Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins, 1985.
262
Royal Air Force
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Andrea Levy | The central events of the novel take place in postwar London over a few weeks during 1948, but those events are shaped by the separate experiences of the central characters before that time. The voices... |
| 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... |
| 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Dowding |
| Cultural formation | H. D. | H. D.
held seances during which believed that she had been given messages by dead RAF
airmen warning of an imminent Third World War. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 45 Friedman, Susan Stanford. “’Remembering Shakespeare Always, But Remembering Him Differently’: H.D.’s By Avon River”. Sagetrieb, Vol. 2 , No. 2, 1 June–30 Nov. 1983, pp. 45-70. 52-3 |
| 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, 1946. 10 |
| 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
. Allardice, Lisa. “Uncharted Waters”. The Guardian, 1 June 2006. Waters, Sarah. The Little Stranger. Virago, 2010. prelims McCrum, Robert. “What lies beneath”. Guardian.com.uk, 10 May 2009. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Kavan | |
| 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, 2009. 57 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Laurence | Margaret Wemyss
, a recent graduate, married Jack Laurence
, a fellow-student whose subject was engineering. He was also a war veteran, having been a mechanic with the RAF
. Stovel, Nora Foster. Divining Margaret Laurence. A Study of Her Complete Writings. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. 53 Laurence, Margaret. Dance on the Earth: A Memoir. McClelland and Stewart, 1989. 127 King, James. The Life of Margaret Laurence. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 64 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Andrea Levy | AL
's father, Winston Levy
, was one of those pioneers from the Caribbean (Jamaica) who came to Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948. He kept a souvenir postcard he bought on the ship... |
| 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, 2009. 194-5 |
| 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, 1993. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp. 6 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
Timeline
1 April 1918: The Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) was founded...
National or international item
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...
Building item
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.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
192
28 June 1939: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
4 June 1940
Winston Churchill
made one of his most famous war speeches in the House of Commons
.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, and Simon Schama. We shall fight on the beaches. Guardian News and Media, 2007.
8 August-31 October 1940: The Battle of Britain was fought over Southeastern...
National or international item
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
.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
236
24 August 1940: German bombs were dropped on London for the...
National or international item
24 August 1940
German bombs were dropped on London for the first time.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
41
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
387
15 September 1940: This date later became unofficially known...
National or international item
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.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
41
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
101
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
387
Figes, Eva. Little Eden. Faber and Faber, 1978.
25
19 June 1941: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF, later...
National or international item
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.
Goldman, Nancy Loring, and Richard Stites. “Great Britain and the World Wars”. Female Soldiers-Combatants or Noncombatants?: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Nancy Loring Goldman, Greenwood, 1982, pp. 21-46.
22, 30, 34
“WAAF Association Brief History”. Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Association, 7 June 2007.
“A Brief History of the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, Auxiliary Territorial Service and Women’s Royal Army Corps”. WRAC Association.
28 March 1942: Arthur Bomber Harris began the RAF offensive...
National or international item
28 March 1942
Arthur Bomber Harris
began the RAF
offensive against German cities: a night raid dropped incendiary bombs on residential areas in Lübeck.
Wright, Patrick. “Dropping Their Eggs”. London Review of Books, 23 Aug. 2001, pp. 11-14.
11
30 May 1942: A thousand Royal Air Force bombers attacked...
National or international item
30 May 1942
A thousand Royal Air Force
bombers attacked Cologne in the first of a series of thousand-bomber raids.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
101
Perutz, Max Ferdinand. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 6 July 2000, p. 35.
35
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
422-3
5 September 1944: Ten days after Paris was liberated from the...
National or international item
22 June 1948: Passengers disembarked from the steamship...
National or international item
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, 10 Mar. 2011.
11 May 1963: The Committee of 100 (a disarmament group...
National or international item
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.
Committee of 100,. Mail Interception and Telephone Tapping in Britain. Hampstead Group, Committee of 100 and Housmans Bookshop, 1965.
14nn3, 4
27 August 1981: A group of thirty-six women left Cardiff...
National or international item
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,...
National or international item
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.
Ighneiwa, Ibrahaim. “Libya: The U.S. Air and Sea Attacks on Libya in 1986”. Ibrahim Ighneiwa Personal Page Libya: Our Home.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.