Ian Kikuchi
@curatorian.bsky.social
Historian & curator - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
Can the US still be a junta if they've deported all the Spanish speakers?
November 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Can the US still be a junta if they've deported all the Spanish speakers?
Morris dancing is banned.
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Morris dancing is banned.
Recently digitised - February 1945; near Ru Ywa in the Arakan region of Burma, Royal Indian Army Service Corps troops operate Alligator amphibious vehicles, during ops by XV Indian Corps against the Japanese. #filmcataloguing #ww2 #history
Full film: IWM JIN 35 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Full film: IWM JIN 35 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Recently digitised - at Thabutkon troops of 17th Indian Division are flown in on Dakota transport aircraft, during the division's advance on Meiktila in central Burma. Shot by A Salem.
#filmcataloguing #ww2 #history #AvHist
Full film: IWM JIN 12 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
#filmcataloguing #ww2 #history #AvHist
Full film: IWM JIN 12 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Recently digitised - a Royal Indian Navy motor launch runs aground in the Kaleindaung River in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, but her captain retains his sense of humour. #history #WW2 #filmcataloguing
Full film: IWM JIN 39 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Full film: IWM JIN 39 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thrilling to watch a political genius like Sultana go in to bat for the electoral powerhouse that is the *checks notes* Socialist Worke- oh. Nevermind.
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thrilling to watch a political genius like Sultana go in to bat for the electoral powerhouse that is the *checks notes* Socialist Worke- oh. Nevermind.
Looking at Rightmove just now for the small home counties commuter market town where I live - 15 houses on the market at £1M or more (only 4 of them £1.4M or more), versus 210 under £1M. More £1M+ than I'd expected, to be honest.
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Looking at Rightmove just now for the small home counties commuter market town where I live - 15 houses on the market at £1M or more (only 4 of them £1.4M or more), versus 210 under £1M. More £1M+ than I'd expected, to be honest.
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Interesting to see this. And I see what you mean about the source value. I'm struck by how the canon of great FWW poetry is now so familiar that it's somehow become detached from the war itself. These 'unliterary' poems are refreshingly direct on that score.
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Interesting to see this. And I see what you mean about the source value. I'm struck by how the canon of great FWW poetry is now so familiar that it's somehow become detached from the war itself. These 'unliterary' poems are refreshingly direct on that score.
I wonder what she's been reading/been told about the tax. Hard to see what rational reason there might be to be worried about a tax of around one one-thousandth of the value of her property
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I wonder what she's been reading/been told about the tax. Hard to see what rational reason there might be to be worried about a tax of around one one-thousandth of the value of her property
Yes, you're right of course, though after 20 years of drone striking all and sundry it's got harder to remember that.
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Yes, you're right of course, though after 20 years of drone striking all and sundry it's got harder to remember that.
Cars have editions? Do they have editors?
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Cars have editions? Do they have editors?
This boat, now in IWM London, came from a vessel that was attacked by a German naval raider in 1940. The raider's captain ordered his men to fire on survivors in other boats. He was later convicted of war crimes and died in prison.
Something certain people might like to reflect on.
Something certain people might like to reflect on.
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This boat, now in IWM London, came from a vessel that was attacked by a German naval raider in 1940. The raider's captain ordered his men to fire on survivors in other boats. He was later convicted of war crimes and died in prison.
Something certain people might like to reflect on.
Something certain people might like to reflect on.
My aunt and uncle live in the East Riding and this person could probably buy six or seven of the large houses on their street.
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My aunt and uncle live in the East Riding and this person could probably buy six or seven of the large houses on their street.
The cheapest 6-bed on rightmove is £2.6 million...
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The cheapest 6-bed on rightmove is £2.6 million...
National chauvinism sounds like the meeting a Nazi goes to by accident.
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
National chauvinism sounds like the meeting a Nazi goes to by accident.