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Alex Churchill

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FRHistS Royal/Military Historian Director @greatwargroup 🕯️ www.istoriatravel.org ✈️ Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social 📚 #CFC ⚽️ #WW1 #WW2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷 https://achurchill.substack.com

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · May 13

Ring of Fire is out now! It’s like the Guns of August for a new generation: the opening weeks of WW1 through the eyes of ordinary men, women and children. And not just in Western Europe, but across the globe. It was bloody, terrifying and neutrality was a sham… geni.us/RingOfFire

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, must try harder next time.

The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 3h

Does feel like, despite our best efforts to manage expectations, people were expecting this to happen...

Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 2h

De rien mon petit lapin

Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 2h

Musk was right. No foreigner will ever know the pain of the Russian roulette of reaching into a bag of Revels, shoving one in your mouth and it being one of the coffee ones #BritishChildhoodTrauma

Hirst’s BleedingCart @bleedingcart.bsky.social · 11h

My British childhood consisted of eating Campbells Meatballs and playing on the Mega Drive, the only traumatic thing that ever happened was that TV thing warning what to do in the event of a gas leak where somebody goes to turn on a light switch and the man shouts “no”.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 14h

Yep. What is every ad for AI? Have something else do your thinking for you. There’s a chat GPT one doing the rounds where it plans a whole road trip for a couple of idiots. Who haven’t realised that half the fun is planning it yourself

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 15h

We should be more compassionate. It must be tough growing up knowing the whole world would have been better off if your dad had pulled out. How’s that lol.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 17h

I wrestled either whether to use that or tedious cocksplat.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 17h

Yep. Roaming the globe looking for somewhere you can have license to spout your white supremacist bullshit is gonna take its toll.

Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 17h

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying fire bad tree pretty

ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying fire bad tree pretty

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 17h

He’s not that bright.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 20h

Because apartheid South Africa really did a fantastic job of spaffing out a functional human being with you, didn’t it? You loathsome bellend.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 20h

Every threat of death and sexual violence you can imagine.

Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 20h

Ditto. It’s useless as a platform unless you’re willing to give him money, qnd even then it doesn’t function like it used to. Hell will freeze over before that happens.

Patrick Middleton @handle.invalid · 21h

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Have literally just finished a substack on this for Tuesday. What constitutes a crisis, who decides, and how does it gain momentum and leave us all bereft…

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s article is up and it’s FREE for all to read. Get your potted introduction to three of the leading French generals in #WW1 for starters:

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FREE ARTICLE: French Command, 1914-18

Today I thought I’d revert to what I love best - bludgeoning you with French history.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s article is up and it’s FREE for all to read. Get your potted introduction to three of the leading French generals in #WW1 for starters:

achurchill.substack.com/p/free-artic...

FREE ARTICLE: French Command, 1914-18

Today I thought I’d revert to what I love best - bludgeoning you with French history.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

And hardly sweating. Ramires is broken already lol

Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t know if he currently has a club but he’s a country mile faster than anyone else out here

Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Also it was not on my bingo card that Diego Costa would be the fittest bloke out there 😆 Machine. But come back in another 20 minutes.

Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

The actual football can get in the bin. I’d much rather have this lot #BestDay #CFC

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

Bench I think

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s article is up and it’s FREE for all to read. Get your ported introduction to three of the leading French generals in #WW1 achurchill.substack.com/p/free-artic...

FREE ARTICLE: French Command, 1914-18

Today I thought I’d revert to what I love best - bludgeoning you with French history.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 1d

The actual football can get in the bin. I’d much rather have this lot #BestDay #CFC

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s article is up and it’s FREE for all to read. Get your ported introduction to three of the leading French generals in #WW1 achurchill.substack.com/p/free-artic...

FREE ARTICLE: French Command, 1914-18

Today I thought I’d revert to what I love best - bludgeoning you with French history.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 4d

Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 6d

Today’s feature is up. It’s basically akin to a chapter in a book and you get at least one a month among all the other articles for just £5. This time, it’s the story of how there came to be a French Expeditionary Force in Italy in 1944…
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FULL FEATURE: How the French fought in Italy in 1944

The story of the French in Italy in 1943-44 is pivotal in their history, not only because it marked such a seismic reversal for Hitler caused by the Allies, but ‘for France, it was a testament to the ...

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