Churchill’s Secret Army in N.E.Essex with Hugh Frostick From frostick.co.uk: Hugh gives an overview of how the GHQ Auxiliary Units - a deliberately unexciting name -  came into being in 1940 with the threat of invasion. Churchill supported the idea and entrusted the set up to some very able men who were interested in “irregular warfare”. […]

Pie & Mash and Prefabs with Norman Jacobs From Amazon.co.uk : The Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect prefabs on fields and open spaces to give temporary accommodation to those who had been bombed out. It was in one of these 'modern' boxes that […]

Recent Excavations in and Around Colchester with Adam Wightman Adam Wightman (twitter @adamwightman30 ) is senior archeologist with the Colchester Archeology Trust   The Fenwick Treasure    

My Life In Harrods with Sue Smart Sue spent all 43 years of her working life in Harrods, from the age of seventeen as a Junior until she finally retired after being a Buyer in various departments.