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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 …
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
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 …
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 …