World War II
VE Day 1945 King George VI Speech
VE Day 1945 King George VI Speech an inspired reading at this week’s service in Westminster Abbey commemorating the end of WW2 in Europe VE Day on 8th May. Did you hear the The King’s Speech, how much does a national act of commemoration provide a timely reminder of the need to give back and participate and not just leave it all to the political class?
Read MoreNeville Chamberlain Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain made an error of judgement it is offten argued in seeking a path of appeasement and in particular by seeking to sacrifice other smaller countries in negotiations with Hitler i order to seek to avoid entangling Britain in a further costly war both in human and economic terms that it was currently ill-equipped to fight whilst still recovering from WW1 and the difficult period between the wars that had been book-ended by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the Depression of the early 1930s. In this series we ask questions of wider Britain and its easy criticism of Chamberlain, who was damned for a short period of a career that had largely bee dedicated to public service. But was he individually to blame or part of a wider political history of Britain which wrongly and rashly seeks to attribute blame to a single man, even the Prime Minister. The outcome of war with Hitler may not have changed irrespective of Chamberlain’s actions but would we have been better prepared and avoided some of the early errors in WW2 when Britain as a nation was so ill-prepared for war?
Read MoreWinston Churchills Legacy a balanced perspective
How can you get a balanced view and perspective about this British Prime Minister and what his real legacy is on this (2015) the 50th Anniversary of Winston Churchill’s state funeral. The historians and politician’s literature never mind Winston’s own writings are huge. He never did a single TV interview Professor Vernon Bogdanor does us all proud with this excellent video lecture, in his roles as Emeritus Professor of Law and Visiting Professor of Political History at the excellent Gresham College find a little time and get an excellent balanced view and appraisal of the legacy left to us all by Winston Churchill.
Read MoreWWII Conscription April 1939
April 1939 the first ever conscription in peacetime in Britain
Read MoreGreat Royal Naval Battles from Sulys to the Falklands
Battles fought at sea have long been the defining point of many wars, from as early as 1340, to the Falkland War of thirty years ago, Britain has maintained a history of Naval supremacy
Read MoreRoyal Observer Corps Cap Badge
The Royal Observation Corps were responsible for identifying and locating enemy aircraft in the skies over Britain. The cap badge is part of the intriguing collection of military cap badges
Read MoreReconnaissance Corps Cap Badge 1941 – 1946
The military cap badge of the reconnaissance Corps, added to the intriguing collection of cap badges
Read MoreCap Badge Long Range Desert Group 1940 – 45
What a fascinating history relating to the cap badge of the Long Range Desert Group 1940 – 45
Read MoreWorld Memory Project: US Holocaust Museum teams-up with the world
World Memory Project – teams-up with Ancestry so we can transcribe the records freely and faster, hear this video with Sol Finkelmen’s moving story just one of millions…If ever there was a compelling reason for family history research, this has to be it…
Read MoreCap Badge Royal Guernsey Light Infantry 1939 – 1947
Cap badge of the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry 1939 – 1947 part of the military cap badge collection at capbadges.net
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