Month: November 2014

Historic Royal Palaces – Podcast – Curious Connections: Spies and Us (2014)

The Podcast Title – Curious Connections: Spies & UsTaped – 14 October 2014Original Air Date -30 October 2014Series – Curious ConnectionsDuration – 59:12 minutesProducer – Historic Royal PalacesClip available here (N.B. 2021 – link no longer works and I haven’t been able to find one to replace it) Presenters:Sally Dixon-Smith – Tower Collections Curator, Historic […]

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Historic Royal Palaces – Podcast on Josef Jakobs

The Podcast Title – Historic Royal Palaces – Tower Prisoner Stories – JacobsOriginal Air Date – 13 February 2013Series – Stories from the PalacesDuration – 4:19 minutesProducer -unknownClip available here (N.B. 2021 – link no longer works and I haven’t been able to find a replacement) Review This programme was produced by the Tower of

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Money Money Money – Part 2

In an earlier posting, I examined the topic of the British currency that Josef had brought with him from Germany. While acknowledging that the Germans had introduced counterfeit English banknotes into circulation, I suggested that it was doubtful that the £1 notes found on Josef were counterfeit. Since then, I have confirmed that the notes

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Shot at the Tower – A Commemoration of the Spies executed in the Miniature Rifle Range

The year 2014 is the centenary of the beginning of World War I. From August 5 to November 11, the moat in the Tower of London has been progressively filled with ceramic poppies, one for every Commonwealth soldier who died during the war (888,246). The poppies cascade out of the Tower from two points, the

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A Life Torn to Shreds – Cipher Disc of Josef Jakobs

 The German spies who were sent to England from September 1940 to January 1941 were often equipped with a cipher disc to encipher their radio transmissions back to Germany. Cipher discs were first described in a 1467 treatise by Leon Battista Alberti, an Italian Renaissance Man. Two discs, one larger than the other were pinned

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