James Calbraith
@jamescalbraith
Edinburgh. Author of history-adjacent fiction. The Saxon Spears and other Post-Roman tales. Jamescalbraith.co.uk 🏳️⚧️❤️🏳️🌈
A waffle iron built into a stove in Żuławy Museum. You can take a Mennonite out of the Netherlands, but you can't take the Netherlands... Etc.
This is the English version of the alert. We just heard the sirens go off twice, that's it.
A grim yet hopeful exhibit from Żuławy Museum in Nowy Dwór Gdański: a set of keys from a German refugee's house which miraculously survived (with its owner) the Wilhelm Gustlof disaster and was returned home decades later.
This is why Bluesky is the superior social network right now (meanwhile Twitter top trend is 'Falklands'). #palantir
Check out Spain's path to the final. Looks like they're re-fighting all their old wars again. Austria. Portgual. Spanish Netherlands (Belgium). France. And finally, England. The Armada will sail again!
Grand example of Germanic hubris. The massive Imperial Castle of Poznań, built as a symbol of eternal German Reich and its lordship over Greater Poland, finished in... 1910, eight years before it all collapsed.
Regret to inform the Kalkriese battlefield is not haunted by a single Roman Legionnaire, despite some 20000 of them having perished here in 9 AD. 🏺 👻
Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions! (surveying the Teutoburg Forest battlefield at Kalkriese, completing the years-long tour of famous battles of ancient Europe)
Boring Americans online: 'there's no good Mexican food in Scotland' Scotland: can we interest you in Mexican-Malaysian-Scottish fusion? Tacoslah.com
Every Polish family in the 1980s had to fit into this. If they were lucky.
What do you call the opposite of review bombing (spoiler alert, it's oops all nazis)
It's already time for the annual game of 'how many faces on the Stand's Fringe poster do you recognize'
I remember when you couldn't have any tall buildings in Leith because they'd 'obscure the views from Calton Hill'