Beautiful abandoned miners' cottages in a disused slate quarry in Snowdonia, North Wales. The quarry closed in 1969 due to industry decline and because 170-years of working the site resulted in waste tips sliding into the main pit workings.
Please RT: Time to remember WWII heroine Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944). This year is the tenth anniversary of the Memorial to Noor, so please bring your friends for a moment of remembrance at 3pm.
Please save the date
13 September in Gordon Square, Bloomsbury.
@shrabanibasu_
Oh my! A 17th century Ottoman three-mast tent made of silk and gilded leather. On display at the
#Turkish
Chamber in the
#Dresden
#museum
#object
of the day!
Photographed in 1974, freshly excavated 2000 year old
#Terracotta
warriors still showing the original color scheme before rapid deterioration. (
#China
)
Delighted to announce the contract signing with
@HarperCollinsIN
for the publication of a book about the
#Sikh
airman during the First World War, Hardit Singh Malik. Will be available later this year. With thanks to friends in India and the UK!
Black
#Victorians
. Such beautiful images.
Pictured is the Higdon family. This photograph was taken in the year 1898 in Britain. Part of the Hulton Archive
@DavidOlusoga
@Sathnam
Delighted to have signed a contract with
@penswordbooks
for a book about Indian airman Hardit Singh Malik during 1894-1921, to be published in the UK later in the year. A
@HarperCollinsIN
edition will appear in the Indian subcontinent at about the same time.
@WeWereThere2
#Sikh
Imagine walking through a museum and finding a 100 year old painting of yourself from another life..
(William Bouguereau , The Broken Pitcher 1891). Amazing likeness! 😳
William Neilson Hall, who earned a V.C. at the Siege of Lucknow was the son of former slaves from Maryland in the USA. He was the first Black, the first Nova Scotian and the first Canadian naval recipient of the Victoria Cross.
The stunning tomb of Jules
#Verne
(1828-1905) can be found in the Cimetière de la Madeleine in
#Amiens
,
#France
.
Sculptor Albert Roze used Verne's death mask to make the sculpture, which depicts the author breaking free of his tomb and reaching for the sky.
Lovely shot of Hardit Singh Malik at the outset of the First World War in 1914, in the
#Sussex
County Cricket Club nets. His kara is firmly in place on the right arm. Courtesy of
@sussex
#museum
and
#archive
. The kara had been given to him by Sant Attar Singh.
#Sikhism
#sikh
One of a number of previously unseen images of Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik during the First World War included in the newly published book 'The Flying Sikh' by
@penswordbooks
. Here's a link:
#Coronation
Park in
#Delhi
is a graveyard for the statuary of the
#Raj
. These
#statues
statues were removed after
#Partition
in 1947. A reminder that statues remain only with the consent of communities. In 2018, the park was popular only with amorous couples.
#colstonstatue
Hello, my late wife died ten years ago and my sons and I are doing a 'Ramble on the Ridgeway' on the weekend of May 11 and 12, Funds raised will go to the
@OxfordHospCharity
. Please RT and consider a small donation. Thank you very much.
@JennaEllisEsq
"I could spend a full-time job just responding to the ridiculously illogical, inconsistent, and blatantly stupid arguments supporting Trump," Jenna Ellis wrote in March 2016. 1/2
Let's be clear: 'Pompeii' is the highest quality display put on in the temporary exhibition space
@AshmoleanMuseum
since the major refit. Aesthetically stunning, an excellent interpretation and the highest quality range of internationally important artefacts.
First World War recruitment poster. A reminder that 1918 saw the most prolific & brutal recruitment drive in India.
Translation of the Urdu:
"This soldier is defending India, He is defending his Home and his family. The best way to help your family members is to join the army."
This is a statue of Alan Turing commissioned by Sidney Frank, built from half a million pieces of Welsh slate. The shale originated from Llechwedd in North Wales, where Turing used to go on holiday as a child!
#turing
#statue
#artworkalgorithm
Grave of Indian cleaner at
#Brockenhurst
Church, had accompanied
#Meerut
Div. to France. Not permitted cremation as 'untouchable'. Died of pneumonia.
#FWW
#WWI
Three of the coolest icons of the '60s posing on a motorcycle combo on the set of 'The Great Escape' - Coburn, Garner, and McQueen. Legendary director John Sturges stands to the right of 'the boys.'
Seems like the battle to remind people of the scale of the
#Indian
contribution to the
#British
Empire war effort during 1914-18 goes on. Many know about Anzacs, Canadians, South Africans etc. The Indian contribution must be represented.
#1917
#Sikh
@LozzaFox
This made me laugh. Via
@Slatez
on Twitter.
"My brother's changed his photo on the staircase to Kim Jong-un and my mum still hasn't noticed after 2 weeks."
Delighted to have been appointed as full-time 'Bucks Heroes Programme Manager'
@BucksMuseum
for the next few years. Fascinating post supporting the delivery of
@HeritageFundUK
project in
#Aylesbury
.
In 1974,
#Ramesses
II was sent on a flight to
#Paris
for preservation and maintenance work. But since French law required every person, living or dead to fly with a valid passport,
#Egypt
was forced to issue a passport to the
#Pharaoh
, 3,000 years after his death.
Newlyweds HS Malik and bride Prakash in 1920. She is wearing an adapted sari!
One of a number of previously unpublished images in my book about HS Malik during the First World War, available soon in South Asia by
@HarperCollinsIN
A Mosul Romance: Mohamed Ali, a Muslim from central India, served with the Supply and Transport Corps in Iraq 1915-1920. Near Mosul he met and married his wife, a Chaldean Catholic from a small Assyrian village. They had three sons and two daughters. via
@jalilancs
#WW1
#WWI
#otd
28 June 1919. Germany and the Allied Powers signed the ‘Treaty of Versailles’, officially ending the First World War. It was signed in the Hall of Mirrors, five years to the day since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Here's William Orpen's painting.
Circus Maximus in Rome in the 1st Century and how it looks now.
Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, it was the first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its later Empire. The site is now a public park.
#CircusMaximus
#rome
#Archaeology
Great friends Hardit Singh Malik and great friend Harold Boston in
#Cornwall
in Sept 1919. The two had met during flight training. One of the previously unpublished images in
The
#Flying
#Sikh
(UK and N America) &
#LionoftheSkies
(South Asia)
With a Foreword by
@ShashiTharoor
Thakar Singh of 51st Sikhs was killed on 1/8/1916, in Mesopotamia, leaving a young widow Basant
#Kaur
(pic) to manage a family. Her son remembers that "Every month she would go to
#Jalandhar
to withdraw her pension . . . She usually felt sad on that day.”
#India
#WWI
#women
Musket ball finds at
#Naseby
. Evident is flanking fire into Maurice's cavalry from Okey's Dragoons in Sulby Hedges. Also last stand of Rupert's Bluecoats. Look at how relatively few musket balls lie in the main battlefield compared to the Royalists' fighting retreat.
#CivilWar
Indian Rebellion
#1857
. Fact: No
#Sepoys
anywhere in 1857 saw, let alone handled, the Enfield Rifle cartridges which had been greased with fats, including from both cows and pigs.
#Mutiny
#IndianMutiny
#IndianRebellion
Enfield Pattern 1853 Percussion Rifle cartridges.
1/3 My
#museumbuddy
@PoloDas
& I are looking at how soldiers have been represented in the
#UK
&
#India
. In March 1918, Britain was short of 450K men! The shortfall was to be made up by Indian sepoys. Propaganda posters were produced and a major recruiting campaign began.
When I was growing up I used to wonder what my life would be like in the distant year 2000 aged 35. Somehow I've ended up at age 55 today and in
#lockdown
. 😊