“Carve their names with pride”: the SOE Memorial
Many of the stories of those who served in WW2 are capable of inducing in those of us who have never had to face such […]
Many of the stories of those who served in WW2 are capable of inducing in those of us who have never had to face such […]
A visit to HMS Belfast on a chilly, late January Tuesday gave me the ship almost to myself, the first time I’d visited this floating […]
Less than 40 minutes on the fast service from Euston gets you to Bletchley (now part of Milton Keynes). It is a journey that would […]
Discover the secrets of Bletchley Park’s codebreakers & the cracking of Enigma in this online talk. All ticket money goes to The Brain Tumour Charity […]
On a refurbished Edwardian office block at 13-15 York Buildings – just down from Strand on the way to Embankment Gardens – is a green […]
Among the 28,000 names listed in the ‘Roll of Honor’ in the American Memorial Chapel in St Paul’s will be that of William Meade Lindsley […]
Squatting next to the elegant Queen Anne revival of the Old Admiralty Building (and more on that at some point) on the north side of […]
In a bomb-proof concrete bunker 60 feet below the ground of what was once RAF Uxbridge is one of the most important sites in 20th […]
If you’ve seen Herbert Mason’s photo ‘St Paul’s Survives’ – the dome of the cathedral still standing proud as the smoke of the Blitz rises […]
I’ve done so many tours of the Churchill War Rooms recently (né Cabinet War Rooms, né Central War Room) that I’m half-expecting them to give […]
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