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Tim Lynch
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Battlefield guide, writer and stuff like that.
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Just back from a short, emotional and joy filled visit to the Falkland Islands. The welcome was overwhelming and the kindness and generosity of the islanders towards veterans is humbling.
Thank you to all who helped make the trip happen.
Lights at the museum in Stanley. Since this is the summer season, we had to wait until 10pm until it was dark enough for the switching on ceremony! The memorial at Mount Pleasant to friends killed there during the war. A double rainbow appeared over the harbour with the colours reflected in the kelp in the water below.
December 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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mikehistorian.bsky.social
19 January 2026 - a date for your WW2 history diary. I will be speaking at the Army Flying Museum about Operation Fustian. The British 1st Parachute Brigade will drop 1800+ troops on the Ponte Primosole crossing on the Catania Plain. More details from @armyflying
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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deelomas.bsky.social
The reform party nativity scene.

No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.

And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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mikehistorian.bsky.social
I'm very excited to launch my Warfare Through the Ages Tour in conjunction with old friends @bhltours and @WeAreTripsmiths
Join me on a tour that visits some of the key battlefields of NW Europe. Agincourt to Dunkirk! Details at the link:
tripsmiths.com/tours/warfare-…
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The BBC are constantly fawning over Farage's every move despite Reform only having four MPs. Our national broadcaster should reflect the whole country, not just one man’s ego.
September 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The spelling in the lower right (appropriately enough) says everything you need to know about these knuckledraggers. Sadly, you can’t spell country without…
davidrvetter.bsky.social Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Sep 5
Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.
A St George flag, on which is written the words "Stop the Muslim Paki boats" and "Get out of our cuntry oi oi". In the centre of the flag, a swastika is drawn.
September 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Rush hour in North Yorkshire.
The road is full of pheasants adopting the old movie tactic of trying to avoid being hit by a car by running down the middle of the road and making no attempt to get out of the way. Pheasants are famously not very bright.
August 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A Bank Holiday in Yorkshire without rain? Seems wrong somehow but I’ll take it.
August 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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snig.bsky.social Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · Aug 23
Lucy Connolly had thought her tweet very funny (paragraph 9), and when she realised she was in trouble, said she would "play the mental health card" (paragraph 10).
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8. By the time you were arrested on the 6th August of this year you had deleted the account. From enquiries made by that police they were able to establish that the individual tweet the subject of this offence remined available for at least three and a half hours. 9. The police were however able to trace other tweets that you had sent both before and after the 29th July which included further racist remarks. On the 5th August, the day before you were arrested you sent a WhatsApp message which included "..raging tweet about burning down hotels has bit me on the arse lol "which is commonly understood to mean laugh out loud. 10. You also messaged that if enquiries of you were made, you would deny you were responsible for the message and if you were arrested you would "play the mental health card ". 11. I have to apply the Sentencing Council Guidelines for this offence. 12. In relation to your culpability this is clearly a category A case - as both prosecution and your counsel agree, because you intended to incite serious violence. 13. In relation to harm it is again agreed, correctly, that what you did encouraged activity which threatened or endangered life and therefore falls within category 1. There is also further relevant factor in relation to harm in that you sought, and achieved, widespread dissemination of your statement by posting it on social media. 14. The starting point after a trial is therefore one of 3 years imprisonment. 15. There is a further significant aggravating factor namely, the timing of the publication when there was obviously a particularly sensitive social climate. It would be difficult to think of a more sensitive such time than during the evening of the 29th July of this year. 16. All of those factors would require a significant increase in the sentence beyond the starting point. Lucie @LJCJ83 Follow Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you're at it take the treacherous government & politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist, so be it 20:30 29/07/2024 From Earth 310K Views 940 Reposts 58 Quotes 8.8K Likes 113 Bookmarks 口
August 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Holocaust denial is a tool of ideological hatred, spread today primarily through social media. Thanks to the “Stop Denial” tool, everyone can now take meaningful action to defend the truth and the dignity of victims of Auschwitz.

stopdenial.auschwitz.org

More: www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/ne...
Some people in a wooded area examining a large, wooden gas-tighed door - remains of gas chamber and crematorium V at the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau site.
July 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Railway Children
Tickets now on sale as The Railway Children return home during the summer as part of Bradford 2025!
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July 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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alexmayhew.bsky.social
Today is publication day for the paperback edition of my monograph Making Sense of the Great War at £29.99 (or cheaper via Amazon).

Though I am yet to receive my author copies, I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and shares this.

Find it here: bit.ly/4l1M5Gu
Making Sense of the Great War | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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June 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Having started the week with US paratroopers in 1944 England, it’s now back to 1914 Diksmuide and the tale of Elsie and Marie.
May 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Heading out today with @wwiimuseum.bsky.social in the footsteps of Easy Company 506th PIR - the Band of Brothers. Always a great tour to guide - especially the pub lunch!
May 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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historyrage.bsky.social
🚨THIS WEEK TO SUBS🚨 Imagine fighting & dying for your country—only to be shunned afterward. 😡 Some veterans' groups refused to accept conscripts, treating them as lesser soldiers. @timlynch656.bsky.social exposes the injustice!

Listen now 🎧 www.patreon.com/post...
#History #Podcast #WWI
May 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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ledbydonkeys.org
TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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arianesherine.bsky.social
Hahaha
May 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Thinking of voting Reform UK because you want a change? Be careful what you wish for – Reform UK are salespeople offering simplistic solutions that come with baggage that would cost you and the country

By Cliff Mitchell
Thinking of voting Reform UK because you want a change?
Be careful what you wish for – Reform UK are salespeople offering simplistic solutions that come with baggage that would cost you and the country
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April 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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mikehistorian.bsky.social
I am already planning ahead for the release of Glider Pilots in Sicily in paperback. I will be giving a lecture on Operation Fustian at the Army Flying Museum on 19th January 26. More information to follow from the Army Flying Museum in the autumn.
April 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...
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March 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
I can provide, as a pro bono service to humanity, a fine list of ways to mess up a Trump visit, both through local government pettifoggery and civil disobedience
rolandmcs.bsky.social Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · Feb 28
If the Trump state visit happens – and it now shouldn't – it'll be dogged by massive protests. Heck, even I would join it. A security nightmare for the Met.
February 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Time to reflect on the year. A post Christmas walk after breakfast at my favourite cafe.
December 26, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
On Christmas eve the Dutch place candles on war graves of those who gave their lives for our freedom during the second world war.
We will remember them.
December 23, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Good one.
December 20, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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churchcat.bsky.social
Nailed it in one.
December 20, 2024 at 9:20 AM