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20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part One

13th November 2024 Going Postal 0

“Bei den Fraüen geschätzt” In my DAK militaria collection I have a series of Feldpost letters, starting in May 1942, sent by a Deutsche Afrika Korps soldier, Hans Walden, to a Fraü H. Bronnold in [more…]

20th Century

A Ukrainian Enigma

10th October 2024 Going Postal 0

I have an original photograph bought as part of a “bundle” from a militaria seller whose business model is to put together sets of documents, photographs and ephemera that appear to be vaguely related so [more…]

19th Century

Ancient and Modern (or a Tale of Two Cartridges: 2)

9th August 2023 Tom Pudding 0

In Part One I described the processes involved in reloading the (to me at any rate) ‘modern’ .303 British cartridge, all stages of which can easily be automated. Now let’s look at what is involved [more…]

19th Century

Ancient and Modern (or a Tale of Two Cartridges: 1)

2nd August 2023 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction Two questions that I am regularly asked when shooting my long-obsolete 19th century rifles at our local club range are i) how much does it cost to make one cartridge? and ii) how long [more…]

18th Century

Oh, What a Circus!

21st June 2023 SharpieType301 0

If one were of a particularly cynical nature, one might think that a piece with this title might have been written to comment upon the near unbelievable social and political culture we find ourselves living [more…]

19th Century

The Lithuanian Gas Chamber

13th December 2022 Novak and Goode 0

Since the “winter” flight timetables have come into operation it has become more convenient for me to initially fly into Kaunas rather than into Vilnius for my business-related visits to Lithuania (something I have undertaken [more…]

19th Century

The Rise and Fall of the Needle Gun 1841-1874

12th September 2022 Tom Pudding 0

The Needle Gun Every once in a while in all fields of engineering there comes along an innovation that so revolutionises the existing technology that it makes long accepted ways of doing things obsolete and [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Far Right Extremism (Innit?)

17th May 2022 Colin Cross 0

Welcome everyone, to my bi-weekly missive on all things “green”, some things bizarre and some things which may appear “made up” but which most definitely aren’t. Back to something like 90% fitness I’ve spent the [more…]

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