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West Grinstead Train Station: The Steyning Line
West Grinstead Train Station has the remains of railway infrastructure from a bygone era, which can still be seen.
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Brighton Tram 53 Project
The Brighton Tram 53 Society is working to bring a piece of Sussex transport history back to life. They are progressing with a restoration of two historic trams.
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August Browne: The True Story
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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How The i-Telex System Works
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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Operation Azalea: The Night Poland Lost Its Telex and Phone Connections
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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Shoreham Airport
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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Tracing A Name Through Occupied Kraków: Mala Englard
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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Wanda Delong: Resistance Fighter From Cieszyn
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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Salomea Berlińska: From a Cieszyn Schoolroom to the Kraków Ghetto?
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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The Girls of Handlówka in Cieszyn: Class III.B of 1936
This project focuses on a 1936 pre-war photo album that belonged to my mother, Aniela Szkawran, who studied at the Miejska Szkoła Handlowa (Handlówka in Cieszyn).
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The Rebuilding of Warsaw After the Destruction of WWII
Bellotto was known for his almost photographic precision, which he achieved by using a camera obscura (a precursor to the camera). This level of detail made his paintings an invaluable architectural blueprint for the rebuilding of Warsaw.
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Jumbo in Worthing
The baby elephant, Jumbo in Worthing, found washed up at Worthing’s Splash Point, commemorates a genuine, albeit tragic, historical event in the town’s history.
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