Category: Newsletter January 2026

  • Student adventures

    Student adventures

    Student Co-ordinator David Kettle looks back on the challenges and the enjoyment in welcoming 40 young Italians to England on student bursaries in 2025.

  • A Trail Continued

    A Trail Continued

    Myf Adams and family members have now covered half of the route that her father Anthony Gregson, pictured here, took to reach safety. She reports on their most recent stretch and on a budding new friendship.

  • Contadini photos in Edinburgh

    The Italian Institute in Edinburgh is to exhibit a fascinating collection of contadino photos next summer.

  • Tribute to Verino and Maria

    Tribute to Verino and Maria

    In September, Gerald Hough and his family attended a ceremony to honour the villagers of Pretoro, in Abruzzo, who protected Allied fugitives including Gerald’s father Anthony.

  • Publication of Les Hutty’s diary

    John Simkins explains why the town of Montechiaro d’Acqui in Piedmont was so keen to translate the diary of Les Hutty into Italian.

  • Crossing the line

    Crossing the line

    Nicholas Mather, his family and friends conclude a monumental achievement of trekking and research by locating the point at which Carol Mather reached safety among the Allies

  • Accessing the NARA archives

    Anne Copley reports on progress in accessing the invaluable files of the Allied Screening Commission in Washington DC.

  • Contadini photos in Edinburgh

    Contadini photos in Edinburgh

    The Italian Institute in Edinburgh is to exhibit a fascinating collection of contadino photos next summer, writes Anne Copley.

  • Annual lunch

    The MSMT annual lunch in November 2025 was attended by many new supporters among the 118 members present. The Lunch Team report on an occasion of warmth and geniality.

  • Return to Fontanellato

    John Simkins reports on a conference at Fontanellato to launch the Parri institute’s Allies in Italy website, during which he met descendants of families who had hidden his fugitive father.