I would strongly discount the execution story. Although the German record was notorious for concentration camp detainees and East tEuropean PoWs,...
One effect on Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy was to drive him to campaign against war.
The most bizarre thing about Sweden currently is that having recently abolished conscription, it is now reintroducung it - wirth extension to...
Itis clear from the text that it is a Conscientious Objectors' Memorial, not a Conscientious Objector's Memorial. Fortunately for the sake of...
The heading "Lady Pamela ..." purports to describe the activities of the daughter of a senior peer (Duke, Marquis or Earl), to whom alone is...
I assume that for security reasons the name of the actual medal(s?) awarded cannot be revealed. Cover stories for secret work are a familiar...
I was misled by the title of this thread. I automatically assumed that it was a reference to the 1940 hit, "They're hanging out the washing on...
It is misleading to imply that margarine was post-war rather than wartime. Given the minuscule size of the butter ration, margarine was...
In the UK eggs became very scarce, but small boxes of "powdered egg" became available. They passed muster when used in baking cakes, but the only...
MLK Day is observed in the USA as a public holiday on the third Monday of January (not the second). Elsewhere it is observed as a day for civil...
It needs to be remembered that not all ARP posts were full-time. Some people were part-time volunteers, often on a rota basis, Comprehensive lists...
Whereas Anderson and Morrison shelters were formally sponsored by the Home Office, even though householders had to pay the basic cost and arrange...
These are clearly Anderson shelters, design borrowed from the UK, or a very close adaptation.
I have never heard of brick shelters in household back gardens, and certainly never saw.one, and I have no idea who would have sponsored them....
Not phased out of my old school, despite the self-mocking doggerel: Latin is a language As old as old can be. It killed the ancient Romans, And...
The Latin for "brave" is fortis, not forctis. Cf the old aphorism: The reason why the Dodo Is not alive today - He lived suaviter in modo Non...
"-ous" is a typically English ending, but wholly unknown in Latin. What about Bradenius Allenimus?
Among those deported from Jersey in this operation were some fifty British conscientious objectors who, in fulfilment of conditions of alternative...
Certainly, a rich tribute to Donald Soper by Colin Morris. The sidelining by the BBC of Soper in WW2 as a pacifist,was paralelled by sidelining of...
Although Dick Sheppard, founder of the Peace Pledge Union, died suddenly in 1937, and was therefore not able to bear witness for peace in WW2,...
