Walking with History 5 - Channel Islands Phil Blood with Nick Le Huray
Fabulous guest
Phil has a chat with Nick Le Huray: “Guernsey based amateur historian. Interested in the Occupation of the Channel Islands and wider Second World War history.”
His blog is here https://island-fortress.com
His Twitter is here https://x.com/Nickleh
His Bluesky is here https://bsky.app/profile/nickleh.bsky.social
Subjects include:
- Channel identity
- Strategic value of Channel Islands
- Mountbatten and the Islands
- Islanders in the British Army
- Collaboration or not
- Repression on the islands
- Madeleine Bunting and John Nettles
- Fishing during the war
- Newspapers and propaganda during war
- Fortifications and museums and tourism
Yep we still have pt 2 of the Warsaw Uprising to upload but this part is pretty trauma inducing to edit and I don’t particularly want to this week.
So instead, let’s have some Channel Island talks.
Our book is still out
Phil has a new book coming out soon
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