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An interesting discovery from CDSIC reports in the National Archives documents a list of books the the high ranking Germans incarcerated at Trent Park were reading.

100 years ago Frenchman Jean Borotra won the Gentlemen's Wimbledon Championship. The next day he played tennis at Trent Park with Sir Philip Sassoon and King Charles III’s grandfather!

Interrogation at Trent Park was blended with secret listening giving unprecedented WW II intelligence information.

The new website platform has been devised by design consultancy Winteractive using striking digital artwork by award-winning illustrator and artist Owen Freeman to capture the spirit of wartime espionage in...

I was at Trent Park’s teacher training college from ​‘66 to ​‘69 – the Swingin” Sixties – though I didn’t do much swinging! I was the first in my family...

The Sassoon family were the custodians of Trent Park from 1909 to 1939. Initially bought from the Bevan banking family by Sir Edward Sassoon (1856−1912), before passing to his son...

It wasn’t until a documentary programme invited me to take part in their series ​‘War Hero in my Family’ in 2011⁄2 that the true secrets of my grandfather Ernst Lederer’s...

1945 would see the end of the Second World War and bring peace to the United Kingdom. However, Trent Park did not stand still. In the immediate post-war era, to the...

One of the most famous figures known to have worked at Trent Park during the war was Colonel Thomas Kendrick, a man whose role in military intelligence during both wars...

I have long been fascinated by the patronage relationship between the artist Rex Whistler and Sir Philip Sassoon, a client for whom he carried out so many commissions in the...

Over the course of the Second World War the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (UK) (CSDIC (UK)) – at sites including Trent Park, the Tower of London, Latimer House and...

Way back in the Eighties I was a reporter on the Barnet Press, part of a north London local newspaper group, which included the Enfield Gazette. Sadly, neither of these...

On Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) we commemorate the millions of victims of Nazi persecution, especially the six million Jewish men, women and children – some two thirds of Europe’s...

On the 9th of July 1943 at Trent Park, Senior German General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim called an extraordinary meeting of his fellow inmates in the communal mess area. Von Arnim...

In 1943 with Hitler’s approval General-major Carl Richard Heinrich Wahle was awarded the Ritterkreuz des Kriegverdienstkreuzes mit Scuwertern or Knights Cross of the war service cross with Swords. Throughout WWII,...

As WWII entered its fourth year, British Military Intelligence were aware of a Nazi secret weapon programme, but their sources had been vague and unclear so it dropped down the...