Time to reveal what's on the way in the first half of 2024 for my From Reason to Revolution series from @Helionbooks, beginning with @latelordchatham on a certain naval officer that you may have heard her mention once or twice. https://t.co/1Zq7lSjV4A
Coming in Spring 2024
"LET THE MEN CROSS
The Second Battle of Porto May 1809 and the Liberation of Northern Portugal" 📖
My first book.
Register early interest.
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A good week taking RAF officers around the battlefields of the First World War, looking at the development of air power.
- 1st Ypres 1914
- Neuve Chapelle 1915
- 2nd Battle of Artois 1915
- The Somme 1916
- Vimy Ridge 1917
- 100 Days Offensive 1918
It’s amazing how part of an archive can transport you hundreds of miles as well as back in time by hundreds of years
Map of the assault on Badajoz, 6th April 1812.
Drawn by a veteran officer in 1826. Part of the Bodleian library’s Napier papers.
Vs the site of the carnage.
Today for #HeritageOpenDays the object store tour gets to see the Royal Waggon Train officer’s Coattee that was taken off display at @RLCMuseum to prevent light damage
A reminder, the next talk for @OfVedras is Dr. John Peaty talking about Wellington's Map Makers and Cartographers.
At 7pm UK time on 26 September 2023. register with [email protected]
NOTE DATE CHANGE ABOVE
Just visited the ‘Musée de L’Empéri’ in Salon de Provence which houses a large collection from @MuseeArmee.
I can’t remember a museum like it in terms of quantity of quality items on display from French Rev and Napoleonic Wars.
Fantastique!
Here is a preview, more to follow!