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Bletchley Park and the Pigeon Spies
Over 16,000 pigeons were dropped into occupied Europe during WW2. Some were used by secret agents to send messages back to headquarters. Others were dropped by parachute into …
RAF Tempsford
Designed by illusionist Jasper Maskelyne, RAF Tempsford was constructed to give overflying enemy aircraft the impression it was disused. Nothing could be further from the truth - …
Operation Lena and Hitler's Plots to Blow Up Britain
Home-grown terrorists equipped by a foreign power are not a new phenomenon. During the Second World War, Hitler's Germany made sustained efforts to inflict a terror campaign on the …
Churchill's School for Saboteurs
Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Guy Burgess, an officer in Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, convinced his superiors that a special school be opened to teach …
Agent Rose
In September 2010 the body of Eileen Nearne was found in a flat in Torquay. With no known friends or relatives, a council burial was arranged. A police search of her belongings …
There's Life in The Crown Inn, Munslow
On the road between Craven Arms and Much Wenlock in Shropshire there are four pubs. One, the Crown Inn, formerly the Hundred House, boasts having a timber over the inglenook …
Prehistoric Hillforts in Southeast Shropshire
In the mid-1980s I attended a course on the Archaeology of Shropshire in which I studied some of the prehistoric hillforts found in the county. Little did I know how useful this …
Basalt Quarrying on the Clee Hills, Shropshire
Thomas Telford, the Scottish road and bridge builder, knew enough about rocks to recommend that particularly hard basalt found on the top of the Clee Hills in Shropshire would make …
Decline in Anglo-Soviet Relations during the Second World War
Britain allied with Russia and France during the First World War but the October Revolution in 1917, the Russian Civil War and the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist …
SOE Heroines
Nearly forty female agents were sent out by the French section of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The youngest was 19 and the oldest 53. …
Deserted Medieval Settlements in the Clee Hills, Shropshire
In the two centuries after the Norman invasion, Britain's population more than tripled. Demand for food meant more land had to be brought under cultivation. As the climate was …
There's Life in The Feathers, Ludlow
The world-famous Feathers Hotel in Ludlow is a well-preserved Tudor Inn. It is visited and photographed by tourists and locals, but few know much about its history. Bernard …