The 6th February 2018 marked 100 years since the Representation of the People Act was passed in Britain, giving (some) women the right to vote. To mark the 100 Years of Suffrage centenary, a host...
The Cunard Steamship Company launched the Tyrrhenia on 21st May 1920. Her name changed in 1924 to the Lancastria and when the Second World War began in 1939, she was taken over as a...
Squadron Leader Richard Manton was the son of Brigadier Lionel Manton of Dower House, Melbourne in Derbyshire. He joined the RAF in 1937, and when the war broke out, he was stationed in India. He...