Connie Ruzich
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First World War researcher and Fulbright Scholar (University of Exeter) from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”(Novalis)
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Chicago Tribune #OTD Feb 23 "show the various devices used for overcoming barbed wire entanglements ... The allies are using a small cannon for firing a drag anchor hitched to a cable, over the wire entanglements. This is then dragged through the entanglements by a windlass.
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February 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Chicago Tribune #OTD Feb 23 "show the various devices used for overcoming barbed wire entanglements ... The allies are using a small cannon for firing a drag anchor hitched to a cable, over the wire entanglements. This is then dragged through the entanglements by a windlass.
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Remember, even if someone is technically correct when they assert that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder “won’t fix you”, they are forgetting one simple, unassailable truth:
It certainly can’t hurt.
It certainly can’t hurt.
February 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Remember, even if someone is technically correct when they assert that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder “won’t fix you”, they are forgetting one simple, unassailable truth:
It certainly can’t hurt.
It certainly can’t hurt.
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War memorial plaque. St. Nicolas Church, Kings Norton, Birmingham, West Midlands. Commemorating the employees of the Kings Norton Metal Works who gave their lives in the Great War. #LestWeForget
February 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
War memorial plaque. St. Nicolas Church, Kings Norton, Birmingham, West Midlands. Commemorating the employees of the Kings Norton Metal Works who gave their lives in the Great War. #LestWeForget
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My new book "For King and Country: The Role of Patriotism in Mobilisation in the First World War" is available now @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
'A fascinating read' Professor Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social author of Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness
'A fascinating read' Professor Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social author of Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness
For King and Country
This book is an original interpretation of domestic patriotism and the limitations of wartime mobilisation in rural and urban communities of the British Home Front…
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February 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My new book "For King and Country: The Role of Patriotism in Mobilisation in the First World War" is available now @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
'A fascinating read' Professor Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social author of Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness
'A fascinating read' Professor Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social author of Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness
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Valentine's Day 💕
How many soldiers died & left a family bereaved on that day?
626 French soldiers died on 14th Feb from 1915-1918
338 - 1915
134 - 1916
90 - 1917
64 - 1918
How many 315e? 2
Below 🧵on one, warning he was no sweetheart
Eugene Albaud: Fusillé pour l'exemple
How many soldiers died & left a family bereaved on that day?
626 French soldiers died on 14th Feb from 1915-1918
338 - 1915
134 - 1916
90 - 1917
64 - 1918
How many 315e? 2
Below 🧵on one, warning he was no sweetheart
Eugene Albaud: Fusillé pour l'exemple
February 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Valentine's Day 💕
How many soldiers died & left a family bereaved on that day?
626 French soldiers died on 14th Feb from 1915-1918
338 - 1915
134 - 1916
90 - 1917
64 - 1918
How many 315e? 2
Below 🧵on one, warning he was no sweetheart
Eugene Albaud: Fusillé pour l'exemple
How many soldiers died & left a family bereaved on that day?
626 French soldiers died on 14th Feb from 1915-1918
338 - 1915
134 - 1916
90 - 1917
64 - 1918
How many 315e? 2
Below 🧵on one, warning he was no sweetheart
Eugene Albaud: Fusillé pour l'exemple
A charming love poem from the First World War: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-ki... #ValentinesDay #FWW #poetry #lovepoem
A Kiss
1916 postcard Known as the “Canadian Rupert Brooke,” Bernard Freeman Trotter was a twenty-five-year-old graduate student at the Univers...
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February 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A charming love poem from the First World War: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-ki... #ValentinesDay #FWW #poetry #lovepoem
Remembering Sarojini Naidu, a "lyrical voice of women's empowerment," political activist, and poet, born 13 Feb 1879. Here is her #FWW poem "The Gift of India": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-... #poetry
February 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Remembering Sarojini Naidu, a "lyrical voice of women's empowerment," political activist, and poet, born 13 Feb 1879. Here is her #FWW poem "The Gift of India": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-... #poetry
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#CFP for 'The Military Medicine and Welfare of the First World War: preparations, evolutions and legacies' symposium, 10-11 April 2025. Submit your abstracts and bios to the organisers at militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com by Friday 14 February 2025. militarywelfarehistory.com/other-events/.
Other Events
As well as running its own conferences every couple of years, the MWHN also encourages and supports its Members in coming together to participate in panels at other academic events around the world…
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January 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#CFP for 'The Military Medicine and Welfare of the First World War: preparations, evolutions and legacies' symposium, 10-11 April 2025. Submit your abstracts and bios to the organisers at militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com by Friday 14 February 2025. militarywelfarehistory.com/other-events/.
30% off INTERNATIONAL POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (40% off ebook) on Bloomsbury's website. Sale ends Sunday, Feb. 16. www.bloomsbury.com/us/internati...
International Poetry of the First World War
Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War. Bringing together p…
www.bloomsbury.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
30% off INTERNATIONAL POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (40% off ebook) on Bloomsbury's website. Sale ends Sunday, Feb. 16. www.bloomsbury.com/us/internati...
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Nothing says "I love you" quite like poetry does! Sign up for our newsletter by tonight, Monday, February 10 for the opportunity to send romantic verse to someone special!
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February 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Nothing says "I love you" quite like poetry does! Sign up for our newsletter by tonight, Monday, February 10 for the opportunity to send romantic verse to someone special!
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Todya's badge - a rare one for the Better 'Ole soldiers social club in Paris. The badge date must be post-1915 as the famous Bairnsfather "Better 'Ole" cartoon wasn't published till late 1915. In all the years I have been collecting, this is the only example of this I have seen #WW1 #FWW
February 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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War memorial tablet. St. Mary's Church, Kings Worthy, Hampshire. Commemorating four sons of the Reverend Francis Henry Baring, who all fell in the Great War. Ernest and Charles (Australian Imperial Force), Cecil (Royal West Kent Regiment) and Reginald (Royal Air Force). #LestWeForget
February 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
War memorial tablet. St. Mary's Church, Kings Worthy, Hampshire. Commemorating four sons of the Reverend Francis Henry Baring, who all fell in the Great War. Ernest and Charles (Australian Imperial Force), Cecil (Royal West Kent Regiment) and Reginald (Royal Air Force). #LestWeForget
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I realize that pub crawls are quite popular, but I truly believe that the concept of a library crawl is long overdue.
February 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I realize that pub crawls are quite popular, but I truly believe that the concept of a library crawl is long overdue.
"Now must we go again back to the world
Full of grey ghosts and voices of men dying..."
-May Wedderburn Cannan, after the death of her fiancé Major Bevil Quiller Couch, who survived some of the worst battles of #WW1, only to die of influenza 6 Feb. 1919. behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/10/wome...
Full of grey ghosts and voices of men dying..."
-May Wedderburn Cannan, after the death of her fiancé Major Bevil Quiller Couch, who survived some of the worst battles of #WW1, only to die of influenza 6 Feb. 1919. behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/10/wome...
Women Demobilized
May Wedderburn Cannan In her autobiography Grey Ghosts and Voices , May Wedderburn Cannan writes, The Census for 1921 had found there was in...
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February 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"Now must we go again back to the world
Full of grey ghosts and voices of men dying..."
-May Wedderburn Cannan, after the death of her fiancé Major Bevil Quiller Couch, who survived some of the worst battles of #WW1, only to die of influenza 6 Feb. 1919. behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/10/wome...
Full of grey ghosts and voices of men dying..."
-May Wedderburn Cannan, after the death of her fiancé Major Bevil Quiller Couch, who survived some of the worst battles of #WW1, only to die of influenza 6 Feb. 1919. behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/10/wome...
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Sarah Hart's sister Dorothy Maud, a munitions worker, died at work but was not entitled to a CWGC headstone.So her parents added her name to her sister's memorial, who was. This must be a very rare, if not unique example, of the words "munitions worker" inscribed on a CWGC grave.
#womenshistory #WW1
#womenshistory #WW1
February 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sarah Hart's sister Dorothy Maud, a munitions worker, died at work but was not entitled to a CWGC headstone.So her parents added her name to her sister's memorial, who was. This must be a very rare, if not unique example, of the words "munitions worker" inscribed on a CWGC grave.
#womenshistory #WW1
#womenshistory #WW1
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2.2.16 (back from leave)
"A day has passed, I am waiting for my company this evening, it will perhaps change my ideas a little. This morning I put all my stuff back in order, I sewed and brushed which kept me busy a little, but we are not going to be warm in our barn, because today it is very cold"
"A day has passed, I am waiting for my company this evening, it will perhaps change my ideas a little. This morning I put all my stuff back in order, I sewed and brushed which kept me busy a little, but we are not going to be warm in our barn, because today it is very cold"
February 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
2.2.16 (back from leave)
"A day has passed, I am waiting for my company this evening, it will perhaps change my ideas a little. This morning I put all my stuff back in order, I sewed and brushed which kept me busy a little, but we are not going to be warm in our barn, because today it is very cold"
"A day has passed, I am waiting for my company this evening, it will perhaps change my ideas a little. This morning I put all my stuff back in order, I sewed and brushed which kept me busy a little, but we are not going to be warm in our barn, because today it is very cold"
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February 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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A tiny watchful fragment in the chapter house at Durham Cathedral.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
February 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A tiny watchful fragment in the chapter house at Durham Cathedral.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
"And in every land
Are black folk scourged;
Their only crime—
That they dare be men."
--Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2017/09/thei... #blackhistorymonth #ForgottenPoets #FWW #WW1
Are black folk scourged;
Their only crime—
That they dare be men."
--Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2017/09/thei... #blackhistorymonth #ForgottenPoets #FWW #WW1
Their only crime
“ Although a citizen of the United States, the black man is regarded by the white American as an inferior being with whom relations of b...
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February 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"And in every land
Are black folk scourged;
Their only crime—
That they dare be men."
--Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2017/09/thei... #blackhistorymonth #ForgottenPoets #FWW #WW1
Are black folk scourged;
Their only crime—
That they dare be men."
--Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2017/09/thei... #blackhistorymonth #ForgottenPoets #FWW #WW1
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This morning’s sunshine has reminded me of the word ‘philocaly’: a love of beauty, even in the smallest things.
February 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This morning’s sunshine has reminded me of the word ‘philocaly’: a love of beauty, even in the smallest things.
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👀 Ely Cathedral #Ely #Cambridgeshire
#Medieval #Romanesque arches,
#Victorian nave ceiling - 1860s.
#SundayStonework
#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday
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#Medieval #Romanesque arches,
#Victorian nave ceiling - 1860s.
#SundayStonework
#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday
@elycathedral.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
👀 Ely Cathedral #Ely #Cambridgeshire
#Medieval #Romanesque arches,
#Victorian nave ceiling - 1860s.
#SundayStonework
#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday
@elycathedral.bsky.social
#Medieval #Romanesque arches,
#Victorian nave ceiling - 1860s.
#SundayStonework
#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday
@elycathedral.bsky.social
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What a sunrise in #Pittsburgh today. I feel like it’s just been one after the other lately. This morning I headed to the North Shore and found some pockets of calm water protected by the remaining ice, and it made for the perfect spot for a panorama of the cotton candy sky.
February 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
What a sunrise in #Pittsburgh today. I feel like it’s just been one after the other lately. This morning I headed to the North Shore and found some pockets of calm water protected by the remaining ice, and it made for the perfect spot for a panorama of the cotton candy sky.
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Feb 2 1917 Alaska's dog mushers are deployed to Spitzkopf, Vosges the highest point in French possession in support the French Chasseurs Alpins ─ New York Times timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
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February 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Feb 2 1917 Alaska's dog mushers are deployed to Spitzkopf, Vosges the highest point in French possession in support the French Chasseurs Alpins ─ New York Times timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
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Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.
February 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.