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Ursula’s war…

Over the last few days I’ve been reading Ursula Bloom’s memoir of her life as a young woman during the first world war. It’s not history, it’s very much a personal memoir, but on another level it is an important … Continue reading

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Snow on their boots

I’ve been working up at the Athenaeum for one morning a week cataloguing their historic book collection, and last Friday I catalogued some books written by Ursula Bloom. There seemed to be rather a lot of books by Ms Bloom, … Continue reading

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Romanian army buttons from world war one

Over ten years ago, before we moved to Beechworth, I became fascinated by the provenance of the old Krupp 75 mm gun outside the RSL. It didn’t have an Ottoman cipher, or a German or Austro Hungarian crest but instead … Continue reading

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Air raids in World War One

Sometimes, it seems that my at times dilettante research is a series of rabbit holes. And so with my attempts to date a world war one propaganda postcard of a cartoon German soldier being pursued by a tank has led … Continue reading

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