Some readers find Death of a Hero and its caustic satire 'too much', but for Aldington 'the whole business was so brutal that its brutality can't be exaggerated '. (Letter to H.D., 6 June 1929.)

It's touching that people want to put effort into remembering. But if the point becomes, in a variety of ways, spectacle (see what's recorded by e.g. @remembrancewatch.bsky.social and the late lamented Giant Poppy Watch), then it's not getting us very far.

Remembrance of war has to point to peace.

Veterans did have Armistice parties in the 1920s. But this was in gratitude at survival, remembering those who didn't, and hoping against hope that a conflict like that wouldn't happen again - that they and others wouldn't have to face the constant shadow of death during and after their service.

What a week(/year/decade) to be in HE.

Yes, I know, All Universities

Member of staff (for the moment)

How many did you buy?

I haven't come across it, but I do keep getting pushed videos on other socials of a woman buying AI generated tat to see how bad it is...

There's also an exhibition, organised by colleagues in the Centre for Military Research, Education & Public Engagement, on British Army soldiers killed in Kienholz, Northern Germany, near the end of the Second World War. Free but register at link: www.eventbrite.com/e/remembranc...