This was probably Chelsea’s most famous tourist location between the Great War of 1914-1918 and the Second World War of 1939-1945. Its history dated back
Tag: Second World War
Twenty Goldsmiths’ history short stories you may or may not know about- Part One: 1-20
Goldsmiths’ historian Professor Tim Crook relates twenty short stories about the university’s history you may or may not know about in four sentence narratives. This
How celebrated ‘spymistress’ Vera Atkins helped protect Chelsea during the Blitz
Vera Atkins is one of the most famous woman intelligence officers of the Second World War because she was responsible for running women Special Operations
The Paultons Square trench shelter tragedy- October 20th 1940
Trench shelters were a rapid and quick build solution for the construction of public air raid refuges in London during the Second World War. They
Remembrance at Goldsmiths- a question of resilience?
Armistice Day- the eleventh day of the eleventh month symbolises the UK’s immeasurable losses to armed conflict in the Great War of 1914 to 1918.
Orwell’s row with Wells
H. G. Wells had been George Orwell’s literary hero. But from 1937 he became highly critical of the Wellsian output in novels, essays and pamphlets