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Operation Mincemeat (aka The Man Who Never Was)

Operation Mincemeat was a top secret WW2 deception operation designed to fool the Germans as to where an Allied invasion in the Mediterranean would take place. Patricia Davies worked as a secreta

ATOMIC BOMBING OF NAGASAKI Part 2

John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he talks about being in Nagasaki in 19

ONBOARD HMS COVENTRY JUST BEFORE ATTACK during Falklands War

After HMS Sheffield was hit during the Falklands War, morale onboard HMS Coventry was down...but only for a bit! Coventry and her crew started preparing for further attacks. Here David Wood who serve

LAST TRAIN OUT OF PRAGUE 1939

Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines is from Prague. She came to England in 1939 as one of nearly 700 Jewish children saved from the Nazis by Sir Nicholas Winton, a stockbroker who earned the nickname 'Britain

Secretarial work, typing pools and using the first ever photocopier in the 1950s

Jacki Rogers talks about life during the 1950s training to be a secretary. She recounts her experience learning to type through 'touch type'and going on to work in a busy typing pool. She learned Pitm

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