Bryn Hammond
@brynleyh.bsky.social
FRHistS. Historian of the First World War, WW1, ‘the Great War’. Principal Curator with principles at l'ancien asile. Maps landed in my lap. Evertonian. Cricket lover. Father…more when I think of it.
All views here are mine, but I’m prepared to share them.
All views here are mine, but I’m prepared to share them.
Was all a bit surreal in some ways but it’s well designed, will have great acoustics for all fans (yes, away fans benefit too) and there’s no bad view in the place. Plus, it’s great to have the maritime history. connections running through the immediate surroundings. This was fun too!
August 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Was all a bit surreal in some ways but it’s well designed, will have great acoustics for all fans (yes, away fans benefit too) and there’s no bad view in the place. Plus, it’s great to have the maritime history. connections running through the immediate surroundings. This was fun too!
When you play Vegetable Top Trumps…
Every time.
Every time.
July 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
When you play Vegetable Top Trumps…
Every time.
Every time.
Introductory panel for We Will Not Be Left Behind - the new sound installation at IWM Duxford. Curated by Cat Waites, our brilliant #CuratingVisibility Fellow, and a team of co-creators. Adding a dimension to our #SWW storytelling that any one interested in #WW2 history will learn something new from
July 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Introductory panel for We Will Not Be Left Behind - the new sound installation at IWM Duxford. Curated by Cat Waites, our brilliant #CuratingVisibility Fellow, and a team of co-creators. Adding a dimension to our #SWW storytelling that any one interested in #WW2 history will learn something new from
It did. That was the same trip as Xon and ill-starred after a very good start it was, as you know. Hoping to do something in September this year.
I took this picture at the point when it became obvious the end was near. 
I took this picture at the point when it became obvious the end was near. 
June 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It did. That was the same trip as Xon and ill-starred after a very good start it was, as you know. Hoping to do something in September this year.
I took this picture at the point when it became obvious the end was near. 
I took this picture at the point when it became obvious the end was near. 
6/ Sadly, the Skoda’s last great triumph - climbing the pothole riven tractor track to the #WW1 cross on the hill at Xon - a climb that left it traumatised & which I now feel precipitated my Blue Beauty’s demise.
The Skoda is sulking in the bushes.
Let this be a warning: don’t try this yourselves.
The Skoda is sulking in the bushes.
Let this be a warning: don’t try this yourselves.
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
6/ Sadly, the Skoda’s last great triumph - climbing the pothole riven tractor track to the #WW1 cross on the hill at Xon - a climb that left it traumatised & which I now feel precipitated my Blue Beauty’s demise.
The Skoda is sulking in the bushes.
Let this be a warning: don’t try this yourselves.
The Skoda is sulking in the bushes.
Let this be a warning: don’t try this yourselves.
5/ The #FWW « village détruit » of Regnieville. Probably the most evocative of all the photos in this series. Who wouldn’t want to see where Regnieville was but now isn’t in a Skoda on the basis of this corker of a snap?
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
5/ The #FWW « village détruit » of Regnieville. Probably the most evocative of all the photos in this series. Who wouldn’t want to see where Regnieville was but now isn’t in a Skoda on the basis of this corker of a snap?
4/ Same June day in 2022: The Skoda can barely contain its excitement as we head to Fontenois - scene of 128e Régiment d’infanterie’s débâcle of 31 August 1914. #FWW
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
4/ Same June day in 2022: The Skoda can barely contain its excitement as we head to Fontenois - scene of 128e Régiment d’infanterie’s débâcle of 31 August 1914. #FWW
3/ June 2022: The Classic: Heading for the Ardennes and we’ve just experienced the heady delights of the shiny bronzed(?) shells linked by chains of the #FWW Monument aux morts of Marvaux-Vieux. Trekking East from the Champagne battlefields, we’re heading for 1870, 1914, 1918 and 1940 all in one go.
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
3/ June 2022: The Classic: Heading for the Ardennes and we’ve just experienced the heady delights of the shiny bronzed(?) shells linked by chains of the #FWW Monument aux morts of Marvaux-Vieux. Trekking East from the Champagne battlefields, we’re heading for 1870, 1914, 1918 and 1940 all in one go.
After almost 280,160 km together, my dear old Skoda and I have had to part company. A car that got to places on the #FWW Western Front that it never wanted to go. Here’s some happy memories of a few of those times together.
1. The #Somme 1918 #Kaisersbattle battlefields, June 2018.
1. The #Somme 1918 #Kaisersbattle battlefields, June 2018.
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
After almost 280,160 km together, my dear old Skoda and I have had to part company. A car that got to places on the #FWW Western Front that it never wanted to go. Here’s some happy memories of a few of those times together.
1. The #Somme 1918 #Kaisersbattle battlefields, June 2018.
1. The #Somme 1918 #Kaisersbattle battlefields, June 2018.
Text panels for the “Food, Not Cuts” exhibition at the Food Museum, Stowmarket which had its official #CuratingVisibility opening today. Very topical and informed by co-curation with people with lived experience of the issues tackled.
June 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Text panels for the “Food, Not Cuts” exhibition at the Food Museum, Stowmarket which had its official #CuratingVisibility opening today. Very topical and informed by co-curation with people with lived experience of the issues tackled.
I can’t do anything for the birds because of the plague of neighbours’ cats (the cruel, indolent b____s)*, so I’ll settle for helping the bees.
My titchy garden is mithered out with poppies (all of one colour - not red!) and there are a ton of bees a-buzzing for the pollen. Knock yourselves out!
My titchy garden is mithered out with poppies (all of one colour - not red!) and there are a ton of bees a-buzzing for the pollen. Knock yourselves out!
June 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I can’t do anything for the birds because of the plague of neighbours’ cats (the cruel, indolent b____s)*, so I’ll settle for helping the bees.
My titchy garden is mithered out with poppies (all of one colour - not red!) and there are a ton of bees a-buzzing for the pollen. Knock yourselves out!
My titchy garden is mithered out with poppies (all of one colour - not red!) and there are a ton of bees a-buzzing for the pollen. Knock yourselves out!
Especially for today.
May 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Especially for today.
If you’re in the Newcastle upon Tyne area and able to visit Newcastle Cathedral (St. Nicholas), I hope you will take time to look at a small exhibition there entitled “Home and Howay : Letters and Post in the 18th Century North-East”.
This is @absham.bsky.social and she’s the exhibition creator.
This is @absham.bsky.social and she’s the exhibition creator.
April 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you’re in the Newcastle upon Tyne area and able to visit Newcastle Cathedral (St. Nicholas), I hope you will take time to look at a small exhibition there entitled “Home and Howay : Letters and Post in the 18th Century North-East”.
This is @absham.bsky.social and she’s the exhibition creator.
This is @absham.bsky.social and she’s the exhibition creator.
Had a chance this evening to tell this lovely guy what an important role he’d played in the lives of a divorced dad and his two daughters.
Sadly, one daughter had to leave early so missed the opportunity of meeting him. I hope she’ll forgive us.
Sadly, one daughter had to leave early so missed the opportunity of meeting him. I hope she’ll forgive us.
April 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Had a chance this evening to tell this lovely guy what an important role he’d played in the lives of a divorced dad and his two daughters.
Sadly, one daughter had to leave early so missed the opportunity of meeting him. I hope she’ll forgive us.
Sadly, one daughter had to leave early so missed the opportunity of meeting him. I hope she’ll forgive us.
Cultural vandalism for profit. Cutting up a limited edition book and selling by the page.
April 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Cultural vandalism for profit. Cutting up a limited edition book and selling by the page.
![A loose leaf sheet entitled ‘Recent Frontier Changes, etc [sic]’ included with the atlas. It has sections on ‘Frontiers in Central Europe’, as well as ‘Burma’ and ‘Abyssinia’ where details of the outcomes of various recent actions by Germany (Central Europe), Britain (Burma) and Italy (Abyssinia) have had impact.
Pity the poor publisher. Well, ok, maybe a bit more focus on the lot of the people affected.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s5xwn32k65a7pzjdhzrqa2bt/bafkreicbucestkwwdlnnhruvnnjvsvjmrzfzd55bov57hdemltpxyijinm@jpeg)
Waking up to a scene from Rebus in Edinburgh.
March 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Waking up to a scene from Rebus in Edinburgh.
Embarrassingly awful AI image that appeared on my timeline. I blocked the poster.
March 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Embarrassingly awful AI image that appeared on my timeline. I blocked the poster.
February 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ah! What a great friend of mine used to call ‘The warm smile of remembrance’!
February 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Ah! What a great friend of mine used to call ‘The warm smile of remembrance’!
December 10, 2024 at 9:50 PM
There’s some of these too
December 10, 2024 at 9:33 PM
There’s some of these too