Michael Ventris
Architect and decipherer of Linear B script. While still at school he heard about the discovery of Knossos by Arthur Evans, and about the undeciphered Linear B script on the tablets. This mystery ...
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50th anniversary of VJ Day
The surrender of Japan was announced in Japan (USA, Europe, etc.) on 14 (15) August 1945 and effectively ended WW2. The paperwork was done two weeks later on 2 September. All three dates are someti...
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Voltaire Foundation
The Voltaire Foundation is a research department in the University of Oxford, publishing in the area of the Eighteenth century, especially the French Enlightenment.
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Christopher Wade
Hampstead historian. Born in Bradford. Attended Trinity College, Cambridge, was a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF in WW2, joined the BBC and rose to become head of the television script unit. Married...
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Spencer Walpole
Sir Spencer Walpole KCB, FBA was an English historian and civil servant. The son of Spencer Horace Walpole he was descended from one of the brothers of Robert Walpole. Through his mother he was a ...
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Wandsworth Society
A community group with the aim of safeguarding the character, quality and integrity of the environment around Wandsworth.
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Sir Fabian Ware
Founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission. Born Bristol. Became a teacher, moved into education management and worked in the Transvaal. Back in Britain he edited a newspaper. In WW1, too old f...
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Fee Warner
Secretary of TAG, she had been visiting 'The Bolan Tree' since the 24th September, 1977 and had visited regularly since then tidying and checking on the tree's condition.
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