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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 - …
Churchill's Most Secret Airfield
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 - …
The Burwell Fossil Diggings
The Little Berkhamsted Spy Ring
During the Second World War, Mrs Rochford of The Old Manor House, Little Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, took in a number of male lodgers. Exactly how much she, her family, and other …
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 …
Agents Francaises
Between 1942 and 1944, at least 36 French women were recruited by British, French, Soviet and American intelligence agencies, trained as organisers, wireless operators, couriers …
The Bouldon Iron Furnace, Shropshire
At the beginning of the English Civil War, the Royalist Army in Shropshire needed cannons and cannonballs. King Charles I's master of ordnance would have liaised with Sir Charles …
The Suffolk Fossil Diggings
In the first half of the 19th century a deposit of coprolite, thought to be fossilised droppings, started to be dug up in Felixstowe. These phosphate-rich fossils were converted …
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 …
Operation EBENSBURG
Some captured German and Austrian personnel were brought to Britain as prisoners of war. Those who were identified as anti-Nazi were 'turned' and, codenamed 'Bonzos', were trained …
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 …
Changing Assessments
Bernard R. Gifford As we edge toward the year 2000, the information age is a reality; the global marketplace is increasingly competitive; and the U.S. labor force is shrinking. …