Still time to sign up in person or over zoom for 'The voyages of Captain Cook and the exploration of the Pacific Ocean' with Dr John McAleer University of Southampton History Department on 2 November. DM or email: [email protected] for sign up details

Cider apples waiting to be harvested. #taunton #somerset #cider

Records of over 300,000 WW1 troops from Punjab which hadn't been seen for almost a century, have been uploaded online for the first time. The historian behind it says it's reuniting families with their ancestors - including his own great-uncle ➡️ bbc.in/3on2Ekr

Come join us University of Plymouth - we are recruiting for a lecturer in History to teach maritime/pirate history. Full details here: jobs.ac.uk/job/CKU520/lec…

Pillbox protecting the strategically important railway at L’Ampolla, Catalunya. #SCW #Spanishcivilwar

Wow -some great new visual history resources produced by our University of Plymouth colleague Dr Alicja Syska - well worth a look

Congratulations to our University of Plymouth colleague Dr James Gregory on the publication of 'Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960' by Bloomsbury Books UK bloomsbury.com/uk/mercy-and-b…

OTD in Dec 1940 No. 1 Spanish Coy was in Plymouth after an intensive period of training & work on defences. But the company was soon visited on the 2nd Dec 1940 at Millbay Drill Hall by a Major Hugh Quennell head of H Section of the SOE covering the Iberian Peninsula. 1/

New Article by Steven Parkes (Old Account) Beth Croak Professor Neil Greenberg The ‘Mental Health Toolkit for Veterans (MeT4VeT)’ Project – Is There a Role for Apps in Veterans’ Mental Health?. Read it in full here 👉kcmhr.org/the-mental-hea…

It’s Christmas Day!! It’s time to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. It’s the thing that I think we forget due to its commercialization: CHRISTMAS . IS . HAUNTED And with that, I bring you another round of cursed Victorian Christmas cards! 🎄

I ask a group of 6-year-olds "Who should be the next prime minister?" They had some thoughts A THREAD

I asked a group of 6 year olds to 'Pitch me a new film idea' Move over Hollywood A THREAD

Let's talk about Russian demography. As you see vast spaces in Siberia & European Russia are depopulating. There are two factors behind. First, low fertility. The only places with natural growth are Muslim areas of Caucasus, Idel-Ural and clusters of indigenous Siberians (thread)

3 years ago our team and volunteers deployed to Library and Archives Canada for 3 days and scanned every map of NWE in the RG24 map collection. All available online for free. We are proud of how our team has advanced SWW digitization and commemoration!

Sofia has exercised her democratic right to have an impromptu walk and some random sniffing around. #dogsatpollingstations

The presentations from our "Material Legacies: The Archaeology of the Irish Revolutionary Period" are now live. There were some superb insights into what #archaeology can reveal about the events of 1916-23. The thread below👇links to each of the talks- please feel free to share!

Walking the dog at 0520 this morning.

Ukraine finds British WW2 Hurricane planes outside Kyiv bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Unpublished images of Spanish Civil War Condor Legion found in London flea market - english.elpais.com/international/…

On this day in 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as the army rebelled in a coup attempt against the Spanish 2nd Republic. 3 years of war were followed by 39 years of dictatorship. Some remarkable photos compiled by EFE of the first days of the war: artsandculture.google.com/story/the-firs…