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Granfather’s Journal (16 years old): Chapter 5
Soon afterwards I commenced to go to Queen Elisabeth Grammar School in High Barnet. It was not a real boarding school but the headmaster took in a few boys and I was duly installed as one of the few. The … Continue reading
Tricateuse: Witness to the Execution
It is French for knitting woman, but the word tricoteuse has far greater significance than that. As the guillotine slices off another head of the French aristocracy during the Revolution, a tricoteuse sits in morbid calm watching the proceedings, returning … Continue reading
Posted in historical, politics
Tagged 1789, 1793, French history, French Revolution, guillotine, history, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Paris, tricoteuse, Versailles, Women's March on Versailles
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World War One Photo: Aircraft
Writing on the back of the photo says ‘La Bassee.’ It was a battle in Northern France between Germany and British forces starting in October 1914. Germany occupied La Bassee, and the British attempts to regain the commune of … Continue reading
Posted in historical, historical media, old photographs, World War One
Tagged aircraft, history, La Bassel, old photo, photo, Plane, primary source, Royal Air Force, World War One
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Brushed With Mystery 