great War enthusiasts at this fabulous event click on this link greatwargroup.com/events/

29.03.2025 20:38 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

We detained a British tourist for weeks — including eight days in solitary — as she tried to leave the U.S. for Canada. Trump is going to end tourism to this country.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

08.04.2025 13:02 👍 426 🔁 157 💬 17 📌 17