Benito Mussolini

VT associated herself with women deeply involved in wartime activities, and specifically (despite her pre-war visit to Mussolini ) with anti-Nazi events. For instance, her former house-guest Hélène Terré worked for the Red Cross in...

UM was one of a very large crowd that gathered at Waterloo Station to greet the Emperor Haile Selassie on his arrival in London as an exile shortly after his surrender to Mussolini 's Italian troops.

The Sam Mogford of this book is encountered in the opening chapter in a boarding-house in Italy (Mussolini 's Italy), seen as a typical Englishman through the eyes of Carlo, an Italian Anglophile. Carlo...

RF 's earliest travelling companion, Armorel Meinertzhagen , became her good friend. Forbes made personal contacts easily, and exacted help on the road from all sorts of highly unlikely individuals, one of them Benito Mussolini

NJ wrote a letter of appreciation to Radclyffe Hall after The Well of Loneliness appeared in 1928. In January the following year she met Hall and Una Troubridge when the former lectured in Southend (though...

VT had a one-off audience with Mussolini in Rome.

Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England , where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...