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Coprolite in the News
Between 1843 and 1918, tens of thousands of acres of Britain were dug over in the search for fossils. Pits were dug to excavate a fossil bone bed, some reaching forty feet deep, in …
'Nobby' Clarke: Churchill's Backroom Boy
Sabotage in Belgium
Between 1940 and 1944 forty Belgians were trained in industrial sabotage at Brickendonbury Manor, near Hertford, UK. This book tells the stories of their successes and failures …
Boris the Gnome
This is one of Bernard's first stories. Written in the early-1970s, it was based on a late-night bed-time story whilst he shared a bed-sit with College friends in Twickenham …
Blowing up the Rock: German, Italian and Spanish Sabotage attacks on Gibraltar during the Second World War
During the Second World War, Gibraltar faced the threat of invasion by Italy, Germany, and Spain. The Abwehr, the German Intelligence Service, rather than use their own saboteurs, …
The Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Ditton Priors, Shropshire
Shortly after the start of the Second World War, the British Admiralty compulsorily purchased land near Ditton Priors, Shropshire, to store armaments. Using the Cleobury Mortimer …
Fossil Digging in the Mordens
Internment, Escape and Repatriation Volume One 1939 - 1942
In December 1939, three months after the start of the Second World War, rather than let the British Royal Navy sink the German Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee, its captain ordered …
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 …
Bedford School's Secret Old Boys
Six 'Old Bedfordians', ex-Bedford School pupils, served their country in ingenious, brave and daring ways during the Second World War. They were involved with the Special …
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 …
The Spanish Phosphateers
In 1843, an Oxford University professor reported to British academics and agriculturalists on a deposit of phosphorite he had visited in Logrosan, Extremadura, Spain. A mineral …