Trevor T
@gwgadc.bsky.social
Part of the Great War Group’s editorial team for Salient Points. Generally you’ll find me ferreting down Great War rabbit holes but my specific interests are Conscientious Objectors; Submarines; Q-Ships; PoWs; and Pigeons. Can’t not mention Pigeons.
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Happy Birthday to @alexchurchill.bsky.social, whose book RING OF FIRE is a must-read for anyone interested in the First World War! 👇
Ring of Fire is out now! It’s like the Guns of August for a new generation: the opening weeks of WW1 through the eyes of ordinary men, women and children. And not just in Western Europe, but across the globe. It was bloody, terrifying and neutrality was a sham… geni.us/RingOfFire
September 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Happy Birthday to @alexchurchill.bsky.social, whose book RING OF FIRE is a must-read for anyone interested in the First World War! 👇
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Just going to leave this here and hope you’ll forgive the fact that @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I are are very excited (thanks to @wsj.com) at our new best seller tag…
August 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Just going to leave this here and hope you’ll forgive the fact that @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I are are very excited (thanks to @wsj.com) at our new best seller tag…
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When @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I sat down with @bigthink.com to talk all things 1914…
bigthink.com/books/ring-o...
bigthink.com/books/ring-o...
Not just the Western Front: "Ring of Fire" rediscovers WWI’s global story
Historians Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst reexamine the pivotal conflict from a grassroots perspective.
bigthink.com
August 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
When @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I sat down with @bigthink.com to talk all things 1914…
bigthink.com/books/ring-o...
bigthink.com/books/ring-o...
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We’ve teased a lot - now it’s official. @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I are going to be guests of the National World War I museum in Kansas City on 23rd August. For all Americans who want to come out to play, more info:
www.theworldwar.org/events/ring-...
@pegasusbooks.bsky.social
www.theworldwar.org/events/ring-...
@pegasusbooks.bsky.social
Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914
Over the last century, WWI’s impact and scale has been oversimplified and underestimated. Historian Alexandra Churchill and archivist Nicolai Eberholst strive to rebalance common conceptions of WWI.
www.theworldwar.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We’ve teased a lot - now it’s official. @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I are going to be guests of the National World War I museum in Kansas City on 23rd August. For all Americans who want to come out to play, more info:
www.theworldwar.org/events/ring-...
@pegasusbooks.bsky.social
www.theworldwar.org/events/ring-...
@pegasusbooks.bsky.social
Highly recommend Chris’ Substack. His posts are always enjoyable and this one especially so. Do please give him a follow.
This week’s free to read is the story of Deadman’s island, the quarantine station and prison hulks of the Medway…
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/deadmans-i...
#history #navalhistory
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/deadmans-i...
#history #navalhistory
Deadman's island
The River Medway, like many of Britain’s waterways, holds many secrets and has been the scene of many a grisly tale but none really can challenge the pure horror that is Deadman’s island near Sheppey.
jerijerod14.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Highly recommend Chris’ Substack. His posts are always enjoyable and this one especially so. Do please give him a follow.
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Just a couple of places left for tomorrow night's talk on the first few weeks of WW1 from a new global perspective. It's going to be a goodun, message if you would like a seat. Only £5 on the door.
July 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Just a couple of places left for tomorrow night's talk on the first few weeks of WW1 from a new global perspective. It's going to be a goodun, message if you would like a seat. Only £5 on the door.
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Just a reminder about our 5th birthday event in August - details of how to sign up for one of these trips on the photo below!
July 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Just a reminder about our 5th birthday event in August - details of how to sign up for one of these trips on the photo below!
Went to Chatham dockyard yesterday and can highly recommend it. The 30 minute tour of HMS Ocelot was fantastic but the highlight was the collection of old RNLI boats.
4.5" quick firing gun, the main armament of some Royal Navy destroyers in #WW2 such as the C-class HMS Cavalier currently serving as the Destroyer memorial in Chatham Dockyard
July 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Went to Chatham dockyard yesterday and can highly recommend it. The 30 minute tour of HMS Ocelot was fantastic but the highlight was the collection of old RNLI boats.
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4.5" quick firing gun, the main armament of some Royal Navy destroyers in #WW2 such as the C-class HMS Cavalier currently serving as the Destroyer memorial in Chatham Dockyard
July 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
4.5" quick firing gun, the main armament of some Royal Navy destroyers in #WW2 such as the C-class HMS Cavalier currently serving as the Destroyer memorial in Chatham Dockyard
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A fantastic photo of an Austro-Hungarian cavalry patrol in the move in Galicia, 1914.
If you want to know more about this fascinating period of the war, @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I have a book suggestion for you 😉
If you want to know more about this fascinating period of the war, @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I have a book suggestion for you 😉
June 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
A fantastic photo of an Austro-Hungarian cavalry patrol in the move in Galicia, 1914.
If you want to know more about this fascinating period of the war, @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I have a book suggestion for you 😉
If you want to know more about this fascinating period of the war, @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I have a book suggestion for you 😉
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Another favorite of mine: An Austro-Hungarian soldier descent into the "city of ice" underneath the Marmolata/Marmolada glacier, 1916.
June 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Another favorite of mine: An Austro-Hungarian soldier descent into the "city of ice" underneath the Marmolata/Marmolada glacier, 1916.
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The latest edition of Salient Points has arrived from @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social full of great articles as always. Why not come and join this great group of people? I promise, You won't be disappointed
June 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The latest edition of Salient Points has arrived from @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social full of great articles as always. Why not come and join this great group of people? I promise, You won't be disappointed
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This week’s feature article is something slightly different in that it is loosely connected to U-boats…
In the summer of 1916 a death off New Jersey is blamed on German submarines but is there something more deadly in the waters?
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/the-new-je...
#history #ww1 #sharks
In the summer of 1916 a death off New Jersey is blamed on German submarines but is there something more deadly in the waters?
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/the-new-je...
#history #ww1 #sharks
The New Jersey Man eater
U-boat or shark?
jerijerod14.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
This week’s feature article is something slightly different in that it is loosely connected to U-boats…
In the summer of 1916 a death off New Jersey is blamed on German submarines but is there something more deadly in the waters?
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/the-new-je...
#history #ww1 #sharks
In the summer of 1916 a death off New Jersey is blamed on German submarines but is there something more deadly in the waters?
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/the-new-je...
#history #ww1 #sharks
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There's definitely some kind of lesson here:
'FORMER EMPEROR'S COUNSELLOR SAYS PIGS CAUSED GREAT WAR Lowly Animals Must Bear the Blame of Having Been Primarily to Blame for Bringing on the World the Greatest Blood-letting in Entire Long History of the Human Race—Will Everybody Agree?'
'FORMER EMPEROR'S COUNSELLOR SAYS PIGS CAUSED GREAT WAR Lowly Animals Must Bear the Blame of Having Been Primarily to Blame for Bringing on the World the Greatest Blood-letting in Entire Long History of the Human Race—Will Everybody Agree?'
June 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
There's definitely some kind of lesson here:
'FORMER EMPEROR'S COUNSELLOR SAYS PIGS CAUSED GREAT WAR Lowly Animals Must Bear the Blame of Having Been Primarily to Blame for Bringing on the World the Greatest Blood-letting in Entire Long History of the Human Race—Will Everybody Agree?'
'FORMER EMPEROR'S COUNSELLOR SAYS PIGS CAUSED GREAT WAR Lowly Animals Must Bear the Blame of Having Been Primarily to Blame for Bringing on the World the Greatest Blood-letting in Entire Long History of the Human Race—Will Everybody Agree?'
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Launch and Conference from @Goslingpress for the book Leading the Immortals: So if you’re at a loose end on Saturday this is an opportunity to hear the Turkish story of Gallipoli. In Leeds on 7th June. 3 lectures from and a copy of the book for only £28 trybooking.com/uk/EMXI
June 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Launch and Conference from @Goslingpress for the book Leading the Immortals: So if you’re at a loose end on Saturday this is an opportunity to hear the Turkish story of Gallipoli. In Leeds on 7th June. 3 lectures from and a copy of the book for only £28 trybooking.com/uk/EMXI
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Finished this the other day, and can't recommend it highly enough. A brilliant job by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social - global in scope but with an incredible eye for detail, and bringing in so many different voices that aren't normally heard when it comes to WWI coverage
June 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Finished this the other day, and can't recommend it highly enough. A brilliant job by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social - global in scope but with an incredible eye for detail, and bringing in so many different voices that aren't normally heard when it comes to WWI coverage
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Thoughts after reading the stupendous Ring of Fire from @alexchurchill.bsky.social & @pikegrey1418.bsky.social - one of the few popular histories of WW1 that cuts the sentiment & shows just how appalling and brutal 1914 is. I never wholly swallowed the Larkinesque innocence bollox anyway… 1/
May 29, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Thoughts after reading the stupendous Ring of Fire from @alexchurchill.bsky.social & @pikegrey1418.bsky.social - one of the few popular histories of WW1 that cuts the sentiment & shows just how appalling and brutal 1914 is. I never wholly swallowed the Larkinesque innocence bollox anyway… 1/
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I'm reading the excellent 'Ring of Fire' by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social
One aspect is the racism of the imperial powers in 1914. It is shocking - for example, that in 1914 the Italian military had to refute the idea that black men did not feel pain
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One aspect is the racism of the imperial powers in 1914. It is shocking - for example, that in 1914 the Italian military had to refute the idea that black men did not feel pain
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May 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I'm reading the excellent 'Ring of Fire' by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social
One aspect is the racism of the imperial powers in 1914. It is shocking - for example, that in 1914 the Italian military had to refute the idea that black men did not feel pain
1/n
One aspect is the racism of the imperial powers in 1914. It is shocking - for example, that in 1914 the Italian military had to refute the idea that black men did not feel pain
1/n
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Not-staged combat photo from the First World War. The photo shows Austro-Hungarian soldiers of Inf. Regt. Nr. 14, during its attack from Oserdów on 28 August 1914. While successful, the regiment suffered nearly 400 casualties while charging across open ground.
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Not-staged combat photo from the First World War. The photo shows Austro-Hungarian soldiers of Inf. Regt. Nr. 14, during its attack from Oserdów on 28 August 1914. While successful, the regiment suffered nearly 400 casualties while charging across open ground.
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
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In the Austro-Hungarian naval base at Kotor/Cattaro, the armoured cruiser SMS Kaiser Karl VI is under fire from Montenegrin artillery batteries on Mount Lovćen, August 1914.
The Montenegrin army was small, but in places like this, they could still be a major threat.
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
The Montenegrin army was small, but in places like this, they could still be a major threat.
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 9:29 AM
In the Austro-Hungarian naval base at Kotor/Cattaro, the armoured cruiser SMS Kaiser Karl VI is under fire from Montenegrin artillery batteries on Mount Lovćen, August 1914.
The Montenegrin army was small, but in places like this, they could still be a major threat.
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
The Montenegrin army was small, but in places like this, they could still be a major threat.
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
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It's the moment you've all been waiting for....
THE LAUNCH CONFERENCE FOR OUTLINE PUBLISHING
18.30-21.30 on Friday, 4 July 2025
At the East Finchley Constitutional Club, 9 The Walks, London, N2 8DE
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THE LAUNCH CONFERENCE FOR OUTLINE PUBLISHING
18.30-21.30 on Friday, 4 July 2025
At the East Finchley Constitutional Club, 9 The Walks, London, N2 8DE
1/4
May 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's the moment you've all been waiting for....
THE LAUNCH CONFERENCE FOR OUTLINE PUBLISHING
18.30-21.30 on Friday, 4 July 2025
At the East Finchley Constitutional Club, 9 The Walks, London, N2 8DE
1/4
THE LAUNCH CONFERENCE FOR OUTLINE PUBLISHING
18.30-21.30 on Friday, 4 July 2025
At the East Finchley Constitutional Club, 9 The Walks, London, N2 8DE
1/4
Can highly recommend’Ring of Fire’ by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social
They did a heck of a lot of research and it shows. A great account of the early days of WW1 by those it impacted upon.
They did a heck of a lot of research and it shows. A great account of the early days of WW1 by those it impacted upon.
May 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Can highly recommend’Ring of Fire’ by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social
They did a heck of a lot of research and it shows. A great account of the early days of WW1 by those it impacted upon.
They did a heck of a lot of research and it shows. A great account of the early days of WW1 by those it impacted upon.
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Our Walking Gold Beach tour for 2026, featuring the supreme nerdiness of @seaspitfires.com is now on general sale. Be quick though; it’s 75% sold out already!
www.istoriatravel.org/gold
www.istoriatravel.org/gold
GOLD BEACH | Istoria Travel
Join us for this long weekend as Stephen Fisher guides you through the story of Gold Beach, from Mulberry Harbours, to the Royal Marines at Port-en-Bessin, to 50th Division and the advance on Crepon.
www.istoriatravel.org
May 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Our Walking Gold Beach tour for 2026, featuring the supreme nerdiness of @seaspitfires.com is now on general sale. Be quick though; it’s 75% sold out already!
www.istoriatravel.org/gold
www.istoriatravel.org/gold
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One thing that never occurred to me before writing Ring of Fire - when men were mobilised in 1914, there was no one left to collect the rubbish in Paris. The city began to stink. Here’s one journalist’s account:
![One thing that never occurred to me before writing Ring of Fire - when men were mobilised in 1914, there was no one left to collect the rubbish in Paris. The city began to stink. Here’s one journalist’s account:
'Strolling through the main streets of my neighbourhood, I realize that some public services are completely disorganized by the mobilization which deprives them of any manpower. Refuse, foul smelling, sits on the edge of the pavement, abandoned? In the August heat, the smell was nauseating. Then he saw a lorry with four men on it. The driver was a teenager, two others were well over forty. They appeared to be collecting rubbish, and so Delecraz asked the boy if they might swing past his street. ""Address yourself to the colonel," he replied, pointing out to me a man in an English cap walking alongside. I walk forward to meet him. "Are you the colonel, sir?" I examine him on the sly. Tall, straight, slim. The elderly man had a pronounced regal bearing, and an imperious white moustache:
I am indeed a retired colonel... I have two officer sons. Too old to return to the fire, at the age of seventy, I'm trying to be useful. You see, I am running temporary rubbish collec-tion, while waiting for the business to be reorganized. You have to serve as best you can, at such a time...' And when he opens his jacket to take a note [of my street]... I see the rosette of an officer of the Légion d'Honneur.
Photo from Musée Albert Kahn](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zwjijm4ikcfklhckhncabbxz/bafkreiaxwdspxpuart63sv5n4hofyefh6by7wfhioeueiqokwr7fkckgoi@jpeg)
May 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
One thing that never occurred to me before writing Ring of Fire - when men were mobilised in 1914, there was no one left to collect the rubbish in Paris. The city began to stink. Here’s one journalist’s account: