Not the Western Front Society @ntwf.bsky.social NTWF is a group for people interested in the less well known campaigns of the First World War, away from the Western Front
www.ntwf.org.uk
Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social Historian specialising in seaside, architecture & design. I write books, give talks and do a bit of telly.
Chair @seasidenetwork.bsky.social
Fellow @royalhistsoc.bsky.social
Media agent @pastpreservers.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/kathrynferry
Dr Tom Thorpe MCIPR @kensingtons.bsky.social Belfast Green Badge tour guide/conflict historian/spin dr/policy wonk - @drtomstours.bsky.social - Host The Western Front Assoc Mentioned in Dispatches podcast. - Rts≠support - Views own.
The Devil's Porridge Museum @devilsporridge.bsky.social We tell the incredible WW1 story of HM Factory Gretna, the greatest munitions factory on Earth. Eastriggs and Gretna Heritage Group SCIO.
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@newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social History, cricket, TV shows.
Nigel J.Hetherington @pastpreservers.bsky.social Producer, Casting Agent and Founder of Past Preservers, representing experts, speakers & researchers.
Northerner, lapsed Archaeologist, lives in Cairo and The Lake District.
Stuart Adlam @stuiea.bsky.social Interested in FWW particularly gas warfare and tunnelling. Keen photographer and supporter of Gloucester Rugby.
Gary Guess @jongee58.bsky.social Husband, Grandad, DogFather, wannabe historian of Great War Stuff and Local History of Teesside and East cleveland...
International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social Find out more about the Society on our website https://firstworldwarstudies.org/
Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social Mark Flowers • British-American • Former treadhead • History nerd, esp. the WW1 BEF • No coffee too strong • Death before dismount • Yes Marmite, but Vegemite works too • Always use the schwa. https://www.facebook.com/Fixbayonets1985/
Army Museums Ogilby Trust @armymuseumsuk.bsky.social AMOT was established in 1954 to aid the commemoration of Regimental and Corps history, and to support the collections and archives which tell these stories.
https://linktr.ee/armymuseumsogilbytrust
War in Museums @warinmuseums.bsky.social Art, film, photography, posters, oral history, artefacts, aircraft and vehicles documenting Britain and its former Empire at war, preserved in the collections of UK museums, galleries and archives.
John Finch🇺🇸 @jbird1848.bsky.social Historian. Educator. For democratic constitutionally based government. 🇨🇦
“So while we may be justified in celebrating if the election goes as predicted in November, don’t take your battle-gear off yet. There is a long road ahead.” Paul Krugman, Economist
𝕃𝔹ℕ𝕠𝟙𝟙𝔽𝔽ℂ @lbno11ffc.bsky.social Fulham Fan, amateur historian regarding Craven Cottage and our club. I like music and art, photography, history (mainly WW1) Moggies (Cats) and archeaology. Now as old as I thought old was..! #Fulham #COYW #CravenCottage
Dunkeld Community Archive and Chapter House Museum Trust @historicdunkeld.bsky.social Dunkeld Community Archive and Chapter House Museum.
Located at 12 The cross Dunkeld, PH8 0AN, Open mon-friday 10-3
Visit our website at www.historicdunkeld.org.uk
Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social Lawyer, Filmmaker, Big Issue top 100 Changemaker 2024, CEO CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE https://www.cfsj.co.uk/
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social History is just one effing thing after another.
Trevor T @gwgadc.bsky.social Part of the Great War Group’s editorial team for Salient Points. Generally you’ll find me ferreting down Great War rabbit holes but my specific interests are Conscientious Objectors; Submarines; Q-Ships; PoWs; and Pigeons. Can’t not mention Pigeons.
Commonwealth War Graves @cwgc.bsky.social Our mission is to ensure those who died in service, or as a result of conflict, are commemorated so that they, and the human cost of war, are remembered forever
The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social A vibrant group of nerds trying to teach the world about The Great War. Join us at https://greatwargroup.com
Adam @likesmokenoakum.bsky.social all my mome raths are outgrabe
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor
John Anderson @jmganderson.bsky.social Faculty Head of Social Subjects and RMPS at Grove Academy
Parcours 14-18 @parcours14-18.bsky.social Une histoire humaine, administrative, en images, en mots de la Première Guerre mondiale. De l'Histoire et rien d'autre.
Je ne Like que ce je lis.
https://parcours-combattant14-18.fr/
Nicolai Eberholst (Pike Grey 1914-1918) @pikegrey1418.bsky.social Danish military historian/archivist/80s Metalhead. Focus: WWI (Austria-Hungary, Central Powers, Eastern Front, Denmark/Danes) Great War Group trustee. Rep: Watson Little.
Connie Ruzich @wherrypilgrim.bsky.social First World War researcher and Fulbright Scholar (University of Exeter) from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”(Novalis)
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social Traffic island castaway.
https://www.invisibleworks.co.uk/
RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social Keeping the memory of #WW2 alive by means of #OTDs.
Arnhem author of two *good* books about operation Market Garden, Lost At Nijmegen & Little Sense Of Urgency (Order 😉 via https://pre-jump.nl). Can be hired as Battlefield Guide.
Neil York @johncopse.bsky.social Born and raised in Barnsley. Glassworker turned Traffic Officer. Great Grandson of Henry York, Barnsley Pals who fell at Serre on the 1st July 1916. Western Front Association member.
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
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
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
The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social Home of Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose, which sank off the English coast in 1545 after a 34 year long career.
#Portsmouth's top visitor attraction on TripAdvisor. Part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
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.
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻
Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio.
**Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen OUT NOW**
Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture, Queen Victoria & John Brown.
www.fernriddell.com
https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
David Spruce @sprucey.bsky.social MA and PhD history. Former CEO, CFO, pig farmer(!) Harlequins. Wolves. Watch collector. Plays bass badly.Metal 🤘
Gary Bain @garyba.bsky.social Co - Author Laugh or Cry and Laugh or Fly! Pete's bag carrier. He has loads of baggage!
Simon Verdegem @simonverdegem.bsky.social Battlefield archaeologist - FWW archaeology - Recovering the missing
Poppy Mercier @poppymercier.bsky.social 27 y/o graphic designer & battlefield guide living on the Somme 🇫🇷 All views my own.
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.
Hawthorn Ridge Crater Association @hawthornridgeca.bsky.social The Hawthorn Ridge Crater Association is a charitable organisation with the intention to maintain, preserve and study this iconic Great War battlefield
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.
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
The background picture is part of a painting I am lucky to own called 'The Isles of Sinodun' by the talented artist @annadillon.bsky.social.
Tim Godden @tjgodden.bsky.social Artist, historian, wanderer, keen but average cyclist, husband and dad.
Art: timgodden.co.uk
Dr Juliet Roberts @julesmrobertsf1.bsky.social Former theatre sister. OU history graduate. MA and PhD from C2DH University of Luxembourg. Visual culture of facial trauma in WWI. The medical portrait. History of medicine/surgery. Social history.
Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social Registered Charity No. 1210266 (England and Wales). To advance the education of the public in the subject of military history and firearms, in particular (but not exclusively) in relation to the Vickers machine gun.
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Sophie's Great War Tours @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social Award winning tour operator & travel agent creating exceptional WW1 & WW2 #BattlefieldTours globally. Experts in history & hospitality #Virtuoso
Jojohook2003 @jojohook.bsky.social Professional Battlefield Guide & Military Historian WW1/WW2 Op MG, WF - MA WW1. Presentations & podcasts. Dad designed Quality Street tins & drew maps in WW2
Andrew Jackson @accringtonpals.bsky.social
James Taub @taubhistory.bsky.social Associate Curator at the Museum of the American Revolution and a public historian. Focused on France and America during WWI and the 18th century.
(All views my own)
Clive O’Connell @cliveoconnell.bsky.social “Put me back on my bike”
Merryn @merrynwalters.uk Writer. Excitable. 📗FRGS
Getting lost on purpose. ツ
https://linktr.ee/merrynwalters
Cecil Castellucci @misscecil.bsky.social Author Comics, Novels and Librettos. Currently in Canada.
Loves Comets.
she/her/they
https://linktr.ee/Seaskull
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Ali Kimlinger @akimlinger.bsky.social My loves are WWI history, hockey and my cat. American in Canada, studying at uOttawa researching Americans in the CEF. War Bore with the Great War Group!
Daniel McAndrew @danielmcandrew.bsky.social Also Known as: Danicvs Cakivs Gellatios Maximvs!
Ancient history nerd
Passionate about Ancient Rome
Cake lover
Proud member of the Great War Group
Caroline 🚜 @casblue.bsky.social Not much to say! posts are likely to be about history or Ipswich Town Football club 🙂 Easily distracted by books & ridiculous rabbit holes
Damon @damonhall.bsky.social
HenryS @clementfadge.bsky.social Publisher, history enthusiast, Great War Group trustee & online course lead, aspiring bassist
Jocke Hallberg - Battlefield Swede @battlefieldswede.bsky.social SWE Army officer and veteran. (SFOR, ISAF, EUFOR, MINUSMA) Research about Swedes in WW1.
Adore to walk around Ypres Salient. Member of @GreatWarGroup
westernfront.se
SimoneBallo @simoneballo.bsky.social
Giles McNamee @gwmcnamee.bsky.social
Ivan Sordo @ivansordo.bsky.social Former Marine
BA MA history
Would like to be a scholar
Mark Over @markover74.bsky.social rugby 🏉 mad Harlequins 🃏 season ticket holder, passion for military history, Talbot House Warden, Great War Group member and WHW IC, always the happiest with a 📚, a good 🇧🇪 🍻 and being in 🇧🇪
Warren Smith @wampasmudge.bsky.social Gallipoli Association Comms Officer.
Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum volunteer
Occasionally may talk about Gallipoli
Dr Rich Willis @willisrm73.bsky.social Interests: #2ndMarne 1918: THE turning point of the Great War, Machine Gun Corps. French Xe Armée & Charles Mangin. Proud Yorkshireman. Views my own.
Chris Netherclift @cjnetherclift.bsky.social Military historian - MA British FWW history (Wolverhampton MAfia). F1 McLaren, Harlequins & Hants CCC fan. GWG, GWAS, WFA & Independent Company member.
Paul Docking @paul56.bsky.social Was MoD civil servant, now solicitors’ practice manager. Member Guild of Battlefield Guides, Battlefields Trust, We Have Ways Independent Coy, Great War Group.
Matt Novosad @franklinhistorian.bsky.social MA in History. Submarines and Horses. The First World War, American War of Independence, and local history of Franklin, Connecticut.
https://www.franklincthistorian.org
James G-C @redbarchetta.bsky.social Trench art collector extraordinaire. Amateur WW1 historian, author of one book (so far, but who knows!).
Punk and rock music fan.
Trying to be as green as I can...
Do as you would be done by.
Based in Warwickshire, UK.
Allison (she/her) @thelegalseagull.bsky.social Noisy and annoying and will probably steal your chips. Enthusiastic amateur, bookbinder, reader, member of the Great War Group, Great War Aviation Society, Western Front Association and Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, CWGC volunteer. Views my own.
Matt Bone @boneyabroad.com Host of @theaviation.show, supporter of #FulhamFC #FFC and complainer about movies.
Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social The Battles of the First World War Podcast connects the men & women who fought, died in, & survived the battles of the Great War of 1914-1918 to our world, and keeps their memory alive. Member @GreatWarGroup
Jeff Hubbell @humbledore.bsky.social Archivist, researcher, genealogist Interests: History (mainly Great Lakes, Home Front, maritime transport, Naval, Canadian & Indigenous, Ethiopian, Austrian, and general military history) and also archaeology.
Doug581 @doug581.bsky.social Be welcoming,
Be enthusiastic,
Be ready to learn.
Retired, now Independent Company, Time Team, CVHF, SOFOtrust, WWW2TV, & the wonderful GreatWarGroup
Sara 🇺🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧🇫🇷 @otagoview.bsky.social Aussie/Brit living in France. Formatrice d'anglais & freelance guide. Occasionally rants about politics & parenting, but mainly battlefield posts. Interests History - WW1 & Norse Mythology, Rugby, Beer, Travelling, Gardening, Swimming & Hiking
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Chris DJ Dapper Dan Brown @djdapperdan.bsky.social Town Crier of Wimborne Minster, Radio Presenter of "Skanking Delights", History & Museums interests, I.C. & G.W.G. member, CWGC speaker
David Gargett (Gargy) @gargie.bsky.social Ex Sapper, Ex Jack, Historical Researcher, Trench Wanderer , GWG, Chelt & Glos WFA, EOHO, NARPO, RBL, BOBA, SAFC, EU, My Views
Russ Warburton @warby315.bsky.social Keen interest in the Great War,Author of 9 Books,Chester FC, proud member of The Great War Group,WFA,CWGC Volunteer all views my own
Bart Parish @bartparish.bsky.social Kansan by birth ... Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!! Great War history enthusiast. Devoted Husband. Volunteer. DaVinci Resolve Motion Graphics Animator.
Neil Pudney @neilpuds.bsky.social Amateur Historian/Gt War researcher/battlefield visitor. Writing about 133 FdAmb in WW2. CPFC. Music nut. Takes photos. Carer. Used to cut grass. Great War Group & WFA member.
https://stjohnsleatherheadatwar.co.uk/
Owen Moody @piemaster75.bsky.social
Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social World War 1 & 2 Naval historian, also likes RAF bombers & the Luftwaffe between 1935-45. Working on Bristol Beauforts & WW1 U-boats.
https://linktr.ee/jerijerod14
GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social Once a soldier. ND. I post about:
* Israel/Palestine.
* The Balkans.
* Iraq.
* Edges of empires in Europe.
* The First & Second World Wars.
* Tanks.
* WMD.
* Mental Health, Moral Injury, Neurodivergence.
* The current state of the British military.
Scott Galloway @jscott-galloway.bsky.social Battlefields, history, guiding, WFA; ‘bikes, IAM observer, touring, Bloodbikes; Scotland & Melrose rugby; Teri; @GreatWarGroup
Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.
TAG @knockman.bsky.social Ex-Civil Circus. Gamer. Historical stuff. Cat wrangler. Freelancer, Advisor, Consultant, Watcher of domestic & foreign issues, & international trade.
NB: No longer explaining the Obvious to the Oblivious.
Ken Hanning - Big Wargames @kenhanningwargames.bsky.social Independent Company, Second World War history, Big Wargames from the Perthshire War room!
Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social WWII Historian, Battlefield Guide and former soldier, sharing his deep knowledge on glider operations, the Army Air Corps, and the Mighty Eighth.
Henry Hyde @battlegames.bsky.social Writer, designer, podcaster, Patreon creative, artist. Author of The Wargaming Compendium, Wargaming Campaigns, Tabletop Battle Tactics and Martinstaat 1744. Cancer survivor. Mental health warrior. #wargaming https://linktr.ee/henry_hyde
Andy Arnold @ww1geekandy.bsky.social