Simon Jones
@simonjones.bsky.social
Writes about the First World War. FRHistS. Late museum curator. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Here in the south of England, it's the traditional cultural appropriation night.
January 25, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Here in the south of England, it's the traditional cultural appropriation night.
Astonishingly, both the Telegraph and the Mail effectively have pro-Trump front pages this morning.
January 24, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Astonishingly, both the Telegraph and the Mail effectively have pro-Trump front pages this morning.
#OTD 24 January 1917, British aerial photograph of German barbed wire and trench lines incorporating Fort d'Englos, a first-generation Séré de Rivières fort built 1879-86 (aka Fort Pierquin), part of the defences of Lille. (Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...)
January 24, 2026 at 7:53 AM
#OTD 24 January 1917, British aerial photograph of German barbed wire and trench lines incorporating Fort d'Englos, a first-generation Séré de Rivières fort built 1879-86 (aka Fort Pierquin), part of the defences of Lille. (Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...)
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Some thoughts:
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
www.nobelprize.org
January 22, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Some thoughts:
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
William Nicholson, ‘Miss Jekyll’s Gardening Boots’ (1920). Painted as a gift for Edwin Lutyens. One of the pictures I'm looking forward to seeing at the exhibition of Nicholson's work at Pallant House. www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...
January 22, 2026 at 9:44 PM
William Nicholson, ‘Miss Jekyll’s Gardening Boots’ (1920). Painted as a gift for Edwin Lutyens. One of the pictures I'm looking forward to seeing at the exhibition of Nicholson's work at Pallant House. www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...
Grim, apparently AI, productions from an apparently fake author.
So, part of my job is to see what people are making of the history of our Hospital.
Bethlem partly exists in the gothic, horror-adjacent end of history, and so attracts a certain kind of presentation.
Restraints, gore, electrodes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until...
...I stumbled onto this book.
Bethlem partly exists in the gothic, horror-adjacent end of history, and so attracts a certain kind of presentation.
Restraints, gore, electrodes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until...
...I stumbled onto this book.
January 22, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Grim, apparently AI, productions from an apparently fake author.
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Battlefield Design colouring books available now! 30 pages of aircraft, vehicles and patterns to colour. £12.95 ea + postage. PLEASE NOTE - UK ORDERS ONLY via the link below! For US / EU orders please contact me via www.battlefield-design.co.uk
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November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Battlefield Design colouring books available now! 30 pages of aircraft, vehicles and patterns to colour. £12.95 ea + postage. PLEASE NOTE - UK ORDERS ONLY via the link below! For US / EU orders please contact me via www.battlefield-design.co.uk
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Frank Dobson, ‘The Balloon Apron.’ 1918. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Frank Dobson, ‘The Balloon Apron.’ 1918. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
'The war is biting deep into our social relationships and there are few families where some burden has not fallen.' (British Newspaper Archive via Find My Past)
January 21, 2026 at 11:48 AM
'The war is biting deep into our social relationships and there are few families where some burden has not fallen.' (British Newspaper Archive via Find My Past)
Julius E F Gipkens, poster advertising a book by Count Dohna-Schlodien, Captain of the disguised merchant raider SMS Möwe (Seagull) (Gotha/Berlin, 1916). Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
January 21, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Julius E F Gipkens, poster advertising a book by Count Dohna-Schlodien, Captain of the disguised merchant raider SMS Möwe (Seagull) (Gotha/Berlin, 1916). Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Nellie E Isaac, ‘A Tug of War. Girls v Men: Gordon, Watney & Co., Aeronautical Engineers, Weybridge.’ Undated, c1918. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
January 21, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Nellie E Isaac, ‘A Tug of War. Girls v Men: Gordon, Watney & Co., Aeronautical Engineers, Weybridge.’ Undated, c1918. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Flora Lion, ‘Women's Canteen at Phoenix Works, Bradford.’ 1918. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
January 21, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Flora Lion, ‘Women's Canteen at Phoenix Works, Bradford.’ 1918. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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Séquence hallucinante d'une juge française révélant les pressions américaines dont elle a fait l'objet dans l'affaire Le Pen.
Le RN veut faire campagne sur le slogan "on est chez nous"? En tout cas, ses sponsors se sentent déjà comme chez eux.
Le RN veut faire campagne sur le slogan "on est chez nous"? En tout cas, ses sponsors se sentent déjà comme chez eux.
January 20, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Séquence hallucinante d'une juge française révélant les pressions américaines dont elle a fait l'objet dans l'affaire Le Pen.
Le RN veut faire campagne sur le slogan "on est chez nous"? En tout cas, ses sponsors se sentent déjà comme chez eux.
Le RN veut faire campagne sur le slogan "on est chez nous"? En tout cas, ses sponsors se sentent déjà comme chez eux.
Q: Who do you want to thank?
Nneka Cummins (after her world premiere work is performed): The Ancestors.
Nneka Cummins (after her world premiere work is performed): The Ancestors.
BBC Radio 3
Radio 3 in Concert
Now Playing
Nneka Cummins, Chineke! Orchestra & Kalena Bovell
Hope is an act of protest
Radio 3 in Concert
Now Playing
Nneka Cummins, Chineke! Orchestra & Kalena Bovell
Hope is an act of protest
January 20, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Q: Who do you want to thank?
Nneka Cummins (after her world premiere work is performed): The Ancestors.
Nneka Cummins (after her world premiere work is performed): The Ancestors.
John Lavery, ‘The Appam, London Docks’, 1916. The SS Appam was civilian passenger liner captured by the SMS Möwe and sailed to America, returned to Britain in March 1917 and renamed SS Mandingo. (Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...)
January 20, 2026 at 5:17 PM
John Lavery, ‘The Appam, London Docks’, 1916. The SS Appam was civilian passenger liner captured by the SMS Möwe and sailed to America, returned to Britain in March 1917 and renamed SS Mandingo. (Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...)
Obviously it's a nurse treating patients in the open air, but I should have reversed the original passive voice.
www.awm.gov.au/collection/C...
www.awm.gov.au/collection/C...
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Obviously it's a nurse treating patients in the open air, but I should have reversed the original passive voice.
www.awm.gov.au/collection/C...
www.awm.gov.au/collection/C...
The Beckham family's heroic but futile attempt to distract us from the coming war between Europe and the dictators.
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham: 'I do not want to reconcile with my family'
Speculation has been circulating in the press for months over a rift in the Beckham family.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 8:09 AM
The Beckham family's heroic but futile attempt to distract us from the coming war between Europe and the dictators.
'Where shall we go tonight ??
To see the ladies at Madame Juliette's'
Card for a brothel, Arras, France, First World War. (Private Papers of Captain D C Paterson www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...)
To see the ladies at Madame Juliette's'
Card for a brothel, Arras, France, First World War. (Private Papers of Captain D C Paterson www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...)
January 19, 2026 at 9:23 PM
'Where shall we go tonight ??
To see the ladies at Madame Juliette's'
Card for a brothel, Arras, France, First World War. (Private Papers of Captain D C Paterson www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...)
To see the ladies at Madame Juliette's'
Card for a brothel, Arras, France, First World War. (Private Papers of Captain D C Paterson www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...)
I'm all for UK archives reviving the archaic forms of British English.
Make sure you're driving carefully this morning with all of this cold weather! Here's a car in Stantonbury, 1976, that has gotten into a very bad scrape, shared for #MKMonday.
January 19, 2026 at 8:36 AM
I'm all for UK archives reviving the archaic forms of British English.
Still eating Christmas cake. That's the post.
January 18, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Still eating Christmas cake. That's the post.
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As I'm new to the platform, what sort of presence does #WW1 #LivingHistory or its cousin, #Reenactment have on BlueSky? Any #GreatWar #Museums on here?
January 18, 2026 at 11:25 AM
As I'm new to the platform, what sort of presence does #WW1 #LivingHistory or its cousin, #Reenactment have on BlueSky? Any #GreatWar #Museums on here?
#OTD 18 January 1871 the Prussian king Wilhelm I was proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Exactly 48 years later in 1919, the Paris Peace Conference opened at the same location. Painting by Anton von Werner via commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_...
January 18, 2026 at 12:47 PM
#OTD 18 January 1871 the Prussian king Wilhelm I was proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Exactly 48 years later in 1919, the Paris Peace Conference opened at the same location. Painting by Anton von Werner via commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_...
If you use Victorian newspapers for research, you will always be down a rabbit hole. Today we have Slater's Lady Cyclist Detectives (London Evening Standard, 28 October 1896).
January 18, 2026 at 11:26 AM
If you use Victorian newspapers for research, you will always be down a rabbit hole. Today we have Slater's Lady Cyclist Detectives (London Evening Standard, 28 October 1896).
Patient receiving treatment in fresh air at No 2 Australian General Hospital on the cliffs at Wimereux, France, January 1917. Photo Percy Alfred Peachey. Source in alt.
January 18, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Patient receiving treatment in fresh air at No 2 Australian General Hospital on the cliffs at Wimereux, France, January 1917. Photo Percy Alfred Peachey. Source in alt.
This looks like a poster for the same production of Cinderella being painted amid barbed wire in a damaged building. The photograph was also taken in Bapaume in January 1918 but by Thomas Keith Aitken. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
January 18, 2026 at 7:19 AM
This looks like a poster for the same production of Cinderella being painted amid barbed wire in a damaged building. The photograph was also taken in Bapaume in January 1918 but by Thomas Keith Aitken. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...