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The people who worked at GCHQ could never talk about their jobs. Not to family. Not to friends. West honors that silence.
#books #bookreview #SecretHistory #BritishHistory #HistoryLovers
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/gchq-book-review/

The people who worked at GCHQ could never talk about their jobs. Not to family. Not to friends. West honors that silence.
#books #bookreview #SecretHistory #BritishHistory #HistoryLovers
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/gchq-book-review/

The people who worked at GCHQ could never talk about their jobs. Not to family. Not to friends. West honors that silence.
#books #bookreview #SecretHistory #BritishHistory #HistoryLovers
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/gchq-book-review/

The people who worked at GCHQ could never talk about their jobs. Not to family. Not to friends. West honors that silence.
#books #bookreview #SecretHistory #BritishHistory #HistoryLovers
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/gchq-book-review/

The people who worked at GCHQ could never talk about their jobs. Not to family. Not to friends. West honors that silence.
#books #bookreview #SecretHistory #BritishHistory #HistoryLovers
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/gchq-book-review/

#OnThisDay, 27 Apr 1992, Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of the UK House of Commons. She was the first - and to date only - woman to hold the role.

A working class woman, Betty had been a dancer before working for JFK and becoming an MP. She went on to sit in the House of Lords.

Watch: https://buff.ly/38djBcP

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #Histodons

"As my year moved onwards towards Autumn 1975, and back to winter again, I remember a couple more things."
Read on...
https://wp.me/pdWkHZ-3IK

#Nostalgia #1970s #Flashback #Memoir #BritishHistory #MyMusicalRoad #Concorde #DoctorWho #VinylRecords #VintageStyle #TheArchiveOfMyLife #MusicHistory

https://thearchiveofmylife.com/my-3rd-birthday-and-musical-road-to-4-part-four/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

"As my year moved onwards towards Autumn 1975, and back to winter again, I remember a couple more things."
Read on...
https://wp.me/pdWkHZ-3IK

#Nostalgia #1970s #Flashback #Memoir #BritishHistory #MyMusicalRoad #Concorde #DoctorWho #VinylRecords #VintageStyle #TheArchiveOfMyLife #MusicHistory

https://thearchiveofmylife.com/my-3rd-birthday-and-musical-road-to-4-part-four/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

"As my year moved onwards towards Autumn 1975, and back to winter again, I remember a couple more things."
Read on...
https://wp.me/pdWkHZ-3IK

#Nostalgia #1970s #Flashback #Memoir #BritishHistory #MyMusicalRoad #Concorde #DoctorWho #VinylRecords #VintageStyle #TheArchiveOfMyLife #MusicHistory

https://thearchiveofmylife.com/my-3rd-birthday-and-musical-road-to-4-part-four/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

"As my year moved onwards towards Autumn 1975, and back to winter again, I remember a couple more things."
Read on...
https://wp.me/pdWkHZ-3IK

#Nostalgia #1970s #Flashback #Memoir #BritishHistory #MyMusicalRoad #Concorde #DoctorWho #VinylRecords #VintageStyle #TheArchiveOfMyLife #MusicHistory

https://thearchiveofmylife.com/my-3rd-birthday-and-musical-road-to-4-part-four/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

"As my year moved onwards towards Autumn 1975, and back to winter again, I remember a couple more things."
Read on...
https://wp.me/pdWkHZ-3IK

#Nostalgia #1970s #Flashback #Memoir #BritishHistory #MyMusicalRoad #Concorde #DoctorWho #VinylRecords #VintageStyle #TheArchiveOfMyLife #MusicHistory

https://thearchiveofmylife.com/my-3rd-birthday-and-musical-road-to-4-part-four/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Britain kept GCHQ a secret for decades. Nigel West blows that cover wide open. This book is a must-read for any history fan.
#books #BritishHistory #ColdWarHistory #IntelligenceHistory
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/gchq-book-review/

Britain kept GCHQ a secret for decades. Nigel West blows that cover wide open. This book is a must-read for any history fan.
#books #BritishHistory #ColdWarHistory #IntelligenceHistory
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/gchq-book-review/

Britain kept GCHQ a secret for decades. Nigel West blows that cover wide open. This book is a must-read for any history fan.
#books #BritishHistory #ColdWarHistory #IntelligenceHistory
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/gchq-book-review/

Britain kept GCHQ a secret for decades. Nigel West blows that cover wide open. This book is a must-read for any history fan.
#books #BritishHistory #ColdWarHistory #IntelligenceHistory
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/gchq-book-review/

Britain kept GCHQ a secret for decades. Nigel West blows that cover wide open. This book is a must-read for any history fan.
#books #BritishHistory #ColdWarHistory #IntelligenceHistory
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/gchq-book-review/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-a-new-documentary-one-of-britains-most-famous-historians-reframes-the-american-revolution-as-a-messy-divorce-180988457/

As a Brit resident in the USA who has more than a passing interest in US history and culture, my feelings about the American Revolution are so mixed and multitudinous that I won't try to put them all down here, although I might post some reflections over the course of the year.

I am glad that the article I've posted mentions the Gordon riots, an all too often forgotten episode exhibiting both the repressive violence wielded by Britain's rulers against their compatriots in the crowd, and the ugly bigotry coursing through that crowd.

Those riots also offer a jumping off point for an exercise in counterfactual history: what if those disorders had not been contained, but had turned out to be the beginnings of the British Revolution of 1780?

#History #AmericanRevolution #USHistory #BritishHistory #GordonRiots #CounterfactualHistory #BritishAmericanRelations

#OnThisDay, 11 Apr 1913, the Nevill Pavilion in Tunbridge Wells, UK, is destroyed by arson. No-one is injured. Suffragettes are suspected of starting the fire because their leaflets are found nearby, but no-one is ever caught.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

Sarum: The Novel of England "A compelling saga of five families—the Wilsons, Masons, the family of Porteus, the Shockleys & the Godfreys" Sale: $24 to $1.99 by Edward Rutherfurd Rating: 4.4/5 (5,623 Reviews) #HistoricalFiction #BritishHistory #EpicNovel #Stonehenge #FamilySaga #Books #BookSky

Sarum: The Novel of England

Who Lies in Winchester’s Medieval Mortuary Chests?

"The tangled remains of medieval kings and bishops at Winchester Cathedral are finally beginning to give up their secrets. After more than a decade of scientific analysis, researchers are closer than ever to identifying the individuals whose bones were mixed together following the destruction of the cathedral’s mortuary chests during the English Civil War."

https://www.medievalists.net/2026/03/who-lies-in-winchesters-medieval-mortuary-chests/

#history #britishhistory

NEW PODCAST EPISODE JUST RELEASED!!

Head to patreon.com/helenpugh

My podcast comes from my research of women throughout history for my books, which include Unsung Women in Somerset, On This Day in Somerset, Jungle-tastic Tales and Inca-tastic Tales.

The podcast showcases women from England, South America and all across the globe.

#genderrights #womenshistorymonth #history #historical #medieval #britishhistory #spain #podcast #newpodcast #podcastepisode

#OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, around 250 people blockade Greenham Common airbase in the UK. 34 are arrested. It was the first mass non-violent protest by the Greenham Common peace women.

Photo: Paula Allen.

Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/greenham-women-22-march-1982/

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1979, the first National Black Women’s Conference started in Brixton, London, arranged by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD). Over 300 women attended.

OWAAD was founded by Stella Dadzie and Olive Morris in 1978 to bring a black feminist perspective to political action.

Morris died in July 1979 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In 2024, she was recognised for her work with a blue plaque.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #London #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 Mar 1927, the inaugural women's boat race between Oxford and Cambridge takes place on the Isis.

In 2015, the women’s race was finally held on the same day, and over the same course, as the men’s race.

Watch silent newsreel of the 1927 race here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6kqhJGOWI

More: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2015/03/women-making-waves-newton-womens-oxford.html

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #BoatRace #ThisGirlCan #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 Mar 1927, the inaugural women's boat race between Oxford and Cambridge takes place on the Isis.

In 2015, the women’s race was finally held on the same day, and over the same course, as the men’s race.

Watch silent newsreel of the 1927 race here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6kqhJGOWI

More: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2015/03/women-making-waves-newton-womens-oxford.html

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #BoatRace #ThisGirlCan #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 Mar 1927, the inaugural women's boat race between Oxford and Cambridge takes place on the Isis.

In 2015, the women’s race was finally held on the same day, and over the same course, as the men’s race.

Watch silent newsreel of the 1927 race here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6kqhJGOWI

More: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2015/03/women-making-waves-newton-womens-oxford.html

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #BoatRace #ThisGirlCan #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 Mar 1927, the inaugural women's boat race between Oxford and Cambridge takes place on the Isis.

In 2015, the women’s race was finally held on the same day, and over the same course, as the men’s race.

Watch silent newsreel of the 1927 race here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6kqhJGOWI

More: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2015/03/women-making-waves-newton-womens-oxford.html

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #BoatRace #ThisGirlCan #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 Mar 1927, the inaugural women's boat race between Oxford and Cambridge takes place on the Isis.

In 2015, the women’s race was finally held on the same day, and over the same course, as the men’s race.

Watch silent newsreel of the 1927 race here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6kqhJGOWI

More: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2015/03/women-making-waves-newton-womens-oxford.html

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #BoatRace #ThisGirlCan #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London partially opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/england-built-by-women/

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1928, hundreds of women march through London to a Communist Party rally, demanding better working conditions.

[photo via https://redflagwalks.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/pawky-comments-in-downing-street-the-march-of-the-women-on-11th-march-1928/ ]

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.

Suffragette attacks on art were common enough for Punch to do a cartoon of it.

#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE JUST RELEASED!!

Head to patreon.com/helencpugh

My podcast comes from my research of women throughout history for my books, which include Unsung Women in Somerset, On This Day in Somerset, Jungle-tastic Tales and Inca-tastic Tales.

The podcast showcases women from England, South America and all across the globe.

#podcast #newpodcast #podcastepisode #genderrights #womenshistorymonth #history #historical #tudor #britishhistory #sweden

#OnThisDay, 9 Mar 1906, British suffragettes Flora Drummond and Annie Kenney repeatedly knock on the door of Number 10 Downing Street during a protest.

They were basically playing 'knock down ginger' on the Prime Minister. And were arrested for it.

#WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons

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Chartist Lives - now out in hardback, paperback and ebook formats. #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory 🗃️ www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y

Already binged the new #Bridgerton episodes & can't get enough of the British upper class?
May we suggest some further reading on #Diana & #QueenVictoria ? Details on each book in the replies! 👑

#BritishStudies #BritishHistory #EnglishHistory #Anglistik

🇬🇧 #BritishHistory 🇬🇧:
🇬🇧#BlackBritishHistory🇬🇧

Professor #DavidOkusoga

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5gtrezN4E&pp=ygUnZGF2aWQgb2RpbmdhIHBlb2Zlc3NvciB1ayBibGFjayBicml0aXNo

The Swedish settlers established a trading relationship with the Susquehannock, and supported them in their successful war against Maryland colonists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies

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#britishhistory #russianhistory #japanesehistory #frenchhistory #spanishhistory #poruguesehistory #dutchhistory #belgianhistory #swedishhistory

The Swedish settlers established a trading relationship with the Susquehannock, and supported them in their successful war against Maryland colonists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies

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#britishhistory #russianhistory #japanesehistory #frenchhistory #spanishhistory #poruguesehistory #dutchhistory #belgianhistory #swedishhistory

The Swedish settlers established a trading relationship with the Susquehannock, and supported them in their successful war against Maryland colonists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies

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#britishhistory #russianhistory #japanesehistory #frenchhistory #spanishhistory #poruguesehistory #dutchhistory #belgianhistory #swedishhistory

The Swedish settlers established a trading relationship with the Susquehannock, and supported them in their successful war against Maryland colonists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies

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#britishhistory #russianhistory #japanesehistory #frenchhistory #spanishhistory #poruguesehistory #dutchhistory #belgianhistory #swedishhistory

The Swedish settlers established a trading relationship with the Susquehannock, and supported them in their successful war against Maryland colonists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies

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#britishhistory #russianhistory #japanesehistory #frenchhistory #spanishhistory #poruguesehistory #dutchhistory #belgianhistory #swedishhistory

#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1907, around 15 suffragettes rush into the lobby of the House of Commons in London: around 60 more are arrested outside.

The picture shows their release the next day.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

Mud, glorious mud!

#OnThisDay, 9 Feb 1907, around 3,000 people take part in the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies' march through London, demanding the vote.

The weather was dreadful, hence its nickname of “the Mud March”.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons

Bit of a long shot, but does anyone here know anything about the female British typists who went to Germany in 1945 to type up the peace treaty? My grandmother was one of them!

#wwii #worldwarii #potsdam #peacetreaty #postwar #Germanhistory #britishhistory #history #europeanhistory #militaryhistory

Bit of a long shot, but does anyone here know anything about the female British typists who went to Germany in 1945 to type up the peace treaty? My grandmother was one of them!

#wwii #worldwarii #potsdam #peacetreaty #postwar #Germanhistory #britishhistory #history #europeanhistory #militaryhistory

Bit of a long shot, but does anyone here know anything about the female British typists who went to Germany in 1945 to type up the peace treaty? My grandmother was one of them!

#wwii #worldwarii #potsdam #peacetreaty #postwar #Germanhistory #britishhistory #history #europeanhistory #militaryhistory

Bit of a long shot, but does anyone here know anything about the female British typists who went to Germany in 1945 to type up the peace treaty? My grandmother was one of them!

#wwii #worldwarii #potsdam #peacetreaty #postwar #Germanhistory #britishhistory #history #europeanhistory #militaryhistory

Bit of a long shot, but does anyone here know anything about the female British typists who went to Germany in 1945 to type up the peace treaty? My grandmother was one of them!

#wwii #worldwarii #potsdam #peacetreaty #postwar #Germanhistory #britishhistory #history #europeanhistory #militaryhistory

#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1918, the Representation of the People Act receives royal assent, allowing some women in the UK the right to vote in general elections.

All men over 21 were able to vote for the first time, but only women over 30 who met some property requirements could join them at the ballot box.

Full enfranchisement came in 1928.

Listen to the Sheffield Street Choirs sing 'Nana was a Suffragette': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KklWkhG748

#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons