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Anybody been watching this series on BBC4? Watched the second episode ("Freedom" - it was about the slave trade and emancipation) last night. Surprised (not for the first time) by how many things I...
http:// www.dai lymail. co.uk/n ews/art icle-58 06967/A llied-t roops-s torm-be aches-D -Day-in vasion- brought -life-c olour.h tml The most striking in my opinion was this one:...
Can anybody help me? I am trying to value postcards so that they can be sold online for Oxfam. I am down to the ones that ‘might’ be worth a little more money but I am ever so slightly out of my...
Just re-watching the BBC series on partition, shown first a few months back, and again struck by how much misery we (the British) caused by our insane partitioning of India. I'm glad that we're no...
3 nights of programmes which started last night on Ch5. New excavations and MRI scans on some of the ash covered bodies have revealed some astonishing results. Heads up if anyone is interested in this...
Happy mortal, when you read this I shall be no more. My story is short and sincere and frank, because none but you shall see my writing....
I recently found the names of my two uncles who were in the Royal Navy in the second World War, and died when their ships were sunk by the enemy, on a memorial on Plymouth Hoe. However, it does not...
List of UK counties without a city
What notorious vehicle had registration number V 940 LGO ?
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I'm trying to find some info and pictures of a former junior school in the area of lozells , Birmingham , which was knocked down around in the 80/90's I cant remember the actual name of the school -...
The answer would be a town or city in England
What does 'User inactive' mean? Does it just mean the person is not actually online at the current time or that they have closed their account? I've replied to a topic from 2013 but persons profile...
The gloves were on. Revolution oriental style (5, 9)
Cut down on numbers, oh, before getting to the office (8)
Please can someone enlighten me why the houses on the estate around the bandstand are all named after places in Berkshire/ Oxfordshire i.e. Marlow House, Henley House, Culham House, Iffley House...
Where in London are the bunkers used by Churchill during World War the Second please?
..........there were two British aircraft that the Germans feared more than the Spitfire. The first one was the DeHaviland Mosquito Fighter Bomber. The Murdering Mosquito, the Germans called it. In...
or just fictional like santa claus?
I have been told that in one battle of the American Civil War, the opposing commanders were father & son. Does anyone know if this is true, & what were the details?...