Latest posts tagged with #DuffHistory on Bluesky
Sadly, the same old duff history images of men playing football in 1915 and two soldiers sharing a cigarette in 1918 have again been rolled out in posts on the Christmas Truce of 1914.
#WW1 #FWW #christmastruce #christmas2025 #history #duffhistory
stevesmith1944.wordpress.com/2023/12/01/t...
Here's another vitally important role that often gets attributed to the Home Guard, but was actually the responsibility of soldiers if the Regular or Territorial Army.
#RememberTheRegulars #notallspitfiresanddadsarmy #WW2 #SecondWorldWar #DuffHistory
If you're looking for something to read this weekend, why not check out my #pillbox myths blog. It's quite surprising how these simple structures have been mythologised in a period of 80 years.
#WW2 #Archaeology #History #DuffHistory #Mythbusting
chriskolonko.wordpress.com/pillbox-myths/
History associations/groups/historians should not post uncited historic photos on Twitter. It means no one can fact check the caption you give an image or research for themselves which can perpetuate #DuffHistory don’t @ me because I don’t care if you disagree. I’m just saying.
It just shouldn’t be reproduced without a qualifier. Surely it’s just as dramatic to talk about the horrendous impact of war on the memories and recollections of very young men without feeling the need to take it as gospel and in doing so creating #DuffHistory
Still on THAT book but a bit more of a cautionary tale now. I just read 2nd East Yorks were apparently ‘butchered’ on D-day. ‘Hundreds of corpses’ were lying in the shallows. This is I’m afraid true #DuffHistory. 1/
