Alexandra Churchill ✌🏼⭐️⭐️
@churchill_alex
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FRHistS Historian @greatwargroup @IstoriaTravel Reps: @ITG_Ltd @watsonlittle Read my magazine: https://t.co/opLyPEmxPu Left for @alexchurchill.bsky.social
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Joined September 2011
Since an anonymous football account added me to a hit list yesterday for receiving abuse, I have been subjected to countless death threats, and messages saying I should kill myself, or that I deserve to die. I have received messages condemning their behaviour from @ChelseaFC,
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Hanging with grandad just like the old days 😂
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@FernRiddell Or "she looked in the mirror - she looked like a sack of shit. She didn't give a fuck because her sister was dead. If a man had given her the come on she would have caved his skull on with a claw hammer.".
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8am EST. Time for my annual lols 4th July post, where I chuckle with my American friends and await the one or two of their countrymen lacking a sense of humoUr to pop along 😂😂😂
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This weekend I posted a picture of a statue, some Christmas party content and some pictures from a museum. I’ve been called a b***h. I’ve been called a c**t. Ive been criticised multiple times for not being white. My dead dad is now taking a trashing . A nice guy who.
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@Sarah_Lady @FernRiddell I am going to write a series of thrillers where a not super skinny woman goes round fighting crime with no intention of finding a man and lives on kebabs.
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Unfollow spree. #Churchill was of his time. Applying today’s morals on history is a pointless, unhelpful endeavour. We learned that these opinions were bad. We evolved past them. We regret them. Saying he has parallels w Hitler is grotesque. He helped save the world from his ilk
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If you want to be down with us Brits, you have to know the difference between all the shits init. 🇬🇧
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Keeping the Churchill family boiler suit tradition alive - tho Grandad’s were probably tailored on Saville Row and mine were borrowed off of another member of the tank crew twice my size in the Finnish forest 😂 🇫🇮 #TVStuff
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Lord Nelson passed through this tunnel.in 1805. He was on his way to join HMS Victory, and this walk constituted his final steps on English soil. @kejamieson_ @IstoriaTravel
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Don’t publicly comment on the Duke & Duchess of Sussex. Except to say this @hellomag. That ain’t a library. That’s a few 1/2 empty sad shelves dressed by an interior designer with books that will die alone. I’m a total peasant and I’ve got more hidden in the boot of my mini.
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Love this.
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For a generation that only remembers the Duke as an elderly man. Here he is aged seven winning a biscuit eating competition in Paris. #PrincePhilip
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I’ve been so nervous about sharing this. But for a year @PikeGrey1418 & I have been working SO HARD on a joint project to reshape the way we look at #WW1 We’re off to Belgium to film a TV series next week. And edging ever closer to the book deal to go with it🤞🏼#GiveEveryoneAVoice
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Concurred.
After multiple years of deep analysis, I’ve concluded that this is the most gangsta photo of Churchill…
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Here’s to a tireless woman who gave her country almost a century of service. On a personal level her kindness including opening documents to me that had not been released before to share her family history. For all of this, thank you Your Majesty, and good night.
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It takes a monumental effort to hold the Victory up in dry dock in the right way. This started in 1925 when my boy George V noticed her sagging and had it sorted out. These days, she’s constantly monitored by computers, and the placement of the struts mimics the forces that would
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Love his films, but he’s being douchey. So I wrote Ridley a letter . Dear Mr. Scott, . You picked one of the most famous, polarising characters in history to make a film about and then didn’t stick to the facts. That’s great, you do you, make buckets of money. (feel free to.
Ridley Scott has resorted to that time-dishonoured and lamest excuse for getting his history wrong in his Napoleon film. Telling people 'you can't know because you weren't there' negates the whole pursuit of historical knowledge, and basically gives you a pass to make it all up.
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I’m not a cultural warrior, but I was tortured with the word “p*k*” at school & I used to try & scrub myself white in the bath because kids told me that being brown was dirty. Regardless of any political opinion I might have on him an asian walking in No.10 is a big moment for me
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We’ve waited so long to share this. It’s been two years of hard work, we’ve even learned new languages to be able to tell the story the way we want to. We’ve already laughed, screamed, cried and jokingly called each other every name under the sun but I couldn’t.have picked a
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On this day in 1912, RMS #Titanic made her final stop, at Queenstown (Cobh) before heading out into the Atlantic. Incidentally it was also Senior Wireless Operator Jack Phillip’s 25th birthday. He had three days left to live. He’s the reason I’m an historian.
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17yr old Lepa Radić resisted the Nazis. Captured in Feb ‘43, they tied a rope around her neck but offered her a way out. Give up your comrades & your leaders' identities. Lepa said she was no traitor & responded: You will know them when they come to avenge me #WW2 🇷🇸 🇧🇦
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Bugger it. We shouldn’t need #IWD to celebrate brave women. Don't mess with London girls. When Hannah met George V in 1918, she told him she had been blown up 3 times in her job. She was still working in a munitions factory. Be like Hannah. #FeistyGirls
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Other women make small ripples. When my grandmother died recently she left all of her property in rural Pakistan to charity. Specifically that it be used as a girls school or a women’s shelter #IWD 💙
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I aspire to this level of f*ckery daily.
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Just a reminder that this is a very old lady who worked till the day she died sitting at the funeral of her husband of 70+ years alone, because Boris Johnson told her she had to. And he’s still spouting absolute bollocks…
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My grandmother. A mother of six, she had my dad (pictured) a few weeks after partition aged 16. She lost the grandfather I never met to motor neurone disease when he was in his 50s. When she died in 2021 she left me a humble string of pearls and his #WW2 service medal. She left
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Behold. Alan Turing’s office @bletchleypark #WW2 🏳️🌈 It will never not make my blood boil what was done to that man.
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If you see this tweet, you have to mention one of your favourite paintings. One more
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THERE WAS A PUPPY 🐶 at Douamont. Meet Yuzu! Six weeks. They warned me about the paws being muddy - and I regretted nothing
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My nanny would have been 96 today. She didn’t get me. She couldn’t understand the football and the history and total lack of interest in her trying to teach me how to cook. But she would have walked through fire for me regardless of any of that, and I miss that. And I miss her.
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I was going to do a thread for this year, but I just don’t have it in me. My mum bought me a champagne bottle charm to celebrate 2023. I was baffled. She pointed out: . This year: . ☑️ Book Deal.☑️ Biggest year for TV yet .☑️ Got my Masters .☑️ Elected a fellow of the Royal.
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Today is the 109th anniversary of the Battle of Mons. But I’m not letting you get away without also remembering something else that happened on 23rd August 1914. What if I told you that c300 British soldiers died at Mons. At Dinant c700 civilians were murdered 🧵 . WARNING -
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Did you know the roof of the Bomber Command memorial is fashioned from the remains of a downed Halifax recovered in 1997. Three of the eight Canadian crew killed were still at their stations 🇨🇦 🕯️ #WW2 @IstoriaTravel
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Sick to my stomach. We are f*cking historians people. We don’t make laws, or hurt people, or force our opinions on anyone. We’re just here to tell stories. And we get paid f*** all for it. Just let us be and move on if it’s not your bag. If this provokes you to spout the kind of.
Hey @X, how can I get called the N word and your report says it doesn't breach the violations. How are you man above the actual law?
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Please also meet Rex this #RemembranceDay2023 He was wounded by falling masonry and while at home recovering the 20yr old put a revolver in his mouth. His devastated mother wrote to the War Office, almost.like she didn’t want them to think badly of him, saying he thought he might
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A rather stunning cover image from Le Petit Journal in September 1914 - Allied soldiers charge the German “monster” #WW1
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Waiting for the lolworthy “lesbian” accusations from weirdoes 😂😂😂 As if it would be an insult… @kejamieson_
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Just had an email from the powers that be to say my online history newsletter has hit bestseller status, in nine days. I get a nice badge. Which is a bit overwhelming. Because this was a bit of a lark and now if this carries on it might be life changing and give me an
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And not every death happened on the battlefield. David was still a teenager when his face was effectively ripped off on the Somme in 1916. He suffered for nine long months in hospital before he succumbed to his wounds. He was 20. 🕯️ #RemembranceDay2023 #RemembranceDay
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Have a glorious photo of George V taken on the battlefields in 1917. He made exhaustive trips, including a dangerous sprint in Spring 1918 to try and help rally troops who were being bludgeoned by the spring offensives. It was his birthday at the weekend 👑
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He didn’t make it. Rapid decline and his little body had just had enough. Four years wasn’t enough little man. You were so loved 💔
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@benonwine It’s in an injoke lol. There’s a psycho Stalin fangirl on here somewhere that’s always telling me what an arse my grandad was.
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With one of my bestest most favouritest people and ruing not putting any makeup on this morning… @militaryhistori @ChalkeFestival
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So Beth and I were trying to make some serious war content at Asiago. Until we got hijacked by a man in budgie smugglers. In a field. 😂😂😂 @HistoryandMoore @GreatWarGroup It could only happen to us 🤦🏼♀️
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You’ve seen the tunnel that took him out onto the fort and away from England for the last time, now here is the place that Lord Nelson died on HMS Victory. @kejamieson_
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It’s almost time 😳 @PikeGrey1418 & I have been working ourselves to the bone on non-British coverage of 1914 for nearly two years. Thank you @HistoryHit for exploring new narratives in English with us, it’s literally why we do @GreatWarGroup So many lovely Belgians involved too
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My father was no bigot. He was a computer programmer and you never knew him. You don’t know me. Your profile says “no one”. That fact eats you up inside and at the same time it is so accurate it’s pathetic. But you must feel like the man picking on someone’s dead dad. Big man.
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Or he’s just polite 😂😂 I hold the door open for people whether they’ve got boobs or not 😂
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Wow. Major battlefield tour company not even subtle about lifting a trip I’ve put blood sweat and tears into and not even changing the name. It would be flattering if it wasn’t so blatant. As it is it’s just another instance of a third party chipping away at my professional soul
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Climbing onto my 🇫🇷 soapbox (along with @Ri315e & @SteveMarsdin) Today. 🧵 ⬇️Yes, today we commemorate the start of the Battle of Loos. BUT. 25/9/15 was arguably the worst day of the war for France, who launched multiple offensives too.* More than 23,500 Frenchmen died in ONE
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Christmas has become a source of misery and anxiety for me - I think it happens to people for all sorts of reasons, and there’s no need to be ashamed of them, so I’m going to run the phone a friend scheme again. If you’d like to receive a phone call on Christmas day to chat to
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Their day. For them and their fallen comrades and all the friends no longer with them. This day also belongs to the families of all of those. I refuse to let this day be about nazi f***heads with no comprehension of history just want to pile in on some aggro. No. Anyone out today.
Over 9,000 will take part, including veterans who served on D-Day
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I’ve outed her before, but I maintain, Marie has no soul, bless her 📚 Unless she means 30 books within arms length at all times. That I could live with
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So finally, my Eton book is out in paperback. It’s undergone a big edit, has two “lost” chapters on Mesopotamia and Serbia that couldn’t be accommodated in hardback and now has more than 100 images throughout. Thank you so much to @gwmcnamee (OE) @irishgirl71126 and
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I wish England had just treated him better when he was alive, but 🤘🏼
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Someone once said to me “I don’t give a shit about history, everyone is dead and it’s in the past. Why bother?” This thought of the day is for all those who think the study of history is pointless…
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For anyone who has watched the @HistoryHit “Forgotten Battles” doc and wants to know more about Belgium in 1914, the show had just a fraction of what will be on the @IstoriaTravel Belgium 1914 tour I’m heading out there leading next July. Full details here:
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Found this in my inbox. Nobody in my family had been to uni before until me. My mum was a cleaner. My grandfather was a market trader. I hope he’d be proud. He made me love history but died before it took over my life. F*ck you cancer.
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American bombers are not remotely as beautiful as a Lancaster. This may offend you colonial types, & I love you & your captain crunch and your Bath and Body Works lavender scented cedar wood pillow mist very much, but I’m afraid it’s just irrefutable
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Truth.
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Today I’m just going to stick a pin in the thousands of people that have crossed my desk in the last decade or so. Meet Charlie. He served on the Western Front. In 1921 he was about to go to India with the ICS when his parents found a note on his fathers desk downstairs in the
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Maybe now all the tantrum-throwing "I can't get the access I want waaaaah" conspiracy theorists can just f*ck off and leave her alone. #PrincessofWales She put her small children before you. Go figure.
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This isn’t just vandalism, carpenters marks on HMS #Victory, kept track of beams coming and going during maintenance work. A wooden ship is a constantly evolving work of art. If she’s being looked after properly she won’t go from one year to the next without changes @kejamieson_
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So delighted to have worked out a venue for our Women and History event. Thank you @I_W_M London! It’s time to get all of these contacts and friendships made during Covid into the real world! If you are a woman working in academia, museums, guiding, etc., or you are just
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Life is heartbreaking and sh*% and i’m addition, cancer can literally go fuck itself.
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It’s been a ride the last couple of weeks. Here’s a thank you from me and a present. I’d you want to join the history fun and read/listen to exclusive work from me: @DrLindseyFitz @James1940 @almurray @RebeccaRideal @kejamieson_ @thehistoryguy
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Mute has been deployed and I’m not playing this sad little attention seeking game. I’ve spent the last three years, mostly unpaid, giving historians a voice. I have never excluded anyone from anything on the basis of their race, age, gender, sexuality or anything else. I’m so
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It’s ok to just be broken and achieve nothing on some days, right? Asking for a friend.
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Hiding behind a keyboard while you trash someone, invade their privacy & dish out spiteful bile is low. If people can’t own what they’re willing to dish out on social media they should at least be called out. This is the face of the woman who has harassed me for three years on
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Some of grandad’s stuff - his baby curls, supposedly his uniform from the Sudan @PeterHart1915 Some shrapnel that nearly boinked him in #WW1 and his cigar box. I don’t smoke cigars. But I want it. @BlenheimPalace
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I don’t think that, aside from the traditional service that just took place, I’ve ever been so disillusioned by the remembrance “experience”. 🕯 Coming at you from someone for who literally every day is remembrance day. It’s not about us. It’s about them.
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Tell me you’ve never read a history book without telling me you’ve never read a history book. 🤦🏼♀️ Baldrick was closer.
@Derrickdontplay You’d be correct. The first WW was planned well in advance by Britain. They were upset that Russia & Germany were crushing them in the Industrial Revolution. So Cecil Rhodes, Rothschild, and their little circle of elitist pricks constructed a plan to get the U.S. join them in.
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To die is one thing, but we need a day where we remember the people who come home and what was has done to them. Because that can be a lifetime of pain. 💙🙏🏼
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Thank you to all @UniversityLeeds for this experience. I didn’t get to enjoy a graduation, & I’m a bit sad I couldn’t take the PhD place but this was an experience that definitely made.me better at what I do. @thehistorygirl1 & @HistoryNerdess & my viva examiners @ElDrClaire &
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I’m really f*cking hating the internet this week. For the record, not a recurring royalty penny, ever, from TV. That’s not how it works if you’re not @GillianA As for books, history books don’t make you Stephen King cash. In fact, they don’t even make you subsistence level cash,
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This is a really depressing time to be a historian. Especially on this platform. Years of work in multiple fields being shat on and politicised. Stick to the facts and you’ll be abused by a hysterical mob which overwhelmingly hasn’t bothered educating itself before wading in
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Join @kejamieson_ and I in Portsmouth for more naval shenanigans! Our @IstoriaTravel day trip on 2nd September includes @MaryRoseMuseum with me, HMS Victory with KJ, then a Nelson walk through Portsmouth that ends in the pub!
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STOP EVERYTHING YOU ARE DOING.
Happy National Mutt Day! These sailors of the USS LCI(L)-5 are placing a tiny but remarkably well-made life preserver on their mascot puppy just prior to the invasion of Normandy in 1944. #NationalMuttDay
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Lols. I'm unleashing @WW2girl1944 @Roger_Moorhouse @claremulley @SilenceInPolish This fool has doubled down guys. The German/Russian invasion of Poland in 1939 along with occupations of Austria, Czecholslovakia, for starters were a "regional squabble." . ALSO FIND JAPAN AND.
Wikipedia, huh? 🤡. Remember when the UK & France both declared war on Germany and escalated a regional squabble into a world war?
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"Drop the most iconic picture of you.". It wasn’t going to be anything sensible, was it ? @brianblessed
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