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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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
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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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,
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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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
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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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
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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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
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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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
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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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
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Alex Deane
ajcdeane
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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