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This is the 16th instalment of #deanehistory.Diana Rowden served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, & then Special Operations Executive.She died in a concentration camp when she was 29 years
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This is the 15th instalment of #deanehistory.George HW Bush was 41st President of the USA, & father of the 43rd. To the modern audience, perhaps he's best known as author
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This is instalment 13 of #deanehistory. Gavin Ewart was a poet. He was rated highly by Philip Larkin, which I find a pretty infallible recommendation in such things. He wrote
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This is instalment 12 of #deanehistory. It’s the first request job: thanks @drjones84852710! We continue the Portuguese theme, and in the Second World War – but rather different. Because not
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Each aspect of this plan is plainly preposterous. It all worked. The boat sunk (the crew scuttled in the face of attack). The other German boats, fearing Allied invasion, scuttled
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This is instalment 11 of #deanehistory. It’s one of my favourite stories from the 2nd World War, & one of the most unlikely.Portugal’s neutrality was important to us. They permitted
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This is the 10th instalment of #deanehistory. We made it to double figures!Today we take a look at Napoleon. But not the one you’re thinking about. Louis-Napoleon was the son
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This is the 7th instalment of #deanehistory.Simon Murray is a magnificent lunatic who told his girlfriend that if she didn’t agree to marry him, he would join the French Foreign
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This is the 6th instalment of #deanehistory. I confess that beer brought me to it.The Dutch island of Texel produces some very fine beer. It was also the site of
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This is the 4th instalment of #deanehistory. Back to the Second World War today, but whilst in the 2nd instalment we looked at the very end, this is the very
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This is the 3rd instalment of #deanehistory.John of Bohemia, the son of the Holy Roman Emperor, was also known as John the Blind. He was – and I may have
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People have lockdown projects; here's mine. Characteristically low effort. I'll post a daily thread about an anecdote from #history that interests me. Except I don't commit to doing it daily.
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