Looking through Lloyd's papers for his time and Malta and some brilliant images. Here Lloyd with his trademark tact describes Scobell as "utterly useless... I tried hard to get him sacked- I succeeded."

Day Two of the RAF Museum conference, and hearing about British Army Aviation with a great picture of Pierced Steel Planking (and also an armoured car and helicopter)

Applications now invited for the Society's next round of research funding: for Postgraduates, studying for a PhD, and Early Career Historians, within 5 years of completing a doctorate: bit.ly/4ywZi0S Grants of £500-£1000 to pursue research. Closing date 4 December 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: December 2026 deadlines - RHS

The Society invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates from 4 December 2026. Postgraduate Research Support Grants, 2026-...

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RAF Museum conference underway, and a fantastic programme organised by Megan Wang. If you missed the chance to be here in person you can join online and watch live or later at: www.crowdcast.io/c/rafm-confe...

A really interesting look at what the US knew and didn't know about the Soviet space program in the early 1960s www.thespacereview.com/article/5287/1

The Soviet space program as seen from Washington, 1964–1968

As the Cold War space race between the US and USSR raged, US officials tried to understand what the Soviet Union was doing. Andrea Zullo reviews several reports from that era to summarize where those…

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Great line up of speakers, including a keynote from Grp Cpt John Shields, RAF D-Def-S, and the Museum's support means that tickets are only £25. tickets.rafmuseum.org.uk/event-ticket...

Buy Future Battlefield Innovation Conference Tickets online - Royal Air Force Museum

This conference will explore recent technological and geopolitical shifts and how innovations are shaping the battlefields of the future.

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Royal Air Force Museum@rafmuseum.bsky.social · 2w ago

How will innovation change the battlefields of the future? 🚀 Join us at RAF Museum Midlands on 10 October for the Future Battlefield Innovation Conference, exploring drones, cyber warfare, emerging technology and lessons from history. 🎟️ £25, including lunch www.rafmuseum.org.uk/midlands/wha...

✈️ Join us for the RAF Museum Conference 2026, 10–11 September. Explore Air Power, humanitarianism and counterinsurgency, with keynote speaker Dr Edward Burke. 📍 RAF Museum London 💻 Free livestream available Find out more: www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/whats...

Jump Jet is out in two weeks! You can pre-order via jumpjetpenguin.com, and get signed copies at coles-books.co.uk/jump-jet-by-... and goldsborobooks.com/products/jum...

#HIRING We are recruiting a Research Analyst - Military Technology. Join our Military Sciences Research Group to research ISR, space and emerging military technologies while working with defence, government and industry experts. Apply by Monday 24 August 2026: https://bit.ly/3Ucj5Up

Have you registered for our FREE virtual teaching conference yet? 🫵 📋 This year, we will explore the importance of teaching empathy, critical thinking, and civil discourse in the #humanities and #socialsciences Please register by 12 p.m. EST, August 17, 2026. networks.h-net.org/group/pages/...

A historical reading recommendation for your consideration. "Close Air Support," edited by Dr. Harry Raffal @rafhistory.bsky.social and John Alexander (retired RAF), published in 2024. You can listen to Dr. Raffal talk about other aviation topics here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3FP....

The first @avculturesconf.bsky.social Mk VIII Conference Panel Session went off at the end of Day 1: ‘Aviation Museums: selecting what stories to tell’. It was a storming success, with a rapt audience and some great questions, well answered!

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 📢 You have until 4 June to submit your abstracts for Future Battlefield Innovation 🛰️🤖 an October conference exploring AI, drones, cyber warfare, logistics and the future battlefield. For more info visit : www.rafmuseum.org.uk/news/cfp-bcm... #MilitaryHistory #FutureWarfare

Brilliant to see the @rafmuseum.bsky.social art commission publicly opened. The Museum worked with David, since January 2025 to create an art work to mark the 25th anniversary of the UK armed forces 'gay ban' being lifted.

Exciting! In exactly ONE month we'll be at the KF Centre for Excellence in Kelowna, BC, Canada, to kick off the @avculturesconf.bsky.social Mk VIII Conference in partnership with the Canadian Aviation Historical Society's Convention. It's the people that make it! aviationcultures.org/aviation-cul...

Join us for FASI’s 2026 Postgraduate Air & Space Conference! Secure your place now and hear our expert panellists discuss the latest on air and space power. 📅 Monday 8th June 📌 King’s Building, Strand Sign up now👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/air-a...

Next week we launch a landmark new exhibition! Photos, eyewitness testimony, trial documents and personal letters reveal the crimes of the perpetrators and the individual stories of the victims of the Nazis' ruthless system of enslavement and forced work wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/n...

Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims - The Wiener Holocaust Library

Between 1939 and 1945, 20 million individuals were exploited as slave and forced labourers by the Nazi regime. This exhibition will explore how perpetrators profited off and exploited slave labourers,...

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The Wiener Holocaust Library@wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣 Coming this month! A new exhibition launching in May 2026 will reveal the scale and brutality of the Nazi slave labour system, displaying eyewitness testimony, clandestine photographs and damning war crimes trial judgments that uncover this tangled history. Find out more 🔗

Great to see Ewen's knowledge and passion being shared, he is amongst the most engaging voices on RAF history you'll come across whether its to an audience of 1 or 100

Royal Air Force Museum@rafmuseum.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✨ Happy Star Wars Day! May the Force be with you 🌌 Our latest Crate Escape film explores artefacts from our Stafford that inspired iconic Star Wars props — including Darth Vader’s lightsaber ⚔️ View the film in full at : youtu.be/ZxMkC2tJIy8?... #StarWarsDay #CrateEscape #Museums #MayTheFourth

Vacancy for a three-year post-doc position at the Universiteit van Amsterdam! This postdoc position, part of the European Research Council (ERC)-sponsored 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 project, seeks to understand the long legacies of blockades on the post-war order.

If you missed the RAF Museum Midlands feature on last night’s episode of The One Show, you can now catch up on BBC iPlayer. 📺👀 The full feature is shown at 12.13 minutes into the episode. bbc.pulse.ly/qeowjfckuo The episode is available to view on BBC iPlayer for the next 29 days. #HighFlying

Great to visit the Army Flying Museum and explore some of their amazing collection

💻 Save the date for our next evening lecture! On 23 April at 6.00pm, Dr Ross Mahoney explores “The War in the Air” – the official history of Britain’s First World War air campaign. 🎟️ Free to attend, booking required 🔗 Book your place today at : www.crowdcast.io/c/vl-2026-ma... #WW1 #Airpower

A timely @rafhistorical.bsky.social conference on the RAF and Nuclear Weapons being held today at @rafmuseum.bsky.social

Four PhD studentships are now open for applications. As part of AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme, these studentships are co-supervised by Library staff and academics based at UK universities. Find out more about the projects 😃

A final reminder that the call for papers for the BCMH 2026 Conference 'Whither Operational Art' in Oxford on 20 June closes tomorrow, 1 April. www.bcmh.org.uk/bcmh-confere...

Applications close soon for an extraordinary PhD placement opportunity supporting the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest. Apply by Monday 6 April. Find out more here: link.bl.uk/dnv

Interested in environmental history? The IHR is offering a summer 2026 internship with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). Apply by 15 April 2026, 11:59 pm BST. More details at: buff.ly/Vzpz6G3.

IHR Internships

IHR Internships support new researchers to develop their skills and broaden their experience within and beyond the historical research community.

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Support the development of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest through this extraordinary PhD placement opportunity. Available to students currently registered at a UK HEI, three full-time, six-month placements. Applications open until Monday 6 April. Find out more: link.bl.uk/dnv

Great panel of morning papers by @bcmh-news.bsky.social members ahead of the afternoon AGM. From Frederick II to the FWW, then upto the Falklands and Op Herrick, a rich range of topics and methods

“Model airplanes,” a thoroughly depressing cartoon from a May 1943 issue of 国民防空 [Child A] “Your airplane flies well.” Child B] “But it jumped into someone’s garden and won't come back.” [Child A] “What are you talking about? That’s an excellent suicide attack.”