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This is the 34th instalment of #deanehistory.Admiral Maximilian von Spee was a good sailor who died in the 1st World War during the destruction of the East Asia Fleet he

This is the 32nd instalment of #deanehistory.Hat tip: @FredTitmus. Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Hungary. It was the last orthodox thing he ever did. Whilst

This is the 30th instalment of #deanehistoryMy grandfather was a glider pilot at Arnhem, so I have always taken an interest in paratroopers. But the first Allied parachute drop in

This is the 28th instalment of #deanehistory.Bob Boothby was an astute observer of, & player in, British politics. He was one of the few Churchill loyalists in the wilderness years,

This is the 26th instalment of #deanehistory. It’s a request job: thank you, @KingBobIIV!Thomas Pellow, from Cornwall, was 11 years old when he was serving in the summer of 1715

This the 25th instalment of #deanehistory. We turn to the chessboard today. It works for Netflix; why not #deanehistory?(There will definitely be no chess moves in this thread, and definitely

This is the 23rd instalment of #deanehistory.“Don’t pub quiz me,” Emily Thornberry once famously declared to an interviewer who had the temerity to ask her about a statistic. Unusually for

This is the 24th instalment of #deanehistory.This is the story of Jonas Noreika – and of his granddaughter, Silvia Foti. It is a story of the past, and of the

This is the 21st instalment of #deanehistory. In this challenging time people are understandably reflecting on things & realising that there are things that they regret. Looking back, I realise

This is the 20th instalment of #deanehistory.We’ve all - until these recent, housebound times - enjoyed the occasional “night on the tiles.”But the Day of the Tiles was quite different

This is the 19th instalment of #deanehistory.Die Hard is the best Christmas film. This truism is well known. But the phrase “Die Hard” actually has a much longer history. In

This is the 17th instalment of #deanehistory.Jan Masaryk was the son of the founding President of Czechoslovakia.Coincidentally, his civil service career really took off after his dad took office. He

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