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@BattlefieldGD Great work Paul

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@BritishArmyWDs @rentaquill @ColesBooks @almurray and three for Sicily but none for Dunkirk I am afraid

@rentaquill @ColesBooks @almurray That’s good to know. Any similar 1940 Dunkirk maps 🤞

Hard to photograph, but you can get a copy for your wall from @ColesBooks. Pontoon bridge in the wrong place ... buildings drawn in the middle of the road ... less than ideal ... but IDEAL FOR NAVIGATING BLACK TUESDAY @almurray . coles-books.co.uk/books/history/…

@BritishArmyWDs @rentaquill @ColesBooks @almurray No I have Njimegen Eindhoven and Arnhem in the same series

@rentaquill @ColesBooks @almurray and £4 cheaper

@rentaquill @ColesBooks @almurray You could always get a full size, flat, unwrinkled, digital version @300DPI from us of course :)

Better picture - I genuinely give up - we are going to hell in a hand cart

and at some stage they will deal with it. Is this what our once great mail/parcel provider has become? (2/2) I know this is a first world problem but I just want people to do their jobs - it cannot be that hard surely?

So waiting all morning for a Parcel Force Worldwide Delivery with a Flames of War gift. Nothing. Then a message to say its been delivered. Not only is it miles away from my address. Its also been dumped in a bin. Contact with PF and they tell me its been passed to the depot (1)

@rjlinney @TooFatLardies Thats the erudite version of mine :)

@NeilPowell1964 @TooFatLardies I prefer, "Make something foolproof and someone will make a better fool," but I agree.

Just had a PayPal claim logged against me because a set of rules posted on Wednesday isn’t in the US yet and I didn’t respond to an email sent on Saturday to ask where it was until yesterday evening. Shit service apparently. As a result, I’m taking a few days off. Fuck it.

@ReassessHistory This document excludes Crown Copyright Jonathan - the rues around CC images are even clearer than this and make the images even more accesible

So The National Archives guidance is pretty straight forward. Out of © IWM was transferred all the Crown Copyright images of WW2 etc a few years ago, a vast amount of which were published during the war & over the following decades. They became the core heritage custodian. /2

So, here it is. Can the IWM *really* claim © on Crown Copyright images etc where copyright has long expired? Surely these images should be out of copyright & free to use, right? Right? /1 #History #Heritage #Museums

@ReassessHistory If we collected all the images we all hold and made them available then we have another way of skinnning this particular cat - just a thought

@ReassessHistory no one belives this can be done for free without a huge intervention but often people power is the strongest asset we have. We charge 7.50 per image to cover all our costs and there are no onward costs, no license fees, no copyright restrictions now 'sweat of our brow' costs :)

@ReassessHistory we will force institutions like the IWM to rethink their position. At Battlefield Historian we have been offering these images at a price that recognises that running a website costs some money and needs to be covered and the time to administer the images also has a cost impact

@ReassessHistory As a collective of historians/authors/collectors we must have thousands and thousands of these CC images in our own collections. Surely if we collect these images in a single location and make them available for everyone with no licence fee and no onward charges then ... /6

@ReassessHistory 4. These items belong to us as a collective. 5. The IWM positions is never going to change (I repeated that). 6. we are all approaching this the wrong way. Knowing that the IWM will not change their position then we need to find another way. /5

@ReassessHistory 3. These same images exist all over the world in archives such as Alamy, Getty, NAM, Bovington GTank Museum, NARA. There are multiple copies of most of these images. They can be obtained anywhere. /3

@ReassessHistory There are some observations/factors that are clear. 1. The IWM's position is never going to change (revenue streams will prevent this) 2. They are wrong - after 50 yrs Crown Copyright (CC) ceases to exist and CC images move into the public domain. They do not belong to the IWM /2

@ReassessHistory At battlefieldhistorian.com we have been fighting this issue of presumed copyright for crown copyright material for twenty years. It is my belief that if we apply some good old fashioned JSCS planning to the problem it is easily resolved. /1

Lt John Lee Warner, British Rifle Instructor at a Commando Depot, somewhere in Britain giving instructions to US Rangers who are training there. Scotland, February 9 1943