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We don’t build apartment buildings like this anymore

Charles de Gaulle and his wife, Yvonne, at Colombey-les-deux-Eglises.

I’m seeing headlines everyday that I thought I’d never see in my lifetime

#OTD in 1917, the City of London, UK, presented Canada with a parliamentary mace to replace the one lost in the 1916 fire that devastated Parliament. This gift restored a key symbol of the House. ow.ly/T9yh50YvxXy

What happened when I went to the largest fortified wine tasting for the UK wine trade, and asked port producers about the wider trends of selling to London clubs? Here’s my report, for the Clubland Substack. clubland.substack.com/p/port-wine-tr…

Young men are trading flashy new members’ clubs for Gilded Age institutions—otherwise known as old boys’ clubs. @andrewjzucker airmail.news/sh/n5hRVV?utm_…

We were very pleased to be asked to provide the First World War uniforms for the new @Channel4 adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s #AWomanOFSubstance 1/

British tanks, trucks, and other armored vehicles that took part in the defeat of Germany at the end of World War II, lie piled on top of each other at a scrapyard in Hamburg, still waiting to be broken up and recycled, May 1958.

@mattmondanile Britain invented the sandwich, and they still do them well... and the UK's quality sandwich bar chain Pret a Manger has gone global, with outlets in the US & Canada now.

theres one huge thing that Europe doesn't know how to do and it's sandwiches... nothing beats an italian sub or a jewish deli sandwich in USA

New Zealand sniper Cpl. Barlett photographed with his Enfield No. 4 Mk. I (T) during the Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, 26 March 1944. Image: IWM (NA 13384)

Mr. Evelyn Waugh greatly regrets that he cannot do what you so kindly suggest.

My wife and I went to an art deco exhibition today in Paris and they had an Orient Express section. Imagine a London to Baghdad train journey today!

Flt Sgt Harry Winter obituary: airman who cheated death three times #Echobox=1774679322" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/…

In the old days of the pre-war council housing used to look like this.

Brandenburg Gate. 1980s.

Officially, they're only 20 years old👶 But the Scots, Lancs and Royal Welsh all have histories that are centuries long... 🎙️Reporter @willhollis_tv explains

Frederick the Great defeated France, Austria, and Russia. But could not defeat coffee In 1777 he issued a royal manifesto: soldiers who drank coffee could not fight His ancestors drank beer His kingdom would drink beer The Prussians kept drinking coffee So he deployed 400 war invalids to walk the streets of Berlin and sniff out illegal roasters They were called Kaffeeriecher: coffee sniffers The victor of Rossbach, Leuthen, and Zorndorf spent his final years sending crippled soldiers door to door to smell people's kitchens He lost

You know summer’s around the corner when Peter Hitchens starts expostulating against ‘the falsification of clocks’. A touch of comedy gold to usher in the lighter evenings – perfect!

It’s rainy and cold in Kraków, but the Easter market is open!