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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

HOW THE LUFTWAFFE PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

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

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

Historian Keith recalls similar incidences of suspected foul play from days gone by

Today’s staunch game-fisher has good reason to thank yesterday’s stolid coarse angler, writes Mike Handyside