John Goddard
@johngoddard1962.bsky.social
Care leaver. PhD. History from below. Second language German speaker. Dysgu Cymraeg. Punk etc. #TRFC #Fussball #Porajmos
Translations, summaries are not endorsements.
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1471579/
Translations, summaries are not endorsements.
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1471579/
So that’s what it was up to the other week. 🐿️
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
So that’s what it was up to the other week. 🐿️
#OTD 9th Nov., 1938: #Kristallnacht
Following the assassination in Paris of a German diplomat, Nazi paramilitaries and civilian supporters burnt down 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms during an anti-Jewish pogrom which also saw at least 91 murdered and widespread beatings and rapes. #germanhistory
Following the assassination in Paris of a German diplomat, Nazi paramilitaries and civilian supporters burnt down 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms during an anti-Jewish pogrom which also saw at least 91 murdered and widespread beatings and rapes. #germanhistory
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
#OTD 9th Nov., 1938: #Kristallnacht
Following the assassination in Paris of a German diplomat, Nazi paramilitaries and civilian supporters burnt down 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms during an anti-Jewish pogrom which also saw at least 91 murdered and widespread beatings and rapes. #germanhistory
Following the assassination in Paris of a German diplomat, Nazi paramilitaries and civilian supporters burnt down 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms during an anti-Jewish pogrom which also saw at least 91 murdered and widespread beatings and rapes. #germanhistory
“communist Russia” 😳😳😳
“republican England”:
“republican England”:
October 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“communist Russia” 😳😳😳
“republican England”:
“republican England”:
The right nationalist #AfD remains ahead of the conservative #CDU-CSU in the most recent national opinion poll (RTL/ntv). Less economic optimism and Chancellor Merz’s blanket blaming of immigrants for a worsening “Stadtbild” (cityscape) have had little effect. #Germany #Stadtbild
October 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The right nationalist #AfD remains ahead of the conservative #CDU-CSU in the most recent national opinion poll (RTL/ntv). Less economic optimism and Chancellor Merz’s blanket blaming of immigrants for a worsening “Stadtbild” (cityscape) have had little effect. #Germany #Stadtbild
Yesterday’s local elections in North Rhine Westphalia saw a tripling of the far right #AfD vote on increased voter turnout and falls in support for the big two, #CDU and #SPD. The Greens saw their vote fall by a third. The Left Party swapped 5th place with the market liberal #FDP. #Germany #DieLinke
September 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Yesterday’s local elections in North Rhine Westphalia saw a tripling of the far right #AfD vote on increased voter turnout and falls in support for the big two, #CDU and #SPD. The Greens saw their vote fall by a third. The Left Party swapped 5th place with the market liberal #FDP. #Germany #DieLinke
Pre-match. Cammell Laird 1907 v Telford Town. Won’t be an easy match against the early season table toppers but decent Autumn weather for it.
One ear on Tranmere at Salford. Giving it a miss this non-league football day.
#NWCFL
One ear on Tranmere at Salford. Giving it a miss this non-league football day.
#NWCFL
September 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Pre-match. Cammell Laird 1907 v Telford Town. Won’t be an easy match against the early season table toppers but decent Autumn weather for it.
One ear on Tranmere at Salford. Giving it a miss this non-league football day.
#NWCFL
One ear on Tranmere at Salford. Giving it a miss this non-league football day.
#NWCFL
August 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
#TRFC #SWA
Some pre-match photos from yesterday’s draw with the Gills. That added time equaliser from them a bummer, from my vantage point on the paddock a slow motion horror as the ball dribbled in. We played well in a yellow and red card game and Davison deserved his ovation.
Some pre-match photos from yesterday’s draw with the Gills. That added time equaliser from them a bummer, from my vantage point on the paddock a slow motion horror as the ball dribbled in. We played well in a yellow and red card game and Davison deserved his ovation.
August 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Real football season already started.
North West Counties Football League, Division South.
Saturday, 2nd August.
Cammell Laird 1907 1 Stafford Town 4
North West Counties Football League, Division South.
Saturday, 2nd August.
Cammell Laird 1907 1 Stafford Town 4
August 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Real football season already started.
North West Counties Football League, Division South.
Saturday, 2nd August.
Cammell Laird 1907 1 Stafford Town 4
North West Counties Football League, Division South.
Saturday, 2nd August.
Cammell Laird 1907 1 Stafford Town 4
Some photos from Cammell Laird 1907 1 Stafford Town 4 this afternoon.
Glad to hear #TRFC at least drew. Disappointing to concede that late goal.
#Birkenhead
Glad to hear #TRFC at least drew. Disappointing to concede that late goal.
#Birkenhead
August 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Some photos from Cammell Laird 1907 1 Stafford Town 4 this afternoon.
Glad to hear #TRFC at least drew. Disappointing to concede that late goal.
#Birkenhead
Glad to hear #TRFC at least drew. Disappointing to concede that late goal.
#Birkenhead
#OTD 29th July, 1904: Death of Gustav Kessler, draughtsman, Social Democrat and leading theorist of localist trade unionism, initially a tactic to protect political discussion from association laws, later a forerunner of revolutionary syndicalism. #Germany #workingclass #history
July 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
#OTD 29th July, 1904: Death of Gustav Kessler, draughtsman, Social Democrat and leading theorist of localist trade unionism, initially a tactic to protect political discussion from association laws, later a forerunner of revolutionary syndicalism. #Germany #workingclass #history
Singing of The Internationale, today, 1st May, International Workers’ Day, in #Vienna before the #Rathausplatz. #Austria #1Mai
May 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Singing of The Internationale, today, 1st May, International Workers’ Day, in #Vienna before the #Rathausplatz. #Austria #1Mai
April 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
April 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
#OTD 18th March 1848 in #Berlin demonstrators against a previous fatal army shooting erected barricades on hearing gunshots. Of the *270 killed by royal troops in two days of clashes, all but 19 were artisan journeymen, masters, apprentices, labourers, and servants. #Germany #workingclass #history
March 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
#OTD 18th March 1848 in #Berlin demonstrators against a previous fatal army shooting erected barricades on hearing gunshots. Of the *270 killed by royal troops in two days of clashes, all but 19 were artisan journeymen, masters, apprentices, labourers, and servants. #Germany #workingclass #history
My brother’s phone warned him that he was at risk of deafness as the sound behind us hit 95db.
March 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My brother’s phone warned him that he was at risk of deafness as the sound behind us hit 95db.
SLIME, ‘Zu kalt’.
Click on “ALT” for lyrics (in German).
Click on “ALT” for lyrics (in German).
March 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
SLIME, ‘Zu kalt’.
Click on “ALT” for lyrics (in German).
Click on “ALT” for lyrics (in German).