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Juan Pujol Garcia was one of the most important secret agents of the Second World War. From a modest two-storey house in Hendon, he wove a web of deception that bamboozled the Nazis.
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Christine Granville, born Krystyna Skarbek, was one of the most remarkable secret agents of the Second World War, undertaking many successful missions and saving countless lives.
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Juan Pujol Garcia was one of the most important secret agents of the Second World War. From a modest two-storey house in Hendon, he wove a web of deception that bamboozled the Nazis.
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SINGH, Princess Sophia Duleep (1876–1948)
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was a suffragette, Red Cross nurse, and critic of British rule in India. She uniquely straddled two worlds, using her royal connections to further the cause for women's suffrage. She is commemorated with a blue plaque at Faraday House, 37 Hampton Court Road, where her residence lasted over five decades.
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A history of Dartmouth Castle, which in the late 15th century had one of the earliest purpose-built gun towers in Britain, and was often re-equipped to defend the Dart estuary.
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On 16 May 1568, a small fishing boat carried Mary Queen of Scots across the Solway Firth from Scotland to England. Two days later she was escorted to Carlisle Castle. Why did she seek refuge in England, and how did her two-month stay at Carlisle turn into a lifetime of captivity?
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Henry Labouchere was a radical Member of Parliament and a journalist, who is notorious today for having proposed the clause in the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 that was used in many prosecutions of gay men.
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Blue plaque commemorating botanists Sir Joseph Banks, Robert Brown and David Don who lived at 32 Soho Square, Soho, London W1D 3AP, City of Westminster.
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Blue plaque commemorating botanists Sir Joseph Banks, Robert Brown and David Don who lived at 32 Soho Square, Soho, London W1D 3AP, City of Westminster.