Alex Churchill
@alexchurchill
Award-nominated Historian & Author FRHistS WW1/WW2/20thC Royalty Runs @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social @15minutebook.club 🎧 www.istoriatravel.org ✈️ Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social 🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷
SOMEBODY TELL ME THAT THE CAT IS BEING TAKEN CARE OF 😳 Also I don’t care how rancid someone’s views are; there is no justification for obliterating an old lady’s skull with a hammer.
Six decades before Lawrence, this nutter decided to go undercover so he could go exploring in Arabia… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-me...
Meh but Wayne was a consummate hypocrite. I see this and I raise it Peter Ustinov playing a Chinese man in One of our dinosaurs is missing.
True story, which you can read about in our newly released paperback 😆 www.waterstones.com/book/ring-of...
We can all but hope to find someone who looks at us the way Regie looks at this mini twister
A fragmenting bullet ripped his face to shreds and he came back determined to be champion of the world… achurchill.substack.com/p/the-man-wi...
What happens when a gang of French/Belgian lunatics with no idea how to sail a ship kidnap one in 1940 and then demand it becomes part of the Royal Navy? @kejamieson.bsky.social @jerijerod14.bsky.social achurchill.substack.com/p/full-featu...
Hoarding from Hampshire and Lincolnshire 😆 📚 Also I hope it cools down for the rest of you soon 😆
Today’s article is up and it’s a free one - One girl, a spitfire and a Lancaster bomber… Come take a look inside both… achurchill.substack.com/p/free-photo...
Same dude, same. From the age of 10 the library was my refuge and my safe space
I think if half my face got blown off in #WW1, I’d curl up in a ball and feel sorry for myself. Let me introduce you to a Frenchman who did the opposite… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-th...
Spent the day molesting a Lancaster bomber. Can die happy now. A worthy way for @ianbird.bsky.social to mark a special year - thank you for playing chauffeur! Opted for the middle turret because it’s where my great uncle was situated…
Join self and @boneyabroad.com on @15minutebook.club as @leanderalphabet.bsky.social talks about the circus that has followed the US football team over the years! Patreon people get double the episode! Pod link: pod.fo/e/433086 YouTube: youtu.be/Fs_DMQe7SNs www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteB...
I know, but it’s not @guywalters.bsky.social - it’s the second part of my bit on the (un)readiness of the French Air Force for Blitzkrieg in 1940… achurchill.substack.com/p/article-th...
Books cure everything. Some more purchases. Re the votes the link is www.military-history.org/books/mhm-bo...
So it appears I woke up with a superpower this morning and can now read Queen Alexandra’s handwriting.
Thoughts and prayers please. Queen Victoria’s old lady handwriting… And her own regal interpretation of grammar and punctuation… #Nobodyisthebossofme @carolynaday.bsky.social
Yay for all the advertising @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social 💪🏼 @boneyabroad.com
My first boyfriend was Glaswegian. His brother apparently once joked that he had crack stuffed inside a teddy at JFK. The day got progressively worse for certain parts of his anatomy and the bear didn’t make it.
It’s turning into #SpitfireSunday too - specially Battle of France spitfire - Substack incoming on Tuesday!