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Book Boom Town
This seemed like a pretty interesting book when it came out, and since we're planning to visit Oklahoma City this summer, it seemed like a good time to read it.
#Histbookchat
#PhotoFriday
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Foreground: Small pine tree covered in snow Midground: Pine Forrest, covered in snow Background: snow covered mountain with a cloud covering the peak
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Ward, CO January 2025
In honor of the winter we never had, here's a picture from a real Winter last year
Full Album:
flic.kr/p/2qX9hQC
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We are looking into a tent where four men in their pyjamas are sitting amongst blankets on the floor. They each have a mug and are drinking from them. They look as if they have just woken up.
How lovely to wake up in the morning to a good cup of tea? These men are doing just that though we can’t say if they’ve had a good night’s sleep. They’re camping at Kinder Scout in the #1960s and we’re just not sure how comfortable that tent was.
#PhotoFriday #WorldSleepDay
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A hardcover book by Michael Knights titled “25 Days to Aden: The unknown story of Arabian elite forces at war” The cover features an image of two inflatable boats full of special forces soldiers that have just been dropped into the ocean from two CH-47 Chinook helicopters
For this weeks #histbookchat, #photofriday and #booksky, I’m in the middle of “25 Days to Aden” by Michael Knights, which describes operations against the Houthis in Yemen by UAE SOF in 2015 ( which does seem a bit topical at the moment)1/3
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Four children, identified as Janie, Alice, Maggie, and Mary, photographed with Scottish missionary Mary Slessor, circa 1880. Slessor was known for her work in present-day Nigeria, adopting abandoned children, notably twins and the children of slaves. (CSWC47/LS2/36) #PhotoFriday
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A photograph with carts in the left foreground used for transporting animals and other goods. Small groups of people gathered nearby. A row of shops in the right background. Brick properties in the left background. A tram on the roadway separating the two blocks of buildings.
#PhotoFriday today is the Old Smithfield Market, c. 1887 adjacent to the Bull Ring markets and St. Martin’s church. Ref - WK/B11/327 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic
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This #photofriday finds me with Peter Brune and his ‘Descent Into Hell’. Today we meet the 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion (Galleghan’s Greyhounds) at their ambush at Gemencheh Bridge near Gemas where 800 troops of the Japanese 5th Division were killed, wounded or went missing. #histbookchat /2
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Joshua tree on the left of a dirt hiking path. Mountain in the background
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Still in the glow of my Joshua Tree trip.
Full album here
flic.kr/p/2rYcZH8
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Book the zoning of America Euclid v Ambler
It's nice when the interest in history and work can intersect.
I'm enjoying this micro history of one of the most important cases in American planning history.
Some very interesting characters present - Taft, as SC Justice, Baker, Bettmann...
#Histbookchat
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Black and white photo showing the upper deck of a busy bus. Every seat is taken and a bus conductress dressed in a smart black uniform with a ticket machine across her body, takes the fare from a lady in a mac and head scarf.
Who remembers the days when buses had conductors to take your fares from you rather than handing them to the driver? Here we are on the upper deck of a busy Derby Corporation bus in the early 1950s. Hold very tight please!
#PhotoFriday #WomensHistoryMonth #1950s
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#histbookchat #photofriday Romance and danger against the backdrop of the Indian Mutiny - some fiction from me this week!
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A sepia toned photograph looking down on to a street scene. A wide open expanse in the foreground with pedestrians and lamp posts liberally dispersed. A large building in the mid background with the facia Corbett’s Temperance Hotel between the various rows of windows. An advertisement hoarding attached to the roof of the building. A street leading off on the left of the photo and another on the right.
#PhotoFriday today is Corbett’s Temperance Hotel, Paradise Street. Opened in 1842 by Joseph Corbett as a boarding and coffee house. The hotel was demolished c.1888—89 to make way for the building of the Post Office. Ref: WPS Large Views #LibraryofBham #Brumpic
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Chao Ersun was the Han Chinese governor-general of Manchuria. He is pictured here in a collection of slides relating to Dugald Christie, a Scottish medical missionary in China. (CSWC47/LS8/40) #photofriday
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This #photofriday finds me packed up and ready for a long weekend down the coast and with my current read ‘Descent Into Hell: The Fall of Singapore - Pudu and Changi - the Thai-Burma Railway’ by Peter Brune. A brick at 800 or so pages but absolutely worth the pack weight. #histbookchat /2
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#PhotoFriday. I'm betting this one will be a stumper, and that few, if any, have visited. Where is this winery located?
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Congratulations to #PhotoFriday Jan Wieckowski of Neebing, who hooked a 29-inch Northern Ontario whitefish while ice fishing in the Thunder Bay District.
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Book the memoirs of US Grant
One of the gaps in my American history and American Civil War reading to date has been this book. Im getting started on it, and I'm looking forward to following it up with some books on Grant and the effort to shape history.
#Histbookchat
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Rutger Hauer as Sallow in “Salute of the Juggernaut,” aka “Blood of Heroes”
Photo Friday! 📽️ 🎬
#rutgerhauer #moviesky #filmsky #actorsky #photofriday #bloodofheroes #saluteofthejugger
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Joshua tree in front of a Joshua Tree forest in front of a small grass covered hill.
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Joshua Tree NP February 2026
Gonna do another one from Joshua Tree today
flic.kr/p/2rY6u6w
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A bleak wintry scene, with a road and fields completely covered by snow. In the foreground is an abandoned car with snow piled on top of it.
We couldn’t find a Derbyshire polar bear for #InternationalPolarBearDay, but here’s a wintry scene where we’re sure one would feel right at home. This is Batham Gate Road in Buxton in the snowy winter of 1963. Are those footprints or bear tracks?
#PhotoFriday #snow #1960s
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#histbookchat #photofriday Earlier this week I finished the final book in A Horseman Riding By trilogy which took us up to 1964. Really pleased I decided to read the trilogy based on a vague memory of a TV series from 1978. A few historians would have some quibbles with certain passages 1/2
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A paperback book - Nigel Townson’s “The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present”. The cover features a colour photograph of a Spanish street scene in the 1960s or 1960s
For this weeks #histbookchat, #photofriday and #booksky, “The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present” by Nigel Townson.
I don’t know a lot about modern Spain’s history apart from the Civil War. I’m just up to the start of the Second Republic, looking forward to the post-Franco period
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Boot mender, India, ca. 1930. Leather work is a low-caste occupation in the Hindu caste system, so this man may be a member of a lower caste or possibly outside of Hindu caste system altogether. (CSWC33/OS15) #PhotoFriday
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An ice cream seller stands on the left of the photo close to his portable stall. Two young boys are resting on the stall and eating ice cream. In the background is a building with a large stone frontage. A small crowd of people are gathered on the top right of the photograph.
#PhotoFriday is this photograph of an ice cream seller in the Bull Ring in 1895. Arguably, one of the first fast foods of the time. Ref - Bull Ring 377 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic
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This #photofriday finds me with my feet up at home, having finished my holiday read, ‘The Coast Watchers’ by Patrick Lindsay, and getting stuck into the book I left behind, ‘Wewak Mission’ by Lionel Veale, which I’m about halfway through. #histbookchat /2
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