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Historian & curator - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
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'Cruisin' linocut by contemporary printmaker Sherrie York #WomensArt

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Seeing as the discussion is continuing - some Wehraboos fetishise a Nazi tank. Probably. November 1943. #IWMcollections H 34426 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

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A fascinating thing, which I hope winds up in an archive some day. Really gives a sense of the responsibility felt by pilots in command of an aircraft with half a dozen other men's lives in their hands.

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Today I watched 'What They Found', a documentary film directed by Sam Mendes, which cuts together interviews with British Army cameramen with footage they shot following the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, in April 1945. A thread 🧵 #history

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Today in 1940, in the Vestfjorden off the Norwegian coast, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Icarus captures the German supply ship Alster. This bronze plaque of Adolf Hitler is found on board, and taken as a trophy. #WW2 #history #navalhistory #IWMcollections EPH 9619 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

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Bit of progress on the judo front 🥋

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Can't even trigger a resonance cascade these days, because of woke.😡

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