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On This Day: Remembering Noor Inayat Khan
September 13th, 1944: On This Day SOE operator Noor Inayat Khan was executed at Dachau concentration camp in Bavaria. At dawn on...
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Tastes Of History
Aug 16, 2023
Horrible History Costume: World on Fire
Created by Peter Bowker, ‘World on Fire’ is a British war drama television series set in the Second World War. It follows the intertwined...
Tastes Of History
Jun 21, 2023
About History: The humble Pigeon goes to War
First broadcast on BBC1 on October 5th, 1989, ‘Corporal Punishment’ is the second episode of ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’, which is the fourth...
Tastes Of History
Apr 30, 2023
Audley End House at War
For the early May bank holiday weekend we jumped back 80 years to wartime Britain where Audley End House once again became a school for...
Tastes Of History
Dec 20, 2022
Dispelling Some Myths: ‘Blitzkrieg’ was a ‘thing’
‘Blitzkrieg’ is a compound of two German words whose literal translation means ‘lightning war’ [1]. Military historians have defined...
Tastes Of History
Oct 1, 2022
1940s Weekend at Tanfield Railway
Tanfield Railway near Gateshead (NE16 5ET) is the world's oldest railway still in use. Originally built to transport coal from the local...
Tastes Of History
Dec 30, 2021
On This Day: Yes, we have bananas
December 30th, 1945, a cold Sunday morning, saw the cargo ship Tilapa docked in Bristol. It was carrying the first bananas to be seen in...
Tastes Of History
Jun 20, 2020
Keep Calm and Carry On
Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the British Ministry of Information in 1939 in preparation for World War II....
Tastes Of History
Jun 18, 2020
Home Front Rations
Although World War II began in September 1939, it was not until January 8th, 1940 that rationing in Britain began. It was not new idea...
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