@briancurragh
Ph.D candidate at University of Birmingham - looking at Patronage & The Rings in the late Victorian British Army MA British First World War Studies - dissertation on the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars: a military elite or agricultural cavalry?
Josephine Tey's early death denied her a rightful place among the pantheon of crime writers.
The forgotten queen of crime fiction | @alecmarsh.bsky.social
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Amazing how many grammatical errors still get through these days with the software checking that is available - but they still do…and they’re still really irritating.
Surprisingly, the ELMS event last weekend was very reasonable £25 entry for the whole weekend.
A lap round Silverstone - easy! Well, probably not with a new knee - but I'm giving it a go on Friday 12th September.
I'm fundraising for Women's Heartbeat. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can.
Thank you! #JustGiving
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Very disappointed with Silverstone Festival - we went specifically to see a large collection of Group C cars, as promised in the advertising and re-emphasised on the Silverstone Events app (“Expect iconic Jaguars, Porsches, Mercedes”) - none of the above marques were there #FAIL
Overshadowed by VJ Day but not forgotten - Operation Dragoon on 15th August 1944 when French and American forces landed in the Var. #operationdragoon #var #1944 #worldwartwo
After a temporary technical hiccup, the @WomensHeartbeat website is back up again - please pass this on to any women you know who suffer with cardiac issues. #WomensHealth www.womensheartbeat.com
I think you’ll be very lucky to find anything so organised from that era - war studies fell into disfavour a decade ago and it’s only recently making a strong comeback under @jfb1066.bsky.social - you could also try contacting Dan Whittingham at @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Mine is that I always hyphenate Field-Marshal as that’s the way it was written in the day. You can find a few contemporary examples of unhyphenated usage but these days the trend is to drop the hyphen.
47 years since I got to the front of the stage at Salford Uni. She was spectacular.
Looking forward to getting stuck into this - David Keable-Elliott’s ‘The Doctrine of the British Army’ from Helion. #HistBookChat
It's not bad when one of your musical heroes doesn't disappoint when you finally get to see them. #Kraftwerk #ForeverNow
For the third time this century the government of the USA is about to get involved in a situation it has not taken the trouble properly to understand, which it thinks it thinks it can quickly resolve by using limited military force.
To learn none of the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan is criminal.
That is some pretty intense ducting going on under the @astonmartin.bsky.social Valkyrie hypercar! #WEC #AstonMartin #Valkyrie #LeMans
Leo Amery and his amazing networks
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Very sad news - a shame I only got to meet him once.
What a night, what a team! COYS @tottenhamhotspur.com #TottenhamHotspur #Spurs
If you need an example of the financial insanity of the National Health Service - this equipment, not all of it actually used, is going to the skip as the hospital that issued it is not allowed to take it back due to the danger of cross-contamination. #nhs #wesstreeting
Aw, that’s sad news - one last time: “Norm!”
#Norm #Cheers #GeorgeWendt
A superb day that fully got into the geopolitical situation that Robert Bulwer-Lytton took on in 1876 - and where better to hold it that at his family home, @knebworthhouse.bsky.social. @henrycobbold.bsky.social & @hisbpf.bsky.social were perfect hosts.
It was a brilliant day and fully lived up to expectations - kudos to all who put it together!
I bought this a few years back but haven’t had a chance to read it (yet). amzn.eu/d/boXKzHL
I must reread that sometime!
Great news - congratulations!
Great looking subject however the ‘academic’ pricing means I won’t be buying it. Bring out a sensibly priced paperback @manchesterup.bsky.social
Great looking subject however the ‘academic’ pricing means I won’t be buying it. Bring out a sensibly priced paperback @manchesterup.bsky.social
Interesting! As it’s not particularly cheap, what did you look at to convince yourself that it was going to work in the PhD arena?
GT World Challenge from Paul Ricard too
F1 coverage down from 85 pages to 75; only four pages for the Eddie Jordan obituary and the Lawson/Tsunodo switch only gets a mention in the Intro - not really the F1 coverage we used to get from GP Racing. Time to say goodbye @autsport-com.bsky.social #F1 #FormulaOne
You can’t beat a book with Curragh in its title!