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IMAGINING THE WORST.(invasion, aggression, destruction imagined by writers, The Battle of Dorking)
"It was on a Monday that the declaration of war was announced, and in a few hours we got our first inkling of the sort of preparation the enemy had made for the event. . . . People of this country could not bring themselves to believe that what had never occurred before . . . could ever possibly happen." So begins the invasion of England in "The Battle of Dorking," perhaps the most influential short work of British fiction of the nineteenth century. "Everybody is talking about it," the Spectator reported in May, 1871, shortly after the story appeared, in Blackwood's Magazine, a respected political journal. "And everybody is quite right. We do not know that we ever saw ...
- SpinVox Adventurers Football School Launches at Dorking FC.; Sponsorship from...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire June 6, 2008 700+ words
...Adventurers Football School Launches at Dorking FC.; Sponsorship from Voice-to...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06062008 Dorking, Surrey -- The SpinVox Adventurers Football School has been created by Dorking FC, and sponsored by SpinVox, the...
- Rugby Union: Dorking's record show ruins Cleobury dream; POWERGEN JUNIOR VASE...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) April 10, 2006 700+ words
...ended in crushing defeat at Twickenham. Dorking rattled up the biggest winning score in...find touch on Twickenham's big pitch. Dorking, runaway leaders of London Four South...throughout and trailed from the moment that Dorking fly-half and captain Jamie O'Brien...
- Successful traditional printer Dorking Litho is 1,500th customer to install...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire December 14, 2006 700+ words
...KODAK: Successful traditional printer Dorking Litho is 1,500th customer to install...LTD RDATE:13122006 Rochester, NY - Dorking Litho, a UK based traditional lithographic...PDF workflow system since April 2004. Dorking Litho is a family business that has been...
- Red CARPet treatment!; Dorking are in line to be triple heroes.(Sport)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) Smith, Terry May 12, 1997 700+ words
...placed team earning pounds 2,000. Daiwa Dorking qualified as the Southern champs and skipper...year for the last 15 years." One of Dorking's key anglers will be the ever-reliable...we are going to have a good time. "Dorking are probably the favourites because they...
- Hitler, Lennon's column and the Dorking beat ... 13 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) September 15, 2009 700+ words
...enthuses Deputy Leader Harriet Harman. 12 CONTRARY to popular belief, all The Beatles except for Ringo Starr hailed from Dorking, Surrey. They used to put on Liverpudlian accents as a joke. Ringo's family, the Starkeys, came from Kingston-upon...
- Our quiet corner of Kyoto ... down the road from Dorking; In the...
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) September 27, 2009 700+ words
...been to Japan. He was looking through magazines when he saw a Japanese garden,' says Cindy, who ran an antiques shop in Dorking for 12 years before selling up four years ago. Before retiring in 2006, Brian was an insurance broker with Lloyd's of London...
- NEWS IN BRIEF: World Cup prompts lucky shirt day.(Dorking head office)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Employee Benefits July 12, 2006 700+ words
...Cup group stages. Employees were able to wear football shirts to work, while events such as a barbecue were arranged at its Dorking head office. The finance company also allowed staff to watch the games on giant screens and plasma televisions. Copyright...
- Dorking Gap, Surrey.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
