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Forgotten Friday – POWs Pass Go For Free….

19th Jul 2023

In America in the early 1900s, Lizzie Magie created a game called The Landlord’s Game to teach people about land ownership and the risks that came with it. The game was self-published and only a few people bought it.

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Forgotten Friday – Silk Embroidered Postcards

8th Jul 2023

During World War One, a popular souvenir amongst British soldiers was the embroidered silk postcard.  As they were quite an expensive souvenir, a lot of postcards were unwritten and unmarked and sent home with accompanying letters to loved ones.

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Forgotten Friday – World Chocolate Day!

6th Jul 2023

Chocolate played a small but important part in the Allied Victory in WWII, this including the D-Day Landings. Britain became a carrier for almost 3 million American troops who passed through our country on their way to war. These GIs had a profound cultural influence on Britain and brought chocolate and Coca-Cola in an amazing abundance. For the British population, who suffered heavy rationing on even basic foods like cream, eggs, and even potatoes – this plentiful new supply of chocolate must have felt surreal! Majority of people never even tasted chocolate in the war!

Forgotten Friday – Churchill’s Cigar

29th Jun 2023

Many photographs of Churchill depict him with a cigar either in his mouth or his hand. There is even one of him at the control of the aircraft that flew him home from Washington in January 1942, with a large cigar jutting out into the cockpit

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Forgotten Friday – The Kidnap of Henrich Kreipe

1st Jun 2023

During the German/Italian occupation of the Greek island of Crete an audacious plan was hatched to kidnap a German general. This was to be carried out by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and local resistance members. This is a little known story that would be seen as a propaganda coup for allied forces but there were reprisals to the civilian population in the aftermath which would question the overall success of the mission.