HSL102, one of two historic World War II rescue boats owned by Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust (PNBPT), is to be given a new lease of life with … [Read more...]
Wartime rescue boat, HSL102, to get new engines
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December 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
More than 700,000 National Trust items go online
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December 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
From great works of art by Gainsborough to the ordinary cotton underpants of a Midlands grocer, details of over 700,000 objects in the care of the … [Read more...]
LLoyds Building in London given protected status
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December 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Lloyd’s building in central London has been given Grade I listed status for its architectural innovation, historic interest and celebrated … [Read more...]
Blue Plaque for Dame Gracie Fields in Islington
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December 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
Dame Gracie Fields (1898-1979), one of Britain’s most successful and best loved performers, is honoured with a blue plaque at 72a Upper Street, … [Read more...]
Lancelot ‘Capability‘ Brown remembered with Blue Plaque
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December 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Lancelot ‘Capability‘ Brown, is to be commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque at Wilderness House, Hampton Court Palace, his home from … [Read more...]
Women Wartime Spies
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December 21, 2011 By
From Mata Hari through to Noor Inayat Khan, women spies have rarely received the recognition they deserve. They have often been trivialised and, in … [Read more...]
Fight, Dig and Live – The Story of the Royal Engineers in the Korean War
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December 20, 2011 By
The deeply unpleasant Korean War began in 1950 with an unprovoked attack by North Korea. Hostilities went on for three long years, followed by an … [Read more...]
Roman Conquests: Gaul
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December 20, 2011 By
Ever since their sack of Rome in the early fourth century BC, the various tribes of Gauls to the north were among the Roman Republic's most feared and … [Read more...]
Battleground Sussex – A Military History of Sussex From the Iron Age to the Present Day
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December 20, 2011 By
From its south-eastern tip Sussex is little more than sixty miles from continental Europe and the county’s coastline, some seventy-six miles long, … [Read more...]
ShipCraft 18: Titanic – and her Sisters Olympic and Britannic
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December 20, 2011 By
The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, … [Read more...]
