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Gin, witches, regicide, boats, nudists, an Egyptian curse, Spitfires, the invention of windsurfing and more writers and vineyards than you can shake a fishing rod at: this beloved English county has it all. Here are 13 stories you may never have heard about Hampshire

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

The mighty ‘Thud’ was a mainstay of the air war over Vietnam

HOW THE LUFTWAFFE PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

Whether they knew his name or not, whole generations of Brits were familiar with the work of Reginald Mount, who lent his talents to the Ministry of Information during World War Two and beyond. Mount,

Nobody likes a know-it-all. Less appealing still is someone who actually says “I told you so.” But when someone unburdened by any measurable technical expertise happens to blurt something out on a pod