John Maffey News Today

104 IT will be remembered that the Reforms Schemes designed for all the provinces of India deliberately excluded the North West Frontier Province and British Baluchistan from its scope for the reason that the people there are very backward and have not reached that stage of general enlightenment and progress which justifies the grant of substantial power and responsibility in the local administration. But the exclusion has naturally created dissatisfaction among the educated and more enlightene...

Sam Bargewell’s destroyed Belfast home after the blitz in 1941 In part, this was because the city was thought to be too insignificant and remote from Germany to merit elaborate preparations. Its long immunity from attack encouraged the hope that it might escape altogether and there was a feeling that Hitler might respect Irelands neutrality and so desist from bombing it. JC MacDermott (the minister responsible for Blitz preparation from June 1940) himself described Belfast as being "less well...