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Tag: WW2

January 6, 2023January 10, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about the Edinburgh Hostels for Women Students and their brief wartime role as an Internment Camp for German “Enemy Aliens”

November 14, 2022November 14, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the air raids on Edinburgh and Leith during WW2 and the civilian loss of life they caused

October 28, 2022October 29, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about Portobello’s Marine Gardens in WW2; when an old seaside ballroom was converted into a bus garage before being turned into a factory for building landing craft

October 15, 2022October 15, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about plain breid. Its history, its politics and how the law guaranteed its enduring position in the Scottish psyche

October 12, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about Watson-Watt, Wilkins and Wacław Struszyński; whose work on top-secret electronics to detect aircraft and submarines appreciably shortened World War 2

September 29, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the warships built in Leith by Henry Robb during World War 2 and what became of them all

September 29, 2022November 14, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Luftwaffe’s glow-in-the-dark bombing maps of Edinburgh and Leith and the air defences that were there to stop them

September 18, 2022September 19, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about Ferranti; the electronics company who came to Edinburgh in WW2 to produce a top-secret, war-winning device which had been invented by a local genius; and its continuing legacy in the city

September 18, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the 20th Century Naval Reserves in Leith and Granton and the tenuous link to 17th Century Jacobitism

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