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Name: War Office

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

War Office

The spy arrested for cross-dressing

One of Britain's most influential World War II spies was arrested in Madrid for cross-dressing, files released by the National Archives show.Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke was undercover as a correspondent for the Times when detained in the Spanish ... [Published BBC - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Dudley Clarke, Lieutenant Colonel, War Office

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Excluded by history

James Goulden’s mother with his father, Sgt Henry Goulden of the RIC.James Goulden as a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. The son of an RIC sergeant stationed in Co Mayo during the War of Independence, James Richard Weekes Goulden was intensely interested ... [Published Irish Times - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Tom Maguire, Easter Rising, Ernie O'Malley, Border Regiment

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Fabian Society

Joan Hooker obituary

_ My friend Joan Hooker, who has died aged 87, began her working life at 17, when she joined the Free French in De Gaulle's London headquarters, starting a lifetime of political involvement.At the end of the second world war she became secretary to John ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 22 2013]

Entities: Friendship, War Office, Fabian Society, John Freeman

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Jones Lang LaSalle Inc

'Most expensive home' to be sold

A HISTORIC mansion on the edge of Avon Gorge is on the brink of being sold again.Burwalls House, a grade two listed mansion from the 19th century, went on the market for 5 million the largest price tag for a Bristol house last year. A buyer was found ... [Published This is Bristol - May 20 2013]

Entities: Bristol, Jones Lang LaSalle Inc, Bristol Grammar School, 19th century

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Voluntary Aid Detachment

Unsorted: Family History:

ONE of the most famous poems ever written was by World War One poet Rupert Brooke who died in 1915.Within the war sonnet The Soldier is a line which will never be forgotten: ?If I should die, think only this of me: ?That there?s some corner of a foreign ... [Published Huddersfield Daily Examiner - May 15 2013]

Entities: Roberts, Matron, Voluntary Aid Detachment, Rupert Brooke, Patient

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

This day in Jewish history / The poet who called out T.S. Eliot's anti-Semitism

The celebrated British poet Emanuel Litvinoff wrote eloquently about his life between the World Wars and advocated fiercely for Soviet Jews. May 5, 1915 is the birthdate of Emanuel Litvinoff, an English-Jewish poet and writer who defended the Jews again ... [Published Haaretz - May 05 2013]

Entities: T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, Cordwainer, Herbert Read

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Bank of England

Keep women on our money

No doubt prompted by the posh boys in the Cabinet, Bank of England governor Mervyn King has announced that Winston Churchill will replace social reformer Elizabeth Fry as the face of £5 notes.This means that, other than the Queen, there will be no women ... [Published Morning Star Online - May 02 2013]

Entities: Elizabeth Fry, Grunwick dispute, Ellen Wilkinson, Bank of England, War Office

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Plymouth University cracks World War Two codes hidden in letters...

A family have discovered letters sent home from a British PoW in a WWII camp were packed with coded military messages - some hidden in a reference to 'the vegetable patch'.Sub-lieutenant John Pryor was only given permission to send correspondences to ... [Published Plymouth Evening Herald - May 01 2013]

Entities: World War II, Directorate of Military Intelligence, Harry Bennett, War Office

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

April 25, 1863

CHANGES IN THE FEDERAL TAX LAWAmong the recent changes in the Internal Revenue system, made by the amendatory act of Congress, or by decisions of the head of the Department, are the following:The Assessors shall, on the 1st of May in each year, assess ... [Published Register Star - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Carthage, Taxes, Lake Providence (United States)

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

With Churchill set fair for the five pound note, what price equality? Show me the money women

Forget the gender pay gap: the latest feminist concern is the gender money gap. If the Bank of England sticks to the plan it announced on Friday, Winston Churchill will oust the social reformer Elizabeth Fry as the "face" of the £5 note, leaving the Queen ... [Published The Independent - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Winston Churchill, Equality, Octavia Hill

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Whatever happened to the old-fashioned con man?

In America, there was an entire lexicon to cover such men; they were hustlers, grifters, hucksters, carnival barkers, pool sharks, poker kings, flim-flam men. Their sidekicks were shills and their victims were marks. They had a disreputable appeal, whether ... [Published The Independent - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Dennis Wheatley, Fake, Cecil Parker, Nick Santora

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Wapses Lodge Roundabout - A local history article by Ruth Sear

This wonderful structure on the border of Caterham and Whyteleafe on the A22 opened on May 1st 1939 with no formal opening ceremony. Known as 'Britain's first elevated traffic island' the roads that converge on it are the same level. Surrounded by a concrete ... [Published Caterham and District Independent - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: War Office, Safety Zone, Air Attack, Camouflage

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But the War Office said: "If he shows signs of mental derangement he should however be sent home by first ship." Lt Col Clarke was released and ordered to leave Spain within 48 hours

The spy arrested for cross-dressing [Published BBC - 22 hours ago]

It was in the aftermath of the Great War rather than the Easter Rising that local feeling changed. The "younger men were not really hostile but were to some extent openly defiant ... For the most part, they expressed themselves in more or less friendly discussions with my father about the day which was coming when he and his like would have to leave."

Excluded by history [Published Irish Times - 22 hours ago]

The response from 'C' chief of the Secret Intelligence Service Major General Sir Stewart Menzies was: "We can only await developments in a spirit of calm and resignation."

The name's Bond, Jane Bond: Riddle of the WW2 spy arrested in Spain... dressed as a woman [Published Mail Online UK - May 23 2013]

...the prize money was pathetic, the facilities awful". In 1984 he was inspecting a lavatory set aside for the use of the Princess Royal: "I looked in the loo in which she was to powder her nose and there was only half a wooden seat on it." Seagram’s investment over the ensuing years helped to transform the facilities at the course, and by 2004 Aintree was attracting 150,000 for the three-day...

Major Ivan Straker [Published Telegraph - May 22 2013]

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The spy arrested for cross-dressing [Published BBC - 22 hours ago]
Excluded by history [Published Irish Times - 22 hours ago]
The name's Bond, Jane Bond: Riddle of the WW2 s... [Published Mail Online UK - May 23 2013]
Major Ivan Straker [Published Telegraph - May 22 2013]
Joan Hooker obituary [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 22 2013]
'Most expensive home' to be sold [Published This is Bristol - May 20 2013]
Unsorted: Family History: [Published Huddersfield Daily Examiner - May 15 2013]
Welsh History Month: The ‘Brethyn Llwyd’ unifor... [Published Wales Online - May 13 2013]
It’s Time for Burma’s President to Act [Published Human Rights Watch - May 07 2013]
This day in Jewish history / The poet who calle... [Published Haaretz - May 05 2013]
The Dictators: Part 9—Than Shwe Becomes King [Published Irrawaddy - May 03 2013]
Keep women on our money [Published Morning Star Online - May 02 2013]
St Paul’s Cray recycling plant fire prompts loo... [Published News Shopper - May 02 2013]
Briton captured the drama of war, and of daily ... [Published CNN - May 01 2013]
Plymouth University cracks World War Two codes ... [Published Plymouth Evening Herald - May 01 2013]
April 25, 1863 [Published Register Star - Apr 29 2013]
With Churchill set fair for the five pound note... [Published The Independent - Apr 28 2013]
Whatever happened to the old-fashioned con man? [Published The Independent - Apr 28 2013]
Wapses Lodge Roundabout - A local history artic... [Published Caterham and District Independent - Apr 27 2013]
War heroine snubbed [Published Brisbane Courier-Mail - Apr 21 2013]
Remembering the Royal Malta Artillery’s forgott... [Published Times of Malta - Apr 15 2013]
An Army Of Deserters [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 08 2013]
Detailed guidance: Pensions and compensation fo... [Published Inside government - Ministry of Defence - Apr 08 2013]
Detailed guidance: The Defence Training Estate [Published Inside government - Ministry of Defence - Apr 04 2013]
Main Line Towns [Published Main Line Life - Mar 24 2013]
Maj Gen Tony Deane-Drummond: Soldier decorated ... [Published The Independent - Mar 05 2013]
Stanley Forman: Film producer and distributor w... [Published The Independent - Mar 05 2013]
The Audacity of de Gaulle [Published Policy Review - Feb 02 2013]
Ankara's Unacknowledged Genocide :: Karsh in MEQ [Published Solsticewitch13's BOS - Jan 10 2013]
Hundreds of Spitfire parts 'waiting to be found' [Published Telegraph - Dec 11 2012]

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An Army Of Deserters [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 08 2013] In his new book, Deserter , Charles Glass focuses on the AWOL soldiers of WWII: The British gave deserters an amnesty in 1953, but America never has. Theoretically, deserters who are still missing are still wanted. I was keen to do some comparisons ...
Detailed guidance: Pensions and compensation fo... [Published Inside government - Ministry of Defence - Apr 08 2013] Updated: Updated AFIP information Service Personnel and Veterans Agency (SPVA) SPVA is part of the MOD and reports to the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Personnel and Training). It provides essential support services to the Armed Forces and Veterans ...
Detailed guidance: The Defence Training Estate [Published Inside government - Ministry of Defence - Apr 04 2013] Updated: Firing period change Overview Over two thirds of the 240,000 hectares of land owned by the MOD is held solely for the purpose of training the Armed Forces. This land is known as the Defence Training Estate (DTE). The DTE comprises 16 major ...
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