August Browne’s story is impressive. The new facts show him as a remarkable survivor, a Black musician who found his way through the strict social rules of interwar Warsaw, lived through the Nazi occupation, and managed to survive against the odds.
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In my quest to publish a post about i-telex, I found information about this system fragmented over many web page. I also found many of these full of technical jargon, unfamiliar to me, as a former non-technical telex operator.
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Discover how your old UK, EU car or 4×4 can save lives in Ukraine. Learn about the Car For Ukraine initiative, the tactical advantage of RHD vehicles, and the Easter Pysanky Trucks 2026 campaign.
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The Three Tees Agency reunion details: Saturday, 3rd October, 2026, at The Punch Tavern, 99 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DE, from midday to 3-ish. A Warm Welcome Awaits you.
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When martial law was declared in Poland on 13 December 1981, beyond just deploying tanks, the regime crippled the nation’s telephone and telex lines with a targeted strike.
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Updated 12/04/26. The Price of a Vote in Hungary is the name of a recent documentary about how Electoral Control Works in Rural Hungary. The documentary analyses how systematic fraud has infiltrated the Hungarian voting system.
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in 2026, we visited Shoreham Airport. The highlight of our visit was the The Shoreham Airport Collection, aka the Shoreham Airport Visitor Centre.
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Leopold Amersin was the Treuhänder (trustee) appointed to run the Aryanised firm A. Nussbaum in Kraków. His name appears repeatedly in the documents relating to the Englard family, including those used in the reconstruction of Mala Englard’s story, published earlier on this site.
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Navigating the oppressive and often deadly bureaucracy of occupied Kraków. This is the story of Mala Englard, a young Jewish woman. From residency denied to reversal.
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Biography of the Polish resistance fighter from Cieszyn who didn’t come home. In my mother’s photo album sits a photo of Wanda Delong ‘sarenka’, clearly in my mother’s heart.
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The Minute’s Silence at Worthing Town Hall to commemorate the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine took place on Tuesday, 24 February 2026.
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This biography about Salomea Berlińska is a companion piece to my main article on the Handlówka in Cieszyn Class of 1936, where her signature first appears.
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