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Sep 13, 2023

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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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...

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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...