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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Companions, comrades, lovers
Medieval family politics
A doomed queen
Lean meals for the Earl of Leicester
‘Slaving during master’s pleasure’
Britain versus the South Pole
Letter from India
Medals into munitions
An appeal from Pioneer Baggs
The Caravan Club
Children of the Overseas Reception Board
‘Tell her my grief has no end’
Espionage and deception
Digging for King and Country
Carl Lody, the spy in the Tower
From bank clerk to British spy
Operation Mincemeat
Animals and the War effort
The Gerson Secret Writing Case
The first female British spy
Double agents and the Cold War
Allies, diplomacy and foreign relations
Reburying the hatchet
Nationality and naturalisation
‘Wonderful things’
The end of ‘peace in our time’
Operation Pied Piper: what to feed the children?
The most unsordid act in history
Nuclear weapons and the new world order
An invitation to the Queen
Protest, revolution and rebellion
Braveheart
‘Terrible blow this Parliament’
‘Ye have not yet done as ye ought’
‘… we may lie and die in a land of plenty …’
Class antagonism onboard the Titanic
‘Wrong and wicked punishment’
A letter of farewell to his mother
Animals in a cage
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The League of Coloured Peoples
‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika’
Sexual Offences Act 1967
Shooting at the Berlin Wall
For ‘all women everywhere’
Scandals, loopholes and murder
Can a child be deemed an animal?
Copycat Rippers
A pattern emerges and a serial killer is uncovered
A storm in a whiskey tumbler
‘Impassioned Obscenity’
Commander of the death camps
Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward
‘The Kray twins done it’
‘One for the pot’
Cultural, technological change
The cantankerous father of computing
Electric trains
‘A flyer capable of carrying a man’
No women drivers allowed
Disappointed fiancées
The introduction of the contraceptive pill
‘A good thing to be laughed at’
Aliens in the Mendip Hills
Acknowledgements
List of references
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