Thursday, June 6, 2019

Operation Neptune

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Today marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the name given to Operation Neptune, on 6 June 1944, for the Allied invasion of Normandy, the lar...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Diary briefs

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Diary of a ‘Monuments Man’ - National Archives ( press release , blog ) Kafka papers to be released - The Guardian , The Telegraph A. K....
Monday, May 20, 2019

Wondering how I should live

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‘I went on reading novels, poetry and biography as voraciously as ever but I also devoured the floods of pamphlets and booklets the feminist...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

The Czech Kindertransport man

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Sir Nicholas Winton, famous for organising the so-called Czech Kindertransport which evacuated over 600 children from Czechoslovakia on the ...

We are not so far from apes

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‘I wish we all dressed like Japanese, and fashions were stationary. I loathe these yearly changes and silly light skirts and gruelling hats....
Thursday, May 16, 2019

State of mental anguish

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‘We are all in a state of mental anguish. We feel we are forgotten by everyone, abandoned to our own resources and at the mercy of this man....
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Caught in the mustard mill

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‘George McNally was caught in the belts of the mustard mill at 6 p.m. and all his clothes were ripped from his back, and yet not much hurt. ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Forwood valiant and brave

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‘Day of triumph! F. walks round Serpentine with strength and a stick and enjoys the air, the Brent geese, and the snowdrops in the Dell.’ Th...