PL
became urban district librarian for the town of Wellington in Shropshire, having graduated BA, failed the entrance exam for the Civil Service
, and been ordered by the Ministry of Defence
to take...
Timeline
16 August 1972: Five years after May Hobbs began a strike...
National or international item
16 August 1972
Five years after May Hobbs
began a strike of night cleaners at the Ministry of Defence
(supported by the civil servant trade union and others, and by feminist sympathisers), management agreed to the women's demands...
2 April-14 June 1982: Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland...
National or international item
2 April-14 June 1982
Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands; the Falklands War with the UK ensued.
Knightley, Phillip. “Fighting Dirty”. Guardian Weekly, 30 Mar. 2000, p. 23.
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3 December 1998: Ministry of Defence police arrested Tony...
Writing climate item
3 December 1998
Ministry of Defence
police arrested Tony Geraghty
under the 1989 Official Secrets Act, as author of The Irish War, published that October, a book which covers three hundred years of history.
