I read a review of this last year and didn’t want to read what sounded like a shabby little shocker about Benjamin Britten seducing a teenage German boy in 1938.
26th October 1936, Victoria Station. The newly appointed German ambassador to Great Britain arrives with forty-four retainers (including two Gestapo men).
Some monasteries were dissolved more thoroughly than others. As you can see Shaftesbury Abbey was dissolved as thoroughly as an Alka- Seltzer in a tooth mug.