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#WomensHistoryMonth 2023 is coming to a close. I hope you enjoyed my daily tweets about #WomenWarReporters in the #FirstWorldWar as much as I did. You can re-read the short biographies in the thread below. Stay tuned for more research on fascinating women journalists during #WWI!
Andrée Viollis (1870-1950), France
Marylie Markovitch (1866-1926), France
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Helen Johns Kirtland (1890-1979) was a photojournalist working for Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly. During the #FirstWorldWar she photographed in France, Belgium and Italy, showing particular concern to document women’s war work ... /1
Helen Johns Kirtland (1890-1979) was a photojournalist working for Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly. During the #FirstWorldWar she photographed in France, Belgium and Italy, showing particular concern to document women’s war work ... /1
... and the destruction brought about by the war. In 1917 she was allowed by the Italian High Command to the frontline after the retreat at Caporetto 1917, where 275,000 Italian troops had been captured. In the autumn of 1918, when the Austro-Hungarian and the Italian ... /2
... armies again confronted each other, Kirtland was granted special access to the front and allowed to photograph Italian soldiers in the trenches. In 1919 Kirtland and her husband photographed the Versailles peace conference. ... /3
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenWarReporters
Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875-1937) was an American explorer, geographer, journalist, photographer and lecturer who published accounts of her journeys in the National Geographic Magazine @NatGeo . During the #FirstWorldWar, in 1916, ... /1
Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875-1937) was an American explorer, geographer, journalist, photographer and lecturer who published accounts of her journeys in the National Geographic Magazine @NatGeo . During the #FirstWorldWar, in 1916, ... /1
... Adams went to France as a war correspondent for Harper’s Monthly Magazine. She was allowed to visit & photograph the French trenches in Lorraine during a French army tour & stayed for three months touring the region. She visited American hospitals & munition factories, ... /2
... where women were replacing the male workforce, and documented the impact of the war on the French civil population. Hidden in a cellar, she experienced the shelling of a French town by the Germans. ... /3
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenWarReporters
Peggy Hull (1889-1967, b. Henrietta Eleanor Goodnough Deuell) was an American writer and journalist who covered the #FirstWorldWar and Second World War. In November 1918, when the war in Europe had ended, she became the first and ... /1
Peggy Hull (1889-1967, b. Henrietta Eleanor Goodnough Deuell) was an American writer and journalist who covered the #FirstWorldWar and Second World War. In November 1918, when the war in Europe had ended, she became the first and ... /1
... only American female war correspondent officially credentialed by the US War Department. Subsequently, she continued to report on the Russian Civil War & American troops in Siberia. In 1917 she had been denied official accreditation & went to France on her own expenses ... /2
... publishing her accounts in the Paris army edition and in the Chicago edition of the Chicago Tribune, in the El Paso Morning Times, and for the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Through personal connections, including General Pershing, she gained privileged access to an ... /3
🧵English translation of an extremely important and interesting article written by Gen. #Zaluzhny (Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine) and Lt. Gen. Zabrodskyi "Prospects for securing the military campaign of 2023: the Ukrainian view": ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/356…
HOW LONG CAN THIS WAR LAST & HOW CAN WE WIN IT: Today the absolute majority of military experts & analysts agree that
the full-scale war unleashed by the russian federation against Ukraine on 02-24-2022,
has long exceeded the concept of a local conflict of medium intensity. ⬇️
the full-scale war unleashed by the russian federation against Ukraine on 02-24-2022,
has long exceeded the concept of a local conflict of medium intensity. ⬇️
This applies to the spatial indicators, the number of involved military forces, and the impressive list of weapons and other
high-tech equipment whose usage is characteristic of this military confrontation.⬇️
high-tech equipment whose usage is characteristic of this military confrontation.⬇️
Day 2 of [belatedly] promoting my article with @CentralEuropean, "“Incurable Megalomania” and “Fantasies of Expansion”: The German Army Reimagines Empire in Occupied Poland, 1915–1918". Today I talk about the Polish "border-strip" (1/N)
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@CentralEuropean This is one of the most enduring misconceptions of the #Firstworldwar: that the leaders of the Prusso-German army were obsessed with annexing and Germanizing conquered territory in Russian Poland. (2/N)
@CentralEuropean Geiss laid out this argument in “Der polnische Grenzstreifen, 1914-1918”, arguing that the German Army fixated on claiming and homogenizing a “border-strip” of territory as their principal war aim throughout the war. (3/N)
Now that the semester has wrapped up, I’m going to (finally) take a moment to promote my article, "“Incurable Megalomania” and “Fantasies of Expansion”: The German Army Reimagines Empire in Occupied Poland, 1915–1918", published in @CentralEuropean. bit.ly/3FSnwIF
@CentralEuropean The article reconsiders how the German Officer Corps thought about imperial expansion and national identity during the #Firstworldwar. Typically, the German army is portrayed as favoring an imperial strategy of annexation and Germanization (2/N)
@CentralEuropean Direct incorporation and Germanization would pacify conquered territories and bind them firmly to the German Empire. These preferences are seen as constant, articulated in the first days or weeks of the war, and pursued until the army unraveled in the Summer of 1918. (3/N)
1️⃣ #Erdogan implied that #Jerusalem belongs to #Turkey, referring to the #OttomanEmpire’s control over the city for much of the modern era. “In this city, we had to leave in tears during the #FirstWorldWar, it is still possible to come across traces of the #Ottoman resistance.
2️⃣ So #Jerusalem is our city, a city from us,”. “Our first #qibla [direction of prayer in #Islam] #alAqsa and the #Dome of the #Rock in Jerusalem are the symbolic #mosques of our faith. In addition, this city is home to the holy places of #Christianity and #Judaism.”
3️⃣ #Jerusalem has been the capital of #Israel since the country’s founding, and the #Jewish people have thousands of years of history in the city, backed up by extensive archaeological finds.
#NVHOW20 Introducing Jonathan Ruffle @JonathanRuffle ‘TOMMIES’ – The First World War as BBC Radio Drama’- the conception and building of the 11th November 1918 episode of the @BBCRadio4 drama set 150 miles up the Dvina River in northern Russia #FWW #WW1 #FirstWorldWar
1 #NVHOW20 Hi #twitterhistorians. I'm @JonathanRuffle. I created, co-wrote and co-produced a 42-episode real-time BBC Radio 4 drama called TOMMIES about the First World War.
2 #NVHOW20 Our 1918 Armistice Day episode was set in Russia with the 2/10 Battalion Royal Scots up the Dvina River. But I started where we all do.
#NVHOW20 Introducing Dr Joel Morley @JoelMMorley ‘Young men’s encounters with the Great War in interwar Britain’ - what they encountered, what left an impression, and how those impressions impact our understanding of the cultural legacy of the #GreatWar #FirstWorldWar #FWW
#NVHOW20 conference presenter @JoelMMorley is the author of the forthcoming @ManchesterUP Joining Up in the Second World War: Enlistment, Masculinity and the Memory of the Great War, 2022. #GreatWar #FirstWorldWar #FWW #Memory ##SWW #WWII #SecondWorldWar
1 #NVHOW20 I'm using #oralhistory & @massobservation to explore how print representations of WW1 were experienced by men growing up in interwar Britain. Looking at what they read & what left an impression, rather than at texts, complicates understandings of WW1s cultural legacy.
NVHOW20 Introducing Nataša Henig Miščič @NMiscic @FHnaUNG ‘Humanitarian work of the Carniolan Savings Bank during the First World War’ #FWW #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #Humanitarianwork #militaryhospital #Slovenia
1 #NVHOW20 Hello everyone, today I will present a topic that is part of broader research from my dissertation project - Carniolan Savings Bank and economic development of Carniola province.
2 #NVHOW20 The Carniolan Savings Bank (CBS) was the first and central financial institution in the Slovenian territory. The savings bank decided to establish an Asylum in 1895, on the 75th anniversary of its operation. A fund was set up to construct and maintain the institution.
#NVHOW20 Introducing Liam Markey @Liam_Markey94 @LivUni @britishlibrary @ESRC ‘Living Memory and the Commemoration of the First World War in Britain’ - commemorative practices and the social conditions which led to their creation #FWW #Remembrance #FirstWorldWar
1 #NVHOW20 This presentation will look at the role living memory has played in transforming British collective memory of the First World War (FWW). I posit that the issue of first-hand experience has greatly influenced modern representations of the conflict
2 #NVHOW20 Since 1919, the FWW has been commemorated in Britain through a national 2-minute silence, where the public is asked to contemplate the sacrifice of those killed in the FWW
A little thread on the importance of building knowledge beyond the exam spec, with my beautiful assistant: the forgotten Western Front battles of 1915. #historyteacher #aqahistory #firstworldwar #ww1
So the AQA GCSE First World War course syllabus only mentions 1915 in the context of Gallipoli. I imagine this is all most schools focus on. 1915 wont really happen on the Western Front for most students. A year of soldiers sitting in trenches twiddling their thumbs.
But hang on- 1915 is so crucial to the war’s development. For starters the first use of gas at the Second Battle of Ypres is a major use of new technology. Sure, most schools will teach that. But not in the context of a battle. Just a random use of a weapon by the Germans.
