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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Churchill's Russian Agents in the Second World War
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 …