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Mark Burton
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Photographer, writer, Director for homeless charity. Spurs Women season ticket holder. Military history, IC member. Ally to LGBTQIA+

www.mburtonphoto.com
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Or you could leave it

Or you could give us human rights and I'd volunteer to clean it off for free
August 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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'A Zeppelin Raid, 8 October 1915', Camden by John Fraser

(National Maritime Museum)
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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This is the 1st game we were competitive within but lost. LCL are probably our main rivals for 'best of the rest' & were good. But we had chances we didn't convert & made silly errors. The positives: Tinka's confident pen & Ev's sublime FK. The reverse fixture is now must win.
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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1943, North Africa. Indian Long Range Squadron (ILRS ) performed some missions with the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) but was not a part of it. #WW2 #HISTORY
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Good morning. This week's theme is London at War.
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'London and Wartime: Nocturne' (1918) by Sir Claude Francis Barry

(Private collection)
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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In the spring of 1972, John Myers, then in his late twenties, started taking portraits of his neighbors in and around the town of Stourbridge, in England’s West Midlands.
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Off to the universities remembrance service this morning. Will be thinking of my grandfather who saw action in North Africa, and Uncle Rab who was smuggled out of occupied Norway disguised as a woman.
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Remembering all who have served and all who have fallen, who lie in home soil or in distant lands, or whose only grave is the sea. Remembering all who returned wounded in body or mind. Remembering all who grieve. #Remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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War memorial window. St. Mary the Virgin Church, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire. Commemorating the fallen of Cleobury Mortimer College who gave their lives in the Great War. “Think of us and then what might have been”. First World War. #LestWeForget
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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We Will Remember Them - sunset on the Somme at Courcelette British Cemetery. #RemembranceDay #RemembranceSunday
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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In fact people living longer as a result of improved health care is once reason there are shortages of housing despite so many being built. Life expectancy at 60 increased massively since the 80s until today (mid-70s to 85yo).
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Thanks to @noscoredraws.com for my new Spurs Europa League winning mugs. Absolutely love them!
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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This is right. If you are the stray nice/funny straight guy in book publishing the pickings are literally incredible. It’s like being a straight man at Vassar
the women in the workplace discourse is very funny because a man who can act normal in an office environment that's predominantly female is absolutely on easy street. it's maybe the best gig anyone in history has had. and yet for many guys it is utterly impossible
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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🎥 Then & Now

The Lost Generation | Where they fell

Verdun, Champagne, the Chemin des Dames, Somme, where over a 1.3m young and old French soldiers fell.

Then & now, where they fell, their faces and their memory 🥀

Glimpse below, for the full film 👇 youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10?si…
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Finally I should point out that my only really strong conviction about Remembrance is that you shouldn’t wear a poppy before this Saturday. (I’m very old school about this).
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The best ‘remix’ so far
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
@dreadships.bsky.social @crusaderproject.bsky.social

Gents, would you be able to direct me to a ‘definitive’ list of Royal Navy ships in ‘home waters’ during the Battle of Britain?

Any guidance much appreciated. Mark
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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frankly why tf are we doing fireworks at all. It’s called Bonfire Night. get your ex’s photographs and your childhood Harry Potter books and light that shit up
I like fireworks but they shouldn't be sold to the general public. Obviously some twat's going to lob one at a paramedic. Garden fireworks are always shit anyway. Go and give the rotary club a fiver and watch a good display in a field with a candyfloss machine and a tombola.
'Notable reduction' in Bonfire Night disruption
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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I like fireworks but they shouldn't be sold to the general public. Obviously some twat's going to lob one at a paramedic. Garden fireworks are always shit anyway. Go and give the rotary club a fiver and watch a good display in a field with a candyfloss machine and a tombola.
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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5th November 1940: Victoria Cross action of Edward Fegen, Captain of the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Jervis Bay. The ship was the sole escort of convoy HX84 of 37 ships bound for Britain from Canada, two RCN destroyers having turned back in mid-Atlantic.
📷memorialsinportsmouth.co.uk
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November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Thank you, Charlottesville.

With over 80 volunteers since March, including 27 on Election Day, and 153 donations, I truly believe we built a people-powered campaign.

A thousand thank-yous would be insufficient, but I’ll keep saying it because I couldn’t have done it without you all.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM