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The American who was held in Ireland’s WWII internment camp — twice

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...

Titanic hero who kept the lights on as liner sank

He was given the ominous task of keeping the lights on and the lifeboats working as the doomed Titanic began to sink. Wigan ...

John Antrobus, writer who collaborated with Spike Milligan on the surreal play The Bedsitting Room

John Antrobus, who has died aged 92, was a writer whose work ranged from avant-garde plays at the Royal Court to scripts for ...

Too poor to throw a party: How wartime Oxford shaped Philip Larkin

The poet, terrified of the dons and the public schoolboys, found university a struggle. But it left an indelible mark on his ...