18 June 1942. James Paul McCartney was born in Walton Hospital, Liverpool. As a member of The Beatles and during his successful solo career he’s the best selling recording artist and songwriter of all time.

Marcelo Bielsa refused to engage with his World Cup photoshoot ❌

An interesting salvaged relic of the German battleship Tirpitz, sunk by two RAF tallboy bombs in November 1944. This piece of armour plating was salvaged between 1948 and 1957 by the Oslo based Hovding Skipsopphugging. @HansonsUK #Tirpitz #WW2Battleships

Club legend, community champion: Lou Macari awarded MBE in King’s Birthday Honours “I am absolutely delighted to receive this honour. When people stop to talk to me now they want to talk about the work of the Foundation as well as football, which is nice." macari-foundation.co.uk/2026…

Kevin Sinfield reacts to being awarded a knighthood 💛

12 June 1922. George Mallory reached a height of 25,800 feet on Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain. It was then the highest point ever achieved. Mallory was the only person to go on all 3 British Mount Everest expeditions in the 1920s.

A scarce WW2 ground based RAF ‘6080LW’ (Light Warning) unit POW medal group and ephemera, including Stalag Luft XII prisoner dog tag. LAC Geoffrey Ramsden Thomas was captured at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden. Rare to find to this type of RAF unit. @HansonsUK

You don’t appreciate just how incredible American football stadium drainage systems are until you see them in action. 🤯

June 1914… Original (large) drawing from our collection. David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer. WW1 on the horizon… (LGA)

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved friend and club stalwart, Jane Phillips. Jane’s warmth, wisdom, and unwavering presence around the ground will be deeply missed by all. Our thoughts are with her husband Peter and their family and friends. 🟡🟢

Have you heard of the Military Intelligence Museum? It’s moving to one of Britain’s best-kept secrets: the London Tunnels. Built to protect us during the Blitz and hidden for nearly 70 years - these mile-long tunnels are about to open to the public! I’m proud to be an ambassador for this exciting project! Follow: @mi_intel to stay up-to-date and show your support.

9 June 1964. Newspaper magnate Maxwell Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook) died (aged 85). His key newspaper was the Daily Express which appealed to the conservative working class. During WW2 he was appointed by Winston Churchill as Minister of Aircraft Production.

Dogs make everything better.

Braunton Burrows in North Devon served as the principal D-Day Assault Training Centre, where Allied troops rehearsed the Normandy landings on terrain that bore a striking resemblance to the actual beaches. Yet no matter how realistic the exercises, nothing could truly prepare those men for the harrowing reality they would face on 6 June 1944. #DDay82

1966: Just watched the World Cup Final* on Channel 4! Some great footage. (Well-done to C4 in using the programme to raise awareness and to support the great work of the Alzheimer’s Society) *’FIFA WC Final in colour’

PHOTO OF THE DAY. The D-Day invasion, captured on Radar (6 June 1944).📷 google images

In a corner of parliament at the far end of the Royal gallery a box lies permantly open containing sand from all five Normandy beaches -a reminder to both houses of the sacrifice & the cause of freedom fought for by brave service people on DDay June 6 th 1944. #DDay

‘Cubitt Estates’ (London), our rare collection of records relating to high-end property in C. London. Belgravia, Knightsbridge, Pimlico, Westminster and more c 1900-18. 📷 Recent FB post Dorking Museum on the man himself!

The Two Women Who Cracked the Abwehr Enigma: How Mavis Batey and Margaret Rock Helped Secure D-Day (a long-form post) Ahead of D-Day, Mavis Batey and Margaret Rock played a leading role in cracking the complex Enigma code of the Abwehr, the German Secret Service. Unlike other machines it had four rotors instead of the standard three, and they rotated randomly, with no predictable pattern. Hut 6 had been unable to break it. On 8 December 1941 Mavis Batey broke a message on the link between Belgrade and Berlin, allowing the reconstruction of one of the rotors. Within days Knox and his team had broken into the Abwehr Enigma, and shortly afterwards Mavis broke a second Abwehr machine. The significance of their work cannot be overestimated. MI5 and MI6 were running double agents as part of the ‘Double Cross System’ and feeding deception and fake intelligence to the Germans. Being able to decode the messages between the Abwehr and their agents ensured that the double agents were really working for the Allies. It also provided a way to monitor whether the Germans had accepted the deception. It ensured the success of the D-Day landings because the Double Cross agents fed information to the Germans that the invasion was to occur at Pas de Calais and not at the real landing points in Normandy. Brigadier Bill Williams, Montgomery’s chief intelligence officer, said that without cracking the Abwehr Enigma, the deception operation could not have been mounted as the Germans would have moved their reinforcements from Calais to Normandy. The successes of D-Day would have had a very different outcome. (end).

Global Beatles Day. 25th June Come together and share The Beatles' message: All You Need Is Love. Wherever you are, however you celebrate: 'it's easy' ❤️ Sign up to take part: TheBeatles.lnk.to/GBDQRSignu…