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During the island’s 150 years as a British colony, only one civil commissioner and three governors were civilians

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

This Year Is the 50th Anniversary of the Death of Rudolphina Menzel, the Mother of the Israeli Army's Canine Unit and Probably the Only Person in the World Who Trained Dogs for the Nazis, the British and the Zionist Underground in Palestine

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Published on: Sunday, January 24, 2021 By: David C C Lim and Syn Chew Text Size: Tun Fuad Stephens signing the memorandum of the Malaysia Agreement. Looking on second left are Tun Mustapha, Encik Khir Johari, a Brunei representative and Mr Lee Kuan Yew. THE headlines of The Canberra Times of 6th July, 1948, reads, “Sir Edward Gent Killed in a Plane Collision”. Sir Edward was flying in an RAF transport plane, an Avro York, when it collided with a Scandinavian Airlines’ passenger plane whil...

The Royal Irish Constabulary and Colonial Policing: Lessons and Legacies By Dr Seán William Gannon TAGS On 27 August 1920, the RIC’s in-house propaganda freesheet, the Weekly Summary, warned that the newly-recruited Black and Tans (who had been arriving in Ireland since January) would make the country ‘an appropriate hell for those whose trade is agitation and whose method is murder’, and the orgy of reprisals against republicans and their communities that followed demonstrated that thi...