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Andrew Burtch
@postwarhist.bsky.social
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Historian, Post-1945 at the Canadian War Museum. Love history, games, books, also books. And books.
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postwarhist.bsky.social
Honoured to have been on the CBC national live commentary for this year's Remembrance Day coverage. It was cold.
Bald bearded man wearing suit and beaded poppy in front of the National War Memorial.
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.” -Kenneth Clark
irgarner.bsky.social Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · 3d
24/7 cake vending machine in the middle of nowhere. Maximum Poland.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
postwarhist.bsky.social
C'mon now
perryodontal.bsky.social Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 9d
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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jeffnoakes.bsky.social
80 years ago #OTD (1 Nov 45), this German Molch submarine, now at the Canadian War Museum, left Antwerp aboard the Montreal-bound Dutch freighter Blommersdijk. Also aboard were Farley Mowat, who commanded the 1st Canadian War Museum Collection Team, and Roy Weatherdon, one of its members.
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Colour image of a three-quarter view of a black-hulled miniature submarine, pointing towards the viewer. A small conning tower and periscope are visible towards its rear, on the right. A silver bomb-shaped variable depth sonar is in the right background. A horizontal red cylinder near centre is the pulse-jet engine of a piloted V-1 cruise missile.
November 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
postwarhist.bsky.social
It's been a tough week. But I'm happy to say that we just hit send on the final manuscript of our latest edited collection to UBC Press's Studies in Canadian Military History Series. Now for copy-editing and production, publication in '26. Godspeed, little electrons.
October 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
postwarhist.bsky.social
Horrific.
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12d
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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aptnnews.bsky.social
Tommy Prince is known as the most decorated First Nations veteran of the Second World War and the Korean War.

Now people are celebrating his life days ahead of the military acknowledging its racism and discrimination against Indigenous soldiers.
Life of Tommy Prince celebrated ahead of military apology
Sgt. Tommy Prince is known as the most decorated soldier in Canada. His life is being celebrated ahead of an apology from the military.
www.aptnnews.ca
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
postwarhist.bsky.social
Deeply upsetting. Rats and bats should be friends.
frydawolff.bsky.social Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 16d
METAL.
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · 16d
Talk about an in-flight meal.

For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
postwarhist.bsky.social
I mean, I'm happy for the people who like this sort of thing and want to try it. But I am extra happy that I am married and don't have to countenance ever, ever trying this. Even the cover image wouldn't be out of place in a Bosch painting. Perfect for Halloween spooky season though.
October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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lifewinning.com
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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darrencullen.bsky.social
Did a new one
Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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evansmithhist.bsky.social
In our recent volume, 'Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire', @anilliams.bsky.social contributed a chapter on the forced deportation of Liverpool's Chinese seamen at the end of WWII.

@andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social

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chapter 7 Liverpool’s Chinese Community: the Second World War, Exile, and Repatriation Andrew Williams The forced repatriation of Chinese seamen at the end of the Second World War from Liverpool, in Northwest England, was the subject of a long- form journalistic investigation in 2021, published in The Guardian newspaper.1 A few weeks later, Liverpool Labour mp Kim Johnson raised it in Parliament. She called on the Conservative government to launch an inquiry into the affair and to acknowledge that in the case of these men, and the families they left behind, ‘justice delayed’ was ‘justice denied.’2 In response, the Home Office – the department responsible for immigration – pledged to investigate the actions of its antecedents in conspiring to repatriate hundreds of Chinese men after Britain had defeated fascism in Europe and Asia. Liverpool’s Chinese community has always been centred in its Chinatown, which is claimed to be the oldest in Europe, although substantive historical investigations into this community are few and far between. Perhaps the best account has been written by Maria Lin Wong, whom in 1989 published a history based primarily on oral testimony.3 Gregory B. Lee, a Chinese studies scholar, has published other research, approaching the history of the community from a postcolonial studies perspective.4 Even fewer publications directly address the forced repatriation of Chinese seamen after the Second World War. Wong made only brief mention of it based on what she was told and would have been unable to explore it any further as the archival sources had not been released to the public at the time. John Belchem, in his valuable history of race relations in twentieth- century Liverpool, did provide an account of the repatriation, but..
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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samadams.bsky.social
“We are all, how you say, trying to find zee guy who did zis.”
carrietait.bsky.social Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 24d
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
postwarhist.bsky.social
So for our next activity we're going to pair off and play through a scenario
kyracloudy.bsky.social Kyra Dempsey - Admiral Cloudberg @kyracloudy.bsky.social · 25d
Found a new meme template in the B727 ops manual.
Me when the FO starts talking about politics:
October 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
postwarhist.bsky.social
No way that this could go possibly go awry!
schoolsweek.bsky.social Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · Oct 10
Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...
'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up
Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school
schoolsweek.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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doctorwaffle.substack.com
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
postwarhist.bsky.social
To wit: “This is clearly not the silver bullet – this is one tool among many. The human factor remains key.”
waitmanwbeorn.com Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · Oct 2
Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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sandymcclearn.bsky.social
The Royal Canadian Navy will pay off five of their East Coast MCDVs in a ceremony in Halifax this afternoon. Farewell to HMC Ships Kingston, Glace Bay, Shawinigan, Goose Bay, and Summerside. #ships #warships #rcn #royalcanadiannavy #halifax #novascotia #farewell #nautical #navy #EastCoastKin
Minesweeper underway at night. Small warship and a lighthouse. Small warship underway in silhouette. Two small warships at anchor.
October 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
postwarhist.bsky.social
DeeDee Austin's "Buried Truth," what a searing performance.
September 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
postwarhist.bsky.social
Imagine having this much contempt for the organization you purportedly lead.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Hegseth: "An entire generation of generals and admirals were told that they must the parrot the insane fallacy that 'our diversity is our strength' ... they were told females and males are the same thing."
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced they will immediately withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), labelling it an "instrument of neo-colonialist repression"."

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Three West African countries to quit International Criminal Court
The three military juntas, who came to power through coups, say the judicial body is 'incapable' of handling 'proven war crimes'.
www.bbc.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
postwarhist.bsky.social
I will read this for the title alone. And the scholarship within is pretty good too, I'll bet.
lauratisdall.bsky.social Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · Sep 16
Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.
September 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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dreadships.bsky.social
Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns
The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester, being jacked up on stilts to the new street level during redevelopment. It definitely looks like it's about to waddle out of the picture.
September 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
postwarhist.bsky.social
Here's a helpful explainer of Article 4 and how it's been used in the past, for those interested. www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh...
The consultation process and Article 4
All NATO decisions are made by consensus, after discussion and consultation among member countries. Consultation between member states is therefore at the heart of NATO, since Allies are able to exchange views and information, and discuss issues prior to reaching agreement and taking action.
www.nato.int
September 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM