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  1. itsjohnsen: Troops of 6th Battalion, The Black Watch, stage a bayonet charge over trenches during a training exercise, 1940. IWM

    itsjohnsen:

    Troops of 6th Battalion, The Black Watch, stage a bayonet charge over trenches during a training exercise, 1940.
    IWM

     
     
  2. vintagegal: 1930’s erotica I wonder how many studies of the history of erotica and pornography there have been made. People always tend to assume everyone in the past were prudes. Certainly not the case.

    vintagegal:

    1930’s erotica

    I wonder how many studies of the history of erotica and pornography there have been made. People always tend to assume everyone in the past were prudes. Certainly not the case.
     
     

  3. The First Carrier Battle Since WWII; That Almost Happened:

    On the 1st May 1982, the Argentine carrier ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (pictured top) detected the Royal Navy Task force on route to retake the Falkland Islands.   Veinticinco attempted to launch a a wave of A-4Q Skyhawk jets to attack the British fleet.  However, high winds prevented the Skyhawks which were heavily loaded with fuel and ordnance from taking off. 

    If the Argentine jets had managed to take off they would have engaged the Harrier’s of the Royal Navy’s Combat Air Patrol launched from two aircraft carriers (HMS Invincible - left and HMS Hermes - right).

    This would have been the first battle between aircraft carriers since the Second World War.   Instead the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo was forced to return to harbour on the 3rd May after the cruiser ARA Belgrano was sunk by a British Submarine.  

    To this day modern fighter jets launched from opposing carrier groups have not fought a battle at sea.  

     
     
  4. rrrick: Doesn’t seem fair. ‘Doesn’t seem fair’ - That’s because it isn’t.  The removal of Native Americans from their own lands is a historical travesty - one which still hasn’t been amended.  Native American’s living on reservations today live in some of the worst conditions of any American.   One of the fundamental reasons for the American Revolution was that the British Crown put a stop to further westward expansion beyond the Ohio Territory in 1765 after the French & Indian War.  Settlers and frontiersmen were eager to move west and once the Revolutionary War was over Congress lifted the restrictions on settling further westwards.  By 1815 with the Louisiana purchase and the cessation of Eastern Florida by Spain the plains Indians and the Seminoles were doomed.  

    rrrick:

    Doesn’t seem fair.

    ‘Doesn’t seem fair’ - That’s because it isn’t.  The removal of Native Americans from their own lands is a historical travesty - one which still hasn’t been amended.  Native American’s living on reservations today live in some of the worst conditions of any American.   One of the fundamental reasons for the American Revolution was that the British Crown put a stop to further westward expansion beyond the Ohio Territory in 1765 after the French & Indian War.  Settlers and frontiersmen were eager to move west and once the Revolutionary War was over Congress lifted the restrictions on settling further westwards.  By 1815 with the Louisiana purchase and the cessation of Eastern Florida by Spain the plains Indians and the Seminoles were doomed.  

    (Source: jerrymuffinbutt)

     
     

  5. Canterbury Christ Church University's reconstruction 'Boat 1550 BC' sinks on launching

    Canterbury Christ Church University has reconstructed a 3,500-year-old boat which was discovered found in 1992.  They tried to launch it today in Dover but it almost sank. 

    You’d think they would have tested this before publicly launching it. 

     
     
  6. George Crumb, the man popularly said to have invented crisps/potato chips in 1853 when he was a chef and his french fries were sent back for being too thick and soggy so he cut them extra thin and fried them. Although there is some evidence that the recipe dates from 1832.

    George Crumb, the man popularly said to have invented crisps/potato chips in 1853 when he was a chef and his french fries were sent back for being too thick and soggy so he cut them extra thin and fried them. Although there is some evidence that the recipe dates from 1832.

     
     
  7. yousaywah: “A patrol from the Queen’s Own Highlanders searches the jungle around Seria, Brunei by boat for rebels in hiding and for arms and ammunition. Following their landing to free European hostages held by rebels in the police station in Seria, the Highlanders patrolled by boat and on foot throughout the area in an attempt to round up the remaining members of the rebel army.” This was probably taken in December 1962.  That’s a Bren gun in the bow and it looks like the rest of the men are armed with a selection of Sterling Sub-machine guns (with bayonets fix which you don’t see very often) and the L1A1 self-Loading Rifles, (also with bayonets fixed - which gives , which had been in service for nearly 8 years by 1962.  The Brunei Revolt saw a rebellion against the monarchy of Brunei which the British army suppressed as Brunei was a British protectorate. 

    yousaywah:

    “A patrol from the Queen’s Own Highlanders searches the jungle around Seria, Brunei by boat for rebels in hiding and for arms and ammunition. Following their landing to free European hostages held by rebels in the police station in Seria, the Highlanders patrolled by boat and on foot throughout the area in an attempt to round up the remaining members of the rebel army.”

    This was probably taken in December 1962.  That’s a Bren gun in the bow and it looks like the rest of the men are armed with a selection of Sterling Sub-machine guns (with bayonets fix which you don’t see very often) and the L1A1 self-Loading Rifles, (also with bayonets fixed - which gives , which had been in service for nearly 8 years by 1962.  The Brunei Revolt saw a rebellion against the monarchy of Brunei which the British army suppressed as Brunei was a British protectorate. 

     
     
  8. Dressed for the trenches.  A man wearing a tin hat, gas make and a bow tie.  c.1916-18

    Dressed for the trenches.  A man wearing a tin hat, gas make and a bow tie.  c.1916-18

    (Source: instahlgewittern)

     
     

  9. Reading about diasterous fires and stampedes in Britian and America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries for my next research paper. All rather depressing, women jumping to their deaths at new York’s Triangle Shirt factory, 600 people dying in a theatre collapse in Chicago and Children being crushed in a rush for presents handed out at a music hall in Sunderland.

     
     
  10. A recolourised photograph of William Potter & his sons who were all members of Royal Marines Light Infantry.  c.1900.

    A recolourised photograph of William Potter & his sons who were all members of Royal Marines Light Infantry.  c.1900.

     
     
  11. Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR).  Designed in 1918, in service as a squad support light machine gun until the early 1960s when it was replaced by the M60.  With a 20-round box magazne it wasn’t well suited to its role, it was intended to offer soldiers ‘walking fire’ and was to be fired from the hip as troops advanced.  It was robust, reliable and heavy.

    Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR).  Designed in 1918, in service as a squad support light machine gun until the early 1960s when it was replaced by the M60.  With a 20-round box magazne it wasn’t well suited to its role, it was intended to offer soldiers ‘walking fire’ and was to be fired from the hip as troops advanced.  It was robust, reliable and heavy.

    (Source: reparations)

     
     
  12. archiveamericana: Lady Liberty’s face, as seen on Liberty Island, waiting to be installed… The only way the statue of Libery could be transported from France was in hundreds of pieces, one of her sandals weighed over a ton.  The city of New York couldn’t afford to erect her, there was talk she would be moved to another city which could.   When this became public knowledge a huge public campaign was launched that saw thousands of people send what they could into a fund to erect the statue.  It was one of the earliest national charity fund campaigns.  The Statue of Liberty was finally erected on a frame designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.  It took several decades for the bronze of the statue to take on the now iconic green colour. (Fully green by the early 1900s.)

    archiveamericana:

    Lady Liberty’s face, as seen on Liberty Island, waiting to be installed…

    The only way the statue of Libery could be transported from France was in hundreds of pieces, one of her sandals weighed over a ton.  The city of New York couldn’t afford to erect her, there was talk she would be moved to another city which could.   When this became public knowledge a huge public campaign was launched that saw thousands of people send what they could into a fund to erect the statue.  It was one of the earliest national charity fund campaigns.  The Statue of Liberty was finally erected on a frame designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.  It took several decades for the bronze of the statue to take on the now iconic green colour. (Fully green by the early 1900s.)

     
     
  13. British Infantry marching.  The kit dates the photo to probably around 1914. They’re wearing thethe 1907 pattern cloth cap, which was replaced as constription came in with less stiff caps.   And it’s long before the introduction of the 1915 pattern Brodie Helmet which was introduced to reduce the number of head wounds from falling shrapnel easily penetrating the troops’ cloth caps.  The first steel helmets didn’t reach the trenches until 1916.

    British Infantry marching.  The kit dates the photo to probably around 1914.

    They’re wearing thethe 1907 pattern cloth cap, which was replaced as constription came in with less stiff caps.   And it’s long before the introduction of the 1915 pattern Brodie Helmet which was introduced to reduce the number of head wounds from falling shrapnel easily penetrating the troops’ cloth caps.  The first steel helmets didn’t reach the trenches until 1916.

    (Source: instahlgewittern)

     
     
  14. The EM-2 rifle prototype. The last rifle Enfield designed for the British Army. This was to replace the increasingly obsolete bolt action Lee-Enfield MkIII’s & No.4’s. However the USA refused to standardise to the ammunition the EM-2 used .280, citing it as being underpowered. The British Army instead adopted the FN-FAL battle rifle in 7.62 as the L1A1 Self Loading Rifle (SLR) in the mid 1950s. The SLR was eventually replaced in the late 80s/early 1990s with the SA80/LA85 (which chambers a 5.56mm round) which shares a striking resemblance with the EM-2 as well as significant mechanical similarities. The SA80 was influenced by both the EM-2 and the later (also bullpup) L64/65. Ironically during the 1960s the US realised the the British had been right in suggesting that 7.62 was too powerful a round for assault rifles - they found this our the hard way with the M14.  In 1963 the M16 chambered in the smaller 5.56 round was adopted to replace the M14 and the 7.62.

    The EM-2 rifle prototype. The last rifle Enfield designed for the British Army. This was to replace the increasingly obsolete bolt action Lee-Enfield MkIII’s & No.4’s. However the USA refused to standardise to the ammunition the EM-2 used .280, citing it as being underpowered.

    The British Army instead adopted the FN-FAL battle rifle in 7.62 as the L1A1 Self Loading Rifle (SLR) in the mid 1950s. The SLR was eventually replaced in the late 80s/early 1990s with the SA80/LA85 (which chambers a 5.56mm round) which shares a striking resemblance with the EM-2 as well as significant mechanical similarities. The SA80 was influenced by both the EM-2 and the later (also bullpup) L64/65.

    Ironically during the 1960s the US realised the the British had been right in suggesting that 7.62 was too powerful a round for assault rifles - they found this our the hard way with the M14.  In 1963 the M16 chambered in the smaller 5.56 round was adopted to replace the M14 and the 7.62.

     
     
  15. Cross sectional diagram of the British Lee-Enfield 1907 SMLE MkIII. I Actually own a deactivated MkIII* (the war time model which was cheaper to build) dating from 1918.

    Cross sectional diagram of the British Lee-Enfield 1907 SMLE MkIII. I Actually own a deactivated MkIII* (the war time model which was cheaper to build) dating from 1918.