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22 August 1932 Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills

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Following the early death of her father, Janet Stancomb and her sister were adopted by their uncle Sir William Henry Wills. The Wills family amassed their vast fortune in the 18th century in the tobacco trade when slave produced tobacco was imported to Bristol from the American Republic. It was not until the Crimean War that cigarettes were smo...

078: January 2007

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Ep. 58 – Woodbine Willie – Dr Linda Parker

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Dr Linda Parker talks about her new book (published by Helion and Co) on Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, better known as Woodbine Willie, during his service as an Army Chaplain in the Great War.   Your browser does not support the audio element.