Showing posts with label London in the 1940s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London in the 1940s. Show all posts
Monday, 3 February 2025

On rediscovering where you were born ............. The General Lying in Hospital at Lambeth

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My hospital, 2007 We all have little bits of our past which we stumble across. Most are too personal to warrant even a sentence in a ...
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Friday, 3 January 2025

The London of 1949

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The Pool of London in 1909 This is the Pool of London in 1909. Fifty years later given a few changes and a bit of bomb damage and it ...
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Friday, 16 February 2024

The 43 Group ......... confronting the Blackshirts just months after the defeat of Fascism

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 I once thought that antisemitism was defeated in the ruins of Berlin in 1945, but that was naive as events across Europe and beyond continu...
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Sunday, 4 September 2016

Tracing the bombs that fell on Eltham .............. the online bomb maps

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Now I am following up on the story I posted yesterday featuring eight short films about London, and Manchester during the Blitz with a ...
Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Tracing the bombs that fell on Peckham .............. the online bomb maps

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Now I have been watching eight short films about London, and Manchester during the Blitz with a link to a fascinating interactive map fro...
Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Living through the Blitz ........... Manchester and London and eight short films

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I cannot really imagine living through the Blitz, those nightly ordeals of making preparations to spend a night in the shelters, waiting ...