Adrian Phillips
@adriangphillips.bsky.social
Historian and author. Fascinated by how and why top level government decisions are taken. Umlout.
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Prince Andrew Home Alone + Churchill’s Bandits | Ep.94 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
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Enormously enjoyed chatting to @philmcraig.bsky.social about the Bandits www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz6M...
Eighty years ago this week the USN sweeps the South China Sea tinyurl.com/2p7n38vm
Eighty years ago this week the USN sweeps the South China Sea
USN Admiral Halsey mounted Operation Gratitude in the South China Sea to eliminate the remains of the IJN Combined Fleet which might have...
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January 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Eighty years ago this week the USN sweeps the South China Sea tinyurl.com/2p7n38vm
Eighty years ago this week Churchill chooses a new Archbishop of Canterbury for his toughness tinyurl.com/55fz2yth
Eighty years ago this week Churchill chooses a new Archbishop of Canterbury for his toughness
The Bishop of London Geoffrey Fisher became Archibishop of Canterbury in succcession to William Temple, who had been his patron and wanted...
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January 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Eighty years ago this week Churchill chooses a new Archbishop of Canterbury for his toughness tinyurl.com/55fz2yth
Eighty years ago this week Churchill finds an outlet for his energies tinyurl.com/3rppva8x
Eighty years ago Churchill finds an outlet for his energies
Dozens of V-1s were air-launched from Heinkel He-111 bombers over the North Sea. They were targeted on Manchester but the most lethal str...
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December 27, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Eighty years ago this week Churchill finds an outlet for his energies tinyurl.com/3rppva8x
OTD 1936 Edward VIII abdicated after a messy crisis in which Winston Churchill, egged on by the malign Lord Beaverbrook, commited near political suicide by taking the King's side against the government of Stanley Baldwin.
December 10, 2024 at 12:03 PM
OTD 1936 Edward VIII abdicated after a messy crisis in which Winston Churchill, egged on by the malign Lord Beaverbrook, commited near political suicide by taking the King's side against the government of Stanley Baldwin.
Eighty years ago, retirement for Dad's Army, a swansong for the Royal Navy and the first shots in the Cold War tinyurl.com/3astxp2p
Eighty years ago, retirement for Dad's Army, a swansong for the Royal Navy and the first shots in the Cold War
Britain's Home Guard was formally stood down after more than four years in existence. This was marked by a parade of 8,000 members throu...
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December 6, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Eighty years ago, retirement for Dad's Army, a swansong for the Royal Navy and the first shots in the Cold War tinyurl.com/3astxp2p
OTD 1874 Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, home of his grandfather, the Duke of Marlborough. His father was a young Tory politician who was just beginning his career.
November 30, 2024 at 7:40 AM
OTD 1874 Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, home of his grandfather, the Duke of Marlborough. His father was a young Tory politician who was just beginning his career.
Scotney Castle dressed magnificently for Christmas with imagination and flair.
November 23, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Scotney Castle dressed magnificently for Christmas with imagination and flair.
Great evening talking about Winston's Bandits at Alison's fabulous Literary Lounge in Barnetts independent bookshop of Wadhurst
November 20, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Great evening talking about Winston's Bandits at Alison's fabulous Literary Lounge in Barnetts independent bookshop of Wadhurst
The joy of knowing that I'm not the only creature on the planet whose Christmas lights are inextricably tangled.
November 17, 2024 at 10:46 PM
The joy of knowing that I'm not the only creature on the planet whose Christmas lights are inextricably tangled.
Enormously enjoyed chatting to @philmcraig.bsky.social about the Bandits www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz6M...
Prince Andrew Home Alone + Churchill’s Bandits | Ep.94 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
YouTube video by The SCANDAL Mongers Podcast
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Enormously enjoyed chatting to @philmcraig.bsky.social about the Bandits www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz6M...
British people fall into two types: those to whom "a safe pair of hands" is praise, and those who see the phrase as unintentional condemnation of docility and deference
I saw @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social posting some useful advice about organizing a couple days ago & this morning I was searching for something else in my photos & found this also-useful passage from his book, Elite Capture.
November 15, 2024 at 3:39 PM
British people fall into two types: those to whom "a safe pair of hands" is praise, and those who see the phrase as unintentional condemnation of docility and deference
How could anyone do that to the sublime Miss Piggy?
Asher Muppet Jellies (2002-2003): A line of jellies (thick, fruit-flavored gumdrop candy) molded into the ostensible likeness of various Muppet characters, available alone or affixed to candy canes.
November 15, 2024 at 3:04 PM
How could anyone do that to the sublime Miss Piggy?
Now that Laurence Fox's bookings have dried up, we'd be facing a diet of Bertholt Brecht it thesps could dictate which parts they acted.
Even more amazingly, Michael Sheard played Hitler five times and yet never remilitarised the Rhineland.
November 15, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Now that Laurence Fox's bookings have dried up, we'd be facing a diet of Bertholt Brecht it thesps could dictate which parts they acted.
Horace Wilson wept for his lost friend. Perhaps the only genuine emotion there.
Today in 1940 was Neville Chamberlain's funeral in @wabbey. Windows blown out by bombing. People sat in coats shivering. Halifax and Churchill were pallbearers. Time and place had been kept secret. Duff cooper wrote "a judiciously placed bomb would have had spectacular results."
November 15, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Horace Wilson wept for his lost friend. Perhaps the only genuine emotion there.
Eighty years ago this week propaganda overlaps with military operations as Tirpitz is finally sunk and the Germans taunt the British with having concealed the V-2 rocket attack from the public tinyurl.com/4ftmurnz
November 15, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Eighty years ago this week propaganda overlaps with military operations as Tirpitz is finally sunk and the Germans taunt the British with having concealed the V-2 rocket attack from the public tinyurl.com/4ftmurnz