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Two strands of lost history from Scotland

5 March 2020 By Elisabeth Gifford

Elisabeth Gifford weaves together two strands of ‘lost’ Scottish history – the last days of the inhabitants of Hirta (St Kilda) and the men of the 51st Highland Division who were left behind in France after Dunkirk – into a richly-textured story of lost love and hope, The Lost Lights of St Kilda. She tells […]

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

30 January 2018 By Elisabeth Gifford

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first armed resistance in German occupied territory in WW2, led by a band of brave but poorly armed resistance fighters. Elisabeth Gifford tells their story. In 1943 a band of poorly armed teenagers and young people staged the first organised armed resistance in the […]

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