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A collection of local news clippings that show how VE Day was marked on the Isle of Mull, presented in a 1940's news reel style.

Mull Museum  - VE Day 2025

A monumental new history of British conflict, publishing for the eightieth anniversary of VE Day
'An impressive audit of the monuments all around us and their often forgotten back-stories. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter.' David Olusoga 

 Published for the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War Two, this moving book examines the inspirations and individuals behind our memorial-studded country. Acclaimed historian Tessa Dunlop travels the length and breadth of the United Kingdom on a quest to uncover a story of national warring and national mourning, of fighting each other and of fighting together. In so doing, Lest We Forget summons a stellar cast of veterans, military experts and families of the fallen to reveal what our monuments and war heroes say about us, both then and now.

Why did Scotland take nearly 600 years to commemorate its most famous freedom fighter? When did Wellington become anti-Establishment? Who are the Glorious Dead? Can the Cenotaph stay above politics? And how do you commemorate contested, asymmetrical wars?

Through veteran testimony and contemporary voices like Falklands hero Simon Weston and HRH The Duke of Kent, Tessa brings to life the pride and the pain involved in commemorating 2,000 years of war and peace across Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales in a monumental British story.

Lest We Forget, freedom is not free.

'In this wonderfully incisive, moving and timely book about commemoration, Dunlop breathes life into 100 British monuments – some famous, others less so – that together reveal our island story. A stunning achievement.' Saul David

Lest We Forget: War and Peace in 100 British Monuments, By Tessa Dunlop, Read by Tessa Dunlop

El Alamein 50th Anniversary (Breeze AM) 1992

Nineteen years of nasty Nazi topics ends here; Kate shares the story of Ravensbrück – the only concentration camp built solely for women and the one that fueled the Third Reich’s brutal sex trade. VB calls in about Eurotrash and Urgent Load reminisces about Harrison. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to hear the Second Show, SW archives, and the bonus minisode Serial Killer Star Signs.

S&W Episode 997: Puffs of Auschwitz

A conversation with Margaret Jean Skinner (b. 07/10/1926) about her time in the Land Army in the Isle of Man during the Second World War.

Topics discussed include:
* Signing up to the Land Army at Knockaloe soon after finishing school
* Crops grown & work at Knockaloe in the 1940s
* Work, including: picking stones, docking turnips, ploughing, threshing and more
* Working conditions, including a 7am start and not getting home until 7pm
* Working out on other farms in pairs, dropped off in a wagon from Knockaloe
* Work at the threshing mill
* Work at Lezayre Lodge and at the farm at Ballamona

The conversation with Jean Skinner conducted by David Callister is of an unknown date.


This oral history interview with Jean Skinner was recorded by David Callister (date unknown).
This interview is part of the collection of nearly 200 oral history recordings freely available on the Culture Vannin website: https://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/oralhistory/

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Oral history interview with Jean Skinner

A conversation with Margaret Jean Skinner (b. 07/10/1926) about her time in the Land Army in the Isle of Man during the Second World War.

Topics discussed include:
* Signing up to the Land Army at Knockaloe soon after finishing school
* Crops grown & work at Knockaloe in the 1940s
* Work, including: picking stones, docking turnips, ploughing, threshing and more
* Uniforms
* Working conditions, including a 7am start and not getting home until 7pm
* Working out on other farms in pairs, dropped off in a wagon from Knockaloe
* Work at the threshing mill and a colleague's terrible accident
* Working alongside internees
* Dances at RAF Andreas and at the Pool in Ramsey, and how they would creep into their accomodation late through the cellar
* Frequently seeing airplane crashes when working out close to RAF Jurby
* Work at Lezayre Lodge and at the farm at Ballamona

This oral history interview with Jean Skinner was recorded by Liz Brand with the assistance of Mrs Skinner's daughter, Winnie Callister, on 8 August 2006.

This interview is part of the collection of nearly 200 oral history recordings freely available on the Culture Vannin website: https://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/oralhistory/

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Oral history interview with Jean Skinner (8 Aug 2006)

First-hand memories of witnessing aeroplanes crashing off the coast of Jurby during the Second World War, as recalled by a member of the Land Army working in the fields close to RAF Jurby at that time.

This is an extract from the oral history interview with Jean Skinner, recorded by Liz Brand with the assistance of Mrs Skinner's daughter, Winnie Callister, on 8 August 2006.
The full interview is available online here: https://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/oralhistory/jean-skinner-889897/

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Watching WW2 plane crashes from RAF Jurby

A detailed description of both thinning and docking turnips in the Isle of Man during WW2, as a member of the Land Army. 

This is an extract from the oral history interview with Jean Skinner, recorded by David Callister, date unknown.
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Thinning & docking turnips in the 1940s

Memories of the rodent problems at harvesting as a member of the Land Army during WW2... and how they soon learnt the need to tie up the bottom of their trousers!

This is an extract from the oral history interview with Jean Skinner, recorded by David Callister, date unknown.
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Mice running up your trousers at the harvest

Jsme Nerdopolis a dnes se v rámci našeho vyprávění o druhé světové válce zaměříme zejména na bitvy a klíčové události, které proběhly v letech 1941 - 1943.
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Zvrat ve druhé světové válce (1941–1943) | Historie

A conversation with Mary Teare (b.1916) about her childhood on Ballaseyre Farm in Andreas, followed by the war years as a butcher in Ramsey.

Some of the topics covered in this conversation include: Andreas school, farm work (for men and women), Andreas village life (including shops, police and characters), church (including the Ballakaneen Chapel), meals and food, Ramsey harbour and shops, World War 2 as a butcher in Parliament Street with the government contracts for the RAF stations in Jurby, Bride and elsewhere, widowhood and later life.

This conversation with Mary Teare was conduction by Elizabeth Ardern-Corris on 5 October 2011.

This interview is part of the collection of nearly 200 oral history recordings freely available on the Culture Vannin website: https://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/oralhistory/

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Oral history interview with Mary Teare (5 Oct 2011)

First-hand memories of the village policeman in Andreas in the 1920s, and the sad story of the man's unlucky parenthood.

This is an extract from the oral history interview with Mary Teare, recorded by Elizabeth Ardern-Corris on 5 October 2011.
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The policeman of Andreas Village in the 1920s

Mary Teare explains her experience of the Second World War as a butcher in Ramsey, where the pressures of having both the government contracts for the RAF stations of the north, and general customers suffering privation and rationing, was not an enjoyable one.

This is an extract from the oral history interview with Mary Teare, recorded by Elizabeth Ardern-Corris on 5 October 2011.
The full interview is available online here: https://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/oralhistory/mary-teare-900656/

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Being a butcher in Ramsey during WW2

Recollections of Andreas Village in the 1920s - of a man considered at the time to be phenomenally large, and the interviewees own father who was remarkably slight.

(Please note that this short extract of an interview with Mary Teare (b.1916) reflects the language and attitudes used at the time of the memories).

This is an extract from the oral history interview with Mary Teare, recorded by Elizabeth Ardern-Corris on 5 October 2011.
The full interview is available online here: https://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/oralhistory/mary-teare-900656/

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The fattest & thinnest people in the Isle of Man

A recollection of how the laundry was done in the 1920s in Ballaseyre Farm, Andreas, which has an unexpected connection to potatoes and pigs...!

This is an extract from the oral history interview with Mary Teare, recorded by Elizabeth Ardern-Corris on 5 October 2011.
The full interview is available online here: https://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/oralhistory/mary-teare-900656/

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Laundry in the Isle of Man in the 1920s

Destroyer of Worlds - Ludwig Goransson  x  German Chancelor

Quantum Mechanics + Can You Hear the Music - Ludwig Goransson  x  German Leaders

Jsme Nerdopolis a dnes se v rámci našeho vyprávění o druhé světové válce zaměříme na roky 1944 až 1945, konec války a její důsledky, které ovlivnily celý svět.
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Konec druhé světové války (1944–1945) | Historie

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