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Sherlock Holmes, Winnie the Pooh and the First World War

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, February 6, 2014 — Culture

Helen Grant is the Minister for Sport and Tourism

I doubt whether there are many people in this country, of any age, who are unaware that this year marks the centenary of the First World War.  Newspapers, magazines, radio and television are full of articles and programmes marking the fact, and that’s before you take account of the book industry where, I believe, around…

Thoughts on a Belgian War Cemetery, First World War Diaries and Team GB’s Prospects for Sochi

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, January 21, 2014 — Sport

Helen Grant is the Minister for Sport and Tourism

21 Jan 2014 For nearly all of us, I think, the words ‘war cemetery’ call up a very particular image to the mind. Row upon row of perfectly aligned pristine white headstones on a flat landscape stretching a huge distance; the graves separated by immaculately maintained grass and, here and there, individual floral tributes placed by…