The Special Operations Executive (SOE), Britain's TOP SECRET subversive organisation during the Second World War, were informed before and after D-Day that some surrendered or captured German prisoners of war who had been brought to camps in England claimed not to be supporters of Hitler. They had been compelled to join the Wehrmacht, the German army, and, when asked, volunteered to be trained and infiltrated back into Germany by the Allies on...
Some readers in the Marches may have never heard of the Special Operations Executive. It was a top-secret subversive organisation set up in July 1940 with the aim of 'setting Europe ablaze by sabotage'. Its officers were engaged in intelligence gathering, paramilitary warfare, clandestine warfare, weapons, explosives, sabotage, propaganda, forgery and camouflage.
It also employed thousands of men and women from all walks of life and of many na...
Some readers in Shropshire may have never heard of the Special Operations Executive. It was a top-secret subversive organisation set up in July 1940 with the aim of 'setting Europe ablaze by sabotage'. Its officers were engaged in intelligence gathering, paramilitary warfare, clandestine warfare, new weapons, explosives, sabotage, propaganda, forgery and camouflage. It also employed thousands of men and women from all walks of life and of many...
What do Thomas Telford, opium, Duncraig Castle, landowning Scottish MPs, the Stone of Destiny, an evangelical Free Church minister, Sabbatarianism, riots, a shebeen, excisemen, the Wicker Man, Hamish Macbeth, Pavarotti and the Brain of Britain got to do with a remote fishing village in Ross-shire?
Bernard O'Connor's 'Plockton in the News' includes over 200 years of articles from Scottish newspapers as far north as John o'Groats, across to Inve...
Most people who live in Wales will probably have never heard of Meifod. Maybe they know it as Meivod. Those living in Montgomeryshire will know of this small village, north of Welshpool. Some may even have visited but few will know about its history.
Bernard O'Connor's 'Meifod in the News' provides over 200 years of newspaper articles which give insight into the geology, archaeology, history, social life, economic activities, crime, politics...
What do Thomas Telford, a shebeen, excisemen, opium, Duncraig Castle, landowning Scottish MPs, an evangelical Free Church minister, Sabbatarianism, riots, the Stone of Destiny, the Wicker Man, Hamish Macbeth, Pavarotti and the Brain of Britain got to do with a remote fishing village in Ross-shire?
Bernard O'Connor's 'Plockton in the News' includes over 200 years of articles from Scottish newspapers as far north as John o'Groats, across to Inve...
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 cliffs, river banks and fields in Yorkshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Kent. Called 'coprolites' and thought by many to be fossilised prehistoric animal droppings, the best specimens were sent to museums As t...
Some readers in the Marches may have never heard of the Special Operations Executive. It was a top-secret subversive organisation set up in July 1940 with the aim of 'setting Europe ablaze by sabotage'. Its officers were engaged in intelligence gathering, paramilitary warfare, clandestine warfare, weapons, explosives, sabotage, propaganda, forgery and camouflage.
It also employed thousands of men and women from all walks of life and of many na...
In the 1840s a bed of 'coprolites', thought by some to be fossilised dinosaur droppings, was discovered in the Cambridgeshire fens. Rich in phosphate it was much in demand by the nation's manure manufacturers. By the 1860s it was being dug up across much of the county. This book investigates the social, economic and archaeological impact of the fossil diggings in Horningsea, a small, rural community northeast of Cambridge.
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 Operations Executive (SOE), a TOP SECRET organisation that helped the resistance movements in occupied Europe. Read the stories of Frank Nelson, the first head of SOE, David Makgill Crighton, sent to Yugoslavia as an aide to King Zog, Frederic Peters, the Commandant of a secr...
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 his ship to be scuttled in the River Plate and his officers and crew put on the Tacoma and taken ashore . Most were landed in Rio de Janeiro, the rest in Montevideo. Following diplomatic pressure from the British, the Argentinian and Uruguayan governments agreed to in...
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 his ship to be scuttled in the River Plate and his officers and crew put on the Tacoma and taken ashore . Most were landed in Rio de Janeiro, the rest in Montevideo. Following diplomatic pressure from the British, the Argentinian and Uruguayan governments agreed to in...
Most people in this country have never heard of the tiny community of Bouldon, near Diddlebury, Shropshire. There are only thirteen houses, a dairy unit and the Tally Ho public house. There was a Methodist chapel but it closed several decades ago.
The hamlet is situated on the banks of Pye Brook where it enters Corvedale at the foot of the western slopes of the Brown Clee, the highest hill in the county. There have been people living in this ...
