Dr. Ian Herrington

Doctorate in history, recently published a history of SOE in Norway. Sports fan especially football and rugby - enjoys running. Links with Norway.

[Dr. Ian Herrington @Doctor_IanRH]

@implausibleblog CT but

[Dr. Ian Herrington @Doctor_IanRH]

@implausibleblog Only the Tory party

[Dr. Ian Herrington @Doctor_IanRH]

@grantshapps The Tory party is Britain’s loony right that has more in common with the Taliban than others

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

The public have turned against Keir Starmer’s dangerous plan to surrender our energy security to Just Stop Oil

[Dr. Ian Herrington @Doctor_IanRH]

@thehistoryguy Read ‘Special Operations in Norway’ to give a clearer account of Operation Gunnerside

[Dr. Ian Herrington @Doctor_IanRH]

@FXMC1957 @sarahchurchwell Just finished reading it and I agree - learnt a lot

[Jay Rayner @jayrayner1]

I am today announcing my candidacy for leader of the Conservative Party. I will abolish all taxes while giving the UK the top tier public services it deserves. Plus tequila slammers for everyone on Fridays. And a fondue kit. One of those. And maybe a fondant fancy each. #victory

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

Listening to @BBCr4today are we sure "Liz Truss" isnt a partially- maintained robot?

[Tony Insall @InsallTony]

Yesterday I participated in the opening of the heavy water museum in Vemork, in Telemark, the target of the successful operation Gunnerside, led by Joachim Rønneberg of SOE. No ribbon for the Norwegian Minister of Defence to cut, he needed bolt cutters to get through the chain!

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

The Centre for Brexit Policy has criticised “increasing identity politics for creating a “caricatured version of British history centred on slavery, violence and colonial oppression". Pretty sure the Irish (any many others) don’t see their colonisation as a caricatured version.

[Robert Pike @pikerobert]

7/8 Oradour-sur-Glane is visited by many thousands of people every year. If you are ever there take a moment to look at all the faces on the walls as you make your way through the underground passageway into the village. Each one is a story.

[Robert Pike @pikerobert]

On 10 June 1944, 78 years ago today, 643 lives were cut short in the small French village of Oradour-sur-Glane, near the city of Limoges. Thread 1/8 #oradour #France #Frenchhistory #oradoursurglane

[Dr. Ian Herrington @Doctor_IanRH]

@MrLeeCain @DAaronovitch @thetimes Couldn’t agree more!

[Sir Richard Evans @RichardEvans36]

I'm not the only historian of modern Germany to find that the UK government scheme to deport asylum seekers to a tropical part of Africa irresistibly reminds them of the failed Nazi scheme to deport Jews to Madagascar.

[SOE History @SOEhistory]

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𝗙𝗘𝗕 𝟮𝟬, 𝟭𝟵𝟰𝟰: Knut Haukelid DSO MC (1911-94), an SOE trained Norwegian commando, and three local resistants used explosives to sink the ferry SF Hydro carrying the last heavy water produced at Vemork for Germany's nuclear weapons program. #SOE #WW2

[SOE History @SOEhistory]

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𝗙𝗘𝗕𝗥𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝟭𝟲, 𝟭𝟵𝟰𝟯: An RAF Halifax bomber took off with six SOE trained Norwegian commandos who parachuted into German occupied Norway around midnight to destroy the heavy water production plant in Telemark. #OperationGunnerside #SOE #WW2

[Professor Amanda Vickery @Amanda_Vickery]

Robert Doisneau - At the Café

[Dr. Ian Herrington @Doctor_IanRH]

Early day motion recognises the achievement of last Shetland Bus man https://t.co/kzotfAjLHH

[Dr. Ian Herrington @Doctor_IanRH]

Jacob Strandheim the 101 year old last surviving member of the Shetlands Gang has died.
https://t.co/wJFUh4ig6O