The Second World War
The best people posting on the Second World War. I’ll keep adding to this and if I’ve missed anyone (inevitable) please say!
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@seaspitfires.com
@normandy661944.bsky.social
Interested in the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU), military history, wartime art, photography. Random other reposts. WHW IC member. Also on Twitter. (Profile IWM E11085)
@redfivemodels.bsky.social
Part time Male Model.......maker. I dabble in most things scale model related, but mainly WW2. Check out my Youtube Channel too and dont forget to like and subscribe 😉 https://youtube.com/@RedFiveScaleModels?si=ZFUKHWAaaZjd4q8d
@nickstanley3.bsky.social
Ex RN, now retired & a charity Volunteer. Interests: naval & military history, international & domestic politics and church architecture. Dislike extremism of any type/form.
@lydiajane13.bsky.social
Author/historian. Bomber Command Minelaying, RAF/Admiralty Co-operation, Norwegian Campaign. Learning 🇳🇴 slowly. Co-host nmtdambusters.bsky.social The Invisible Campaign: Bomber Command Gardening Operations1940-1945 out now
@davidunderdown.bsky.social
Data Engineer at The National Archives. Digital Preservation/Digital Archiving. Also cycling, bellringing, photography, choral singing, promming and much more
@newforestramble.bsky.social
I walk about and stumble across stuff I think's interesting, you might too, and it's often the weird and wonderful in the New Forest including history. Lots of WW2 history and military airfields can also be expected.
@formerlytankiemike.bsky.social
History-Archaeology-Geology Not tanks so much these days.
@ddaylogs.bsky.social
Retired military and computer geek, researching the buildup to D-Day. Work in progress at www.ddaybuildup.info
@historybowsh.bsky.social
Military Historian, Author & Educator Associate Fellow Royal Historical Society Author of Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma - Chiselbury Publishing Media Representative Past Preservers: casting@pastpreservers.com
@dansteele.bsky.social
Military History Enthusiast, Aviation, Fair-Weather Cyclist, Football Fan, Petrolhead, Sim/Strategy/Builder Gamer, Software Engineer. Historic Photograph Colourist @dansteele.net 📍 Southampton, UK
@ihistorical.bsky.social
Historian, educator, re-enactor and rugby fan! Main interests: Ian Fleming's wartime commandos, French Campaign in Egypt, F&I War and more....
@alliedarmour.bsky.social
50ish/M/Ont/🇨🇦, he/him. Aspiring "afflicted" WW2 military historian. My book about the Archer is available from Trackpad Publishing! Also interested in art, video games, SF+fantasy novels, cats, puns
@historyeuan.bsky.social
History geek. IC 3436. Psychotherapist. Norfolk based. Writing about the disaster at St Valery-en-Caux in June 1940.
@marcusfaulkner.bsky.social
Naval and intelligence historian. Familiar with the Second World War. PhD, MA etc. Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies @ King's College London
@alanallport.bsky.social
Dr. Walter Montgomery & Marian Gruber Professor of History, Syracuse, NY. https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/alan-allport Husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025)
@luketurner.bsky.social
Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
@ckolonko.bsky.social
Archaeologist specialising in UK's F/SWW Home Front & Invasion Defences. Often mistaken for a palaeontologist, architect, & 'pillbox hunter'. I don't know anything about the Atlantic Wall. chriskolonko.wordpress.com youtube.com/@remembertheregs
@timbenbow.bsky.social
Professor of Strategic Studies, King's College London My research focusses on UK naval strategy and naval history in the Second World War and Cold War.
@coppsurvey.uk
Dedicated to Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP), a top-secret unit that carried out covert reconnaissance of enemy-held beaches during the Second World War. Website: coppsurvey.uk
@vickersmg.bsky.social
Registered Charity No. 1210266 (England and Wales).
@frbguide.bsky.social
French Battlefields Guide in Normandy. Military history enthusiast. Website and booking: https://www.french-battlefields.com/
@bowerswrites.bsky.social
Staff writer for Legion Magazine | Telling Canada's wartime stories | Brit living in N.S., Canada | Married to Annie | http://buymeacoffee.com/alexbowers 🏳️🌈
@dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social
Official Account of the Dunkirk 1940 Museum, Chatham, Kent
@rivetsandpins.bsky.social
@peteblanchard.bsky.social 's military history account. I focus primarily on AFV development/warfare 1915-42. Warning: may contain humour. For more detail: https://rivets-and-pins.beehiiv.com/
@louiseprovan.bsky.social
Historian with an MA in Military History from the University of Wolverhampton. Obsessions include Admiral Jacky Fisher and Dunsterforce. Great War Group Founder Member and proud WHW IC member. https://louiseprovan.substack.com/
@seanfscullion.bsky.social
Author of CHURCHILL’S SPANIARDS (Helion) y ESPAÑOLES CONTRA EL NAZISMO (Espasa) #ContinuingtheFight Spain/SCW/Hispanic World Mountains/climbing/ultra distances #ManonaPinkBike🚲 Military History🇬🇧🇪🇸☘️🇫🇷
@jojohook.bsky.social
Professional Battlefield Guide & Military Historian WW1/WW2 Op MG, WF - MA WW1. Presentations & podcasts. Dad designed Quality Street tins & drew maps in WW2
@biggles63.bsky.social
Semi-retired academic. Cryptography, information security. Ex RAF. Independent Company #427 OC Pieoneer Corps and Chief Boffin of the IC Egghead & Boffin Ltd.
@blitzwalker.bsky.social
Battlefield Guide - London at War Cricket Football (Charlton & Dulwich Hamlet) Heritage Stuff Movies 📍London, England
@markcalhoun.bsky.social
World War II Historian, retired US Army helicopter pilot, Chiefs and Jayhawks fan, occasional cycling and hiking. Biographer of General Lesley J. McNair.
@danellin.bsky.social
Historian, Gremlinologist, musician, and father. IBCC Digital Archivist. Trustee for RAF Ingham. All views my own. He/him.
@tonypollard.bsky.social
Prof of Conflict History & Archaeology, Uni of Glasgow. Bit of TV and the write stuff.
@thebattleguide.bsky.social
Man of Kent. Military history anorak. Battlefield guide. Biker. CWGC volunteer. IC, GWG & WFA member. Wargamer. BA (Hons) in War Studies.
@dienekes.bsky.social
Retired doctor, Eastern Front historian, husband, dad, servant of two border collie puppies. www.pritbuttar.com
@mike-bechthold.bsky.social
PhD Historian | Royal Historical Society Fellow RCAF | RAF | RNAS | RFC | Canadian Army First World War | Second World War Cartographer | Graphic Designer https://mikebechthold.com/
@claremulley.bsky.social
Author of The #SpyWhoLoved (freedom), #WomenWhoFlewForHitler (but ended their lives on opposite sides of history), #WomanWhoSavedTheChildren (but didn’t like them much). #AgentZo (what a hero).
@silenceinpolish.bsky.social
@matteatonmedia.bsky.social
Personal Account: researching troop morale & entertainment for p/t Military History PhD, London IC, voracious reader, keen baker, secret SWW modeller. Journaling about history here: https://matteatonmedia.substack.com
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
FRHistS Royal/Military Historian Director @greatwargroup 🕯️ www.istoriatravel.org ✈️ Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social 📚 #CFC ⚽️ #WW1 #WW2 🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷 https://achurchill.substack.com
@robertglennie.bsky.social
Historian. Researching the British army in Normandy, Market Garden and beyond, North Africa, Middle Eastern Mandate days, the Med. Occasional trips east. Independent Armoured Brigades. Tank pedantry. Freshwater conservation. Fish!
@andyaitch.bsky.social
Mainly I like the 52nd Lowland Division. Cohost of News Of The War https://linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar The Lowlander pod https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-lowlander/id1715310568 Walking With The Jocks Tour 2025 https://walkingwiththejocks.co.uk/
@boneyabroad.com
Host of @theaviation.show, supporter of #FulhamFC #FFC and complainer about movies.
@historypegg.bsky.social
Conflict History my passion, Without history we are nothing, learning from the past to make a better future. Writing a book on Army Chaplains in World War 2 May 2025 published by Chiselbury. Podcast @aohpod
@streetwriter.bsky.social
Author/co-author of several bestselling books about Canadian military history. Currently writing a biography of Cdr Campbell Clouston and 'The Miracle of Dunkirk.' More at https://bio.link/jeffreystreet.
@seanboy.bsky.social
Normandy based tour guide/researcher/lecturer/history enthusiast. Occasional poster of Then And Nows. Music lover. Mostly loud stuff. www.normandyinsight.net
@thelowlander.bsky.social
The Lowlander weekly podcast - Andy and Merryn share the service newsletter that was sent out daily to men of the 52nd Lowland Division Nov 44 / May 45.
@bfxpl.bsky.social
Battlefield guide for Operation Market Garden and beyond, interested in all things WWI and WWII.
@dalyhistory.bsky.social
Historian | Author | AMA | Associate FRHistS | My own views. https://linktr.ee/jamesdaly83
@markforsdike.bsky.social
“A dedicated historian of his long-gone local regiment” Author of ‘Fighting Through to Hitler’s Germany’, ‘A Battalion in Burma’ and ‘The Malayan Emergency: The Crucial Years.’ markforsdike.com
@battlefieldben.bsky.social
Second World War Historian/Battlefield Guide. Director of Liberation Route UK @lre_foundation. Committee advisor & ambassador @TaxiCharity. Moto GP fan! My personal views.
@battlefielddisc.bsky.social
Military History | Research, Battlefield Tours, Talks | Market Garden, Ardennes, Veritable, Huertgenwald and more | http://www.battlefielddiscovery.com
@niels1944.bsky.social
Specialist on Normandy 1944, esp. the Cotentin Peninsula. Author of 'Defending Normandy' (2024): https://www.panzerwrecks.com/product/defending-normandy-vol-1/ Love history books but prefer to study the records myself. Try it.
@gliderpilot44.bsky.social
IC member, completely afflicted by SWW, Horsa glider is greatest aircraft, re-enactor Glider Pilot Regiment.
@okeefehistorian.bsky.social
Military Historian, best-selling author, Prof of History, Documentarian, Creator, Host, Writer, Producer etc. Creaky old Ballplayer.
@merrynwalters.uk
Writer. Excitable. 📗FRGS Getting lost on purpose. ツ https://linktr.ee/merrynwalters
@mikehistorian.bsky.social
WWII Historian, Battlefield Guide and former soldier, sharing his deep knowledge on glider operations, the Army Air Corps, and the Mighty Eighth.
@curatorian.bsky.social
Historian & curator - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
@stubertphoto.bsky.social
Official We Have Ways Podcast Festival & CVHF photographer. Love photographing anything SWW history related, far away places and the beauty on our doorstep....
@almurray.bsky.social
@navalairhistory.com
Writer naval/aviation hist. Council member Navy Records Soc. Words. Art. Photography. Silken Windhounds. He/him. Free Palestine
@ww2tv.bsky.social
🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🎙️ YouTuber, battlefield guide and historian in Normandy. All opinions, comments and newsboy caps my own. Quite "Woke" and proud of it. #WW2TV #Normandy #IpswichTown #Rockabilly #Punk 🐈🍺⚽ https://www.youtube.com/c/WW2TV
@jamesjhistory.bsky.social
Aviation and Cultural Historian: The memory of the RAF in the Second World War. PhD student and Assistant Lecturer, University of Essex and Wolverhampton. Co-Presenter for @nmtdambusters.bsky.social pod.
@nickhewitt4.bsky.social
#naval #historian #Orkney Culture Team Lead @OrkneyCouncil. Author: Firing on Fortress Europe, Coastal Convoys, Kaiser’s Pirates. New book #Normandy: The Sailors’ Story with Yale Books. On TV a bit. Views all mine. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
@seaspitfires.com
Author, historian & archaeologist, Lindblad Expeditions guide, National Geographic expert. Has a soft spot for WW2 Coastal Forces, landing craft, LCT 7074 & D-Day. Servant to 2 pets. Writes books for Penguin. www.seaspitfires.com