Special Operations Executive
Noor Inayat Khan, defiantly refused to give in to the beatings of her jailer. The SS men’s uniforms were usually pressed to perfection and as black as death, the skulls on their caps shining tauntingly....
Noor Inayat Khan, defiantly refused to give in to the beatings of her jailer. The SS men’s uniforms were usually pressed to perfection and as black as death, the skulls on their caps shining tauntingly....
If you missed the latest episode of Tea Time Talks you can watch the youtube recording below. Andrew Chatterton, author of Britain's Secret Defences talks about the highly secret, highly trained and ruthless groups of...
On this day 80 years ago, Anne Frank was given a diary as a present for her 13th birthday. Within it she wrote one of the most important and emotive first-hand accounts of the Holocaust....
Surrender of German forces in Northern Italy and Western Austria - 2nd May 1945 77 years ago today, German surrender formally came into effect in Berlin. The surrender of Germany culminated from a treaty that...
If you missed the latest episode of Tea Time Talks you can watch the youtube recording below. In June 1944, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) was tasked with coming up with a plan to kill...
If you missed the latest episode of Tea Time Talks you can watch the youtube recording below. This year it is the 80th year anniversary of Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich. In...
If you missed the latest episode of Tea Time Talks you can watch the youtube recording below. Dr Vigurs provides a unique insight in to the Special Operations Executive (SOE) with a focus on the...
If you missed the latest episode of Tea Time Talks you can watch the youtube recording below. To commemorate Black History Month, CMSM Tea Time Talks will be discussing the hidden history of Allied colonial soldiers fighting...
Hello, my name is Jonathan Brown and I am a voluntary researcher at Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon, Essex. I have a deep love for history, especially the military angle. I have recently completed...
Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts by the Combined Military Services Museum! I’m Matthew, an archivist and research volunteer here at the museum. As an historian by passion and now by...
If you missed the first episode of Tea Time Talks you can watch the youtube recording below. For our first episode we welcome Historian James Jefferies as he examines key moments of The Battle of...