Bobbie Johnson
@bj13johnson1.bsky.social
Military history enthusiast, esp FWW. And cat lover. Ex Naval and Military nurse as well as NHS and university lecturer. Volunteer in several military museums
Bridget Phillipson MP, Chair of the Labour Party calls the 'lethal force' proposal of Jenrick "disgusting and illegal". "Our armed forces are not going to start opening fire on unarmed civilians, and Reform are dragging their own reputations and credibility into the gutter by suggesting it"
#OnThisDay, 8 Oct 1952, USAF 2nd Lt Nurse Abbie Sweetwine uses military triage at the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in London. She saves lives and paves the way for the UK’s use of paramedics. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️ 1/2
A long shot, perhaps, but is anyone due to visit the British Library soon and who could consult an Indian Army officer's service record for me? I am just after one or two specific details. #ww1 #genealogy
A brilliant map of Nova Scotia’s lighthouses, showing each coastal light flashing in its real-world rhythm and pattern. A beautiful piece of cartography that turns navigational infrastructure into something almost hypnotic. Source: buff.ly/16Ye3IN
This is an emergency. PLEASE sign the government petition, demanding that the law is changed and that catapult attacks on wildlife become a standalone criminal offence. The law has not kept up with the scale of abuse. We need change, and fast. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/nur... This looks like it might be of interest to my nursing history colleagues particularly
Nurses’ Memories of the Great War
Join Jerry Palmer as he explores the personal stories of nurses who served on all sides and various fronts during the First World War.
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Do any of my fellow church crawlers have any idea what this carving means? It is in the porch wall of a very old church in Simonburn Northumberland. It’s not Roman numerals.
Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.
🔔The Western Front Association's PhD Grant Scheme is open for 2026 🔔 There are no limitations regarding geography or topic, if your doctoral research includes the First World War, we want to hear from you! #fwwhist Follow the link for full details. www.westernfrontassociation.com/about-the-wf...
"Most civil servants work in Justice, Home Office, DWP, HMRC & Defence. Cut 224,000 jobs and you cut: prisons, borders, benefits, pensions, tax collection, the armed forces. Then the specialists who keep rivers clean, stop cyber attacks and contain animal disease ..." via Reform Are Not Your Friends
Mint chocolate chip ice cream at Lee on the Solent this afternoon 
"The danger to women is more likely to come from Danny Tommo's mates in balaclavas than from anyone in a small boat" via We Demand UK
There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.
I confess I'm not a huge Pressure fan. Admittedly it's my area of expertise so anything not right will stand out more, but Pressure goes beyond condensing history into a film – instead it's complete fiction that damages real history. Here's my review.
Pressure: A very fictional retelling of a crucial D-Day decision
In 2000, an unusual motion was passed in the House of Commons. It noted the inaccuracies in the new Hollywood movie U-571, recognised the true history of the capture of an Enigma machine by HMS Bul…
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Hope this isn't a total "find and replace" on all official NHS documents - if I'm asked if I have "a warm hand over" in my pants next time I have thrush, I'm going to be very confused.
1/2: For anyone that has been concerned or following the EU’s biometric Entry-Exit System (EES) saga, guess what...At least 9 countries have reportedly been allowed to delay full implementation (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Italy & Switzerland)
55 years ago today I arrived at Haslar for the first time
We're having a RAINY DAY POSTCARD AND BOOKMARK SALE to celebrate the kind of grey, rainy Sunday that, for a little while there, was but a distant dream under the baking sun. Ends tonight! (Apologies - didn't mean to end on an apocalyptic sounding note). www.rathergoodart.co.uk
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
Free access to records at #Ancestry relating to #WW2: This includes free access to the 1898-1968 UK (& some Ireland) nursing registers Ending midnight Sunday. #HistNursing #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory @rcnhistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine@wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · last mo.Ancestry is offering free access to 326 million of its records this weekend - discover more: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
Could you imagine anyone else in the history of history, let alone the President of the United States, so blatantly defiling the memory of our fallen brethren? What a terrible, broken person.
A third of nurses and a third of doctors were born overseas. Without immigrants the NHS would collapse. You are more likely to be treated by an immigrant than to be behind one in a queue. Massive underfunding of our NHS and lack of social housing were a political choice.