Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS
Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & wargaming collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; CMRS TCD, NI , Wales
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- Oh, these are really great looking 🙂!
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- This is also true for Asterix books...
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- I realise that you won't probably get to read this Robert - but I wholeheartedly concur with you; general downing tools on all fronts has a massive impact, it really does.
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- Oh yes indeed
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- Oh Niall, if you haven't listened to the 'Archaeology' album (released at the same time as Beatles 'Anthology') I wholeheartedly recommend it 🙂
- Fantastic call!
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- You're not at all alone Rob - I do exactly the same!
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- I've a lovely pin badge of one of these- and not many recognise it 🙂
- Diolch i ti Tricia 🙂
- Happy Burns Night everyone! Too many wonderful lines to quote but... this is my annual (not daily!) favourite... "This truth fand honest Tam o’ Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne’er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonny lasses.)"
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- Very wise! A well-armed merchantman can be a tricky opponent 🙂
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- That's fantastic 😀!
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- That's very cool - but I don't recognise it?
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- I nearly went for this too 😀!
- Drop some spaceships 😀
- Now, he's being trolled by Carrickfergus 😉🤭
- A wonderful example from Chichester Cathedral - from @jdmccafferty.bsky.social - of the rewriting of the past in action and the literal erasure of a disliked leader from history... it didn't just happen to pharaoh Akhenaten, although that's possibly the most famous example 🙂
- Surprisingly, I don't think our collective governments should demand an apology from Trump. Our collective veteran associations should sue him. Sue him until the pips squeak. It's the only language he understands. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @profgsheffield.bsky.social
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- Elbows up!
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- A superb point. Withhold revenue and withhold consent for the system.
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- Absolutely this 🙄
- Just a quick wee plug for anyone interested in going to this year's Irish Post Medieval Archaeology Group conference in Waterford - it's a cracking theme with a superb line-up of speakers - and they're a lovely welcoming bunch too! Hopefully see you there 🙂
- Oh very good 🙂!
- When you're out at an event and you just know that the photo is going to make you look like you've got a stag growing out of your head...
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- It's either this or branches...
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- I can totally understand this... take care of yourself 🙂
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- That's exactly what I was thinking - when I first started I remember being amazed by the 'resistivity monitor' until QUB sent me walking over a field with one 🤭
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- Of course, the Ardbrin Trumpet sounds nicer 😉🤭
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- Absolutely Tess - I wouldn't rule it out 🙂
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- Hullo there, Ailbhe - I'm mainly here for the Simpsons' memes tbh (& Blackadder)!
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- Best of luck! I'm sure it will all go well 🙂
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- That looks really good!
- 'Potential' doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
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- Very much so. It is a completely different matter.
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- As a military historian, I completely agree 🤭
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- Please do keep at it, Lindsay, I love your posts! I also wholeheartedly understand & sympathise as I feel the same. Yet, as academics, we can't afford not to engage on social media - if only to provide light relief (!), insights and evidence that we don't have to accept the current madness 🙂
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- Yes, absolutely so.
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- I so often feel like this, these days.
- This is the kind of thing we expect to see in Russia, China or any authoritarian state. Oh. Wait a minute...
- I completely concur. In other ages, we would have called it 'Piracy on the High Seas', 'Bullyism' & 'Annexation'. Yet, the C21st is a confusing place for a 'pre-decimal' fella like myself, unless you place it into pre-C20th context. We also need to exclude US from '5 eyes' as a matter of urgency.
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- 🤣 yes! You should have a go at modelling Capt John Gorman's Irish Guards' Sherman 'Ballyragget' - he famously was a 'sitting duck' to a Tiger II east of Cagny in July 1944 & calculated his only chance was to ram it before the turret turned towards him. Amazingly, he actually knocked it out...
- It's a lovely kit and a pretty fearsome tank!
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- A wonderful point - miniature builds & painting is, as I see it, a creative art form just as much as anything else. Needless criticism over historical incorrect facing colours or whatever is a bit missing the point. We all find our hobby level & good advice on techniques etc is always welcome 🙂
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- One of the biggest lies that potential tyrants try to sell us is that they have complete power... but ordinary people will always bring them down. It's probably why the likes of Trump, Putin etc are so very afraid of those they govern. Congress needs to step up to the crease (or plate 🙂!).
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- A very nice example! Does it have the Armoury stamp on the blade by any chance?
- I still have an account there Gareth (to keep the 'handle'!) & to repost history or archaeology pals who didn't leave. TBH, I was hugely relieved to see so many HW pals on here as by the end I was increasingly seeing no posts on 'other place' from anyone I followed! So, I'm here 'for duration' 🙂
- You've hit the nail squarely on the head. It isn't any different at all.
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- That's a really good point - I think we were all distracted by other theatres in 1991 and thought Russia was 'done'... by the Crimean 'adventure' we lost the last chance to do anything meaningful. I'm also sympathetic to Tony's timeline, as I never expected that WH meeting to be quite so shameless.
