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Deserted Medieval Settlements in the Clee Hills, Shropshire
Churchill's Italian Angels
According to recently declassified documents in the British National Archives, twenty-four women were engaged to provide assistance to officers of the Special Operations Executive …
Blackmail Sabotage: Attacks on French Industries During World War Two
In late-1943 Harry Ree, one of Britain's secret agents operating in eastern France, witnessed an RAF bombing mission on Peugeot's automobile factory in Sochaux/Montbeliard. As many …
Destroying Hitler's R-Netz Volume V
In February 1944, the Nazis began planning R-Netz, networks of trained espionage agents, wireless operators, saboteurs and assassins. Once the Allies invaded Western Europe, their …
Blowing up the Danube
After years of economic depression, when Adolph Hitler came to power in the 1930s he re-armed Germany's army, navy and air force. Even before war broke out, French and Polish …
Life in Ludlow's Blue Boar
Built in the 1660s and named the Blue Boar Inn in 1637, this Ludlow pub has served the local community for nearly four hundred years. Local author Bernard O'Connor's 'There's Life …
Meifod in the News
The Life and Times of Doreen Roberts
96-year-old Doreen Roberts is the oldest resident of Bouldon, a hamlet of fourteen houses and a dairy farm at the foot of the Brown Clee in Shropshire. Born in Brighton in 1926, …
Sabotage in France
Between 1940 and 1944 dozens of French men and some women were trained in industrial sabotage at Brickendonbury Manor, near Hertford, UK before being infiltrated into France on top …
The 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 …
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 …