Month: January 2016

Ramsey Rural Museum

Near the town of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, is a historical treasure, the Ramsey Rural Museum. The Museum is managed and maintained by volunteers and is both quaint and informative. Housed in renovated 17th century farm buildings, the Museum exhibits include over 200 years of local history. I visited the Museum briefly in 2010 and while I

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A Well-Dressed Spy

If I had any artistic talent whatsoever, I would attempt to draw the fashion ensemble that Josef Jakobs was wearing when he parachuted out of the German aircraft on 31 January, 1941. Alas, my skills do not lie in that direction, despite the fact that my mother studied as a seamstress and seems to have

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Breakthrough on Lt. Col. William Edward Hinchley Cooke

For the past several months, I’ve been digging underneath the brick wall that surrounded the birth and parentage of Lt. Col. William Edward Hinchley Cooke. My two previous blogs can be found below: Britain’s Spy Catcher  Mysterious Origins of W.E. Hinchley Cooke Britain’s most famous World War II spy catcher had enigmatic beginnings but the

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