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Titled ‘The Great War,’ this new event drops you into the Western Front of WW1 ... pilot but that you can’t unlock. Both sides have access to a bomber plane, and there are also giant ...
At the heart of De Vere Beaumont Estate in Old Windsor, sits an 18th-century mansion, a stunning chapel, 75 event spaces and ...
Graeme Sly, author of Unforgiven, on his systematic approach to researching Historical Fiction. Creative writing is a unique ...
On September 12, 1918, 2nd Lt. Frank Luke took down his first German observation balloon—just the beginning of his daring ...
She was only four when a German Zeppelin attacked nearby Loughborough. Her parents took her in a pony cart to see the aftermath. She also recalled singing Rule Britannia, aged seven, with her ...
A 110-year-old lemon used by a German WW1 spy to send secret messages from Britain with invisible ink is going on display in MI5’s first ever public exhibition. The blackened and flattened fruit ...
Dom's ship was a steam-powered cargo ship which sank on November 27 1917. It was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Cornwall, and has remained there ever since. The ship would have ...
Joining up at the start of the war, London-born Mr Barnes went on to serve for 23 years and said sinking a German U-boat was his biggest contribution to the war effort. 'Attacked by torpedoes ...
One night in 1915 a young pilot in a 90-h.p. B.E.2C ... view of the Queen Mary” —the great bladdery hull of the German Zeppelin L-15. It was one of several dirigibles bound for London ...
A proposal to add five new names - including three German soldiers - follows a similar move by the city's New College in 1930, Merton and Magdalen Colleges in 1994 and University College in 2018.