News Of The War Pod @newsofthewar.bsky.social The headlines behind the frontlines: NOTW pod, hosted by Andy and Merryn.
We take a look at the stories being read by the public during the war. 6 random dates every year of the war.
https://linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar
Dr Tessa Dunlop @tessadunlop.bsky.social Agitator and agitated. Historian. Writer. Talker.
Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social Historian. I post a selection of facts on history that happened on this day at 9AM (BST) on Bluesky and X. It’s a daily journey to inform, educate and entertain.
Iain MacGregor @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social Pub Director NF, @HoZ_Books | FRHistS | Author | Rep: @APowerAgent & @pastpreservers | Words: Guardian, Spectator, BBC History, The Critic, The Washing Post | Views my own
Ian Piper @pipersoe.bsky.social History lover, especially SOE. Football lover, especially Portsmouth FC. Music lover, especially Queen. Volunteer LCT 7074. PhD student.
Meleah Hampton @meleahhampton.bsky.social Military historian of the operational conduct of the First World War. Moonlighting as a podcaster. Want to hear a story? Find "Fragments of the First AIF" wherever you like to listen.
Dudley Giles @battleguide.bsky.social Military historian and battlefield guide. Co-owner of www.battlefieldguidetraining.com Still hanging on on Twitter (@battleguide) but intent on gaining a foothold here too
Dr Johanna Strong @johannastrong.bsky.social PhD on Mary I’s legacy. History Teacher and Resident Tutor. Routledge author. Queen’s University alumna. Views my own. www.drjohannastrong.ca. 🇨🇦
Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
Tony. @krea94.bsky.social Independent company member and ww1/ ww2 history any big gun that goes boom 💥 History bod.Books.Holidays.travel.Veteran of 3 Whw festivals.Also love beer 🍺 food 🥘 and wine 🍷.😂👍Not necessarily in that order.
Kent Buffs IC @kentbuffsic.bsky.social The Bluesky home of the Kent Independent Company - The Buffs. Information on meets and events. Kentish Man/Maid/Man of Kent welcome 🫡
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG @montythegeneral.bsky.social Strategic genius and dog lover.
Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social Jaded archaeologist who doesn't dig holes. Between gardening, fixing & caring, likes music, genealogy & makes models to keep the voices out. (All views definitely not those of my employer or, indeed, my very reasonable wife)
Trevor from AfricanStalingrad.com @africanstalingrad.bsky.social My name is Trevor Sheehan and I offer historical advisory services to individuals and groups by exploring, discovering and sharing all things Tunisia from 1942-1943. I have been "Walking the Ground" since 1975 and have a deep knowledge of the War.
Colleen Quigley-O'Keeffe @colleen325.bsky.social Cat Mom, ❤️'s WW2, Irish & US history, reading, travel & wine. Dual citizen of 🇺🇸🇮🇪. IC Member-We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.
I support Ukraine 🇺🇦
Fighting On Film - The War Movie Podcast @fightingonfilm.bsky.social The podcast that explores the war movie genre, bringing you reviews of old & new war films!
Hosted by: Robbie McGuire & Matthew Moss
Film Chat | Kit | Weapons | Special Guests. Listen on all major podcast platforms! #FoF 🎥
https://fightingonfilm.com/
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
Beverley Palin @beverleypalin.bsky.social Historian, musician, reenactor, swordsman, bellydancer, priest-wrangler and tortoise servant. Owned by Reg the WW1 trench organ. Funerals a speciality.
Keith Allen @keith-m-allen.bsky.social History - mostly WW2, Fossil collector and prepor. Photography and books 📚 Independent Company member
Fi Smith @fiifee74.bsky.social “The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end, that's all there is.” Mr Carson, Downton Abby.
F1, cake, Prosecco, WW2/Independent Company (IC #2447), hills, my dog and interesting stuff that grabs my fancy.
Dorset IC @dorsetic.bsky.social
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
NEVER MIND THE DAMBUSTERS @nmtdambusters.bsky.social ...It's the RAF Bomber Command Podcast! Hosted by
@lydiajane13.bsky.social & @jamesjhistory.bsky.social
New episodes every Wednesday. WARNING! May contain Halifaxes!
Listen at https://nevermindthedambusters.buzzsprout.com
Andrew D. Bird @andrewdbird.bsky.social Dyslexic creative. Former RAF Reservist. Historian, researcher and author of military aviation history mainly on RAF Coastal Command
SWIC3945 @swic3945.bsky.social South Wales Independent Company (We Have Ways Podcast)
Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social Heritage & conservation professional & enthusiast, usually found exploring old places 😃
Curator of Properties for English Heritage, & freelance heritage consultant.
Studying p/t for PhD in lime finishes.
Tank Archives @tankarchives.bsky.social Author, reenactor, film photographer, military historian specializing in 1930s and 1940s armoured warfare.
Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social Yes it’s The Captain off of Ghosts. Screenwriter and you know the rest.
www.benwillbond.com
https://instagram.com/benjaminwillbond
The Regency Cook @theregencycook.bsky.social Helping you to discover 18th & 19th century food & history. www.paulcouchman.co.uk
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social History is just one effing thing after another.
𝟙𝟜𝟙𝟠𝕔𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤 @fourteeneighteen.co.uk longlongtrail.co.uk / Hereford FC / Leicester Riders / Working on a history of 1st South Staffords
Dr Jenny Macleod @jennymacleod.bsky.social Historian of war and memory, commemoration and national identity. First and Second World Wars, especially Gallipoli. Co-founder @fwwsoc. Wannabe digital humanities type.
Karl James @karljames1945.bsky.social Head, Military History, Australian War Memorial. Australia & the Second World War. Chinooks in Afghanistan. ADB editor board
Seán O'Keeffe @seanokeeffe11.bsky.social IC #288. IFS turbo. Got an IRA medal on Good morning Britain.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
WHW Channel Islands IC @channelislandsic.bsky.social In an effort to round up the Channel Islands #IC. Bluesky Account for news and meets of the @wehavewayspod Channel Islands Independent Company.
Joe 🌱 @joeyh1990.bsky.social Heritage worker who has had the misfortune to have been raised to support Tottenham Hotspur football club.
Happiest with family, around wildlife, or on the cricket pitch. Preferably all together!
Matt Bone @boneyabroad.com Host of @theaviation.show, supporter of #FulhamFC #FFC and complainer about movies.
Sean @seanboy.bsky.social Normandy based tour guide/researcher/lecturer/history enthusiast.
Occasional poster of Then And Nows.
Music lover. Mostly loud stuff.
www.normandyinsight.net
Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social Second World War Historian/Battlefield Guide. Director of Liberation Route UK @lre_foundation. Committee advisor & ambassador @TaxiCharity. Moto GP fan! My personal views.
Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com Writer naval/aviation history. Words. Art. Photography. Silken Windhounds. He/him. Free Palestine.
Megan Hamilton @meganahamilton.bsky.social Historian • PhD student at King's College London & Imperial War Museum (CDP) • Researching SWW army training across the British Empire • 🇨🇦 living in 🇬🇧
Carla-Jean Stokes @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social Historian of First World War photography 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 | Museum Jill of all trades | author of: The Taking of Vimy Ridge: First World War photographs of William Ivor Castle
Canada's Military History @canadasmilhist.bsky.social To create an awareness and appreciation of Canada's rich and diverse military heritage.
If you enjoy my Canadian military history content, you can support us with a donation at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/CanadasMilitaryHistory
Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social Public historian; host of The Great War and Real Time History channels on Youtube via Real Time History; History lecturer; Host of the Both Sides of the Wire podcast via Battleguide Productions.
Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social Sr. Historian, George Washington Leadership Institute, GW Presidential Library | Prof., ret., US Army War College | Military historian | 18c & 19c America | Author | Angeleno in PA | My views mine alone | https://www.amazon.com/author/raherrera
Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR at University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR @ St Andrews | Historian of War | next book strategy & seapower in the FWW | own views
James Hayes @jameshayes.bsky.social Interested in 2nd World War history. Munster Rugby & Cricket Ireland. Independent Company member of We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast. Owner of an ever increasing pile of shame
Stuart Peter Owen Burbridge @stuartburbridge.bsky.social West Brom, Kent CCC and England, 1914-18 and 1939-45, IC#93, regular Western Front walker, French and German speaker, family, books, aeroplane stuff! Beautiful Kingsdown under the White Cliffs is where I call home.
@josephlister.bsky.social @josephlister.bsky.social Ic member:1911 , restoring aec matador and morris c8 AT
Matthew Green @matkg.bsky.social Working in the travel industry. Tuba playing brass bandsman sitting towards the back of City of Coventry Brass. Music lover. Member of the IC/Northern IC and lover of historical stuff
Danny Peters @disparatedanny.bsky.social Crouching on the shoulders of midgets. Rider of motorbikes. Shooter of bows. Consumer of history. WHW IC minion.
Dave Gregg @deltagolf.bsky.social Family, food & drink. Season ticket holder @ NUFC and Newcastle Blue Star. Military History & aviation. Member of WHW IC.
Graham Hill @grahamhill.bsky.social Dad, IC member, Leicester City supporter and (occasional) runner. Interested in the Second World War but a super slow learner! Always looking to improve. Hurricane > Spitfire 👍
Brian Taylor @warspite.bsky.social Afflicted member of the Independent Company, with a pile of shame far too big to mention. Love to travel and read and follower of Northampton Saints, Man United and Essex
MatthewIain86 @mib105.bsky.social Barrister & IC member wittering on the splendours and miseries of life at the junior Bar or war waffling.
Tim Godden @tjgodden.bsky.social Artist, historian, wanderer, keen but average cyclist, husband and dad.
Art: timgodden.co.uk
Jon Millward @jonmillward.bsky.social Grew up reading Victor by torchlight. Obsessed with anything WW2. Still not sure what I want to do when I grow up. IC #246
Steve Brown @redfox3945.bsky.social Second World War enthusiast, Churchillian, Goon Show Fan, Love Books, Dogs and History
Dave Voisey @davev-vickersmg.bsky.social History Teacher, ITT mentor and Education Officer at the Vickers MG Collection - interested in discussing how we teach warfare
JHistoryC @jhistoryc.bsky.social Fascinated by Modern History and particularly the Asia-Pacific Theater in the Second World War, along with the odd volcano.
Wesley Livesay @historyofthesecondworldwar.com Creator of History of the Great War and History of the Second World War weekly history podcasts. Always ready and willing to discuss video games, Tolkien, and the Detroit Red Wings
Adam Watkinson @adamwatkinson1.bsky.social Scale modelling, reader of travel literature, crime fiction, military & social history. Player of proper records on a turntable. CCFC & FRSC 🤷♂️
Mark Forsdike @markforsdike.bsky.social “A dedicated historian of his long-gone local regiment”
Author of ‘Fighting Through to Hitler’s Germany’, ‘A Battalion in Burma’ and ‘The Malayan Emergency: The Crucial Years.’
markforsdike.com
Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social Author of The #SpyWhoLoved (freedom), #WomenWhoFlewForHitler (but ended their lives on opposite sides of history), #WomanWhoSavedTheChildren (but didn’t like them much). #AgentZo (what a hero).
Tony 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @tony5791.bsky.social Terminally afflicted I.C. Member Other Ranks # 1366. Bagpiper and Northern Ireland International Football, GAWA.
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
Mosquito1940 @mosquito1940.bsky.social Caer Urfa detachment of Independent Company. Proud captain of Bill Quay CC Midweek team.
AJ of the Far North IC 🇳🇴 @ajofnog.bsky.social I am no more worth than anyone else. Can be a bit of a twat on occasion, but means no harm. IC member of the Far North.
George Glover @georgebg.bsky.social SWW History, IC Member, Outdoors, Walking the dog, Model Making, PC Gaming.
WHW Oxon Bucks & Berks IC @whwoxonarea-ic.bsky.social A group for all Members of the The Have Ways Independent Company members in the Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire areas,centered around South Oxfordshire but hoping to establish a bridgehead on many fronts.
Tynemouth Canary @rogerduruttiic838.bsky.social Interested in history, esp 20th century & Second World War. Independent Company Member (IC#838), mediocre, injured athlete now with shiny new hip, NCFC fan, woeful guitarist, cat-dad, listens to too many pasty, pale '80s indie bands, buys too many books.
Wendy Ugolini @wugolini.bsky.social Professor of Second World War Studies (Edinburgh Uni). Co-founder of RSE-funded Second World War Network (Scotland); PI on AHRC project 'Beyond Borders: The Second World War, National Identities and Empire in the UK'; Author of Wales in England 1914-1945
Nick @finch4077.bsky.social Student of history, come for the football and Rugby stay for the history both remembered and forgotten. Also films and Detective fiction, and art, and stuff. I block AI firms, Crypto people of all genders and Traders so don't bother !
Jon Hinkin @jhink.bsky.social Military history enthusiast, often found walking up mountains and exploring the battlefields of the FWW and SWW.
Retired Senior lecturer in nursing. Veteran RAF Regiment and QARANC. BJJ brown belt.
Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social 'Rage, rage against the dying of the light.'
Own views; Adult language
Rugby columnist, author & therapist
Trustee of charity Women in Sport.
Current affairs, culture, sport, & sarcasm
Pre-order The Second Half https://linktr.ee/TheSecondHalfBrianMoore
Battlefield Design @battlefieldgd.bsky.social Graphic design, book covers, maps and illustration for military history publishing, media, museums and travel. Trying to keep posts professional while banging on about music and Norway.
Romain Bréget | French Battlefields Guide @frbguide.bsky.social French Battlefields Guide in Normandy. Military history enthusiast.
Website and booking: https://www.french-battlefields.com/
The Highland IC @thehighlandic.bsky.social War Waffle from the home of the 51st Highland Division, Scotland and across the world.
Bobbie Johnson @bj13johnson1.bsky.social Military history enthusiast, esp FWW. And cat lover. Ex Naval and Military nurse as well as NHS and university lecturer. Volunteer in several military museums
Dr V Woodman @vicki201.bsky.social Historian and civil servant.
PhD on Falklands Naval Wives @University of Portsmouth 2018.
Bristolian living in Portsmouth.
Owner of a dog, a cat and four grandchildren.
She/her.
Still trying to discover how this works!
COPP Survey @coppsurvey.uk Dedicated to Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP), a top-secret unit that carried out covert reconnaissance of enemy-held beaches during the Second World War. Website: coppsurvey.uk
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Michael Wilmot @mickyw.bsky.social Northampton saints & Liverpool fan. Great War Group. I C member. 16th Rifle Brigade. Turning old disgracefully with any luck
Propagandalf observes the herd with immense trepidation🇺🇦 @laughingstoic.bsky.social MA in military history. Disgruntled private sector archivist. WWI & propaganda geek. Sci-fi/fantasy nerd. Husband & cat dad. A Stoic, but not in that weird dudebro sort of way. Whiskey appreciator. Book collector. Slava Ukraini🇺🇦
He/Him/El Duderino
Dr. Wendy Maddocks RN @nursinghistory.bsky.social 🇳🇿Wendy Maddocks - Nursing history, @greatwargroup,nurse academic,| author | mainly nursing history posts, Volunteer CHCH Nurse’s memorial Chapel Museum www.doctorwendy.net Cats| travel | adventurous spirit | ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5771-810X
Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social Chief dog walker, IT Tutor & CWGC volunteer. Former cyclist & rugby fan. Much geekiness in Tolkien, Dad's Army, Sherlock Holmes, aircraft & WW1 history
Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social Footsteps of the Fallen WW1 podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/footsteps-of-the-fallen/id1528864547
Military historian, podcaster, writer, cricket lover, darts player, fisherman and semi-professional grumpy old man.
Euan Williamson @euanjwilliamson.co.uk Historian and CBT psychotherapist. Incoming AHRC doctoral researcher at the University of Leicester and Imperial War Museums. Writing about 1940. Norfolk.