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Book review: The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain

10th March 2021 Going Postal 0

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer. Publisher The Bodley Head This is the latest in a series of Time Traveller’s Guides by Historian Ian Mortimer and his enthusiasm for his subject [more…]

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The Merchant Navy Boy

10th November 2019 Going Postal 0

Some of you may recall that I have been trying to claim my deceased father’s WW2 medals as a Merchant Navy seaman. It has taken a year and with a great deal of help from [more…]

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