Simon Jones
@simonjones.bsky.social
Writes about the First World War. FRHistS. Late museum curator. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
I've been researching the journalist Dorothy Lawrence for many years but have only now been able to fill the key gaps in her story. Hopefully soon I will be sharing the details with the wider world.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I've been researching the journalist Dorothy Lawrence for many years but have only now been able to fill the key gaps in her story. Hopefully soon I will be sharing the details with the wider world.
Liverpool this evening.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Liverpool this evening.
...and Simon Rattle said thank you to Liverpool.
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
...and Simon Rattle said thank you to Liverpool.
Liverpool said thank you to Simon Rattle this evening...
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Liverpool said thank you to Simon Rattle this evening...
North of Liverpool is a two-mile stretch of beach where rubble from the bombing during the Second World War was dumped.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
North of Liverpool is a two-mile stretch of beach where rubble from the bombing during the Second World War was dumped.
My third attempt to post a photo of Anthony Gormley's Another Place that doesn't get blocked by BS's sexual content filter!
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
My third attempt to post a photo of Anthony Gormley's Another Place that doesn't get blocked by BS's sexual content filter!
The mystery of coffee in a glass.
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The mystery of coffee in a glass.
Liverpool Cenotaph.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Liverpool Cenotaph.
Sunrise over the Mersey this morning.
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Sunrise over the Mersey this morning.
The 11am silence on Armistice Day, London, 11th November 1925.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The 11am silence on Armistice Day, London, 11th November 1925.
Patched leather waistcoat worn by the anti-submarine commander Captain Johnnie Walker, seen in the Western Approaches Museum and on his statue at Liverpool Pier Head.
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Patched leather waistcoat worn by the anti-submarine commander Captain Johnnie Walker, seen in the Western Approaches Museum and on his statue at Liverpool Pier Head.
Oriel Chambers by Peter Ellis, 1864, described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most remarkable buildings of its date in Europe'.
November 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Oriel Chambers by Peter Ellis, 1864, described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most remarkable buildings of its date in Europe'.
Waiting by Judy Boyt, the memorial to the working horses of Liverpool, is one of my favourites.
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Waiting by Judy Boyt, the memorial to the working horses of Liverpool, is one of my favourites.
I'm currently experiencing massive and emotional nostalgia for my old home city.
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I'm currently experiencing massive and emotional nostalgia for my old home city.
I have to admit to being a little disappointed after seeing David Olusoga at the Liverpool Phil last night. The latter part relies entirely on Ellis's 50-year-old polemic The Social History of the Machine Gun, giving a very lazy and uninformed presentation about the weapon during the 1stWW.
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I have to admit to being a little disappointed after seeing David Olusoga at the Liverpool Phil last night. The latter part relies entirely on Ellis's 50-year-old polemic The Social History of the Machine Gun, giving a very lazy and uninformed presentation about the weapon during the 1stWW.
I've been revisiting this from 1975 in advance of seeing David Olusoga's A Gun Through Time tonight in Liverpool. Ellis's book is catastrophically dated in respect of the First World War but DO cites his chapter on the Maxim gun in Africa in The World's War. I'm looking forward to it.
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I've been revisiting this from 1975 in advance of seeing David Olusoga's A Gun Through Time tonight in Liverpool. Ellis's book is catastrophically dated in respect of the First World War but DO cites his chapter on the Maxim gun in Africa in The World's War. I'm looking forward to it.
Sassoon gave a carbon copy of his statement against the war to Thomas Hardy, marking it: 'I am sending this to my commanding officer. SS.'
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Sassoon gave a carbon copy of his statement against the war to Thomas Hardy, marking it: 'I am sending this to my commanding officer. SS.'
The Old Huntsman that Sassoon presented to Thomas Hardy, with a copy of Sassoon's statement against the war!
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November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The Old Huntsman that Sassoon presented to Thomas Hardy, with a copy of Sassoon's statement against the war!
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And here is The Old Huntsman that Sassoon gave to Graves in May 1917! www.forumauctions.co.uk/component/co...
November 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
And here is The Old Huntsman that Sassoon gave to Graves in May 1917! www.forumauctions.co.uk/component/co...
But now here's the copy of War's Embers that Ivor Gurney gave to Marion Scott!
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November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
But now here's the copy of War's Embers that Ivor Gurney gave to Marion Scott!
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If I had £10-15k... The copy of Over the Brazier that Robert Graves gave to Siegfried Sassoon on 6th May 1916 is being auctioned in two days' time.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
If I had £10-15k... The copy of Over the Brazier that Robert Graves gave to Siegfried Sassoon on 6th May 1916 is being auctioned in two days' time.
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This is terrible news for the completion of my book. The British Newspaper Library is processing a massive shedload of First World War period content (presumably for Remembrance Day). These are just some of them.
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is terrible news for the completion of my book. The British Newspaper Library is processing a massive shedload of First World War period content (presumably for Remembrance Day). These are just some of them.