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Jim Smithson

@boiry62128

Author and battlefield guide. Great War Group Trustee. Speciality Battles of Arras & Artois. A Taste of Success and guide to Arras 14-18 Part 1 available now.

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Dr Philip W Blood (@historianblood) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#Aachen - War Comes to Aachen’ - the fate of a German city in the age of total war. #WW2 #NaziGermany #RAFBomberCommand #USArmy #occupation #Holocaust #smuggling

#Aachen - War Comes to Aachen’ - the fate of a German city in the age of total war. 
#WW2 #NaziGermany #RAFBomberCommand #USArmy #occupation #Holocaust #smuggling
WW1cemeteries.com (@ww1cemeteries) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Zantvoorde a couple of years apart, another victim of Commonwealth War Graves ‘s lack of care in many of the cemeteries. One does wonder how they manage to keep Loos British looking so pristine, maybe it’s because it’s currently open for burials, and is often used to ‘showcase’ their ‘work?’

Zantvoorde a couple of years apart, another victim of <a href="/CWGC/">Commonwealth War Graves</a> ‘s lack of care in many of the cemeteries. One does wonder how they manage to keep Loos British looking so pristine, maybe it’s because it’s currently open for burials, and is often used to ‘showcase’ their ‘work?’
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (@worthvalley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Railway Children return to the stage at Oxenhope this evening! 🎭🚂 Don’t forget — arrival is from 4.30pm at Keighley Station, the start of your Bradford 2025 experience! Haven’t booked yet? There’s still time! Head to 👉 kwvr.co.uk/railway-childr… to grab your tickets.

The Railway Children return to the stage at Oxenhope this evening! 🎭🚂

Don’t forget — arrival is from 4.30pm at Keighley Station, the start of your Bradford 2025 experience!

Haven’t booked yet?
There’s still time! Head to 👉 kwvr.co.uk/railway-childr… to grab your tickets.
Jocke Hallberg - Battlefield Swede 🎗️🇸🇪 (@milvet_se) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Who was Oscar Osk? - Stories about the Swedish soldiers - July 2025 tour - Part 3 🇸🇪🇨🇦In July this year I tried to make my database in my research about the Swedish born soldiers to be more complete. In this case to add photographs of their final resting places, their headstones

Who was Oscar Osk? - Stories about the Swedish soldiers -  July 2025 tour - Part 3
🇸🇪🇨🇦In July this year I tried to make my database in my research about the Swedish born soldiers to be more complete. In this case to add photographs of their final resting places, their headstones
Ravilious (@ravilious1942) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Newhaven Harbour, Eric Ravilious, 1935. It depicts the harbour lighthouse in this famous East #Sussex port, much beloved by Ravilious. The original artwork is in a private collection.

Newhaven Harbour, Eric Ravilious, 1935. It depicts the harbour lighthouse in this famous East #Sussex port, much beloved by Ravilious. The original artwork is in a private collection.
Brontë Country Landscapes (@afowlerphoto) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy Wuthering Heights Day, the joint birthday of Emily Brontë (207) and Kate Bush (67). This is the ruin of Top Withins, said to be Emily Brontë’s inspiration for the location of Wuthering Heights.

Happy Wuthering Heights Day, the joint birthday of Emily Brontë (207) and Kate Bush (67). This is the ruin of Top Withins, said to be Emily Brontë’s inspiration for the location of Wuthering Heights.
Nigel (@njvphotographee) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Good morning everyone, a short #Steamfix video from yesterday and the #greatgathering . 46527 Sierra Leone , aka Galatea in disguise passes 60103 #Flying Scotsman . Have a brilliant day all

The Great War Group (@greatwargroup) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New Seminar announcements!!!! Here are the next four small group talks for our October conference in Bristol: There’s Scots at Loos; Mobilising the CEF in an enormous territory, a very special listen along to some antique records and a much maligned type of submarine!

New Seminar announcements!!!! Here are the next four small group talks for our October conference in Bristol: 

There’s Scots at Loos; 
Mobilising the CEF in an enormous territory, 
a very special listen along to some antique records 
and a much maligned type of submarine!
Klaas Meijer (@klaasm67) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Apocalyptic! We visited the deserted Belgian village of Doel. Since 1965, plans to expand the Port of Antwerp have threatened its demolition. Decades of protests led to a stalemate—until 2022, when a deal finally allowed the village to survive.

Apocalyptic! We visited the deserted Belgian village of Doel. Since 1965, plans to expand the Port of Antwerp have threatened its demolition. Decades of protests led to a stalemate—until 2022, when a deal finally allowed the village to survive.
Auschwitz Memorial (@auschwitzmuseum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2/3 August 1944 | The Germans liquidated the so-called Gypsy camp (Zigeunerlager - sector BIIe) of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Some 4,300 children, women and men - the last Roma and Sinti prisoners of the sector - were murdered in gas chambers. Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschw…

2/3 August 1944 | The Germans liquidated the so-called Gypsy camp (Zigeunerlager - sector BIIe) of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Some 4,300 children, women and men - the last Roma and Sinti prisoners of the sector - were murdered in gas chambers.

Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschw…
Taff (@taff_gillingham) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Very sorry to hear that Chris McCarthy has died. His many years at the Imperial War Museums, his great books, his sense of humour and all the help and advice he has given over the years will be his legacy.

Very sorry to hear that Chris McCarthy has died.
His many years at the <a href="/I_W_M/">Imperial War Museums</a>, his great books, his sense of humour and all the help and advice he has given over the years will be his legacy.
Auschwitz Memorial (@auschwitzmuseum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

3 August 1871 | Polish Jewish woman, Estera Berkowicz, was born in Częstochowa. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 18 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

3 August 1871 | Polish Jewish woman, Estera Berkowicz, was born in Częstochowa. She emigrated to Belgium.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 18 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
Prof Alice Roberts💙 (@thealiceroberts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rob Dr Ross Nieuwoudt This is absolute nonsense. Pay has always been related to hours worked. The basic pay - that doesn’t include overtime - has stagnated so that resident doctors are paid much less in real terms, per hour worked, than they were in the 90s. And many are leaving the country to find

Auschwitz Memorial (@auschwitzmuseum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

4 August 1932 | Hungarian Jewish girl Erika Oesterreicher was born in Budapest. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

4 August 1932 | Hungarian Jewish girl Erika Oesterreicher was born in Budapest.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.