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Soldier –Rogers, Douglas Haig – No Cricket In Iceland

November 1940
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 02 November 1940 No Cricket In Iceland But Hemingfield Lad Enjoys Football Iceland being so much nearer the Pole than Yorkshire,...

Editorial – Greek Tragedy

2 November 1940
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 02 November 1940 Greek Tragedy The Italian invasion of Egypt has faltered and halted, and Graziani dare not go...

Editorial – A Word and a Blow

9 November 1940
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 09 November 1940 A Word and a Blow Mr. Churchill's reviews help us to see the war steadily and...

Editorial – Death of Neville Chamberlain – The Victor of Godesberg

16 November 1940
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 16 November 1940 Death of Neville Chamberlain - The Victor of Godesberg  The "Chamberlain controversy" has been hushed by the...

Editorial – The Basest Roman of Them All.

23 November 1940
Mexborough and Swinton Times November 23, 1940 The Basest Roman of Them All. Mussolini's speech in Rome this week can only be accounted for by the...

Editorial – Great Help From Little Greece

30 November 1940
Mexborough and Swinton Times November 30, 1940 Great Help From Little Greece We have been so chastened by experience and habituated to misfortune that we have...

Editorial – The Science of War

7 December 1940
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 December 1940 The Science of War The Germans have made an angry protest against the publication in Switzerland...

Editorial – Past Pardon

14 December 1940
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 14 December 1940 Past Pardon https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_Speech_to_the_Workers_of_Berlin_(10_December_1940) When Hitler spoke to German factory workers on Tuesday he took care to choose a...

Editorial – Mr Churchill’s Broadcast to the Italian People (video)

21 December 1940
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 28 December 1940  Mr Churchill's Broadcast to the Italian People Mr Churchill's broadcast to the Italian people was a magnificent...

Editorial – Sheffield Smitten

21 December 1940
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 21 December 1940 Sheffield Smitten Sheffield has now experienced the full fury of a Nazi mass raid and has...