#British Legion

[bantarleton]

Last year’s reenactment of the battle of Camden (though the open woodland and that British Legion cavalry sure makes it look a lot like Waxhaws too!).

[charlestownbound]

I stand by my cancelled wife (I'm going to push him in front of a bus)

[little-desi-historian]

Battle of Waxhaws reenactment ft Mister Banastre Tarletons Calvary owning Marions troops. Rule Britannia! /hj

[napoleoninjorts]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “the southern theater of the American Revolutionary War ” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw Francis Marion in the swamp

My buddy John Pyle, pacing: those men in the British Legion’s uniforms are lying to us

[totallyhussein-blog]

A light in the darkness of Britain's Holocaust history

Back in 2019, the BBC reported that Britain's oldest poppy seller Ron Jones died aged 102. He collected for the Royal British Legion's poppy appeal for more than 30 years, eventually stopping aged 101.

The retired steelworker from Newport was a prisoner of war in the Auschwitz concentration camp while serving in the 1st Battalion Welch Regiment during World War Two.

Auschwitz remains a symbol of pure evil, a place of genocide and inhumanity, of total disregard for the sanctity and dignity of life. An estimated 1.1–1.5mn men, women, and children died there, 90% of them Jewish.

Others included Roma and Sinti people, political prisoners, Jehovah’s Witnesses, socialists, and LGBTQIA+ people. What is also less well known is the internment of 1,400 British prisoners of war at Auschwitz.

Among them was Ron Jones, who had joined the South Wales Borderers in 1940. He was captured in Benghazi, Libya, and was initially transported to a POW camp in Italy.

[illustratus]

Satan awakening his legions by Estella Canziani

[theroyalsandi]

British Royal Family - The Princess of Wales attends the annual Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England.

2015 -> 2024

[princesscatherineblog]

The Prince and Princess of Wales at the Royal Albert Hall on 9th November 2024 to attend the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance.

[blueiscoool]

What Was Life Like in the Roman Army?

The British Museum’s New Show Offers a Peek

"Legion" showcases objects including scabbards, coins, and the world's only intact legionary shield.

The viral nature of the term “Roman Empire” makes it easy to forget the trend started because ancient Rome had one of the most unforgettable armies in history. A new show at the British Museum is turning the spotlight on the soldiers that helped build and safeguard Roman rule.

Legion: Life in the Roman Army” transports visitors to the million square miles that was once the Roman Empire to explore its unparalleled military might through the eyes of the people who lived it. The museum already has a dedicated gallery space covering the rise of Rome from a small town to an imperial capital, covering a period of about 1,000 years. But the latest show humanizes that collective power through more than 200 exhibits ranging from soldierly objects to everyday items that capture the lives of citizens living under military rule.

Copper alloy Roman legionary helmet.

“Few men are born brave,” wrote Vegetius in the later Roman Empire. “Many become so from care and force of discipline.” From the 6th century B.C.E., soldiering was a career choice and joining the army came with substantial perks (if you lived), including a substantial pension. Foreigners entering the auxiliary troops could also attain citizenship for themselves and their families.

The show traces the journey of a notable Roman soldier, Claudis Terentianus, following him from his enlistment to his participation in campaigns to his retirement. Along the way, visitors can view the armor and weapons soldiers wielded in battle, from a gilded bronze scabbard to a copper alloy helmet to the world’s only intact legionary shield. Domestic objects such as children’s shoes illustrate the family life of military men; coins and tombstones allude to the cost of the empire’s wars.

Also included in the show is an ancient Roman arm guard, found in fragments in 1906 and recently reconstructed by the National Museums Scotland—the first time the artifact can be viewed in its entirety in millennia.

“Sword and sandals, helmet and shield are all on parade here as would be expected, but told through often ordinary individuals,” Richard Abdy, the museum’s curator of Roman and Iron Age coins, said in a statement. “Every soldier has a story: it’s incredible that these tales are nearly 2,000 years old.”

By Jamie Valentino.

A helmet depicting the face of a Trojan.

Sword of Tiberius – Iron sword with gilded bronze scabbard.

Tombstone of an imaginifer’s daughter, 100-300 C.E.

Roman scutum (shield).

Gold coin featuring an oath-taking scene between two soldiers.

A 2,000-year-old Roman cavalry helmet.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The King and Members of The Royal Family Attend Festival Of Remembrance

(L-R) Catherine, Princess of Wales, Prince William, King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Prince Richard and Birgitte, Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence attend the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on 9 November 2024 in London, England.

📸: Chris J. Ratcliffe - WPA Pool / Getty Images

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2011

11 NOVEMBER 2011 || The Duchess of Cambridge attended a meeting for the Princes’ Charities Forum along with Prince William at BAFTA Headquarters in London.

[celebswearingghost]

Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr

[chelseajackarmy]

[thedreadvampy]

so me and Sam FINALLY watched the last season of Capaldi's Who

and tell me how, after literally over a decade and for perhaps the first time in his fucking career, Steven Moffat wrote a not just tolerable but really actually good two-parter and fully stuck the landing. like the editing and pacing were still a bit off but the storyline was original, fun, interesting and emotionally invested, and most importantly, rather than ending on a damp fart or the most furious autofellatio in history, the final part didn't fumble it and ended in a way that felt emotionally satisfying and like it made sense for the characters. like the last time he successfully wrapped up a multiparter in a way that didn't feel cheap and hollowly disappointing to me was literally The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, and a) that was in 2005 and b) tbh The Doctor Dances is about a tenth as compelling and memorable as The Empty Child.

so after 12 years of either hackery or great ideas that fall apart in the second act, Steven Moffat writes what I would genuinely consider to be a memorable Good Doctor Who serial. it ends with bittersweet pathos, a solid closer for all the main characters, and sends Moffat's showrunning career out on a genuine high despite failing ratings and budget cuts (and the fact Doctor Who hasn't been consistently good since about 2009). good job Steve. with grudging respect I admit you pulled it out of the bag on this one.

wait what's this there's one more episode left? and it stars Mark Gatiss? and you literally spend the whole episode inexplicably just shitting all over the legacy of Doctor Who by inventing a version of the First Doctor that bears literally no resemblance to the character that William Hartnell actually played, just so you can spend the whole episode saying misogynistic things to run yourself off to how much more Totally Feminist your version was than the version you made up in your head of what Doctor Who was like in the 60s? and it added literally nothing to the season except to take all the wind out of the sails of the actually good finale you already wrote?

even when he writes a good episode this fucker still finds ways to disappoint me.

[thedickcavettshow]

One thing that will never make any sense to me is why we have actors faking accents in movies and tv shows. Like just hire someone who already has that accent? And so often they’ve got British actors playing Americans and vice versa and it’s just never good bc Americans are rarely good at British accents and British actors well.. they’re usually able to pronounce individual words in an American accent but they pretty much always end up mixing many different regional accents together which is extremely distracting so like. Why not just hire someone who actually has the accent the character is supposed to have… having actors fake accents is just unnecessary and never sounds as good as a native speaker would