On today's Pacific History Guide Blog, we're taking a quick trip to #Australia for a roundup of naval heritage sites. Big thanks again to @axe99.bsky.social for helping fine-tune the pages, and add much-needed context! #navalhistory #pacifichistoryguide www.pacifichistoryguide.com/post/icymi-n...

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It's the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings today, so I'm reposting my recent piece on the Anglo-Saxon women who made the Bayeux Tapestry – and what the rarely seen reverse of it might tell us about their experiences. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-bayeux...

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I hadn’t noticed that! In fact, it’s a rugby ball. He died of a brain tumour. I don’t usually photograph more modern graves out of respect. So I won’t post a photo of him but there’s a lot online about his bravery. Hence the ‘inspiration’ Thx for leading me to delve further.

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Thomas Cooper Gotch painted many pictures of children holding lanterns through the 1920s and was often concerned with themes of childhood and adolescence. This evening parade seems not quite of this world; the faceless girls in white dresses leading seem somehow symbolic.

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Goodnight. 🖼️ Still 02, Tanja Jeremić. #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

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