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Why St Peter's School Remembers Charles Rolls
2 June 1910 (read time: 2 mins.) Why St Peter's School Remembers Charles Rolls Back in 1976, I went to St Peter’s School in Bournemouth, spending seven very happy years playing rugby and gaining friends who I’m still in touc…
The Bombe's Blind Spot—Tacit Knowledge
14 March 1940 (read time: 8 mins.) Alan Turing’s masterpiece, The Bombe, was installed at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire on 18 March 1940 and changed the course of World War II. It broke the Enigma code, but it couldn’t do i…
Churchill and the Anzacs
25 April 1915 (read time: 2 mins.) The Australian and New Zealand Air Corps (ANZAC) landed at Gallipoli during the First World War on 25 April 1915. Their task was to take control of the Dardanelles (or ‘Strait of Gallipoli’)…
Chris Moon and the Khmer Rouge
10 June 1993 (read time: 3 mins.) Chris Moon (MBE) was working for the Halo Trust, clearing landmines in Cambodia. On 10 June 1993, he was taken prisoner by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the most feared and brutal regime in the country's histor…
Closing Winston Churchill's War Rooms
16 August 1945 (read time: 5 mins.) The limited ventilation and perpetual occupation in Winston Churchill’s War Rooms left a distinctive staleness in the air, compounded by the constant fog of cigarette and cigar smoke. This wasn&r…