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And hold on, how come these rows haven’t really happened before? How has it taken until 2020 for VE-Day to be decried as nationalistic excess?Hold on... /11 FIRST WE NEED

Let's take a moment to take a deeper look at the @CWGC's Non-Commemoration Report.Uncomfortable reading for many.It is also... just the faintest glimpse of a crushing problem. /1#FWW #WW1 #SWW

So, let's have give this report a bit more thought - and perhaps flip bits on the head.a) Lack of use of binocs/reliance on cupola/less awareness of incoming fire/losing nerve.British

So lets have a look at Richard Holmes' Goodwood ep of #WarWalks, broadcast back in 1996. A heady time as the war really shifted into popular memory with the landmark

A brief thread on technological fetishism in #WW2, #military #history, #PME and how it's held us back.This tweet's a great case study on how we can look at tanks outside

The ol' adage is that the Keep Calm and Carry On poster was never used... but this itself appears a factoid.There are several references to the posters appearing in #Swansea

Veteran accounts, anecdotes by others, the logic that said unit was employed so thus it was, questionable history (but would depend on source usage and need proper analysis). There are

So the @I_W_M sees fit to barrel ahead w. £25 yoga classes in the atrium & publicly defending the act from scrutiny.Visitors will only be offered context for controversial exhibits

The Ballykinlar Raid: 10 February 1940A ridiculous, if mostly overlooked scandal full of incompetence, balls, guns, the IRA.This is an absolute doozy. Grab a cuppa. /1#WW2 #SWW #History Back in

So do the (and did the pre-lockdown) events planed for the VE-Day 75th Anniversary represent commemoration, celebration, nationalism or deeply ingrained cultural norms?Time to sit down, have a cuppa, as

The Sherman Tank is one of the coolest AFVsI mean seriously with nearly 50k produced, it's a wartime icon and modern meme.But how come it has such a marmite rep?I've