In tomorrow's newsletter:
Raymond Collishaw: The #Nanaimo kid who couldn’t mine, so he conquered the skies instead.

Also:
• Canada Post strike sends 1,000 chicks onto a WestJet flight
• RCMP secretly protected Jagmeet Singh from foreign threat
• New dinosaur species found by Calgary researchers
• A porcupine survives a 2,000 km journey
#AviationHistory #Canada #militaryhistory #military

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In this weekend's newsletter:
Raymond Collishaw: The #Nanaimo kid who couldn’t mine, so he conquered the skies instead.

Also:
• Canada Post strike sends 1,000 chicks onto a WestJet flight
• RCMP secretly protected Jagmeet Singh from foreign threat
• New dinosaur species found by Calgary researchers
• A porcupine survives a 2,000 km journey
#AviationHistory #Canada #militaryhistory #military

It’s your weekly antidote against the doomscroll.
Get it free: https://join.FarAndWide.news

9 Must-Visit World Heritage Sites in the Netherlands https://www.byteseu.com/1099426/ #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Netherlands #philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #wwii

#Africa #MilitaryHistory #POWs #linguistics #OralHistory

'Their stories and songs were recorded and archived by German linguists, who often didn’t understand a thing they were saying.

Now a recent book called Knowing by Ear listens to these recordings alongside written sources, photographs and artworks to reveal the lives and political views of these colonised Africans from present-day Senegal, Somalia, Togo and Congo.'

https://theconversation.com/african-prisoners-made-sound-recordings-in-german-camps-in-ww1-this-is-what-they-had-to-say-254127

Classic post: the myth of the heavily-burdened hoplite https://www.bookandsword.com/2019/06/15/the-myth-of-the-heavily-burdened-hoplite/ #histodons #ancMedToot #classics #militaryHistory

#OnThisDay in 1942, Reinhard Heydrich made the world a slightly better place by finally dying of the wounds he'd sustained during the assassination attempt on 27th May.

Unfortunately his Nazi mates, scared that the same thing might happen to them, killed thousands of people in retributions.

#MilitaryHistory #SecondWorldWar #LestWeForget
@militaryhistory @worldwarshistory

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALEXANDER SETON left his name on Seton Lake, in #BC. He was never there, however -- he was a British soldier who was famous for his actions in the sinking of the HMS Birkenhead off South Africa in 1852. #History #MilitaryHistory #BookSky https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/alexander-seton/

Rare Roman Mosaics with Dolphin Artwork Found in Austria https://www.byteseu.com/1071697/ #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #Austria #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #wwii

War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/war-and-wilderness-british-soldiers-revolutionary-america

I just heard someone on a podcast say that the Tetrarch was designed to be an #airborne #tank, and that Britain wasn't conducting many airborne operations in 1941, which is why they sent some to the #USSR.

Sigh. I guess it's time to share this again.

The Tetrarch was not designed as an airborne tank - Russell Phillips
https://russellphillips.uk/the-tetrarch-was-not-designed-as-an-airborne-tank/

New Banksy Mural Confirmed in South of France https://www.byteseu.com/1060070/ #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #France #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #wwii

https://www.europesays.com/uk/137404/ King Charles I: England’s Worst Monarch? #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #Britain #ContemporaryArt #England #EuropeanHistory #GreatBritain #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #UK #UnitedKingdom #WorldHistory #WWI #WWII

JUST SOLD! Thanks to our buyer from Hickory NC...A Beautiful Memorial Day Tribute!
Fine Art Gallery Link: https://buff.ly/fMBTIae

#UK #women #MilitaryHistory

'As the UK marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day, a new project highlights the women who helped shape the British Army in the years that followed. On 22 May 2025, pioneering veterans of the Women’s Royal Army Corps (WRAC) will gather at the AGC Museum in Winchester for the formal handover of The Trailblazers Project – a powerful new archive of recorded video interviews sharing their personal stories of post-war service.'

https://www.cobseo.org.uk/pioneering-female-veterans-of-the-wrac-continue-to-mark-ve-days-80th-anniversary-by-sharing-their-own-stories-for-landmark-new-project/

Book Review #9 for 2025 is James F Calvert's Silent Running. A retired Vice Admiral, the late Jim Calvert has written one the most honest and compelling biographies I have ever read. Calvert does tell the story of life at, and under, the sea during WW2. But he also talks about the challenges, temptations, and emotions of war and it's uncertainty. #WW2, #militaryhistory #books #bookreview #bookstodon @books @thestorygraph

Book Review #9 for 2025 is James F Calvert's Silent Running. A retired Vice Admiral, the late Jim Calvert has written one the most honest and compelling biographies I have ever read. Calvert does tell the story of life at, and under, the sea during WW2. But he also talks about the challenges, temptations, and emotions of war and it's uncertainty. #WW2, #militaryhistory #books #bookreview #bookstodon

#OnThisDay in 1917, an Austro-Hungarian naval force of three cruisers, two destroyers and three submarines attacked the Otranto Barrage. The barrage was an Allied anti-submarine barrier manned primarily by armed trawlers.

Fourteen of the forty-seven drifters on the barrage at the time of the attack were sunk, and four were damaged.

https://russellphillips.uk/wwi-otranto-barrage/

New instance, new #introduction post. I'm an author of #MilitaryHistory and #TTRPG books, and I'm a #BoardGame player.

Most of my posts are likely to be about the #SecondWorldWar, the #ColdWar, and #RPGs.

I'm #ActuallyAutistic and #NonBinary, so might post or boost posts about those topics.

If you would like to get my blog posts direct to your feed, you can do so by following @Russell@russellphillips.uk.

80 years ago, Germany surrendered to Allied forces in WWII, leading to the declaration of May 8 as Victory in Europe Day. @npr spoke to 96-year-old Harry Miller, who was a soldier in the 740th Tank Battalion stationed in northern Germany, about what that day was like and the things he's learned. "I hope, I hope people will see the futility of it all," he says.

https://flip.it/C-tUOq

#VEDay #WWII #History @histodons #MilitaryHistory #WorldWarTwo