Royal Air Force

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Literary Setting Margery Allingham
In this book she both re-introduced Albert Campion to his many fans, and tried to picture the coming post-war England. The cast of upper-middle-class characters are transformed by their entry into war service in...
Family and Intimate relationships Diana Athill
From the ages of nine to fifteen DA was chastely in love with a boy of her own age, kind, gentle, brave, honest and reliable: the most rational love of my life.
Athill, Diana. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. Granta.
194-5
After that...
Textual Features Eva Mary Bell
Back at home in Cheltenham, Mary finds the stagnation was worse than anything that I had pictured.
Bell, Eva Mary. A Servant When He Reigneth. Hodder and Stoughton.
16
Her mother (much younger than her father) died early; her stepmother was formerly her father's landlady...
Residence Lucy Boston
After her return to England, LB bought herself a country home: the manor house at Hemingford Grey in Huntingdonshire,
Rose, Jasper. Lucy Boston. Bodley Head.
19
twenty yards from the towpath of the Great Ouse, which dates back to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Phyllis Bottome
The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Drabble
MD 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , also attended Cambridge , and served in the RAF during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour candidate for the Tory seat...
Textual Features Helen Dunmore
The story is set in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where a young couple, Isabel and Philip Carey, are living in the harsh winter and austerity conditions of 1952, coping with the newness of...
Family and Intimate relationships Ruth Fainlight
RF married the man with whom she had been living for years, Alan Sillitoe (former RAF radio operator, now a suddenly successful novelist), at Marylebone Town Hall in London.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Evans-Bush, Katy. “The Poet Realized. An Interview with Ruth Fainlight”. Contemporary Poetry Review.
Wealth and Poverty Ruth Fainlight
Sillitoe had been invalided out of the RAF with tuberculosis and had a small disability pension, but still when the young couple left England they had to borrow money for the journey south and the...
Family and Intimate relationships Alison Fell
Alison's father, Andrew Fell, was an engine mechanic in peace-time and an airman in the RAF during the Second World War, when Alison was born. He bombed Hamburg and Dresden and D Day France, and...
Family and Intimate relationships Rosita Forbes
The opening pages of her second book of memoirs give a sketch of her brother John, farming under dreadful wartime difficulty in Kent, the family estate having been requisitioned for the RAF .
Forbes, Rosita. Appointment with Destiny. Cassell.
10
Family and Intimate relationships Maggie Gee
Her father, Victor Valentine Gee , was dominant in the household.
Gee, Maggie. How May I Speak in My Own Voice? Language and the Forbidden. Birkbeck College.
8
He was a socialist, an Old Labour man, yet at home he was an unreconstructed conservative authoritarian.
Gee, Maggie. “Serious Fun”. Mslexia, No. 59, pp. 12-13.
12
He had been born into...
Characters Karen Gershon
This is a book about Inge's loves: her lost, buried love for her parents, her all-consuming love for her brother (to whom she feels deeply, inherently inferior), her love for baby Georgie (who, after they...
Friends, Associates Nadine Gordimer
As a teenager she socialized with trainee British pilots at a Royal Air Force base near Johannesburg.
Carroll, Rory. “Mining for Nadine Gordimer”. The Globe and Mail, p. R4.
R4
Cultural formation H. D.
H. D. first met, after an eighteen-month correspondence, with Hugh, Lord Dowding , who had headed the RAF 's Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and was now an active spiritualist and theosophist.
Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Dowding

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1 April 1918: The Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) was founded...

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1 April 1918

The Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) was founded to employ those women who had worked at air stations during the First World War as members of the British naval or military female forces, the Women's...

1 March 1919: The Royal Air Force began air-mail service...

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1 March 1919

The Royal Air Force began air-mail service between Folkestone in England, and Cologne in Germany, for the British occupation force in the Rhineland.

28 June 1939: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was...

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28 June 1939

The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was established for duty with the all-male Royal Air Force (RAF) in time of war. It was mobilized two months later, and in the Second World War gave a...

4 June 1940: Winston Churchill made one of his most famous...

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4 June 1940

Winston Churchill made one of his most famous war speeches in the House of Commons .

8 August-31 October 1940: The Battle of Britain was fought over Southeastern...

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8 August-31 October 1940

The Battle of Britain was fought over Southeastern England between the German Luftwaffe and the English Royal Air Force Fighter Command .

24 August 1940: German bombs were dropped on London for the...

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24 August 1940

German bombs were dropped on London for the first time.

15 September 1940: This date later became unofficially known...

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15 September 1940

This date later became unofficially known as Battle of Britain day: a massive Luftwaffe raid intended for the final defeat of the RAF was successfully countered with huge losses of German planes.

19 June 1941: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF, later...

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19 June 1941

The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF, later the Women's Royal Air Force) and the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS, later the Women's Royal Army Corps) were granted military status.

28 March 1942: Arthur Bomber Harris began the RAF offensive...

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28 March 1942

Arthur Bomber Harris began the RAF offensive against German cities: a night raid dropped incendiary bombs on residential areas in Lübeck.

30 May 1942: A thousand Royal Air Force bombers attacked...

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30 May 1942

A thousand Royal Air Force bombers attacked Cologne in the first of a series of thousand-bomber raids.

5 September 1944: Ten days after Paris was liberated from the...

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5 September 1944

Ten days after Paris was liberated from the occupying Nazis , Le Havre on the French coast was flattened by RAF bombing.

22 June 1948: Passengers disembarked from the steamship...

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22 June 1948

Passengers disembarked from the steamship Empire Windrush at Tilbury in Essex: four hundred and ninety young men from the Caribbean, especially Jamaica, most of them until recently servicemen with the RAF .
Phillips, Mark. “Windrush—the Passengers”. BBC History.

11 May 1963: The Committee of 100 (a disarmament group...

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11 May 1963

The Committee of 100 (a disarmament group with which Pat Arrowsmith was associated, offshoot of CND ) held a demonstration at the RAF base at Marham in Norfolk.

27 August 1981: A group of thirty-six women left Cardiff...

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27 August 1981

A group of thirty-six women left Cardiff on foot, to walk the 120 miles to the RAF base at Greenham Common near Newbury to protest against the plan for its use as a home for...

15 April 1986: Following years of deteriorating relations,...

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15 April 1986

Following years of deteriorating relations, the USA mounted bombing raids on Tripoli and other places in Libya in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in a discotheque bomb in West Berlin on 5 April.

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