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Flight’s glamorous beginnings

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When Buckingham Palace was hit by bombs on 15 September 1940, it brought the war to the very front door of King George VI and his wife Elizabeth, the Queen consort. Just over two weeks later, the war

In true British fashion, it all begins with Tea. Let’s go back to the 1960s – the age of flower power, civil movements, and some rather famous music. The Brooke Bond Tea Company, who you’ll know from

This fantastic plan, which led the then Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS), Air Vice-Marshal Arthur T Harris, to remark ‘the story, that appears too fantastic for words, might have a fortunate outco

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...