Kyle Glover

History nerd. IC spare part. Currently researching escaping POWs and SOE in occupied Crete. And the Ancient and Medieval world. And historical food. And..

[peopleof1381 @peopleof1381]

New findings about the early life and activities of the radical preacher John Ball will be presented by the People of 1381 team at a double header event @essexarchive on 13 June. Book your place now! https://t.co/WJ85RMCDLt

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@ThatchEffendi 9 replies to himself, about time travellers and Peaky Blinders...

[SO3 Clausewitz @SO3_Clausewitz]

My short list of British figures that should appear on British bank notes.

1. You and me, Darling, obviously
2. Field Marshal Haig
3. Field Marshal Haig’s wife
4. All Field Marshal Haig’s wife’s friends
5. Their families
6. Their families’ servants
7. Their families’ servants’ tennis partners
8. Some chap I bumped into the mess the other day called Bernard

[Nathen Amin ✒️📚 @NathenAmin]

The term "Wars of the Roses"was not invented by Walter Scott as is popularly stated. He did not even say that phrase, instead opting for "the wars of the White and Red Roses". No, the phrase predates Scott to at least 1817 when a father wrote a bedtime story for his daughter...

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

From the unpublished memoir of Victor Jones kept at IWM, describing food shortages in the camp:
Rations were very meagre indeed, and after a couple of days, there was a sad lack of firing for cooking ... We were able after a few days to purchase a few vegetables from the Greek villagers, but the prices were prohibitive, and the demand very large, so only a fortunate few were able to take advantage of this. One or two chaps were caught going through the wire in order to get to the village and get food, and they were punished by being kept on water for 24 hours. A warning was given out that future offenders could, and would, be punished by death. Two chaps who were caught after the warning, were sentenced to be shot, but the Australian Padre intervened and pleaded for them, and they managed to obtain a remission of their sentence. It was amazing to see the rapid havoc that bad water and short rations brought about. Cheeks soon hollowed, and bones began to protrude.

#Greece #Crete #WW2 #History

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

In 1941, after the battle of Crete, a little girl threw a parcel of food to starving Allied prisoners in the Agii Apostolis POW camp. A German guard saw her and beat her with his rifle. The POWs booed and shouted at him, allowing the girl to escape.

Today I met her. Her name is Anna and she is 97.

#Greece #Crete #History #WW2

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@Grimupnort90556 Because they'd been on half rations even before the battle started and the food the Germans were giving them was less than that, to the point that POWs were trying to escape specifically so they could find food and then bring it back to the camp.

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

In 1941, after the battle of Crete, a little girl threw a parcel of food to starving Allied prisoners in the Agii Apostolis POW camp. A German guard saw her and beat her with his rifle. The POWs booed and shouted at him, allowing the girl to escape.

Today I met her. Her name is Anna and she is 97.

#Greece #Crete #History #WW2

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@TheBenWilkinson @ifanmj Literally the opposite.

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

A TOT FOR THE LADS

In the early Summer of 1916, somewhere in France, a young subaltern of 11/Borders, the Lonsdale battalion, oversees the rum ration being distributed to his men.

#ww1 #Somme110 #illustration

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@YourbiasShows @GamingDeValera @th0mxas @TEightTR @airbagg3d The current chief of SIS:

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@TheHiddenOneAC "What the hell is he doing?!" "His job!"

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@MizuumiKami @ActuallyCrab Just leaving this here...
https://t.co/ee3cmY3MoW

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@geralt_of_rivi @JCDenton654 @airbagg3d Bond spends a good chunk of Casino Royale tied to a chair having his testicles smashed with a carpet beater until a previously unmentioned Soviet assassin walks in and domes the villain...

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@BriW74 @arisroussinos The Prussians arriving at Waterloo in the form of 3 men on horseback.

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@MrJBlizzard @Gibboanxious The WW2 flashback was absolutely laughable.

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@ReassessHistory

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@JSwitch56 @ladolcevolk 1995:

[Ross Cable @RossWCable]

PTE McDermid, killed today 85 years ago at Retimo. Buried at the magnificent #CWGC in Chania, remembered thanks to @ukingreece. Story told by his OC, MAJ Ralph Honner in the @AWMemorial Official History pp. 268-71 (link below ⬇️). Photo: #AWM 131072 @SOE_Expeditions @CWGC

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@smorl_thoughts @AaronBastani >medieval warm period
>Romans

[Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory]

@SebMilbank Thoughts on the James Bond onesie from Goldfinger?