Here is a a tidbit to start you off. Up until and including the Great War, the major concern of RAVC was horses (perhaps it still is?). A great...
Since, as I have already pointed out, the Republic Ireland did not exist at the time of WW2, this document, whatever it is, is clearly not worth...
The Republic of Ireland did not exist at the time of WW2. The so-called southern part of Ireland, which became a sovereign independent state in...
GEORGIVS is the stylised upper case version of Georgius, the Latin for George, and appeared on all British coins issued during the reigns of...
Two points are calling to be made: 1) War rarely solves problems - rather, it creates fresh ones. In September 1939 Germany had dominated...
It is difficult to follow what the question in this thread is supposed to be, but as a matter of basic explanation: Three coins have been...
George Blake, born 1922, was a double agent, working for both MI6 and the USSR in the Cold War. In 1960 he was convicted at the Old Bailey on five...
There is nothing new in this except the Daily Mail's inventiveness in claiming that William Joyce "fled to Germany following the outbreak of war...
Gaius Julius Caesar was made dictator for life, but was never emperor of Rome. The post of emperor was created under his adopted son and successor...
Not actually "war work", but a positive contribution by prisoners in wartime: Conscientious objectors in Danbury Prison, Connecticut, went on...
The Daily Mail is notoriously an untrustworthy newspaper. True to form, in one short piece it has cited two different dates for Sidney Ashcroft's...
Although the Nazis ruled Germany for 12 years, 1933-45, they ruled most of Europe for 5 years, 1940-45. It is a disservice to history to...
It is worth remembering also that some British paratroopers were not combat soldiers at all, but specialists, such as Field Ambulance, including...
I agree that there is no possibility of US troops in Latvia at any time. Even during WW2 they never reached that far. The possibility of Latvian...
So far as I am aware the defensive preclusion of the British coastline extended to to virtually the whole east coast and the whole south coast....
The title of the the thread is misleading, in that it appears to treat "Fascism" as an indifferent alternative to "Nazism". Both Fascism and...
An ironic aspect of the martyrdom decree was that, at the time of Franz's resistance, first his parish priest, and then the bishop of the diocese,...
The 1944 Education Act did not introduce the concept of selection at 11. This was introduced by the Education Act 1902, which introduced the...
Indeed, but even at the personal level Churchill had a problem. As a mark of personal respect, both the Labour and Liberal Parties decided not to...
The results of the British General Election (held Thursday 5 July 1945) were announbced on Thursday 26 July, leading to Winston Churchill's...
