Bobbie Johnson 🇺🇦

Oh god I do that all the time

Just listened to the second part, unbelievable how it was all able to proceed. What a ghastly man.
Thanks for a fascinating story

A couple of months ago, I was a guest on the Global Health Histories podcast series, talking about the history of medical care provision for disabled ex-servicemen in Britain after the First World War. The episode is now available and can be found here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/directories1...

#ww1 #histmed

Am sticking with my bet that the right is reading this wrong and that the majority of voters are not at all unhappy Starmer has upset Trump by holding back from a war whose purpose and end game no-one seems able to define.

Very foggy after a sunny morning

An illustration of a horse in vibrant Lunar New Year colors and design.

Przewalski’s horse, or Equus ferus przewalskii, is the only true wild horse species remaining in the world, once extinct in the wild but successfully reintroduced. Courtesy of Jacqui Estrada.

Brindles and whips like this one were tools, used for controlling horses used in ranching and transportation, often made from horsehair. Courtesy of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County.

The Florida Horse Conch, Triplofusus papillosus, is the largest marine snail in North America and is the official state shell of Florida. Courtesy of Marissa Balfour, iNaturalist.

🐴 Although formal #LunarNewYear festivities have come to an end, the Year of the Horse has just begun! We invite you to gallop into a horse-inspired virtual tour through nature and from our Collections, including specimens, ranching tools, and even the Horse Conch: go.nhm.org/lunar-new-ye...

These must their decedents! 😄

Sea fox 🦊
We have a lot here these days, and badgers. When I served here in the 70’s I think the place was too busy for wildlife! 😄

visitor on the (first floor) sun terrace this morning

cutting from Daily Express 9/9/1914, p. 4, photo of young woman wearing form of nursing uniform, captioned: A member of the "Daily Express" Nursing Corps photographed yesterday at Selfridge's wearing the special badge with the regulation overall and cap. Inset is an enlarged reproduction of the badge.

Does anyone know of any work on the ‘Daily Express Nursing Corps’, formed in August 1914? I’m researching someone who apparently paid for the training, exams, & uniform but then was unable to secure relevant employment. #WW1 #NursingHistory #histmed #medicalhistory

Ouch, hope it’s soon mended

Part one was excellent

"You have played the game, go on playing it and all will be well with the great Empire which you have helped to save"

A 1919 demobbing letter, printed on cloth but individually addressed and signed by a Lt. Col. of the Sherwood Foresters.

An intriguing find in amongst a box of military history books. This is a WW1 trench candle. It's very evocative. One can imagine its tiny lighyt on an upturned box in a dug out, perhaps illuminating the writing of a letter home.

@lmbd1418.bsky.social one for you
RMO with the Coldstreams in Italy 1944

I agree

One sailor's war from North and West Africa to the surrender of Singapore, the death of a friend, images of shipmates, RMS and HMS, a crossing the line certificate, love this kind of thing...

Why is the gruniad even publishing this garbage?

Excellent thread

Great thread, thanks for sharing

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It must be dinner ….there are dinner ladies… not lunch ladies !

Aw, that’s so sad, it breaks your heart doesn’t it

After about a week, I spotted him in the grounds of a derelict house opposite, but he’s such a nervous cat I couldn’t entice him out. After three weeks I went away for the weekend and when I got back, he’d come home on his own accord, a bit grubby and skinny otherwise well!

I‘ve had similar 😩 moments with rescue cats. The one I have now disappeared for 3 weeks once a few months after I got him.
Happy to be a house cat now 8 years later.

What a pretty cat 🐱

Love your pet day

BREAKING:

RFA Argus to be scrapped

www.navylookout.com/rfa-argus-to...

Black and white photograph showing two female records clerks, both wearing work coats; one on a ladder is retrieving or returning an x-ray from the shelf in a wallet which reads "x-ray wallet"; the other appears to be checking files against a paper list.

If you're new to our service you should know that we are more than just St Bartholomew’s. We hold the records of more than 30 organisations, including medical schools, maternity homes, poor law infirmaries, and much more.

You can find a list of collections we hold here - tinyurl.com/d9ds6nhv

A gulp of Thames cormorants, grouped together on an old concrete causeway out in the river. Twelve birds counted in total, photographed by me on a windy, grey February day.

A gulp of Thames cormorants (yes, that’s the collective noun) - some facing east, most looking west. Wrongly identified as penguins by a fool with a loud voice on a passing Thames Clipper…