...by organisations outside London, the GRO was also the official registration authority for the Metropolitan Police District. When registration was made compulsory in November 1914, the refugees had to notify...
...the designer), the registered design number, the date of registration and sometimes a description of the design the corresponding volumes of representations, into which are pasted drawings, paintings, photographs or...
...Sweden to finally bring an end to the French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte after more than twenty years of continuous warfare in Europe. Castlereagh had agreed a strategy for negotiations...
The 3 Polish codebreakers Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski ‘Il y a du nouveau’ On 26 July 1939, in the Pyry Forest south of Warsaw, Polish cryptologists revealed...
...commands. These are likely to be Scottish officers given that many Scottish volunteers were serving in the armies of the King of Sweden in Germany at the time. We even...
...Thomas Lister, to administer the completely new and untried system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths from 1837. Modifying the system Graham saw no reason to alter Lister’s...
...overall codename for the Allied invasion of occupied north-western Europe. After months of detailed planning, involving much discussion, a certain amount of friction between Allied military and civilian authorities, and...
...that symbolised their service to the war (Figures 3 and 4); a code of conduct (although this was not uniform across the counties), and faced disciplinary action for misdemeanours.[12] Whilst...
...Using a German code which he knew had been broken by the British, he transmitted the message ‘The British are now running France’. Unsurprisingly, the French intercepted it. In spring...
...Turing, without whom the Enigma code might never have been broken, the Second World War might not have been won so speedily, and many more lives would have been lost...