Simon Jones
@simonjones.bsky.social
Writes about the First World War. FRHistS. Late museum curator. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
It's interesting, and a reminder of how much longer research like this took before the internet and digitised newspapers, but it is very polemical!
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It's interesting, and a reminder of how much longer research like this took before the internet and digitised newspapers, but it is very polemical!
This is a short piece about the newly unveiled headstone at the location of her burial. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/l...
BBC News - Woman Who Posed as Soldier in WW1 Honoured
The WW1 reporter who secretly joined the frontline has been honoured a century later
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This is a short piece about the newly unveiled headstone at the location of her burial. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/l...
There will also be a TV feature on BBC Breakfast on 11th November about the new memorial erected to Dorothy Lawrence to mark the location of her burial in New Southgate Cemetery, north London.
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
There will also be a TV feature on BBC Breakfast on 11th November about the new memorial erected to Dorothy Lawrence to mark the location of her burial in New Southgate Cemetery, north London.
...and Simon Rattle said thank you to Liverpool.
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
...and Simon Rattle said thank you to Liverpool.
Yes I can't remember the account either! @debsadelight.bsky.social may know.
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Yes I can't remember the account either! @debsadelight.bsky.social may know.
The comparatively high numbers of Maxims taken on punitive expeditions in Africa before the 1stWW is actually one of the more interesting points made by Ellis and repeated by Olosuga. Unlike what both say about the 1stWW itself, I'm not aware of more recent research into this.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The comparatively high numbers of Maxims taken on punitive expeditions in Africa before the 1stWW is actually one of the more interesting points made by Ellis and repeated by Olosuga. Unlike what both say about the 1stWW itself, I'm not aware of more recent research into this.
This was pretty much my reaction. The second part relies entirely on a single very outdated secondary source. bsky.app/profile/simo...
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 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This was pretty much my reaction. The second part relies entirely on a single very outdated secondary source. bsky.app/profile/simo...
This is a flat white. Luckily it was good coffee!
November 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is a flat white. Luckily it was good coffee!
Unsourced history is junk history. gallica.bnf.fr is a terrific source for Press Agency photos otherwise lost or still trapped behind paywalls.
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gallica.bnf.fr
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Unsourced history is junk history. gallica.bnf.fr is a terrific source for Press Agency photos otherwise lost or still trapped behind paywalls.
Stop digging Lucy!😂
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Stop digging Lucy!😂