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- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?10:22Home Guard experience, local knowledge and uncertain moraleChapter
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?39:36Fortifying Britain and attacking the invasion fleetNotable Point
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?41:10Home Guard delays and regular-army reinforcementChapter
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?43:13The wider value of Britain's invasion preparationsNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:53:22The Home Guard's veterans and local knowledgeChapter
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:54:54How the Home Guard obtained weaponsNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:56:17Local resistance and the Home Guard's delaying roleNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:58:48Experienced soldiers serving in junior Home Guard ranksNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous2:03:32Fire watching and the defence of familiesNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous2:08:15Home Guard smoke screens and improvised pillboxesNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous2:10:46Did the Home Guard receive machine guns?Q&A
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous2:11:50First World War tanks in Home Guard defence plansNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous3:04:25Gamekeepers, rural weapons and Home Guard improvisationNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous3:14:25Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and wartime civil defenceQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics33:45Why the Home Guard could be an effective delay forceChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics35:13Dale Clarke's study of Home Guard armamentNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics37:46Family survival changed the Home Guard's measure of successNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics41:07The roads and reused fortifications of the Surrey HillsChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics42:55Traffic jams and ambush sites without escape routesNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics44:26Buried stores let the Home Guard fight for delayNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit38:03World War I veterans gave the Home Guard a delaying missionNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)1:06:28Tracing improvised weapons through uneven sourcesNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:10:06The Home Guard's weapons could exceed official allocationsNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:11:45Did a Home Guard unit keep a working Mark V for only an afternoon?Q&A
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:14:09Local industrial skills and the reuse of memorial weaponsNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:17:17Why worry about an obsolete Mark V tank?Q&A
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:17:43Home Guard defence schemes could outrun government controlNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:18:38The Home Guard was a veteran force defending familiesChapter
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:21:42Separating stay-behind units from the ordinary Home GuardNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:22:31Did Boer War veterans also serve in the Home Guard?Q&A
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:24:39Could Home Guard veterans also have served in Ireland or Russia?Q&A
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:25:10A Home Guard book recommendation that had not yet been readNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:27:23Fire-watching at St. Paul's in a family recollectionNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust16:55Why Home Guard cannon proposals did not require recovering bollardsQ&A
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?25:36The Home Guard made Sea Lion a war of delay and local resistanceChapter
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?27:51The Home Guard turned civilian trades into local defencesNotable Point
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:56Home Guard narrow boats during an invasionQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:49The Home Guard's armoured train on a miniature railwayNotable Point
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?51:38The Home Guard turned local knowledge into a delaying networkNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:34:40Veterans, family ties and determination in local defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!1:28:13German submarine-borne raids on BritainQ&A
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...32:24Z Batteries make more sense over fixed routesChapter
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...35:32Z Batteries used older crews and found a battlefield roleNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:45:51Why Britain's Home Guard was more dangerous than its caricatureNotable Point
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered26:33Why the Home Guard was not an ordinary militiaQ&A
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:53:36Canada, wartime conduct, and Geneva folkloreQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:25:21Canal boats in Britain's wartime home defenseQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!11:27Why the Home Guard changes Sea Lion's beach battleNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!18:12Why veteran experience did not produce identical resistance in 1940Q&A
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:02:41The Home Guard and the cost of sustaining an invasionNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:53:37Landing was only the start of Sea Lion's logistics problemNotable Point
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:27:50Why Sea Lion needs more than a landing planQ&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?2:14:57Home Guard veterans brought local knowledge and trench experience to invasion defenceNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?2:19:10Is there a book collecting the Home Guard's improvised defence ideas?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?2:21:49Home Guard defences included mined hills, armoured transport, and hidden resistanceNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?2:24:09Did Britain's burning-oil defences actually work?Q&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword18:06Second World War veterans in Cold War reservesQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:29:32Home Guard plans for burning oil on invasion beachesQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:31:41Why the Home Guard could make an invasion bog downNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:36:14Finding Home Guard defenses after the warQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:46:26British stay-behind preparations and SOE methodsNotable Point
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)35:16Reginald Drax from Blanche to convoy commodoreNotable Point
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)1:57:17The Home Guard's combat experience behind a comic imageNotable Point
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)2:10:34Q&A: How did the Home Guard and Volkssturm differ?Q&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:02:38Why civilian defenders were not militarily helplessNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:05:49The Home Guard's veterans and knowledge of local groundNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:10:14Was Britain's Home Guard unique in having veteran members?Q&A
- Bruships 55: New Books3:11:41Why familiar ground mattered in Home Guard exercisesNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:14:31The Home Guard as a brake on Sea LionQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books3:16:05Placing the Home Guard within Britain's wider defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:21:57Stay-behind units and hidden supply depotsNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:25:32Why no Home Guard unit has a decisive battle recordQ&A