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Capitulation in 1940, but this time a Belgian view of a young man of military age trying to avoid the invader…
They will be shocked when they find out the rest of Scotland is the same 😂
This week @fxmc1957.bsky.social takes on the 15 Minute Book Club as he turns his attention to the holocaust in volume four of The Hitler Years.
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📺 youtu.be/Y83SaJG0oAs
#books #histbookchat #booksky #newbooks
Our next episode is live for our Patreon supporters! @fxmc1957.bsky.social joins us to discuss his latest volume in The Hitler Years - Holocaust 1933-45.
Our Patreon supporters get Extra Time, an extra 15 minutes with our guest as we find out more.
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An actor pretending to be a Roman general of the late 4th century AD wearing armour, red cloak and two swords of a much earlier period plus wrist bands which no one outside of a Hollywood movie ever wore
Actor Richard Burton in the film The Robe, wearing a muscled cuirass and wrist bands, relaxes on a block of marble
Stilicho, a late Roman general as depicted on an ivory panel wearing long sleeved tunic, big brooch, long sword at his belt and a spear in his right hand
Why was everyone in *Civilisations: Rise and Fall* dressed like they were in a 1950s Hollywood epic?
Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch
Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
One of the reasons why Finland is the happiest country in the world is that the public broadcaster Yle sends a live feed of the first 8 weeks of a pack of puppies every fall. It’s already the fifth edition of ”Finland’s most therapeutic live feed”.
This is what I call value for my tax money
We've done a thing! @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I chatted with @rooneyvision.bsky.social about his new book about Alcock and Brown, Harry Hawker and, of course, Harry's amazing wife Muriel.
Check us out wherever you get your pods or on YouTube.
Thumbnail image showing the 15 Minute Book Club logo and the cover of David Rooney's new book, The Big Hop, which has a stylised image of Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane bomber over the Atlantic ocean.
We are delighted to share our launch episode with you, as @rooneyvision.bsky.social joins us to discuss the men who showed up in Newfoundland after the end of the Great War to attempt to fly the Atlantic. David, your 15 minutes begin now...
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My heart breaks for the loss of these innocent lives and how many more will die from preventable deaths because of ignorance, disinformation, and bad faith authors. They are causing a public health crisis.
We’re also thrilled that we’re finally planning a return to Jordan for our bestselling “in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia” tour. Led by @alexchurchill.bsky.social we go to places no other tour group visits! www.istoriatravel.org/jordan
Our Cassino tour for 2026 is now live! Find our more about this immersive six day trip with @alexchurchill.bsky.social via the link below #WW2 www.istoriatravel.org/cassino
Join us on this one off trip and you get @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @peterhart.bsky.social as guides, as well as the mighty Richard Van Emden on his first tour! This is one campaign through the eyes of the men on the ground who fought it. @istoriatravel.bsky.social www.istoriatravel.org/somme
Join us on this one off trip and you get both myself and @peterhart.bsky.social as guides, as well as the mighty Richard Van Emden on his first ever tour! This is one campaign through the eyes of the individuals on the ground who fought it. @istoriatravel.bsky.social www.istoriatravel.org/somme
Today’s article is up, and it’s a look at some French satire/humour from the First World War achurchill.substack.com/p/photo-arti...
Preserved 3rd century mosaic excavated in Iznik
www.heritagedaily.com/2025/11/pres...
Our lovely Patreon supporters now have access to our launch episode, where we chat with David Rooney about the men who, at the end of the Great War, gathered in Newfoundland to try to fly the Atlantic.
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This image shows a partial colour reconstruction of the Prima Porta Augustus including a cuirass in reds, blues, and golds. Military dress in red, and purple toga details.
✨Augustus in colour✨
The Prima Porta Augustus is one of the most famous sculptures of ancient Rome. Earlier depictions of the sculpture noted the remnants of colour but the craze for cleaned statuary meant much detail was lost to the casual gaze.
#AncientRome #History
Small ceramic bottles being sampled for residue with a Dremel rotary tool (A) and a dental tool (B).
NEW #Phoenician small ceramic bottles were traditionally thought to hold perfumes and medicines. Residue analysis found chemical traces of wine, resins, pitch and palm oil, indicating their uses were much more multifunctional than expected.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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The Ara Pacis, or Altar of Augustan Peace, depicts Augustus’ (formerly Octavian) vision of the #Rome he created. The monument is by Augustus’ mausoleum at the Campus Martius. Panels show the imperial family, including Livia, his wife.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own.
Today’s Substack is all about French perspectives on the Hundred Days in 1815. Just a word on the subscription - for £5 a month you get two articles like this a week, as well as access to a back catalogue of 200 pieces 😮
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Today’s article is up and it’s a brief look at the Hundreds Days in 1815, but from French eyewitnesses…
achurchill.substack.com/p/article-fi...
Places are going fast for this. Your chance to start bridging the gap between passionate enthusiast and thinking historian…
Today’s shift is in honour of this shameful git who is mad at me for doing laundry
You can check out our pilot episode with @drkatevigurs.bsky.social for free, including the extra time, right now! Come for the technical issues, stay for great chat about Kate's new book, Mission Europe: The Secret History of the Women of SOE. #BookSky #HistBookChat
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A pilot episode for you! We had to battle some tech gremlins but you can hear how @15minutebook.club will work and what the bonus content will be like. Thank you Kate for being our guinea pig! @boneyabroad.com
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Today marks the 107th anniversary of the moment when the Allied armistice with Germany came into effect and the First World War came to an end. Today, I examine what that felt like across the globe… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-ar...
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Israel blocking wells on Palestinian land with cement.
Nothing to see here, just Genocidal Ethnic Cleansers doing what Genocidal Ethnic Cleansers do
A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
The low foundations of Roman buildings, with gravel around them and blocks of flats behind.
This is the Roman bathhouse at Bearsden in Glasgow, the only visible remains of the fort on the Antonine Wall that once stood there. Featuring hot and cold rooms as well as plunge pools and a latrine, it also had glazed windows and painted plaster decoration. #RomanFortThursday
