20th Century
The Lawn Road flats
The Lawn Road flats in Hampstead, also known as the Isokon Building, were built in 1934 in the style known as Bauhaus or Le Corbusier. This is often known these days as brutalist and you [more…]
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20th Century
The Woolwich Arsenal case
One of the few spy cases that was prosecuted in the thirties was the Woolwich Arsenal case. The background to this case was twofold, the Russians were spying on us anyway and they really needed [more…]
20th Century
The spy who came in from the Co-op
After the 1920s, it’s time to take a look at the 1930s. The spreading of the revolution was one of the top priorities of the Bolsheviks. Almost as soon as they gained power in Russia [more…]
20th Century
The Oshima telegram
In May 1944 the Japanese Ambassador to Berlin was Mr Oshima. He had a face to face meeting with Adolf on May 28 1944 and sent the results to Tokyo encoded using Purple which had [more…]
20th Century
Split right down the Axis
As we all know, the Axis was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan to come to the assistance of each other in case of attack. What is often forgotten is that three other countries [more…]
20th Century
The Communists
This is a bit of an afterthought but having read about these elections it seems only fair to write an article about them. It seems that Stanley Baldwin was a bit of a Saggy Tits [more…]
20th Century
The Communists
The twenties were dominated by the Bolsheviks in Moscow trying to spread their revolution world wide. Marx had predicted Great Britain would be the first to succumb to his fantasies so those in Moscow made [more…]
20th Century
The Communists
One of the more well known spy stories in the 1920s was the ARCOS affair. ARCOS was the All Russian Co-operative Society and it handled trade between the USSR and the UK. Anything the USSR [more…]
History
The Communists
In November 1924 a very strange advert appeared in the communist leaning Daily Herald. Labour Group carrying out investigation would like to receive information and details from anyone who has had any dealings with any [more…]