Newspaper publisher and politician. Born William Maxwell Aitken in Maple, Ontario. He came to Britain in 1910, and served as an MP 1911-16. In 1919, he took over The Daily Express, and later founded The Sunday Express. In WW2, Winston Churchill made him Minister of Supply, and later Lord Privy Seal.
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Lord Beaverbrook
{Beneath the City of Westminster crest:} A building of historic significance,...
Author and publisher. Born Leonard Sidney Woolf in Kensington. After working in the Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Civil Service, he returned to Britain where he met and married Virginia Stephen. Together ...
Manufacturers of printing ink for the newspaper industry. Its head office was at Wine Office Court off Fleet Street.
Born 10th October 1827, Walworth. Art critic and historian. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1844 where he met Millais and Holman Hunt with whom he joined to found the Pre-Raphaelite Broth...
Wisden's Almanack, the 'Bible of Cricket' was first published by John Wisden. It appears annually and contains a vast amount of information about English and overseas cricket, including scores of ...
Originally founded by Ninette de Valois as the Academy of Choreographic Art. Its students are chosen purely for their dancing talent and not for any academic ability. Famous dancers and choreograph...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
The Board of Guardians and Trustees for the Relief of the Jewish Poor Registered (known as the Jewish Board of Guardians) provided help for those who had been in the country for over six months. F...
Members of the civil defence services who lost their lives in Bermondsey 1939 - 1945.
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