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Did I ever show you guys this sketch of my gal Edie? She's a protag of the planned second book in the Prague series. She comes from a long line of doctors, served as a nurse in France in WW1, she's half Czech half Armenian, and she's a butch bi trans badass and I love her ❤🌈

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2020-12-04

Fred Cecil Jones 1891-1956 b. Bradford, studied at both Bradford & Leeds College of Art. After service in WW1, he began portraying the town & cities of Northern England accompanied by an old suitcase containing his equipment, cold sausages, half a loaf and a bottle of Guinness.

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2020-10-28

Kazimierz Sichulski (1879-1942), an acclaimed painter before WW1, in 1914 joined the Polish Legions and served in 1st Artillery Regt. During his service he drew caricatures of officers. After WW1 he came back to art, in 1930 becoming a professor of Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.

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2020-10-18

Frank Taylor Lockwood 1895 -1961 b. Linthwaite, Huddersfield. After service in WW1, he worked as a commercial artist at Cadbury’s, Birmingham. He recorded many buildings swept aside by an explosion of house building around the City. Father of Arthur Lockwood (see earlier tweet).

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2020-07-27

Back in WW1, flying was still somewhat risky. When I was young, a neighbour we knew well flew the SE5a with the RFC in WW1. Many years later a friend passed on some old photos which include these.

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2020-07-21

Robert Yerkes artifacts illuminate history of primate research, intelligence testing, WW1, eugenics, and science & women scientists in Russia & Cuba! Guest appearances by Ivan Pavlov & Alfred Kinsey: https://t.co/gm7r2HuIQY

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2020-04-17

HELP I'm currently researching Danish-Americans in US service during and I'm looking for first hand accounts of Da-Am soldiers. Do you know any - both published and in archives/collections/libraries/museums? Please do retweet and cc! Thanks

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2020-02-26

Harry Becker,'A Man Named Samson' was a horseman in Wenhaston, Suffolk. A veteran of WW1, one day in November 1919 he walked & drilled a 25-acre winter barley field. Becker was eager to record the final days of an ancient rural, farming system and a countryside he deeply loved.

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2020-01-21

This week's is a gorgeous 1921 Madeleine et Madeleine evening dress. Marjorie got this dress when she went to Paris. After WW1, "divided skirts with an uneven hem" became popular.

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2019-11-04

J.R.R. Tolkien died 45 years ago 1973. Great piece by on his experience as a Signals Officer during and its profound influence on his thinking and writing. https://t.co/6nJGRLyNbf …

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2019-09-03

Currently obsessed with the designs of German & Austrian “Notgeld”, emergency money produced by local principalities when the state-controlled central bank wasn’t able to make enough currency. Primarily made during WW1, often featuring city landmarks/symbols (and expiry dates.)

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2019-06-11

Occasionally you'll be sucked into hellish dreamscapes of past battlefields that the ghosts come from. Probably themed around wars that were ultimately seen as pointless or dishonest. In addition to WW1, expect Vietnam, maybe post-2001 Middle East.

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2019-05-30

“How strange the experience, the countryside and the treatment of them must have been.” – on Indian soldiers in the inspiration behind his final full-length solo piece

Read more in the book https://t.co/cOl720scon

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2019-03-30

WW1, USMC 6th Marines 2nd bn.
벨로 숲의 일명 '지옥견' 미 해병대 유니폼
프랑스에 처음 파병될 때만 해도 육군과 다른 독자적인 포레스트그린 군복을 입다가 군수 문제때문에 차츰 육군의 OD색 군복으로 교체되기 시작함

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2019-02-26

Eternal Exile. After WW1, Italian Jewish Artist, Arturo Nathan began psychoanalysis & took up painting as therapy. He painted many shipwrecks & exiles. He was deported to Germany in 1944, "first to the concentration camp of Bergen ­Belsen, then Biberach, where he died" - aged 53.

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2019-02-18

New painting acrylic on canvas -taken from a WW1 sketch - France 1918

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2019-02-05

In the year that marked the centenary of the end of the WW1, Catherine & take young readers on an eye-opening journey in https://t.co/WXNGSGMtxq

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2018-12-04

"A Battery Shelled" 1919...Painting by (English,1882-1957) Painter and novelist and co-founder of the Movement..
Official WW1, commissioned by Canada.

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2018-06-01