Showing posts with label Second World War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Second World War. Show all posts
Monday, October 05, 2026

Lawrence Hogben, Pressure and the meteorologists of D-Day

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Lawrence Hogben (1916–2015) was of the meteorologists who produced the vital weather forecasts before the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Ken Farnes: The forgotten England fast bowler who died in WWII

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I remember Trevor Bailey talking about Ken Farnes, but I don't think I've ever seen film of him before today. Farnes stood 6 feet, f...
Monday, August 24, 2026

The Joy of Six 1566

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"Our promise should be: We don’t want power so we can run your life. We want power in order to give it back to you."  Roz Savage ...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

The Joy of Six 1565

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"In 2008, I met the Ukrainian diplomat and journalist who would go on to bribe Nathan Gill: Oleh Voloshyn. At the time he was working a...
Monday, August 03, 2026

Northwood Lane, Bewdley: The Elan Valley Aqueduct, The Singing Detective and Jonathan Meades

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Fire broke out beside the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) bear Bewdley yesterday, reports the Shropshire Star . I don't know if it was cause...
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Sunday, August 02, 2026

The Joy of Six 1556

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"Dartford Warblers skim across the heather before diving into the vegetation, defying all but the quickest observers. At dusk Nightjars...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

Neal Ascherson on Berlin in the second world war

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Embed from Getty Images Neil Ascherson writes about Berlin in the current issue of the London Review of Books : Berlin is a strange, parven...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

In the Britain of 1940 cars were deadlier than German bombs

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Embed from Getty Images Here's a remarkable quotation from a judge that I found in the  Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette (24 ...
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Saturday, July 18, 2026

"Everyone carried a shopping bag": Muriel Spark on London, 1945

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This is from Muriel Spark's novel The Girls of Slender Means , which was published in 1963 and set in 1945: These upper bedrooms looked ...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

"I invited guests to play with bomb in my garden"

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Embed from Getty Images BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award: Valerie, however, feels sorry to see it gone. She says she stood the b...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

The Dam Busters' training was a spectator sport for Great Easton

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Eyebrook Reservoir Dam: John Fielding Being a well-prepared visitor, I brought the Harborough District Council leaflet about Great Easton w...
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Monday, April 06, 2026

GUEST POST Political lessons from science fiction

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Peter Chambers turns to Dirk Gently and Battlestar Galactica to help him understand what is happening in the world. The Electric Monk is a ...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Something amazing: A Shropshire businessman falling out of the sky and Mystery at Witchend

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The latest Secret Shropshire programme on BBC Sounds is intriguing: In 1937 Max Wenner fell to his death from a plane in one of aviation...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The Joy of Six 1494

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"After months of rhetoric from Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves blaming newts and bats for supposedly blocking growth, it’s good to see t...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

T.S. Eliot rejected George Orwell's Animal Farm for Faber & Faber

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Stefan Collini has reviewed the latest volume of T.S. Eliot's letters for the London Review of Books. It covers the years 1942-4, and t...
Saturday, March 07, 2026

A German bombing raid on Dublin in May 1941 killed 28 people

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Embed from Getty Images Here's bit of history I didn't know. The caption for this photograph on Getty Images says: Emergency service...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

How Charley fooled the Luftwaffe and saved Midland cities

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Here's the blurb for one of the short Secret Leicestershire features on BBC Sounds –  The secret RAF base which foiled the Nazis : Slig...
Monday, February 23, 2026

The Joy of Six 1479

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Richard Reich argues that employers will not share the gains from AI unless they are made to: "If the five-day workweek with five days...
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Friday, January 02, 2026

The Grassy Shires: Farming in Leicestershire during WWII

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Thrill to footage of Nevill Holt Hall (now widely accepted to be the chief model for Bonkers Hall) from 1:13 and of Market Harborough cattle...
Friday, December 26, 2025

The Joy of Six 1454

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"At its core, A Christmas Carol is the transformation of a man without empathy, to a man with empathy. It accomplishes this through for...