Steve Brown 🇦🇺 📖🖊️
@stevebrownauthor.bsky.social
Author of 10 books on British Army topics for the period 1793-1815. Family historian. Sometime muso. Occasional podcaster - Redcoat etc. Touchstones: Cardiacs. FZ. XTC. Richard Thompson. King Crimson. Morale commensurate with fortunes of the Baggy Greens.
Another one of my Redcoat History podcasts is online - this one about the assault on Montevideo in 1807. Thanks again to Chris Parkinson for making this available. #britisharmy #napoleonicwars #history www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pBS...
The British Army’s Strangest Forgotten Disaster? (1806-1807)
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New book haul! first in a while. Naval & Military Press Ltd had big sale on. #napoleonic #history #books
Thanks to my good mate Chris Parkinson, another of my Redcoat History podcasts has gone up on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywkq... The Invasion of Java in 1811! Now there's a little known campaign. Watch to find out more. #napoleonic #history #redcoat #britisharmy
The Bravest Man to Ever Wear a Redcoat: The Java Campaign
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Unboxing the end of an era. I started the King George's Army & The Men Who Led Them series in 2009. It has officially come to a conclusion today, with the receipt of my author copies for Vol 5. A big shout out must go to Bob Burnham, Andrew Bamford, Rob Griffith, Nick Lipscomb, + others. #helion
On this, the 111th Anzac Day, remembering those who did not come back. Including my grandfather's older brother, Private Tom Dean, 19th Battalion AIF. Wounded at Pozieres, died of wounds in Rouen, as the matron's letters to my great-grandmother attest. We will remember them. #anzacday
Thrilled to be a finalist in the Geelong Short Play Festival for the second year running! Now comes the hard(er) part - bringing the play to life. #geelongwriters
My new podcast on Redcoat History is out. I hope to be doing a few more of these soon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj6y...
Not Just Waterloo: Britain’s Forgotten Campaigns
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I recently remembered that I had in my collection the movie book to the film Waterloo that my Dad bought me on seeing the film in 1970. The images in it are great. Mostly of scenes that never made the final cut. More to follow. #napoleonic
It's been Indexing time - for all five volumes! 3000+ field officers. The most common surnames were: 1 Campbell 55+ 2 Stewart 50+ 3 Gordon 45+ 4 Hamilton 40+ 5 Fraser 35+ 6 Murray 35+ 7 MacDonald / McDonald (combined) 30+ 8 Brown / Browne (combined) 30+ 9 Smith 25+ 10 Ross 25+
King George's Army: British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815 Volume 5 | From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 | Helion & Company
King George's Army: British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815 Volume 5, From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 - just one of the military history books available from Helion & Company.
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I do love local secondhand book fairs. Most of these cost me $2 each. There's my winter reading sorted. #BookSky #Napoleonic
One thing that history has taught me is that it always repeats. Always. I was working on a section of a new work, and before I knew it, I was faced with working out the details of an expeditionary force in the Straits on Hormuz. In January 1810... #Napoleonic #History
I'm not fan of AI. The very idea that it could 'write something for me' has me reaching for an air sickness bag. However, I have discovered that it can be useful for writing support tasks. Like indexing, for example. Give AI some simple, non-ambiguous instructions on what to look for...
I wonder what the commanders at Waterloo would have been like if they were a bunch of blokes at the pub... Arfur ‘Wello’ Wellesley Roly ‘Poly’ Hill Harry ‘Bill’ Clinton Tommy ‘The Topper’ Picton Denny ‘Six’ Pack Henry ‘Hopalong’ Uxbridge Perhaps they're a darts team, waiting for the French to show?
This is absolutely what is forming up, metaphorically.
A bit of a landmark day for me - attending the performance of my first play, Hear No Evil, a finalist in the Geelong Short Play Festival.
Unboxing!!! Thanks to From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 for sending my author's copies of Volume 4 half way around the world, as work on Volume 5 (the final volume) continues apace. You can order your copy of Vol 4 at www.helion.co.uk/military-his... #napoleonic #history #britisharmy #helion
I'd like to extend thanks to Geelong Regional Libraries and Queenscliff Library for facilitating my talk on Writing Military History as part of the LocalWord25 festival last Friday morning. Such a nice venue! Such a good turnout! And such a long and interesting Q&A! #militaryhistory #Napoleonic
I'm just starting to prepare for my presentation on Writing Military History at Local Word 2025 - it's now only a couple of weeks away. Booking link: events.grlc.vic.gov.au/event/13943709 #localword25 Plus... some latest stuff I did for Redcoat History: www.youtube.com/watch?v=br6c...
Thanks to Owen Davis for a lovely review of King George’s Army Vol 2 (Foot Guards and 1-30 Foot). Vol 3 is out now, and Vol 4 not too far away. #napoleonic #history #helion www.napoleon-series.org/book-reviews...
King George’s Army, British Regiments and the Men who led them 1793-1815: Volume 2 | The Napoleon Series
King George’s Army, British Regiments and the Men who led them 1793-1815: Volume 2: Foot Guards and 1st to 30th Regiments of Foot. Steve Brown Helion & Company Limited (2024) ISBN: 9781804514382 Pages...
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Eerily reminiscent of a high school second XI match in Perth circa 1978 in which I had the misfortune to be on the receiving end - on a primary school oval with a cracked concrete pitch and 40 metre boundaries. Memories…
Mersey Rose Recreationals CC@merseyrose.bsky.social · last yr.Some of the news coverage and the social media responses to Richmond CC's 4th team being all out for just 2 is quite depressing. www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/...
It was great to catch up with Christian Parkinson last night to finally record Part 2 of my British Regiments series - due out on Redcoat History in a few weeks. Keep an eye out on YouTube.
Getting a July 1914 kinda vibe from seeing this week’s gatherings…
Hear hear, for our Parliamentary and electoral system.
Richard Dunley@redunley.bsky.social · last yr.Lovely to participate in an amazing democratic process in 🇦🇺 yesterday. Not matter what you make of the results, the extraordinary organisation by the AEC, the efficiency of the count & the gracious acceptance of the results. In this world it’s really something to be grateful for.
Some recent book purchases, three-quarters of which are appropriate on this #AnzacDay2025. I visited Pozieres and Fromelles in 2016, the centenary of the actions, as well as Ypres, Mons, Bullecourt and Dixmuide. The Menin Gate evening service was truly memorable.
Prepping for another podcast with the excellent Chris Parkinson at Redcoat History - recording next Tuesday. Should be a good one - Part 2 of British Army ranks and structures during the Napoleonic Wars.
My wife is in hospital for some chemo. This is her dinner menu. It runs to eight pages. I’m thinking I should pretend to be ill so I can eat here.
Australian battalion losses in the attack at Fromelles, evening of 19/20 July 1916, from starting strengths of around 950. Fromelles was these unit’s first action under fire. Welcome to WW1.
