The Crusader Project
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Long-running research project on the desert war 1940-43, with a specific focus on Operation CRUSADER.
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This Bluesky feed serves to disseminate information and new posts related to Operation CRUSADER, the #desertwar in WW2 and #ww2 in general.
If desert #armour warfare, surrendering Germans, and challenges to preconceived ideas about the Italians are your thing, you might want to give us a follow.
If desert #armour warfare, surrendering Germans, and challenges to preconceived ideas about the Italians are your thing, you might want to give us a follow.
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An Afghani man poses with his custom-made bus by combining a Mil Mi-8 helicopter fuselage and a KamAZ truck.
(Afghanistan, late 1980s)
#archaeohistories
(Afghanistan, late 1980s)
#archaeohistories
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
An Afghani man poses with his custom-made bus by combining a Mil Mi-8 helicopter fuselage and a KamAZ truck.
(Afghanistan, late 1980s)
#archaeohistories
(Afghanistan, late 1980s)
#archaeohistories
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Always amazed at the amount of research that can be done entirely online these days. A thread: 🧵
I was looking at a piece of digitised archive film (IWM AYY / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...) which includes these shots showing a ship transporting British soldiers to France in 1939:
I was looking at a piece of digitised archive film (IWM AYY / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...) which includes these shots showing a ship transporting British soldiers to France in 1939:
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Always amazed at the amount of research that can be done entirely online these days. A thread: 🧵
I was looking at a piece of digitised archive film (IWM AYY / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...) which includes these shots showing a ship transporting British soldiers to France in 1939:
I was looking at a piece of digitised archive film (IWM AYY / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...) which includes these shots showing a ship transporting British soldiers to France in 1939:
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So, Rupert Lowe the MP says everyone is supposed to be shitty to foreigners so that we all self-deport.
He's a shitbag and we should be shitty to him so that he self-deports.
He's a shitbag and we should be shitty to him so that he self-deports.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
So, Rupert Lowe the MP says everyone is supposed to be shitty to foreigners so that we all self-deport.
He's a shitbag and we should be shitty to him so that he self-deports.
He's a shitbag and we should be shitty to him so that he self-deports.
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This beautiful bridge in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, dates to the 1420’s. It was damaged by Oliver Cromwell and the Roundheads during the Civil War, hence the differing shapes of the arches - the pointed ones are original and the round ones are earlier 18th century rebuilds.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This beautiful bridge in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, dates to the 1420’s. It was damaged by Oliver Cromwell and the Roundheads during the Civil War, hence the differing shapes of the arches - the pointed ones are original and the round ones are earlier 18th century rebuilds.
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BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
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Inside the Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone in Northumberland is an intriguing remnant from life on the home front during the Second World War.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Inside the Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone in Northumberland is an intriguing remnant from life on the home front during the Second World War.
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#OTD in 1941 Division z.b.V. issued a detailed OOB as it was moving into the Tobruk siege lines in preparation for the assault on the fortress. About a week later it was renamed as 90th Light, the name under which it would become famous in the desert war.
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Order of Battle Division z.b.V. Afrika (Africa Special Purpose Division), 11 November 41
Background The division that would become famous later as 90th Light Division started its life as a formation of odds and sods, thrown together quickly out of whatever was available while a much mo…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#OTD in 1941 Division z.b.V. issued a detailed OOB as it was moving into the Tobruk siege lines in preparation for the assault on the fortress. About a week later it was renamed as 90th Light, the name under which it would become famous in the desert war.
@cedricmas.bsky.social
@cedricmas.bsky.social
That's a lot of sensors.
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
That's a lot of sensors.
Ooof level 25
I don't like giving Galloway any air-time, but if you're going to do it, at least flame him like this.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Ooof level 25
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November 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Sending off proofs for an essay about how oil transformed work and community in Northern Scotland through rig manufacturing in the Cromarty Firth and the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland. It uses oral histories with workers and members of their families and archival research.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Sending off proofs for an essay about how oil transformed work and community in Northern Scotland through rig manufacturing in the Cromarty Firth and the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland. It uses oral histories with workers and members of their families and archival research.
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USS Nevada shelling Nazi shore batteries at Cherbourg
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
USS Nevada shelling Nazi shore batteries at Cherbourg
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Time for this blog’s annual outing - busting some equine myths of the First World War.
Straight from the horse’s mouth
The run up to Armistice Day is truly the season of duff military history, so on that theme, I thought I’d share some of my top equine myths of the First World War… 1. ‘The British…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Time for this blog’s annual outing - busting some equine myths of the First World War.
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Happening tomorrow!
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....
#urbanhistory
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....
#urbanhistory
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Happening tomorrow!
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....
#urbanhistory
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....
#urbanhistory
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Scale Model World Telford - found these lovely builds from our friend @roybent.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Scale Model World Telford - found these lovely builds from our friend @roybent.bsky.social
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Savoia-Marchetti S.81s overfly an Italian naval unit. On June 10th, 1940, the Regia Aeronautica had only twenty-nine bombers in its Aegean bases: S.81s of 92° and 56° Groups. About 20-30 S.79 bombers arrived in June/July, but no torpedo units were available in the area. #WW2 #airwar #aviation 1/2🧵
April 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_s...
Havik, meaning “hawk” in Dutch, seems to have been favoured in the UK.
Havick was used only for this ship, but its variant Havock was employed across several generations.
Incidentally, the hull of the first Havik appears to have been discovered in 1987.
Havik, meaning “hawk” in Dutch, seems to have been favoured in the UK.
Havick was used only for this ship, but its variant Havock was employed across several generations.
Incidentally, the hull of the first Havik appears to have been discovered in 1987.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_s...
Havik, meaning “hawk” in Dutch, seems to have been favoured in the UK.
Havick was used only for this ship, but its variant Havock was employed across several generations.
Incidentally, the hull of the first Havik appears to have been discovered in 1987.
Havik, meaning “hawk” in Dutch, seems to have been favoured in the UK.
Havick was used only for this ship, but its variant Havock was employed across several generations.
Incidentally, the hull of the first Havik appears to have been discovered in 1987.
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10 Nov 1944 // Minesweeper HMS Hydra was damaged beyond repair when a mine exploded under her stern while she was sweeping the approaches to Ostend. Six men died in the explosion. The ship was towed to Sheerness where she was declared a total loss. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
10 Nov 1944 // Minesweeper HMS Hydra was damaged beyond repair when a mine exploded under her stern while she was sweeping the approaches to Ostend. Six men died in the explosion. The ship was towed to Sheerness where she was declared a total loss. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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The Legaye and Prince houses photographed shortly after the battle. The SS murdered 23 people in the garden, 14 of them children, the youngest 4 years old.
#battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #historybook #ww2 #ardennes
#battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #historybook #ww2 #ardennes
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The Legaye and Prince houses photographed shortly after the battle. The SS murdered 23 people in the garden, 14 of them children, the youngest 4 years old.
#battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #historybook #ww2 #ardennes
#battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #historybook #ww2 #ardennes
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This mosaic has seen things...
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This mosaic has seen things...
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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New proposal for the Modern Pentathlon just dropped...
Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New proposal for the Modern Pentathlon just dropped...
Based on the 3,300 hits from China this week there’s gonna be an AI with some pretty interesting insight into Operation CRUSADER I suspect.
a man in a suit and tie says just saying in front of a map
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says just saying in front of a map
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Based on the 3,300 hits from China this week there’s gonna be an AI with some pretty interesting insight into Operation CRUSADER I suspect.
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At 8:50 AM today in 1979, data from a simulated massive Soviet nuclear decapitation attack running at NORAD were somehow sent to live warning displays there, SAC, the National Military Command Center, and the ANMCC at Raven Rock, triggering a false alarm and a ~6-minute threat assessment conference.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
At 8:50 AM today in 1979, data from a simulated massive Soviet nuclear decapitation attack running at NORAD were somehow sent to live warning displays there, SAC, the National Military Command Center, and the ANMCC at Raven Rock, triggering a false alarm and a ~6-minute threat assessment conference.
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Rather enjoy those old Remembrance Sunday photos of Callaghan and Heath with their wartime service medals which highlight how the two flag-wavers next to them, Paisley and Thatcher, while old enough to have earned some themselves, had none.
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Rather enjoy those old Remembrance Sunday photos of Callaghan and Heath with their wartime service medals which highlight how the two flag-wavers next to them, Paisley and Thatcher, while old enough to have earned some themselves, had none.