Damian R.
@damianrainford.bsky.social
Reader, writer, old-school traveller, modern history ...WW2 / Cold War .., legacy of colonialism, Dylan buff, Evertonian. See theancienthighway.com for off the wall tales about my travels.
Shropshire, UK.
Shropshire, UK.
LIVERPOOL has been a centre for the study of ancient Egypt for over a century. Students from Egypt and world wide came here to study Egyptology and Liverpool archaeologists continue to make new discoveries. #archeology #history #egyptology #outdoors #photography #explore #liverpool
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January 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
LIVERPOOL has been a centre for the study of ancient Egypt for over a century. Students from Egypt and world wide came here to study Egyptology and Liverpool archaeologists continue to make new discoveries. #archeology #history #egyptology #outdoors #photography #explore #liverpool
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From The East India to East Africa Company; From Robert Clive to Edward Colston. On theroad, chance encounters with legacies of empire. EXTRACT and link to fulltale theancienthighway.com/robert-clive...
#colonialism #theslavetrade #eastindiacompany #slavetrade #robertcolston #britishraj #Shrewsbury
#colonialism #theslavetrade #eastindiacompany #slavetrade #robertcolston #britishraj #Shrewsbury
December 16, 2024 at 5:33 PM
From The East India to East Africa Company; From Robert Clive to Edward Colston. On theroad, chance encounters with legacies of empire. EXTRACT and link to fulltale theancienthighway.com/robert-clive...
#colonialism #theslavetrade #eastindiacompany #slavetrade #robertcolston #britishraj #Shrewsbury
#colonialism #theslavetrade #eastindiacompany #slavetrade #robertcolston #britishraj #Shrewsbury
Blitz on AppleTV, including Paul Weller as Grandad! Although you won't fit it in tonight now.
December 7, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Blitz on AppleTV, including Paul Weller as Grandad! Although you won't fit it in tonight now.
Currently reading Beverly Gage's biog. of Hoover.
Lessons from History!
Surely a role model for the President Elect and his chosen cabinet,not least in how they monitor and deal with their perceived 'enemies from within.' #FBI #Hoover #donaldtrump #coldwar #mcarthyism #americanhistory #history
Lessons from History!
Surely a role model for the President Elect and his chosen cabinet,not least in how they monitor and deal with their perceived 'enemies from within.' #FBI #Hoover #donaldtrump #coldwar #mcarthyism #americanhistory #history
December 7, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Currently reading Beverly Gage's biog. of Hoover.
Lessons from History!
Surely a role model for the President Elect and his chosen cabinet,not least in how they monitor and deal with their perceived 'enemies from within.' #FBI #Hoover #donaldtrump #coldwar #mcarthyism #americanhistory #history
Lessons from History!
Surely a role model for the President Elect and his chosen cabinet,not least in how they monitor and deal with their perceived 'enemies from within.' #FBI #Hoover #donaldtrump #coldwar #mcarthyism #americanhistory #history
Great days out.
Liverpool World Museum.
The year the Terracotta Army rode into town (2018). A couple of my pics.
#liverpoolmuseums #liverpoolworldmuseum #visitliverpool #terracottaarmy #archaeology #citybreaks #photography #outdoors #museums #art #fineart
Liverpool World Museum.
The year the Terracotta Army rode into town (2018). A couple of my pics.
#liverpoolmuseums #liverpoolworldmuseum #visitliverpool #terracottaarmy #archaeology #citybreaks #photography #outdoors #museums #art #fineart
December 3, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Great days out.
Liverpool World Museum.
The year the Terracotta Army rode into town (2018). A couple of my pics.
#liverpoolmuseums #liverpoolworldmuseum #visitliverpool #terracottaarmy #archaeology #citybreaks #photography #outdoors #museums #art #fineart
Liverpool World Museum.
The year the Terracotta Army rode into town (2018). A couple of my pics.
#liverpoolmuseums #liverpoolworldmuseum #visitliverpool #terracottaarmy #archaeology #citybreaks #photography #outdoors #museums #art #fineart
Great days out. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Lowry didn't just paint his native Manchester. As well as a Salford, there are 3 Liverpool scenes below, with descriptions attached. #lowry #art #liverpoolmuseums #walkerartgallery #visitliverpool #outdoors #citybreaks #thebeatles
Lowry didn't just paint his native Manchester. As well as a Salford, there are 3 Liverpool scenes below, with descriptions attached. #lowry #art #liverpoolmuseums #walkerartgallery #visitliverpool #outdoors #citybreaks #thebeatles
December 1, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Great days out. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Lowry didn't just paint his native Manchester. As well as a Salford, there are 3 Liverpool scenes below, with descriptions attached. #lowry #art #liverpoolmuseums #walkerartgallery #visitliverpool #outdoors #citybreaks #thebeatles
Lowry didn't just paint his native Manchester. As well as a Salford, there are 3 Liverpool scenes below, with descriptions attached. #lowry #art #liverpoolmuseums #walkerartgallery #visitliverpool #outdoors #citybreaks #thebeatles
In the age of smart phones, travel writing and
travel blogs are seen as synonymous. However, aren’t they really two separate, but valuable genres? Here is what I found from a random trawl.
theancienthighway.com/good-travel-...
#travelwriters #travelblog #travelblogs #outdoors #solotravel #explore
travel blogs are seen as synonymous. However, aren’t they really two separate, but valuable genres? Here is what I found from a random trawl.
theancienthighway.com/good-travel-...
#travelwriters #travelblog #travelblogs #outdoors #solotravel #explore
December 1, 2024 at 5:40 PM
In the age of smart phones, travel writing and
travel blogs are seen as synonymous. However, aren’t they really two separate, but valuable genres? Here is what I found from a random trawl.
theancienthighway.com/good-travel-...
#travelwriters #travelblog #travelblogs #outdoors #solotravel #explore
travel blogs are seen as synonymous. However, aren’t they really two separate, but valuable genres? Here is what I found from a random trawl.
theancienthighway.com/good-travel-...
#travelwriters #travelblog #travelblogs #outdoors #solotravel #explore
Malaga's Islamic Alcazaba is one of the best preserved palatial fortifications in Analdalucia. The views from on top are breathtaking down onto the port of Malaga and the bullring.
#photography #outdoors #andalucia #Spanishhistory #themoors #malaga #travelblog #visitspain
#photography #outdoors #andalucia #Spanishhistory #themoors #malaga #travelblog #visitspain
November 28, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Malaga's Islamic Alcazaba is one of the best preserved palatial fortifications in Analdalucia. The views from on top are breathtaking down onto the port of Malaga and the bullring.
#photography #outdoors #andalucia #Spanishhistory #themoors #malaga #travelblog #visitspain
#photography #outdoors #andalucia #Spanishhistory #themoors #malaga #travelblog #visitspain
Malaga. Stopped by to see Picasso museum. Instead left in awe of photographer Joel Mayerowitz. See exhibition of his 1966/67 20K mile European Road trip, which artistically he describes as a coming of age. #picasso #outdoors #malaga #photography #roadtrip
www.museopicassomalaga.org/en/exposicio...
www.museopicassomalaga.org/en/exposicio...
November 28, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Malaga. Stopped by to see Picasso museum. Instead left in awe of photographer Joel Mayerowitz. See exhibition of his 1966/67 20K mile European Road trip, which artistically he describes as a coming of age. #picasso #outdoors #malaga #photography #roadtrip
www.museopicassomalaga.org/en/exposicio...
www.museopicassomalaga.org/en/exposicio...
Great days out in middle England-the RAF museum, Cosford,includes a #coldwar hanger on its site,and material relating to #WWII and the #nuclear age. Click to see some pics from our visit theancienthighway.com/royal-air-fo...
#nuclearwar
#rafmuseumlondon
#imperialwarmuseum
#rafcosford
#coldwarmuseum
#nuclearwar
#rafmuseumlondon
#imperialwarmuseum
#rafcosford
#coldwarmuseum
November 22, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Great days out in middle England-the RAF museum, Cosford,includes a #coldwar hanger on its site,and material relating to #WWII and the #nuclear age. Click to see some pics from our visit theancienthighway.com/royal-air-fo...
#nuclearwar
#rafmuseumlondon
#imperialwarmuseum
#rafcosford
#coldwarmuseum
#nuclearwar
#rafmuseumlondon
#imperialwarmuseum
#rafcosford
#coldwarmuseum
For a great day out head to the Imperial War Museum (North), Manchester. Here, I took this pic of Noor Khan's Webley pistol. She was Special Operations Executive's (SOE) Spy Princess, codename Madeline. Deeply spiritual.Betrayed in Paris. Murdered at Daccau. #WW2 #WWII #soe #daccau #nazis
November 21, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Great books are those that you threw out in Lockdown to create space on your overflowing shelves, but then regretted it. You then went out and hunted down the same books again .... and even re-read them, to to say how sorry you were. Here are mine. #amwriting #literature #outdoors #travelwriting
November 19, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Great books are those that you threw out in Lockdown to create space on your overflowing shelves, but then regretted it. You then went out and hunted down the same books again .... and even re-read them, to to say how sorry you were. Here are mine. #amwriting #literature #outdoors #travelwriting
Recommended! Keith Lowe's 'Savage Continent' also an engrossing read.
November 18, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Recommended! Keith Lowe's 'Savage Continent' also an engrossing read.
Reminds me of Birmingham!
November 17, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Reminds me of Birmingham!
You should add Autocracy.inc to your list by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Where, for example, "The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another."
Where, for example, "The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another."
November 17, 2024 at 12:14 PM
You should add Autocracy.inc to your list by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Where, for example, "The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another."
Where, for example, "The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another."
2/2. See below for my own review of this Travel Writing Classic. Boy, could this bloke write.
#bookreviews #booklovers #bookshelf #coldwar #history #memoirs #travelwriter #travelwriting
theancienthighway.com/travel-book-...
#bookreviews #booklovers #bookshelf #coldwar #history #memoirs #travelwriter #travelwriting
theancienthighway.com/travel-book-...
November 16, 2024 at 4:17 PM
2/2. See below for my own review of this Travel Writing Classic. Boy, could this bloke write.
#bookreviews #booklovers #bookshelf #coldwar #history #memoirs #travelwriter #travelwriting
theancienthighway.com/travel-book-...
#bookreviews #booklovers #bookshelf #coldwar #history #memoirs #travelwriter #travelwriting
theancienthighway.com/travel-book-...
1/2. IMERIUM: Ryzard Kapuscinski was a Polish literary treasure. His wry anecdotes are brought to life in this publication. Part Cold War travel book,part rediscovery of the excesses of totalitarianism. #bookreviews #booklovers #bookshelf #coldwar #history #memoirs #travelwriter #travelwriting
November 16, 2024 at 4:17 PM
1/2. IMERIUM: Ryzard Kapuscinski was a Polish literary treasure. His wry anecdotes are brought to life in this publication. Part Cold War travel book,part rediscovery of the excesses of totalitarianism. #bookreviews #booklovers #bookshelf #coldwar #history #memoirs #travelwriter #travelwriting
My arrivals in Mumbai always provided food for thought - the amazing and the downright bad. Here is a short extract from one of my tales, with a link to the full story. theancienthighway.com/arriving-in-...
#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #travelblog #travelblogger #travel #solotravel
#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #travelblog #travelblogger #travel #solotravel
November 15, 2024 at 6:41 PM
My arrivals in Mumbai always provided food for thought - the amazing and the downright bad. Here is a short extract from one of my tales, with a link to the full story. theancienthighway.com/arriving-in-...
#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #travelblog #travelblogger #travel #solotravel
#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #travelblog #travelblogger #travel #solotravel
An extract from my Orkney Island travel tale, linked to full story....Getting there; the environment; neolithic history; World War II; people met; and more.
theancienthighway.com/ancienthighw...
#writer #amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #orkney #travelblog #wanderlust #memoirs #visitscotland
theancienthighway.com/ancienthighw...
#writer #amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #orkney #travelblog #wanderlust #memoirs #visitscotland
November 15, 2024 at 5:09 PM
An extract from my Orkney Island travel tale, linked to full story....Getting there; the environment; neolithic history; World War II; people met; and more.
theancienthighway.com/ancienthighw...
#writer #amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #orkney #travelblog #wanderlust #memoirs #visitscotland
theancienthighway.com/ancienthighw...
#writer #amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #orkney #travelblog #wanderlust #memoirs #visitscotland
Possibly my favourite Orkney picture. I took it in 2002!
November 15, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Possibly my favourite Orkney picture. I took it in 2002!