Monthly Archive: September 2023

Sep 23

Herbert Fisher, the International Brigader from a famous family forgotten for eight decades

This is an article in the current issue (no. 158) of The Historian, the magazine of the Historical Association.  It was triggered by walking with my dog Django in the churchyard of St Nicholas in Brockenhurst on a mission to find Adeline Vaughan Williams’ grave in the Fisher family plot.  I found the grave and an intriguing …

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