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Pulling down statues? Oh, it’s a controversial question in Britain today. The Prime Minister has said that removing statues of celebrated me...

So it’s going to be war. Soldiers from the Spanish 'Military Emergency Unit' (UME) deploy outside the main station in Valencia ...

The benefit of dying on your birthday is that the people you leave behind can celebrate your life, on the day you were born, rather than lam...

Seventy-five years ago today, my father was flying along the Normandy coast taking photographs of what was happening on the beaches below, a...

The other day I came across a scrapbook that I started at the start of the sixties. It was proudly marked ‘File = 1’. Number 1. Clearly, I’d...

It’s going to take me months, if not years, to finish going through my late parents’ papers. But however long the task may be, it’s alleviat...

Objects sometimes bring back many lost memories, don’t they? In Proust, it was the flavour of the little cake known as a Madeleine that – ...

As I ’ ve said before , one of my grandfathers was Nat Bannister, a Jew, a lithographer, and a radical at least in his early days. He spent ...

Flying log entries 20.9.44. No. 18. Operation Holland: 20 containers: 4 panniers. Heavy flak damage – B/A wounded. Crash landed Alost Be...