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I have been watching a lot of WWI movies lately it seems, and it got me started thinking about the homefront, and rationing.  I know rati...

Another war film this week, this time from France.  La Grande Illusion (also known as Grand Illusion) is a 1937 WWI film directed by Jean R...

In Honour of Anzac day tomorrow, I thought I would look at a classic war movie today. via All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930...

The trouble with watching 1930s movies, and shows set in the 30s, like Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series, is that it makes me wan...

Last week I looked at the development of the telegraph.  The original Morse telegraph printed code on  punched tape, with the operator, by ...

At my children’s school concert the other night the grade sevens performed a little skit about billycarts, taken from the ‘ Unreliable Memo...