Nigel Atter MSc
@nigatt59.bsky.social
Historian. Publisher Helion & Co. Currently writing about 59th (2nd North Midland) Division during the FWW. Historical Wargamer.
Delighted to have sent my pre publication off to Helion - all being well for publication this time next year. Title:
Under Most Trying and Difficult Circumstances - The Actions of the 59th (2nd North Midland) Division 1914 - 1918.
Under Most Trying and Difficult Circumstances - The Actions of the 59th (2nd North Midland) Division 1914 - 1918.
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Delighted to have sent my pre publication off to Helion - all being well for publication this time next year. Title:
Under Most Trying and Difficult Circumstances - The Actions of the 59th (2nd North Midland) Division 1914 - 1918.
Under Most Trying and Difficult Circumstances - The Actions of the 59th (2nd North Midland) Division 1914 - 1918.
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I did this, and that meant it stopped dividing my inbox into 'important/not important' and christ I don't know how to say this but... it turns out that that little bit of so-called 'smart help' was making my inbox much harder to manage?
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I did this, and that meant it stopped dividing my inbox into 'important/not important' and christ I don't know how to say this but... it turns out that that little bit of so-called 'smart help' was making my inbox much harder to manage?
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Today we remember Henry Moseley, the Oxford physicist whose X-ray spectroscopy work reshaped our understanding of the elements. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915, aged just 27.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Today we remember Henry Moseley, the Oxford physicist whose X-ray spectroscopy work reshaped our understanding of the elements. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915, aged just 27.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
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Here at Exeter we are offering three AHRC-funded PhD scholarships in humanities subjects. Please contact us if you'd like to come and research archaeology or history? Apply by 23 February: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
PhD: AHRC Studentship | University of Exeter
Project descriptionThe University of Exeter is offering up to three fully funded AHRC doctoral studentships and training and development opportunities across a range of the AHRC’s disciplines for cand...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Here at Exeter we are offering three AHRC-funded PhD scholarships in humanities subjects. Please contact us if you'd like to come and research archaeology or history? Apply by 23 February: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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Latest addition to the Long, Long Trail is an article on the South Midland Divisional Cyclist Companies. #ww1 #genealogy See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/south-midlan...
South Midland Divisional Cyclist Companies - The Long, Long Trail
1/1st South Midland Divisional Cyclist Company The South Midland Divisional Cyclist Company was raised at Chelmsford in Essex in December 1914 by […]
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November 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Latest addition to the Long, Long Trail is an article on the South Midland Divisional Cyclist Companies. #ww1 #genealogy See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/south-midlan...
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Friday.
IWM (H 38302), Sgt Wooldridge, AFPU
IWM (H 38302), Sgt Wooldridge, AFPU
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Friday.
IWM (H 38302), Sgt Wooldridge, AFPU
IWM (H 38302), Sgt Wooldridge, AFPU
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🚨GWG Free Talk
Thursday 20 November at 20:00 UK time.
We'll be joined by Nick Higham whose talk is based on his book Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War 1
Link below
us02web.zoom.us/j/85381585115?…
Meeting ID: 853 8158 5115
Passcode: 161943
Thursday 20 November at 20:00 UK time.
We'll be joined by Nick Higham whose talk is based on his book Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War 1
Link below
us02web.zoom.us/j/85381585115?…
Meeting ID: 853 8158 5115
Passcode: 161943
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM
🚨GWG Free Talk
Thursday 20 November at 20:00 UK time.
We'll be joined by Nick Higham whose talk is based on his book Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War 1
Link below
us02web.zoom.us/j/85381585115?…
Meeting ID: 853 8158 5115
Passcode: 161943
Thursday 20 November at 20:00 UK time.
We'll be joined by Nick Higham whose talk is based on his book Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War 1
Link below
us02web.zoom.us/j/85381585115?…
Meeting ID: 853 8158 5115
Passcode: 161943
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage!
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The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social many thanks for the follow
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social many thanks for the follow
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And some 'Loch Lomond' as a chaser: youtu.be/r3Rz42eaCAk?...
Polish Army Choir - THE ROAD TO THE ISLES and LOCH LOMOND
YouTube video by cdbpdx
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November 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
And some 'Loch Lomond' as a chaser: youtu.be/r3Rz42eaCAk?...
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Do find 3 minutes to listen to the Polish Army Choir singing 'The Road to the Isles' from 1941 🇵🇱🏴
youtu.be/uug_tyCE-xI?si… via @YouTube
youtu.be/uug_tyCE-xI?si… via @YouTube
POLISH ARMY CHOIR The Road To The Isles (Restored)
YouTube video by Graff Archive
https://youtu.be/uug_tyCE-xI?si…
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Do find 3 minutes to listen to the Polish Army Choir singing 'The Road to the Isles' from 1941 🇵🇱🏴
youtu.be/uug_tyCE-xI?si… via @YouTube
youtu.be/uug_tyCE-xI?si… via @YouTube
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@cwgc.bsky.social This needs a serious and proper response. It shouldn’t take one man to make something happen, but anger is building and a great many people are watching to see what happens next.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Iraq war graves: One man's mission to campaign for cemetery restoration
Tens of thousands of UK and Commonwealth soldiers died in Iraq in the two World Wars.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
@cwgc.bsky.social This needs a serious and proper response. It shouldn’t take one man to make something happen, but anger is building and a great many people are watching to see what happens next.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My uncles their duty done, RIP
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
My uncles their duty done, RIP
Remembering the fallen and those who served and returned from my family on this day.
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Remembering the fallen and those who served and returned from my family on this day.
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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…
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 6:05 PM
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Although this chapter was published in 2015, the publisher recently let me share it. So here it is
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Ottoman Strategy and War Aims during the First World War
PDF | The Ottoman decision for war, followed by the Ottoman navy’s fateful naval attack on the Russian Black Sea ports on 29 October 1914 has attracted... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Although this chapter was published in 2015, the publisher recently let me share it. So here it is
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Anyone interested in pursuing doctoral study in military history (broadly defined) and especially in tje strategy snd economic statecraft of tge two world wars: please drop me a line
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College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarships - University of Birmingham
Fully-funded and partially-funded scholarships for doctoral research students studying in the College of Arts of Law in the 2026/27 academic year onwards
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November 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Anyone interested in pursuing doctoral study in military history (broadly defined) and especially in tje strategy snd economic statecraft of tge two world wars: please drop me a line
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
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Latest addition to The Long, Long Trail is "The location of 4th Stationary Hospital at Arques". See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-location...
The location of 4th Stationary Hospital at Arques - The Long, Long Trail
The 4th Stationary Hospital was a unit of the Royal Army Medical Corps. It relocated from Saint-Omer to Arques in May 1915 […]
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October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Latest addition to The Long, Long Trail is "The location of 4th Stationary Hospital at Arques". See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-location...
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New bibliography entry: The Battle of the Lys: The Uncovered History ift.tt/CSnWDjF #FWWstudies
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October 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New bibliography entry: The Battle of the Lys: The Uncovered History ift.tt/CSnWDjF #FWWstudies
@fourteeneighteen.co.uk seen this Chris? Cheers N
New bibliography entry: The Battle of the Lys: The Uncovered History ift.tt/CSnWDjF #FWWstudies
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October 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@fourteeneighteen.co.uk seen this Chris? Cheers N
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Great article
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Great article
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Bringing this post on the IWM website to people’s attention (in case you haven’t seen it)
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Irish War of Independence: An IWM Collecting Project
Find out more about a new project focused on developing IWM's collections related to the Irish War of Independence.
www.iwm.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Bringing this post on the IWM website to people’s attention (in case you haven’t seen it)
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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My latest addiion to the Long, Long Trail is an article on a Western Front place you may never have heard of: Quinconce. #ww1 #genealogy See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/gazetteer-of...
Gazetteer of the Western Front: Quinconce - The Long, Long Trail
An unusual place name: a quinconce is a geometric arrangement of five points, with four forming a square or rectangle and the […]
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October 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My latest addiion to the Long, Long Trail is an article on a Western Front place you may never have heard of: Quinconce. #ww1 #genealogy See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/gazetteer-of...