@DalrympleWill@EmpirePodUK Only just catching up with this series. @HeraldLinde was brilliant in Ep 1. Looking forward to the rest.
He described VOC as the largest company ever. Surely a face-off between EIC and VOC needed!
A rather more picturesque view of Point du Hoc in Normandy by Seurat in the @TheCourtauld exhibition. Well worth a visit. Incredible collection of his seascapes. The rock feature no longer looks like this due to erosion and damage during WW2.
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🧵In 1942, a man flew an open-cockpit biplane from World War ONE straight at three of the most powerful warships ever built.
He knew he wasn't coming back.
This is the story of Lieutenant Commander Eugene Esmonde 👇
@DadsArmyFans hey guys. We are taking this brilliant play (based on Arnold Ridley’s memoirs and written by his son, Nic) to The Mission Theatre in Bath 19th-21st March. Would love a retweet is possible?
@digkabri@DalrympleWill@tweeter_anita You were epic, Prof Cline! So much debunking of history in 3 fun-filled hours of podcast. Please come back again!
And that's a wrap! 🎬
What a bloomin' marvellous two days of filming for @ww2headquarters. Am going to miss these chaps. Huge thanks to @almurray and @James1940 for being an absolute joy to have @ChartwellNT and I can't wait to see these brilliant Churchillian episodes soon. ✌️
Something wonderful swimming out of the elm.
My father's first otter carving of the new year, smiling on a Saturday!
David Robinson, Scottish Elm, 2026
#handmade#otterman#woodcarving#otters
On the morning of 14 May 1945, the crew of U-2326 quietly navigated their submarine into the Tay Estuary at Dundee, Scotland, the war finally over for them.
Their surrender was accepted on board the venerable HMS Unicorn, a ship launched all the way back in 1824, temporarily renamed HMS Cressy to free the name for the Navy’s new repair carrier.
For these men, trained in the cutting-edge Type XXIII coastal U-boat, the end came not with a battle but with the slow, formal procession into port...a surreal contrast to the intense, claustrophobic months they had spent underwater.
Hello @EmpirePodUK@DalrympleWill@tweeter_anita
I have heard you talk about how Scotland benefitted from Empire frequently. In particular a statement that the West of Scot was enriched by slavery but the East by India. Are there sources for that data?
Hello @EmpirePodUK@DalrympleWill@tweeter_anita
I have heard you talk about how Scotland benefitted from Empire frequently. In particular a statement that the West of Scot was enriched by slavery but the East by India. Are there sources for that data?
Glad to have finally visited the graves of the RAISC soldiers buried in Kingussie.
The predominantly Punjabi men were part of Force K6, the “Indian Contingent” and died while stationed in Scotland.
There’s lots of great info and celebration of them now, but often missed I why they were there in the first place: they provided the 52nd Lowland Division with mule transport for mountain training. Training and leading battalion and company mule trains for anything from ammunition supply to casualty evacuation.