Researching archaeology of the recent past - including aviation archaeology, battlefield archaeology, WWI and WWII military heritage. All views my own.
Tuesday 30th June 2026, 8pm
Battlefields Trust Members Online Talk: The Battle of Tewkesbury - a re-examination of the evidence.
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Until the final months of WW2, escaping from the rear rurret of an Avro Lancaster was tricky, to say the least. With the introduction of this Rose turret, the gunner could escape over the top of his two . 50 inch Browning machine guns. It was a bit 'exposed' in normal use though!
TV news, in trying to find a reason for the apparently baffling fact that we’ve had so many PMs in such a short time - why, that is, we have only one type of politics now - that of outrage, leading inexorably to endless and repetitive political cancellation - can’t bring itself, I note, to even mention the words: social media.
#VC10birthday Today is the anniversary of XR808's first flight in 1966. Named 'Kenneth Campbell VC', this C1(K) would fly with 10 and 101 Sqn for 47 years and 3 weeks before carrying out the final flight of a C1. Preserved at RAFM Cosford. https://t.co/I9wRdO3VzS