Battlefield Historian

We are an historical map and photo archive dedicated to making our nations' histories available to all.

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@BattlefieldGD Great work Paul

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@BritishArmyWDs @rentaquill @ColesBooks @almurray and three for Sicily but none for Dunkirk I am afraid

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@BritishArmyWDs @rentaquill @ColesBooks @almurray No I have Njimegen Eindhoven and Arnhem in the same series

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@rentaquill @ColesBooks @almurray and £4 cheaper

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@rentaquill @ColesBooks @almurray You could always get a full size, flat, unwrinkled, digital version @300DPI from us of course :)

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

Better picture - I genuinely give up - we are going to hell in a hand cart

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

and at some stage they will deal with it. Is this what our once great mail/parcel provider has become? (2/2) I know this is a first world problem but I just want people to do their jobs - it cannot be that hard surely?

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

So waiting all morning for a Parcel Force Worldwide Delivery with a Flames of War gift. Nothing. Then a message to say its been delivered. Not only is it miles away from my address. Its also been dumped in a bin. Contact with PF and they tell me its been passed to the depot (1)

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@rjlinney @TooFatLardies Thats the erudite version of mine :)

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@ReassessHistory This document excludes Crown Copyright Jonathan - the rues around CC images are even clearer than this and make the images even more accesible

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@ReassessHistory If we collected all the images we all hold and made them available then we have another way of skinnning this particular cat - just a thought

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@ReassessHistory no one belives this can be done for free without a huge intervention but often people power is the strongest asset we have. We charge 7.50 per image to cover all our costs and there are no onward costs, no license fees, no copyright restrictions now 'sweat of our brow' costs :)

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@ReassessHistory we will force institutions like the IWM to rethink their position. At Battlefield Historian we have been offering these images at a price that recognises that running a website costs some money and needs to be covered and the time to administer the images also has a cost impact

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@ReassessHistory As a collective of historians/authors/collectors we must have thousands and thousands of these CC images in our own collections. Surely if we collect these images in a single location and make them available for everyone with no licence fee and no onward charges then ... /6

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@ReassessHistory 4. These items belong to us as a collective. 5. The IWM positions is never going to change (I repeated that). 6. we are all approaching this the wrong way. Knowing that the IWM will not change their position then we need to find another way. /5

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@ReassessHistory 3. These same images exist all over the world in archives such as Alamy, Getty, NAM, Bovington GTank Museum, NARA. There are multiple copies of most of these images. They can be obtained anywhere.
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[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@ReassessHistory There are some observations/factors that are clear. 1. The IWM's position is never going to change (revenue streams will prevent this) 2. They are wrong - after 50 yrs Crown Copyright (CC) ceases to exist and CC images move into the public domain. They do not belong to the IWM /2

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

@ReassessHistory At https://t.co/EWUiPSkbId we have been fighting this issue of presumed copyright for crown copyright material for twenty years. It is my belief that if we apply some good old fashioned JSCS planning to the problem it is easily resolved. /1

[Battlefield Historian @NeilPowell1964]

Lt John Lee Warner, British Rifle Instructor at a Commando Depot, somewhere in Britain giving instructions to US Rangers who are training there. Scotland, February 9 1943