The battle to feed britain

Just before the Second World War in the 1930s, British farming was at the end of a long depression, partly caused by cheap grain imported from the North American prairies since the 1870s. Most farms w

I’D seen an advertisement in my father’s newspaper for women to work on the canal boats. It said applicants should be of a robust constitution. I’m quite robust, so why not? I’d give it a go. “Look, D

HOW THE LUFTWAFFE PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying

In the event of a Nazi invasion, Britain would have deployed a network of deadly defences to impede the enemy at every turn

For almost 30 years, Valerie Finnis was a distinguished and charismatic teacher at the Waterperry Horticultural school for Women, near Oxford, founded in 1932 by the fearsomely smocked and gaitered Be