On 10 June 1944, British airborne troops are pictured with French civilians between Ranville - the first village in Normandy to be liberated after #DDay - and Amfreville.
Source: SSAFA
Welcome to the #NewForest. Filly foal, Xluna with her dam, Pippa.
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
#BookSky #Books
The "Strawberry Moon" will be visible tonight, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, and into Wednesday morning. The moon will reach its peak illumination at 3:44 a.m. on June 11! I'm going to try to get some pics tonight. 🌝
Welcome to the archives.
Delighted to say that 'Doors of London' is being published in the USA today! 😃 @househistorian.bsky.social @sheldrakepress.bsky.social #doorsoflondon #sheldrakepress bit.ly/DoorsUSA
In an interview on lbc on Friday he said he had attempted to contact him but had not spoken to him.
A busy week in the archives as I finish researching a C17th house in Essex! Meanwhile, today’s #househistory feature in The Times looks at the history of a house in Hertford where #ThomesDimsdale gave vaccinations for smallpox in the 1760s!! 😀 #househistories
Mysterious bones that washed up on Jersey Shore finally identified 180 years after tragedy
www.foxnews.com/travel/myste... #Genealogy
Is there a handy mobile app to publish your own family history book with photos and stories?
#genealogy
Hampshire-born Ethel Caterham, née Collins, is 115 years old and the last surviving subject of King Edward VII and now the world's oldest person.
Here is a photo of Ethel holding the 1911 census - she’s listed as the two-year-old child.
(Source: @findmypast.bsky.social )
Optimising the speed of the pram, engineering mums at work.
#1960s #vehicles
Only in The Netherlands. Swimming in the dirty canal on the hottest day of the year so far. No doubt there’s a bbq next to the canal this eve, with some beers to put the world to right.
#Delft #TheNetherlands
Another Van Gogh moment
Petra Laseur (26 Nov 1939-11 Apr 2025), super talented Dutch actress.
Titanic struck on iceberg tonight in 1912
My latest podcast is a minute by minute description of what happened from the moment of impact to its stern slipping beneath the surface.
🎧: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hi...
Allied Officers held prisoner of war (Italy, North Africa, Crete campaigns) in Germany at Offizierslage 79 were liberated 80 yrs ago on 12 April 1945 by the American army. Located near Braunschweig it was nicknamed Brunswick. (Source:SSAFA)
Thank you for the best morning coffee & pastries in Lisbon: #breakfast at Copenhagen Coffee Lab.
What a find!
A beautifully preserved ancient Roman mosaic hidden beneath a street on the island of Hvar in Croatia.
Dear America
Things will be fine. Unite, you have common goals. Think calmly, less hysteria, less fear, and be guided by not just one man. Good luck. 🤞
#USA
#tradewars
#peace
Soup lines during the Great Depression.
#magamonday
Four generations photographed together in 1958.
#familyhistory
On Black Monday, October 28, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined nearly 13 percent. Federal Reserve leaders differed on how to respond to the event and support the financial system #stockmarkets #dowjones #globaltariffs #trumptariffs
Even Europe wants you here!
This place is unbelievable civil.
The talking points are not the colour of the adolescent. The talking points are how we protect our adolescents, particularly boys, from early online indoctrination, regardless of colour. White boys under the age of 15 are particularly vulnerable to misogynistic influencers and radicalised by them.
A blue-grey box with a Red Cross on it, which reads: "BLOOD TRANSFUSION SET."
The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. Learn more in my book THE FACEMAKER: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Eventually they start looking through ancestry dna profiles for the “undesirable” Americans and the armed, plainclothes deputies from the Bureau Of Familial Assessment (BOFA) disappear you because your great-grandparents were Italian or whatever
Beauty in colour. London Victoria.
