English and History teacher, Author, Volunteer @clubbrugge. World War I and extreme weather buff. Active in @GreatwarGroup.
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"If there is a lesson from Weimar, it’s that people turn to radical politics in times of despair, when they lose trust in established institutions, parties and leaders to deal with the crises affecting their lives. The way out of this is not to tell people that their concerns are irrational."
My weekend essay @Bloomberg👇
https://t.co/Xzf3EqzhUC
D-Day.
Zaterdag 6 juni is het exact 82 jaar geleden dat de geallieerden op de Normandische kust landden.
Wil je volgen wat er precies 82 jaar geleden gebeurde? Volg dan @kershaw_alex.
Hij neemt je hier de komende dagen mee in de waanzinnige geschiedenis van D-Day. #tip
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
A few days after the momentous events of D-Day, a Lance Corporal of 1 ROYAL NORFOLK visits the grave of a chum who fell near the village of Hermanville.
#ww2#DDay82#Normandy
LA VIEILLE ALLIANCE
An officer of 8 ROYAL SCOTS is aided by a member of the French Resistance as they make their way through the Normandy countryside.
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If you’d like to acquire the original painting you can find it listed here:
https://t.co/cRnVKyQgxt
#ww2#Normandy#DDay82
@militaryhistori I presume quite a bit, but not enough to integrate WW1 builds into WW2 complexes. The latter were all newly built, which you can see at Raversijde today, for instance.
I’m going to be waffling all weekend on multiple wars alongside gems like @militaryhistori@authordlewis & one of my besties @Joshua_Levine - come hang out! https://t.co/6WKK7oZhB2
Cool! A 10th c. copy of a text written in 745 by a monk in Roksem. In the text Flanders is mentioned for the first time ever as the monk referred to ‘pago Flandrinse’. State Archives, Bruges.
A thousand Russians are being killed and injured every day in Ukraine, mostly by drone attacks. This is what it looks like on the ground, as seen by a Russian soldier who angrily denounces Putin while standing amongst the corpses of his unit, of which he is the last survivor.
Just some of the over 700.000 artefacts found during the building of the Amsterdam metro.
This superb website has catalogued about 20.000 of them, such a delight to go through:
https://t.co/96SFsLI9ef
You can also see some of them in person at Rokin station.