seventy-six years later her grandniece, sally foster, qualified for the london olympics. inspired by evelyn's words she decided to write her own diary. the berlin olympic games were contested as the world was on the edge of collapse. oblivious to the impending war, evelyn wrote with delight of touring the airfields...
france, and european countries controlled by france, during the napoleonic era . the electric telegraph started to replace the optical telegraph in the mid- th century. it was first taken up in britain in the form of the cooke and wheatstone telegraph , initially used mostly as an aid to railway signalling...