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Saturday, 12 April 2025
Madeira: Respite for Churchill, Target for Pirates and the first Victoria Cross
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The Portuguese island of Madiera was, until recently, an isolated spot - a small volcanic outcrop off the coast of Africa - just 35 miles l...
Friday, 14 March 2025
Arthur Taylor: The farmer's son who never returned
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The story really starts midway along the road from Castlebaldwin to Ballymote in County Sligo, Ireland. For it was here in May 1854 that an ...
Sunday, 2 March 2025
Nikita Khrushchev blew my house up: Recollections of the Bedenham ammunition explosion (July 14, 1950)
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Recently I took a walk on the waterfront at Wicor, Portchester where, according to my father, the Soviet Union had sabotaged a barge unloadi...
Thursday, 9 January 2025
Nuremberg: The Dark Heart of Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
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In his self-serving autobiography 'Inside the Third Reich', Albert Speer devotes a whole chapter to 'architectural megalomania...
Monday, 30 December 2024
The Obersalzberg (1935-45)
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In 1981 my (now) wife and I took a trip down to Salzburg in Austria to visit sites associated with what was (and still is!) one our favouri...
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