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  1. As we remember #veday80 and think about the 12,000 tonnes of bombs that fell on the UK in the 6 years of WW2

    Perhaps we can spare two minutes of silence for those who have had 70,000 tonnes of bombs fallen on them, the suffering people of #gaza

    If Gaza's footprint were laid across London east to west, it would stretch from Heathrow Airport to Dagenham

    They will have no victory day

    They will have no jam and scones

  2. As we remember #veday80 and think about the 12,000 tonnes of bombs that fell on the UK in the 6 years of WW2

    Perhaps we can spare two minutes of silence for those who have had 70,000 tonnes of bombs fallen on them, the suffering people of #gaza

    If Gaza's footprint were laid across London east to west, it would stretch from Heathrow Airport to Dagenham

    They will have no victory day

    They will have no jam and scones

  3. 🚴‍♂️Zwykła przejażdżka do pracy? Nie tym razem. Poznaj niesamowitą historię ewakuacji bezcennych zbiorów British Museum tuż przed wybuchem II wojny światowej. W 8 dni przeniesiono 150 ton eksponatów! Obejrzyj wideo lub przeczytaj bloga. 📽📚
    👉 ow.ly/4GOV50VP9Cn
    #historia #muzeum #VEDay80
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    facebook.com/729017625926967/v

  4. 🚴‍♂️Zwykła przejażdżka do pracy? Nie tym razem. Poznaj niesamowitą historię ewakuacji bezcennych zbiorów British Museum tuż przed wybuchem II wojny światowej. W 8 dni przeniesiono 150 ton eksponatów! Obejrzyj wideo lub przeczytaj bloga. 📽📚
    👉 ow.ly/4GOV50VP9Cn
    #historia #muzeum #VEDay80
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    facebook.com/729017625926967/v

  5. My Dad's photos normally featured posed individuals. He broke that rule on VE Day
    at a RAF depot somewhere in Egypt.
    "VE Day celebrations. Everyone packed up work."
    #VEDay #VEDay80

  6. Dear readers,

    Today's #poemaday was specially written for the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. #VEDay #VEDay80

    It’s much longer than usual: For the special occasion, I chose to typeset it as a PDF.

    Download here: bit.ly/airmanjones

    Enjoy!

    #photography #poetry #poem #berlin #poetsofmastodon #mastoart #writingcommunity #writing

  7. Dear readers,

    Today's #poemaday was specially written for the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. #VEDay #VEDay80

    It’s much longer than usual: For the special occasion, I chose to typeset it as a PDF.

    Download here: bit.ly/airmanjones

    Enjoy!

    #photography #poetry #poem #berlin #poetsofmastodon #mastoart #writingcommunity #writing

  8. It is VE Night, Tobermory.
    Cottages blaze and shimmer in the mirror of the bay.
    Light is necklaced everywhere,
    on the cross-trees of destroyers,
    on the hulls of every cockleshell and scalloper afloat,
    even on the gutted snout of a U-Boat…

    —Hugh McMillan, “Old Photograph”
    published in AFTER THE STORM (Smith/Doorstop Books, 2005)

    Today, 8 May, is the 80th anniversary of VE Day

    scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/p

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #VADay #VEDay80

  9. It is VE Night, Tobermory.
    Cottages blaze and shimmer in the mirror of the bay.
    Light is necklaced everywhere,
    on the cross-trees of destroyers,
    on the hulls of every cockleshell and scalloper afloat,
    even on the gutted snout of a U-Boat…

    —Hugh McMillan, “Old Photograph”
    published in AFTER THE STORM (Smith/Doorstop Books, 2005)

    Today, 8 May, is the 80th anniversary of VE Day

    scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/p

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #VADay #VEDay80

  10. “An officer – he must have been a new arrival, and a right clown – ran out in front of the company and shouted, with enthusiasm: ‘Men! The war in Europe is over!’”

    —The novelist George MacDonald Fraser – then a lance-corporal in the Border Regiment in the British Fourteenth Army – spent VE Day in 1945 waiting to attack a Japanese-held village in Burma. From his memoir QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE

    @bookstodon

    harpercollins.co.uk/products/q

    #Scottish #literature #VEDay #VEDay80 #WW2 #memoir #Burma

  11. “An officer – he must have been a new arrival, and a right clown – ran out in front of the company and shouted, with enthusiasm: ‘Men! The war in Europe is over!’”

    —The novelist George MacDonald Fraser – then a lance-corporal in the Border Regiment in the British Fourteenth Army – spent VE Day in 1945 waiting to attack a Japanese-held village in Burma. From his memoir QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE

    @bookstodon

    harpercollins.co.uk/products/q

    #Scottish #literature #VEDay #VEDay80 #WW2 #memoir #Burma

  12. "we may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing"

    Celebratory dancing in front of the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens, right below Edinburgh Castle, as people rejoiced at the surrender of the vile Nazi regime.

    #VEDay #VEDay80 #WWII #WorldWarTwo #History #Histoire #PrincesStreetGardens #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #SecondeGuerreMondiale

  13. "we may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing"

    Celebratory dancing in front of the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens, right below Edinburgh Castle, as people rejoiced at the surrender of the vile Nazi regime.

    #VEDay #VEDay80 #WWII #WorldWarTwo #History #Histoire #PrincesStreetGardens #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #SecondeGuerreMondiale

  14. During World War Two public weather forecasts by the Met Office became top secret information and had to stop. It was not until VE Day 8 May 1945 that the forecast was broadcast on the BBC again.

    More on @BBCNews with Dr Catherine Ross, our library & archive manager 👇 #VEDay80

    🐦🔗 twitter.com/metoffice/status/1
    🕐 08/05 13:43

  15. During World War Two public weather forecasts by the Met Office became top secret information and had to stop. It was not until VE Day 8 May 1945 that the forecast was broadcast on the BBC again.

    More on @BBCNews with Dr Catherine Ross, our library & archive manager 👇

    🐦🔗 twitter.com/metoffice/status/1
    🕐 08/05 13:43

  16. Cantie in seaside simmer on the dunes,
    I fling awa my dowp of cigarette
    whaur bairns hae biggit castles out of sand
    and watch the reik rise frae the parapet…

    —Robert Garioch Sutherland (1909–1987), “During a Music Festival”

    Today, 8 May, is the 80th anniversary of VE Day

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #WarPoetry #WW2 #VEDay #VEDay80

  17. Cantie in seaside simmer on the dunes,
    I fling awa my dowp of cigarette
    whaur bairns hae biggit castles out of sand
    and watch the reik rise frae the parapet…

    —Robert Garioch Sutherland (1909–1987), “During a Music Festival”

    Today, 8 May, is the 80th anniversary of VE Day

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #WarPoetry #WW2 #VEDay #VEDay80

  18. On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, it's particularly sickening that Russia – a country once again bringing war and fascism to Europe – will tomorrow celebrate its distorted version of history that leaves out things like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. #veday #ww2 #russia #ukraine #europe #veday80

  19. On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, it's particularly sickening that Russia – a country once again bringing war and fascism to Europe – will tomorrow celebrate its distorted version of history that leaves out things like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

  20. Now the soldier has come home.

    He has fought his way back
    To the faces of the gnome-children
    With still magic in their glances…

    —James Findlay Hendry (1912–1986), “The Return”

    Today, 8 May, is the 80th anniversary of VE Day

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #WarPoetry #WW2 #VEDay #VEDay80

  21. Now the soldier has come home.

    He has fought his way back
    To the faces of the gnome-children
    With still magic in their glances…

    —James Findlay Hendry (1912–1986), “The Return”

    Today, 8 May, is the 80th anniversary of VE Day

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #WarPoetry #WW2 #VEDay #VEDay80

  22. Lest we forget why they fought and what they died for.

    Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

    #VEDay80
    #VEDay2025

  23. Lest we forget why they fought and what they died for.

    Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

    #VEDay80
    #VEDay2025

  24. Thàinig uair-san leis na sligean,
    leis na spealgan-iarainn beàrnach,
    anns an toit is anns an lasair,
    ann an crith is maoim na h-àraich…

    —Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) (1911–1996), “Curaidhean” (“Heroes”)

    Today, 8 May, is the 80th anniversary of VE Day

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #WW2 #WarPoetry #VEDay #VEDay80

  25. Thàinig uair-san leis na sligean,
    leis na spealgan-iarainn beàrnach,
    anns an toit is anns an lasair,
    ann an crith is maoim na h-àraich…

    —Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) (1911–1996), “Curaidhean” (“Heroes”)

    Today, 8 May, is the 80th anniversary of VE Day

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #WW2 #WarPoetry #VEDay #VEDay80

  26. 80 years ago, VE Day! Remembering family and friends who served in World War II. From the Battle of Britain to the Desert War, their acts of bravery must be remembered for future generations.

    My parents were born during the Blitz! Our futures were secured by the greatest generation. #VEDay #VEDay80

  27. 80 years ago, VE Day! Remembering family and friends who served in World War II. From the Battle of Britain to the Desert War, their acts of bravery must be remembered for future generations.

    My parents were born during the Blitz! Our futures were secured by the greatest generation. #VEDay #VEDay80

  28. Today, at 23:01 CET, we mark 80 years since the end of the war against Nazi Germany. Let us not forget the horrors that fascism brought to the world and remind every generation how it came to power. We see a resurgence of those ideologies around the world, thanks to the cult of ignorance.
    It is my hope that the sacrifices my grandparents' generation made were not in vain. Time for the silent majority to shut the vocal fascist minority up. Call them out for what they are.
    #ww2 #veday80 #peace

  29. On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we remember and pay tribute to the bravery and sacrifice of all those who served in the Second World War.

    #VEDay #VEDay80

  30. Trump is deeply sceptical of the institutions built after WWII intended to prevent such a devastating conflict recurring. His hostility leaves a vacuum. It's critical to our continent's stability that we work with our European allies to fill it. #VEDay80 www.bestforbritain.org/ve_day_europ...

    80 years after VE Day, here's ...

  31. This VE day, it's important to remember what they fought for and what they still stand for.

    2nd vid in following post is the money shot.

    #VEDay2025
    #VEDay80

  32. This VE day, it's important to remember what they fought for and what they still stand for.

    2nd vid in following post is the money shot.

    #VEDay2025
    #VEDay80

  33. In London, Ukrainian soldiers being clapped the whole way today Glory to Heroes

    Victory and justice for #Ukraine
    Слава Україні, Slava Ukraini

    #ve80 #glorytoheroes
    #veday80

    SupportUkraine uk / Instagram