Tag Archives: Second World War

Iceland: Abandoned

Posted on April 20, 2017 by julianstodd

I made the trek out to the plane wreck to take the iconic photos: aluminium undimmed by age, bright against the black ash, silhouetted by the distant mountains, decaying under a clear blue sky. There were no casualties when the … Continue reading →

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States of Jersey: remnants of rust and relevance

Posted on May 26, 2015 by julianstodd

I remember in an early episode of Band of Brothers, we see one of the young American soldiers taking a gun emplacement as they role into France: once the trench is secured, he drops a bag of dynamite down the … Continue reading →

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Learning from stories: reflecting on a century of memories

Posted on June 11, 2012 by julianstodd

It was in one of the breaks in the rain that i settled in the cafe. Built into the old Town Hall, it sat in the market square of a typical medieval rural English town. Large windows in the formerly … Continue reading →

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Unimaginably large numbers: why we have to keep learning relevant to what we know.

Posted on April 18, 2012 by julianstodd

Do you know how many people died in the Second World War? I was reading a book about Yuri Gagarin last night, when i read something that stopped me in my tracks. I literally had to stop reading and think … Continue reading →

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