Author John Bull

The forgotten history of the British Space Programme

In Get Them on the Blower we looked at the fascinating history of London's forgotten Pneumatic tubes, which carried messages throughout the capital. Now, over on our London-transport-focused sister site...

As some readers may know (or indeed have spotted on here), TV history is one of my particular areas of interest. I'm lucky enough to be one of the feature writers at Cult TV Times which allows me to indulge...

Look around Endell Street in Holborn today and you could be forgiven for thinking it just an average London street. But one hundred years ago this year, this non-descript spot just off of Shaftesbury avenue...

I'm a big fan of helping others learn more about history - particularly when it involves thinking a little bit of the box to make the subject really come to life. I was genuinely impressed recently when my...

I freely admit that I don't write here very much. Being Editor of London Reconnections and writing about TV history for Cult TV Times (I got to write the history of Bilko in the latest issue! Yay!) keeps me...

Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Linka). 13518 miles to go The British, Ford decided, were a very strange race. On the one hand they had welcomed both him and his crew to this little, battered, corner of their...

Auckland, 14th December 1941 Since arriving at Auckland a week earlier, Bob Ford had settled into a regular morning routine. Every day he would wake early and eat breakfast. He would then stroll over to the...

The morning of 6th January 1942 was a going to be a cold one. Not that this was unusual for New York, mused the controller manning LaGuardia’s airport’s tower, but it meant he’d have to remember to wrap...

Over the next couple of years the Royal Mint are releasing a number of commemorative coins to mark the anniversary of WW1. Hearteningly it seems that within the first batch is a coin marking the life of Walter...