"I said it's a bold move by Reform to use the Navy to return migrants. What did I say Roy?" "You said it's an unworkable load of bollocks designed to win back some racist numbskulls from Rupert Lowe and distract attention from Farage's £5m bung"

Jenkins, our lovely fox terrier, would have been 16 today.

I did some work on this and rather unusually said they would put me in the credits. Let's see! #ww1 #genealogy

Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳@ancestralenq.bsky.social · 6d ago

Great news. A new series of A House Through Time is back with David Olusoga on BBC2 at 9pm on Thursday 13th August featuring a property in Edinburgh.

C5 sports presenters: please stop saying "Glarsgow". Thank you.

Just listen to these US Senators They are complete nutjobs. Boy is the USA in trouble if this is what passes for leadership.

Idle thought: I can't remember the last time I ate a whelk.

CEO of Anglian Water, England's worst-polluting water company, handed extra £1.3m despite govt ban on bonuses for failing firms. Companies circumvent rules to reward execs for dumping sewage, fleecing customers, neglecting investment. Govt/Ofwat do nothing.

England's most prolific polluters hand water boss extra £1.3m - despite ban on bonuses | LBC

Last year, the government delivered new legislation to prevent underperforming water companies from offering bonus payments to their executives.

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Regret to report that the Sri Lanka-based Facebook nostalgia industry has started RESPECT season early this year. “Life in Britain” was previously building #numbers as “Xiaoyang Grebentsov” until last November, if you want some idea of how this bollocks works.

Just writing up a short biography of an officer of the South Staffordshire Regiment killed in 1917. He lived a couple of hundred yards away on the same Pensnett street as the factory I managed in the period 1981-1985. Small world. #ww1 #genealogy #blackcountry #staffordshire

And this week's list of rogues trying to break into the Long, Long Trail are ...

Bit of very local knowledge sought here, please! There was a sanatorium / isolation hospital located south of the main Llandough Hospital near Penarth in Glamorgan (1940s-50s). I can't find its name, but could it have been known as Caeran Hospital? #wales #penarth #cardiff #glamorgan #hospital

My account at the Great War Forum is now closed. Posts I have made there since I started it all those years ago now appear only under the name of “guest”. Now mulling over adding a new type of discussion space to the Long, Long Trail. Back to the future! #ww1

Well, our five drops of rain have been and gone. Very welcome, though. #warwickshire

A decade of researching the YMCA in the First World War! In this week’s article I reflect on the journey so far, studying and sharing history: open.substack.com/pub/kathryns...

Finding the Y

Dr Kathryn White revisits the past decade of studying the YMCA and putting it on the map

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But... surely the UK is a war zone under Sharia law, full of no-go areas run by grooming gangs and nobody can wear a watch or carry a phone in public..?

This was sent home in 1945 by my wife's auntie Doris, then serving in the ATS as a signaller at HQ in Italy. Anyone know anywhere it might be played/recorded? #ww2 #recording #genealogy #Italy

Just completed a project for WDYTYA. I can't see this being used. A soldier, served in the artillery 1910-1914, who turned out to have one of the worst disciplinary records you'll see. Said to be sober before he enlisted, it was entirely due to drink. Discharged for misconduct. #ww1 #geneaology

#OTD 24 July 1927, the inauguration of the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, Ypres, Belgium. It bears the names of almost 55,000 soldiers who have no known grave. Photo: Central News via gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

For over 50 years the Derbyshire Family History Society has linked together people researching their family history in Derbyshire. www.familyhistoryfederation.com/societies-de...

Fraud and manipulation of the news.

Legal C@legalclaret.bsky.social · 2w ago

This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1

This build up to the WC final is excruciating.

News today that the National Archives has taken their genealogy site offline indefinitely. Find where to get the collections elsewhere here: cbgenealogy.ie/nai-collecti... #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Latest article added to the Long, Long Trail is "An Ulsterman’s war: William Alderdice". See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/an-ulsterman... #ww1 #genealogy

An Ulsterman's war: William Alderdice - The Long, Long Trail

This article is based on work I carried out for a private client in Canada in 2025. Who was William Alderdice? William […]

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The proposed restructuring of Warwickshire's councils into two unitary authorities (North and South) makes great sense and is long overdue.

Told you. No player called Nobby => No cup win.

When does the football start? I seem to have been watching some kind of celebrity street brawl.

Latest addition to the Long, Long Trail - a case study in uncertainties about the way a soldier died and where he is buried: "Whatever happened to David Hampson?" See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/whatever-hap... #ww1 #genealogy

Whatever happened to David Hampson? - The Long, Long Trail

I came across this story this morning when writing a biography of Second Lieutenant Thomas Eric Henderson, an officer of the 1st […]

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My predictions for tonight's game. Argentina will take Bellingham out in the first few minutes. Even if it means a red card. #worldcup #rememberrattin

This. Well said.

Mark Thompson@sonofathomp.bsky.social · 3w ago

At a local medical center as the driver for my wife’s eye appointment. It’s next to their cancer center. As I watch the brave patients going in and out, I’m realizing that perhaps I complain a lot about relatively minor life stuff and should be more appreciative and just shut the yapper.

Latest article at the Long, Long Trail is "Four periods of service: the story of Charles Horatio Foote". See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/four-periods... #ww1 #genealogy

Four periods of service: the story of Charles Horatio Foote - The Long, Long Trail

The details given in this article are derived from a report I submitted to a private client in April 2025. Charles Horatio […]

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