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The Friday Digest 24/07/15

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THP Friday digest


This week's update features vintage photos of Paris, the best holiday reads of 2015 and an underwater graveyard of Second World War planes. 

 

Delftware stacking tulip vase

 


* The art of the garden: How Britain became a nation of budding gardeners.

 

Young, Brave and Beautiful

* Second World War British agent Violette Szabo's medals 'should stay in UK'

 

IMAGE: BRANDI MUELLER

 

* This underwater graveyard full of Second World War planes is otherworldly

 

Fan Bay Deep Shelter

 

* Churchill's secret Second World War tunnels open to public

 

Jungunjinuke’s club from the 1868 Aboriginal cricket team. Western Victoria, about 1868. Marylebone Cricket Club. (on display until 2 August at the British Museum’s BP exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation).

 

* The 1868 Aboriginal Australian cricket tour of England

 

Jacques-Louis David Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC (1814), Louvre, Paris.

 

* Ancient Sparta in modern fiction

 

This Card Deck Brings 2,300 Years Of Lost Indian History To Life

 

This card deck brings 2,300 years of lost Indian history to life

 

Walt Disney speaks during a national telecast of the opening of Disneyland. IMAGE: BETTMANN/CORBIS

 

* Disneyland's grand opening was actually pretty disastrous.

 

c1904. Boutique Art Nouveau, 45 Rue St. Augustin, Deuxième Arrondissement. IMAGE: EUGÈNE ATGET/GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE

 

* The vanished streets of old Paris

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Young Winston Churchill's Cuban adventure

 

aika, Russian cosmonaut dog, 1957. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

 

* Five historical space travel facts

 

Decorated: Buster, a nine-year-old English springer spaniel, has earned a row of campaign medals for his service in in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan

 

War hero RAF dog Buster bow wows out after serving five tours of duty.

 

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* See the history of twelve iconic logos in one morphing gif

 

Photograph courtesy of Richard Williams/Silver Sirens


* Margaret Lockwood: Queen of the Silver Screen

 

Old Thatch, Enid Blyton’s former home and the setting of her Mystery novels.

 

Enid Blyton's cottage goes on sale

 

Tunnel vision: Paula Hawkins on the Southeastern train network.

 

Interview with thriller writer, and author of Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins.

 

E.L. Doctorow Photo

 

* US novelist E L Doctorow has died at the age of 84

 

Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange

 

The top ten books disowned by their authors

 

Tumblr English game

 

Fourteen absurd things Tumblr can teach you about the English language. 

 

Diversity in publishing is still a challenge for UK.

 

The best holiday reads of 2015.

 

* Five accomplished authors who turned out to be hoaxes

 

How audio books are beginning to make a noise

 

Seventeen faces every grammar nerd will recognize

 


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