Lucy Betteridge-Dyson
@lmbd1418.bsky.social
Military & Animal Historian🗡️ 🇲🇲🐴
Author
Burma Star Memorial Fund Scholar
PhD candidate KCL
Freaking out in a Moonage Daydream…
Author
Burma Star Memorial Fund Scholar
PhD candidate KCL
Freaking out in a Moonage Daydream…
Jeff passed his vetting and is coming home tomorrow!
Ladies and Gentlemen, delighted to introduce you to Jeffrey:
February 5, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Jeff passed his vetting and is coming home tomorrow!
‘Free French have requested that all animals considered fit for food should be retained for the purpose of being fed to their troops’.
No surprise there then!
No surprise there then!
February 5, 2026 at 11:15 AM
‘Free French have requested that all animals considered fit for food should be retained for the purpose of being fed to their troops’.
No surprise there then!
No surprise there then!
Commando mules
February 5, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Commando mules
Guys and gals, please do give my pal Carla-Jean a follow. She is a brilliant historian of First World War photography and a wonderful human being.
Original colour portrait of Lawren P. Harris serving as an official war artist. Harris was the eldest son of Group of Seven founding member Lawren Harris.
Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 4232978.
Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 4232978.
February 5, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Guys and gals, please do give my pal Carla-Jean a follow. She is a brilliant historian of First World War photography and a wonderful human being.
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I rather cryptically posted last month that my next project was inspired, in part, by the Magic Lantern Slide.
✨ Drum Roll ✨
Starting in February 2026, I’m starting a snail mail club called the Magic Lantern Mail Club.
Read on, or TL:DR - go follow me on the photo app!
✨ Drum Roll ✨
Starting in February 2026, I’m starting a snail mail club called the Magic Lantern Mail Club.
Read on, or TL:DR - go follow me on the photo app!
January 21, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I rather cryptically posted last month that my next project was inspired, in part, by the Magic Lantern Slide.
✨ Drum Roll ✨
Starting in February 2026, I’m starting a snail mail club called the Magic Lantern Mail Club.
Read on, or TL:DR - go follow me on the photo app!
✨ Drum Roll ✨
Starting in February 2026, I’m starting a snail mail club called the Magic Lantern Mail Club.
Read on, or TL:DR - go follow me on the photo app!
Them: ’We don’t want people to drive into central London’
Also Them: ’That’ll be £66 day return for your 1hr 10min journey’
Soooo, I‘ll be driving to the archives tomorrow then.
Also Them: ’That’ll be £66 day return for your 1hr 10min journey’
Soooo, I‘ll be driving to the archives tomorrow then.
February 4, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Them: ’We don’t want people to drive into central London’
Also Them: ’That’ll be £66 day return for your 1hr 10min journey’
Soooo, I‘ll be driving to the archives tomorrow then.
Also Them: ’That’ll be £66 day return for your 1hr 10min journey’
Soooo, I‘ll be driving to the archives tomorrow then.
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What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.
- Nikola Tesla
- Nikola Tesla
February 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.
- Nikola Tesla
- Nikola Tesla
I don’t know from wear this bat image originates but the whole thing is just, me.
February 4, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I don’t know from wear this bat image originates but the whole thing is just, me.
May I interrupt your pearl clutching and shock at the latest Epstein revelations here in the UK to remind you that this shit goes on around you every 👏🏻 damn 👏🏻 day.
February 3, 2026 at 7:23 PM
May I interrupt your pearl clutching and shock at the latest Epstein revelations here in the UK to remind you that this shit goes on around you every 👏🏻 damn 👏🏻 day.
I‘m having a clear out and just want to check - are we still keeping scart cables, you know, just in case?
February 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
I‘m having a clear out and just want to check - are we still keeping scart cables, you know, just in case?
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
- Dr. Carl Sagan
- Dr. Carl Sagan
February 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
- Dr. Carl Sagan
- Dr. Carl Sagan
February 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM
I’ve made an exhaustive list below of people who care that Tom Cruise is ‘leaving London’:
- Tom Cruise.
- Tom Cruise.
February 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
I’ve made an exhaustive list below of people who care that Tom Cruise is ‘leaving London’:
- Tom Cruise.
- Tom Cruise.
Hey, guess what? Finding out that a huge number of wealthy and powerful men were happy to be friends with a convicted paedophile and prey on women, AND major institutions have been happy to cover it up is NOT NEWS TO WOMEN. It is the daily misogyny we face daily magnified.
February 2, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Hey, guess what? Finding out that a huge number of wealthy and powerful men were happy to be friends with a convicted paedophile and prey on women, AND major institutions have been happy to cover it up is NOT NEWS TO WOMEN. It is the daily misogyny we face daily magnified.
Sky Comedy is trolling us today
February 2, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Sky Comedy is trolling us today
CORRECTION, it’s the Express not the Mail
This from 21 August 1945. Massive VJ Day cake anyone?
This from 21 August 1945. Massive VJ Day cake anyone?
February 1, 2026 at 4:04 PM
CORRECTION, it’s the Express not the Mail
This from 21 August 1945. Massive VJ Day cake anyone?
This from 21 August 1945. Massive VJ Day cake anyone?
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Today marks the 81st anniversary of the end of the Battle of Hill 170. Today on the blog we have shared an extract from Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945 by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson.
Image: Hill 170 sixty years after the battle
https://bit.ly/3ZaZxPD
#WWII
Image: Hill 170 sixty years after the battle
https://bit.ly/3ZaZxPD
#WWII
January 31, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Today marks the 81st anniversary of the end of the Battle of Hill 170. Today on the blog we have shared an extract from Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945 by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson.
Image: Hill 170 sixty years after the battle
https://bit.ly/3ZaZxPD
#WWII
Image: Hill 170 sixty years after the battle
https://bit.ly/3ZaZxPD
#WWII
We got lost and ended up on a 7 mile hack. Bloody knackered now.
January 31, 2026 at 1:14 PM
We got lost and ended up on a 7 mile hack. Bloody knackered now.
#OTD 81 years ago, 3 Commando Brigade were locked in one of the most brutal battles of the Burma campaign - the Battle of Hill 170. Brigade 2IC Peter Young later wrote: ‘I’m convinced that no British troops ever fought better than ours on that day’
📸 IWM IND4408
📸 IWM IND4408
January 31, 2026 at 8:30 AM
#OTD 81 years ago, 3 Commando Brigade were locked in one of the most brutal battles of the Burma campaign - the Battle of Hill 170. Brigade 2IC Peter Young later wrote: ‘I’m convinced that no British troops ever fought better than ours on that day’
📸 IWM IND4408
📸 IWM IND4408
I try not look at reviews of Jungle Commandos because I am a perfectionist and I take any kind of criticism to heart (think ‘omg I’m a complete failure I’ve let everyone down’ at the smallest thing 🙃) but this was lovely to see and makes me feel really proud:
January 30, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I try not look at reviews of Jungle Commandos because I am a perfectionist and I take any kind of criticism to heart (think ‘omg I’m a complete failure I’ve let everyone down’ at the smallest thing 🙃) but this was lovely to see and makes me feel really proud:
Trump is like that one old drunk guy who is always sat at the bar in the pub, telling tall tales about how he was at Goose Green, invented the Internet and turned down being part of the Brink’s MAT job.
January 30, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Trump is like that one old drunk guy who is always sat at the bar in the pub, telling tall tales about how he was at Goose Green, invented the Internet and turned down being part of the Brink’s MAT job.
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The top brass should be fucking ashamed that this has taken 5 years.
Two officers to face court martial over handling of Jaysley Beck sexual assault case
The officers are to face a court martial over the handling of the case of teenage soldier Jaysley Beck.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 8:53 AM
The top brass should be fucking ashamed that this has taken 5 years.
Ladies and Gentlemen, delighted to introduce you to Jeffrey:
January 29, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, delighted to introduce you to Jeffrey:
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Despite the British Army being mechanised, there developed a pressing need to raise horse-transport companies in 1944-45 to ease the strain on motor transport. These companies were raised entirely from captured German horses who had been vetted by the RAVC. #WarHorseWednesday
📸IWM H 16067
📸IWM H 16067
January 27, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Despite the British Army being mechanised, there developed a pressing need to raise horse-transport companies in 1944-45 to ease the strain on motor transport. These companies were raised entirely from captured German horses who had been vetted by the RAVC. #WarHorseWednesday
📸IWM H 16067
📸IWM H 16067