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A great new book about Buxton's current and some sadly missed inns, alehouses, taverns, pubs and bars

Kosta Georgakis was born in Corfu on 28 August 1948 in act of desperation and supreme self-sacrifice. he set himself ablaze in the piazza Mateotti in Genoa on 19 September 1970, in protest against the repprssive regime of the Greek Colonels. shouting, "Long Live Greece", "Down with the tyrants", "Down with the fascist colonels" and "I did it for my Greece." he died nine hours later.

England first played Itay in an international football match in 1933, as the international climate worsened , they played two more matches - the Battle of Highbury in 1934 and one final match in Milan in May 1939.

Four months after flying to the Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain together with a large party of British officials travelled to Rome by train to try and keep the Italians from siding with the Germans.

On 8 September the Italian Armistice with the Allies came into effect. Substantial Italian forces remained outside of Italy. This is the story of what happened to the Italian garrison on Corfu between 8 and 27 September 1943.

26 Jul Meina is a small village on the Western side of Lake Maggiore, between Arona and Stresa, it is not a large resort , just a tranquil spot with lovely view up the lake towards Switzerland and across to Anghera. In the 1930s, there were just two hotels there, the Hotel Meina and the Hotel Verbano. The Hotel Meina was to become infamous as the site of a massacre.

David Roberts on the Peace Trail in the lovely Swiss city of Locarno

A short history of the Froth sites at Harpur Hill, near Buxton including the Frith artillery range; RAF Maintenance Unit 28 and Safety in Mines Research.

Following on from the story of Heinz Thannhauser, David Roberts uncovers the stories of two more German Jewish refugee pupils who attended Buxton College in the 1930s and later emigrated to the United States

David Roberts puts together the story of Heinz Thannhauser , a German-Jewish refugee who attended Buxton College in the 1930s, went to Harvard and died with the American Air Force in Italy in 1944

On Remembrance Day , David Roberts tries to find out more about the story of Ugandan Soldier Besueri Sebaiga

On Remembrance Day, David Roberts looks at the sacrifices made by the Old Boys of Holm Leigh Preparatory School in Buxton