Peter Doyle
@profpeterdoyle.bsky.social
Military Historian (and geologist)
Trench warfare, terrain and material culture
FRHistS
Trench warfare, terrain and material culture
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@profpeterdoyle.bsky.social kindly spoke at our Annual Conference in 2024. You can catch up with it here....and all of our other conference talks and zoom lectures.
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Gallipoli 1915: the impact of terrain from ‘forcing the Dardanelles’ to ‘evacuating the beaches’
YouTube video by Gallipoli Association
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December 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
@profpeterdoyle.bsky.social kindly spoke at our Annual Conference in 2024. You can catch up with it here....and all of our other conference talks and zoom lectures.
youtu.be/gyJol5djRHA?...
youtu.be/gyJol5djRHA?...
Merry Christmas to all
December 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Merry Christmas to all
theconversation.com/presents-fro... A piece I wrote a few years back on this iconic gift from 1914, a précis of my book on the topic.
Presents from a princess: the mission to deliver 2.6 million Christmas gifts to soldiers and sailors on the 1914 frontline
The story of how a teenage princess launched one of the first global charity campaigns.
theconversation.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
theconversation.com/presents-fro... A piece I wrote a few years back on this iconic gift from 1914, a précis of my book on the topic.
greekreporter.com/2025/12/23/c... thought this might need airing…
Iconic Christmas Truce Football Photo Shot in Thessaloniki, Greece - GreekReporter.com
This iconic Christmas truce photograph of British soldiers playing football has become famous, but it was shot in Thessaloniki, Greece
greekreporter.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
greekreporter.com/2025/12/23/c... thought this might need airing…
It’s become a ‘thing’ for me to re-read this classic at this time of year…
December 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It’s become a ‘thing’ for me to re-read this classic at this time of year…
Festive frivolity (+ historical commentary)
December 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Festive frivolity (+ historical commentary)
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#HistBookChat trailer #2 for my book. Coming from @barnthorn.bsky.social in the New Year.
December 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
#HistBookChat trailer #2 for my book. Coming from @barnthorn.bsky.social in the New Year.
I was almost tempted… (as seen in Copenhagen this week)
December 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I was almost tempted… (as seen in Copenhagen this week)
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Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
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Liverpool Cenotaph two weeks ago today.
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Liverpool Cenotaph two weeks ago today.
Details of Tyson Smith’s bas relief panels from Liverpool Cenotaph. On one side the armed men from Liverpool in angular, tight ranks, stern faced; on the other the drawn faces and stooped figures of the families
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Details of Tyson Smith’s bas relief panels from Liverpool Cenotaph. On one side the armed men from Liverpool in angular, tight ranks, stern faced; on the other the drawn faces and stooped figures of the families
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The Hill80 report was completed some time ago, but only now officially submitted — which means I can finally share it!
It’s in Dutch, but I hope you’ll still enjoy the content.
🔗 Read it here: oar.onroerenderfgoed.be/publicaties/...
It’s in Dutch, but I hope you’ll still enjoy the content.
🔗 Read it here: oar.onroerenderfgoed.be/publicaties/...
oar.onroerenderfgoed.be
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Hill80 report was completed some time ago, but only now officially submitted — which means I can finally share it!
It’s in Dutch, but I hope you’ll still enjoy the content.
🔗 Read it here: oar.onroerenderfgoed.be/publicaties/...
It’s in Dutch, but I hope you’ll still enjoy the content.
🔗 Read it here: oar.onroerenderfgoed.be/publicaties/...
Hoylake & West Kirby War Memorial with sculptures by Charles Sergeant Jagger, a frontline soldier wounded in action. The sculptures are dark, intense: a brooding soldier and a mourning figure with a crown of thorns. Away from the busy street, this monument, rich in detail, depicts a deep wound
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Hoylake & West Kirby War Memorial with sculptures by Charles Sergeant Jagger, a frontline soldier wounded in action. The sculptures are dark, intense: a brooding soldier and a mourning figure with a crown of thorns. Away from the busy street, this monument, rich in detail, depicts a deep wound
Birkenhead War Memorial, and remembrance of my youth in my home town. At least three of the names commemorated here are from my family. The Westmorland stone bas relief figures were by Tyson Smith of Liverpool; he included a representation of the bronze memorial plaque designed by Carter Preston
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Birkenhead War Memorial, and remembrance of my youth in my home town. At least three of the names commemorated here are from my family. The Westmorland stone bas relief figures were by Tyson Smith of Liverpool; he included a representation of the bronze memorial plaque designed by Carter Preston
Port Sunlight War Memorial. Commissioned from sculptor Goscombe John by Lord Lever while the Great War was in progress. It commemorates the employees of Lever Brothers killed in the war; its bronze statues are amongst the most dynamic and detailed to be seen anywhere. Its detail is breathtaking
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Port Sunlight War Memorial. Commissioned from sculptor Goscombe John by Lord Lever while the Great War was in progress. It commemorates the employees of Lever Brothers killed in the war; its bronze statues are amongst the most dynamic and detailed to be seen anywhere. Its detail is breathtaking
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The Castello, an Italian WW1 machine gun position on Costabella Ridge in the Dolomites.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Castello, an Italian WW1 machine gun position on Costabella Ridge in the Dolomites.
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The best view in WW1? An Austrian machine gun position on Lagazuoi Piccolo in the Dolomites.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The best view in WW1? An Austrian machine gun position on Lagazuoi Piccolo in the Dolomites.
Incredible to see this maquette of Gilbert’s design for Troon War Memorial at Hartlebury Castle yesterday. It’s an unusual design, a product of the Bromsgrove Design Guild, who produced both the Liver Birds and the gates to Buckingham Palace
October 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Incredible to see this maquette of Gilbert’s design for Troon War Memorial at Hartlebury Castle yesterday. It’s an unusual design, a product of the Bromsgrove Design Guild, who produced both the Liver Birds and the gates to Buckingham Palace
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Battle of Loos with Peter Doyle: in the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social we are joined by @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social to discuss the offensive of September 1915.
oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/10/25/b...
oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/10/25/b...
Battle of Loos with Peter Doyle
In a special episode we are joined by Professor Peter Doyle who delivered this talk on Loos at a Podcast Supporters Evening for the 110th Anniversary of the battle last month. Peter’s new edi…
oldfrontline.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Battle of Loos with Peter Doyle: in the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social we are joined by @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social to discuss the offensive of September 1915.
oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/10/25/b...
oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/10/25/b...
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Thanks to all who joined us for a @oldfrontline.bsky.social Podcast Supporters evening where @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social joined us for an excellent talk about the Battle of Loos in 1915 - with the 110th Anniversary tomorrow, very apt!
September 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Thanks to all who joined us for a @oldfrontline.bsky.social Podcast Supporters evening where @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social joined us for an excellent talk about the Battle of Loos in 1915 - with the 110th Anniversary tomorrow, very apt!
Finally, a French 75
September 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Finally, a French 75
Trying to work out what is going on in the world can be a challenge
September 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Trying to work out what is going on in the world can be a challenge
Technology is often a mystery. So it is, so it has always been
September 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Technology is often a mystery. So it is, so it has always been