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Monthly Archives: May 2014
New Book – Down But Not Out
Down But Not Out
The Incredible Story of Second World War Airman
Maurice ‘Moggy’ Mayne
Maurice Mayne with Mark Ryan
To be published 1st May 2014, £17.99 Hardback
9780750952064
A rare insight into one airman’s incredible story of resilience, daring and love
The airman of the Second World War faced death on a daily basis when they undertook suicide missions to bomb German targets. Being shot down usually meant either a swift death or a long, painful and uncertain stay in a German POW camp.
New Book – Agent Cicero: Hitler’s Most Successful Spy
Agent Cicero
Hitler’s Most Successful Spy
Mark Simmons
Published July at £14.99
Hardback Original
ISBN: 9780750952866
‘What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious’
New Book – 50 Years of the Red Arrows
50 Years of the Red Arrows
Peter R. March
Published June, ISBN 978-0-7509-5634-5
Paperback Original, £14.99
For five decades the RAF’s Red Arrows have amazed and entertained millions of people right around the world with their breath-taking formation aerobatic displays. This is their story, 50 years on…
HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND AWARDS OVER £9000 TO WEALD & DOWNLAND OPEN AIR MUSEUM TO MARK FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENERY
The Weald & Downland Open Air Museum is delighted to be awarded funding of over £9,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to deliver their First World War Centenary events, which will run from 2 – 8 June 2014.
New Book Release – Death, Dynamite and Disaster by Rosa Matheson
Death, Dynamite and Disaster:
A Grisly British Railway History
Rosa Matheson
May 2014, £9.99 Hardback 9780752492667
A collection of gruesome tales from the early tracks of Britain
New Book – IWM Publishes First World War Poems from the Front
To coincide with the First World War centenary, IWM are publishing a new poetry anthology on 19 July, First World War Poems from the Front, edited by Paul O’Prey.
ANNUAL BORING CONFERENCE ANNOUNCES LINE-UP
Possible Guest Speaking – Most Boring Politician
Those of a nervous disposition should consider themselves warned under section 49, paragraph 2 of the Health and Safety Act
The Boring Conference, the annual event devoted to an acceptance of the mundane, will take place this Saturday, May 31st, at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. The event will start at 10am.
British museum opens ground-breaking interactive ‘Mummy’ exhibition
Unearthing part of Egypt’s history and offering an insight in to one of the most fascinating rituals known, the British Museum is opening a ground-breaking interactive exhibition, ‘Ancient Lives, New Discoveries’. Running from 22 May to 30 November, 2014, the exhibition showcases recent research on one of the most-popular areas of the museum’s collection – ancient Egyptian and Sudanese ‘mummies’.
BSL Tours at London Transport Museum
London Transport Museum is running several events to provide wider access to the Museum and its collection for visitors with special needs. Three events will be held throughout the year with tours of the Museum’s Depot at Acton in West London, the Museum’s new major exhibition Goodbye Piccadilly – from Home Front to Western Front, and a virtual tour of Aldwych, a disused underground station.