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dtaai-maai wrote:Easy? Why?

French resistance perhaps?
Lots of stuff written about the guy recently. Not French or resistance.
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He's British and lived to tell the tale.
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Hmm, no interest in this one?

He was a conman too.
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Ah ha! Or should I say haw haw?
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dtaai-maai wrote:Ah ha! Or should I say haw haw?
Fail! :mrgreen:

But he was trained behind enemy lines.
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Con man... SOE operative?
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dtaai-maai wrote:Con man... SOE operative?
Nope. Right Country, wrong side.

Edit: As in France! :oops:
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OK, Google does it again! The Sunderland Spy!
WEARSIDE double agent who was awarded Germany’s Iron Cross by a grateful Hitler will be the focus of a BBC2 TV show tonight.

Writer and presenter Ben MacIntyre will reveal the gripping story of Agent Zigzag in Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story.
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dtaai-maai wrote:OK, Google does it again! The Sunderland Spy!
WEARSIDE double agent who was awarded Germany’s Iron Cross by a grateful Hitler will be the focus of a BBC2 TV show tonight.

Writer and presenter Ben MacIntyre will reveal the gripping story of Agent Zigzag in Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story.
Well done! Excellent book as well.

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/eddie-cha ... igzag.html
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Who would think they would revert to that so soon after Steve Bruce's departure, and only 2 hours to kick off as well. Blimey! :shock: :wink: Nameless :cheers:
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In the UK I had a chainmail T shirt made from armour grade steel....it weighed 12 kgs, so imagne how much a full length full sleeve hauberk weighs.

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Goth mate......chainmail and leather is a good way of catching the foxy Goth chicks down Camden way :wink: Also de rigeur wearing for clubs like Bound & Gagged. :naughty: :naughty: :naughty:

When I lived in London I lived in Tottenham just off Lordship Lane about 200 yards from the corner in the recent riots "burning bus" photo.

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Nice quick brain tickler

What links the following historical topics ?

The Industrial Revolution
Romanticism and Industialisaton
The Domesday Book
The Enclosures Act and its effect on the English Rural Population.
The 1905 Sebastopol Uprising.

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Bleeding peasants innit?
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In more detail, something like the availability (or lack of) of employment for serfs and freemen in agriculture, then the rise of industrialisation and the concentration of employment in developing towns and cities.
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