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4 days ago · Gerard Tuite (born 1955) was a senior member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Upon his escape from Brixton prison during the hunger strike in the winter of 1980, he was declared "Britain's most wanted man". [1] Following his capture, at 26 years of age, in the spring of 1982 he made Irish legal history as the first citizen of the ...
4 days ago · Guildford (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l f ər d / ⓘ) is a town in west Surrey, England, around 27 mi (43 km) south-west of central London.As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around 145,673 inhabitants in mid-2022 est. The name "Guildford" is thought to derive from a crossing of the River Wey, a tributary of the River ...
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3 days ago · 3,363 aircrew. 2,265 aircraft (summer 1940 – May 1941) [3] The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and originated from the term Blitzkrieg, the German word meaning 'lightning war'. [4]
- 7 September 1940 – 11 May 1941, (8 months, 5 days)
- German strategic failure
- United Kingdom
4 days ago · Piers Morgan (born March 30, 1965, Guildford, Surrey, England) is a British journalist and media figure who attracted controversy as a tabloid editor for his aggressive tactics in breaking stories and who later achieved international fame as a television personality. He hosted the talk show Piers Morgan Tonight (later Piers Morgan Live) on CNN ...
4 days ago · Guildford is the old county town of Surrey, 30 miles from London, lying on the banks of the Wey, where the river breaks through the line of chalk hills. On the west side the ridge of the Hog's Back is called Guildown (Geldesdone by Geoffrey Gaimar, 12th century; Geldedone in the Pipe Roll of 1192–3).
5 days ago · Drama based on the Guildford pub bombings. Gerry Conlon fights for justice for himself and his family. The true story of the group of Irish men dubbed the Guildford Four, the victims of a miscarriage of justice that saw them convicted of bombing a soldiers' pub in 1974.
5 days ago · EASTINGTON, a former clothing parish including the village of Alkerton, lies 4 miles west of Stroud and 9 miles south of Gloucester at the entrance to the Stroud Valley. The ancient parish contained 2,072 a. (fn. 1) The main body of the parish was compact in shape, with the Gloucester-Bristol road marking the western boundary, Wicksters brook ...
