Allardice, Lisa. “Uncharted Waters”. The Guardian.
Royal Air Force
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Waters | Sarah was close to her father, Ron, an engineer working in oil refineries who had done his National Service with the RAF
. Waters, Sarah. The Little Stranger. Virago. prelims McCrum, Robert. “What lies beneath”. Guardian.com.uk. |
Residence | Elizabeth Taylor | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Taylor | They had met as fellow members of High Wycombe Theatre Club; Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 57 |
Textual Production | Lesley Storm | Three years later, Abem Finkel
and Lesser Samuels
adapted this play for film. The cinematic version, starring Rita Hayworth
and Lee Bowman
, was titled Tonight and Every Night. It turns Rosalind into an... |
Literary responses | G. B. Stern | |
Travel | Freya Stark | FS
began another journey through Persia, this time to map the ancient settlement of Shabwa. She was unsuccessful at this because of an angina attack, but her dramatic rescue by the Royal Air Force |
Publishing | Freya Stark | |
Occupation | Freya Stark | Back in Baghdad in October 1931, FS
began to increase her writing pace. The Royal Air Force
printed her maps, and she published in the Geographical Journal. She also disguised herself in an 'abba... |
Textual Production | Freya Stark | This text details Stark's attempt to reach the buried site of Shabwa; this failed when she experienced an angina attack and was rescued by the RAF
. Harry St John Philby
became the first... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Ridler | AR
and her husband had two daughters and two sons, and in due course six or more grandchildren and the same number of great-grandchildren. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp. 6 |
Textual Features | Winsome Pinnock | WP
used patois for the first time in A Hero's Welcome, and found it liberating. Stephenson, Heidi, and Natasha Langridge. Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting. Methuen Drama. |
Residence | E. Nesbit | |
Textual Production | Gwen Moffat | GM
issued through her usual publisher, Hodder and Stoughton
, Two Star Red. A Book about R.A.F.
Mountain Rescue. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3239 (26 March 1964): 251 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gwen Moffat | He had been diverted from physical training instruction in the RAF
in 1951, following a horrific plane crash in Scotland, into the field of mountain rescue. From early 1952 he headed the RAF mountain rescue... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cecily Mackworth | Czechoslovakia Fights Back, printed on flimsy wartime economy paper, is a moving document. Its opening sentence runs: Czechoslovakia was the first non-German country to experience a Nazi occupation and has thus had longer than... |
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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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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.
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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