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Meet interior designer Shalini Hinduja who is overseeing her clan's latest project

Sophia Massam investigates the British spy novel and its relation to empire, society and culture.

While you wait for 'No Time To Die,' equip yourself better with some trivia on James Bond. Here are some facts you may not know about him.

Liz Truss to move into Ian Flemings old office as DIT moves to Old Admiralty Building Move intended to "bring the department closer together operationally and geographically" Photo: Andrew Milligan sumo via Flickr Trade secretary Liz Truss will move into the office used by James Bond author Ian Fleming when the Department for International Trade moves to the Old Admiralty building in Westminster next month. Truss will use “Room 39”, which was the home of the Naval Intelligence Division when...

Licence to trade: Liz Truss will use Ian Fleming’s old office to strike post-Brexit deals The International Trade Secretary will relocate to ‘Room 39’, Naval Intelligence Divisions office, where the James Bond creator was based 6 April 2021 • 9:00pm Liz Truss will later this month relocate to ‘Room 39’, at the Old Admiralty, left, where the James Bond creator Ian Fleming, right, was stationed When Ian Fleming inhabited an office in the Old Admiralty, he commanded a unit of specialis...

10 Historical Figures With Hidden Talents Most historical figures tend to be remembered purely as one-note characters. However, even the most talented writer or the most delusional, power-hungry dictator cannot dedicate themselves fully to a single goal from cradle to grave. Like us, they spend their lives trying out new things and, sometimes, they find out that they’re actually good at them. 10Thomas Jefferson Was A Pioneer Of American Archaeology By now, the many talents and accomplishment...

Fleming, Ian Fleming: How World War II Inspired the Creation of James Bond By the war’s end, Fleming had accumulated a vast store of ideas, impressions, and incidents he was to use in his James Bond novels. Heres What You Need to Know: The adventures of a British Intelligence officer during World War II fueled the creation of the mythical spy James Bond. Some accounts of Ian Fleming’s life make it seem that only at the age of 44, as an antidote to the shock of finally agreeing to get marri...

  Some years ago, I came across an account of the disastrous World War II raid on Dieppe written by a British naval intelligence officer who viewed the raid from the deck of a warship off the coast of France.  The intelligence report read like a thriller, which should come as no surprise, as the naval intelligence officer was Royal Navy Lt. Commander Ian Fleming, who went on to write the James Bond thrillers.  The Dieppe Raid was the stuff of thrillers, and Canadian historian David O’Keefe...

  Some years ago, I came across an account of the disastrous World War II raid on Dieppe written by a British naval intelligence officer who viewed the raid from the deck of a warship off the coast of France.  The intelligence report read like a thriller, which should come as no surprise, as the naval intelligence officer was Royal Navy Lt. Commander Ian Fleming, who went on to write the James Bond thrillers.  The Dieppe Raid was the stuff of thrillers, and Canadian historian David O’Keefe...

I reached out to David O’Keefe and I asked him why the Dieppe Raid was controversial, tragic and something of a mystery. “In less than 9 hours on August 19th, 1942, over 1,000 Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen died in a raid on the German-held port of Dieppe, France in the English Channel,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “The vast majority of these deaths, 907, were taken by the Canadians, but the British and the Americans (fighting their first actions against Hitler in Europe) also paid a heavy...