epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:The Countess of Carnarvon [Carnarvon, The Countess of]

4 From Honeymoon to Highclere On Christmas Day 1922, Porchey and Catherine sailed for India from Tilbury Docks, arriving in Bombay some ten days later. They had spent five months ...

pdf |en | | Author: William N. West

epub |eng | 2019-12-09 | Author:Dermot Turing

The four huts The autumn of 1939 was the period of the ‘Phoney War’, where nothing much was happening, at least as far as the war on land and in ...

epub |eng | 2023-01-01 | Author:Unknown

An unexpected pleasure was the presence of Dr Annie Besant, looking like a priestess in her white, gold-embroidered robe, who spoke proudly of the fact that Indian men had enfranchised ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Various

KELPIE STORIES FROM THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND. KELPIE AS USEFUL. A MAN in carting home his peats for winter fuel was in the habit of seeing a big black horse ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dion Alexander

9 MAKING SERIOUS FUN A stream of playfulness bubbled away blithely through Colonsay’s way of life, and though most of its self-expression was spontaneous, a serious amount of organisational effort ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter Snow & Ann MacMillan [MacMillan, Peter Snow & Ann]

27 EDWARD VI 1547–53 Edward VI was a pale shadow of his father, Henry VIII – pasty-faced and impassive, a child of nine when he was crowned, a sickly youth ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-30 | Author:Dilip Sarkar

So ended Buck Casson’s war. During his career as an operational fighter pilot, Buck had destroyed 3½ enemy aircraft, probably destroyed four, and damaged four more. His DFC was gazetted ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:John Nichol [NICHOL, JOHN]

Don Cheney reunited with his family Although the fighting in Europe continued, Don Cheney’s personal war was over, and he returned to Canada on Thanksgiving Day, 9 October 1944, two ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Martyn R Beardsley;

2 December 1966 Lieutenant Commander Harold Harvey, RNR, Inspector of Lifeboats for the north-west, paid a visit to the home in Holyhead of T. B. Roberts, the lifeboat station’s honorary ...

pdf | | 2022-04-13 | Author:John Lambshead

pdf | | 2021-12-23 | Author:Carol McGrath

epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Engel

15 DOWN WITH SKOOLS IN 1957, JOHN CLARKE, THE SON OF A RAILWAY CLERK, SAT AN exam at Brackley Junior School in Northamptonshire. This was the 11-plus, the test that ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bannerman, John W. M.,Broun, Dauvit.,MacGregor, Martin.

denoting that he should walk in the footsteps and uprightness of his predecessors and that he was installed by right in his possessions. He was clothed in a white habit, ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-30 | Author:Harold Liberty

The Americans seem to have signed in early March, not without some concerns about the view of their superiors.5 As the above shows, Tiltman was uncertain about how even-handed the ...