Joan clarke 1917–96

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The story of four women who worked in wartime American intelligence

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO…

‘STANDING OUT AT school, I thought, ‘Well, you can either be different and then be scared and intimidated, or you can go, well, I don’t want to be the same as you anyway and take control of it.’” It’s

Heroes. Heroes overcome adversity to achieve feats of courage, endurance or sporting prowess. Heroes step up when the moment demands action. Unheroic Jo Aston, however, is waiting at a pedestrian cros

The months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two saw 20th Century Fox release two new films starring Basil Rathbone as the great Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as his l