From age 7 to 15, which covered the last four years of the Second World War (1941–45), she danced in working men's club circuits for 15 shillings a time as "Baby Eileen". [4] During the …

Vera May Atkins CBE (15 June 1908 – 24 June 2000) [1] was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who worked in the France Section of the Special Operations Executive …

From age 7 to 15, which covered the last four years of WW2, she danced in local working men’s clubs as "Baby Eileen". Another of our contacts, Sheila Brimmer (nee Frost), went to the same …

The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage …

When she was five years old, World War II broke out, forcing her mother to ship off her children - as most parents were wont to do during the war - to the countryside village of nearby Little...

Can you imagine joining screen, stage, and TV legends Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith for an intimate tea party? Would you like to hear them talk about …

Feb 15, 1998 · Atkins, 63, the co-creator of the TV series “Upstairs, Downstairs” and “The House of Eliott,” adapted and read Woolf’s diaries for a five-part BBC radio series. Her most recent...

Eileen Atkins is part of the Silent Generation, which followed after the G.I. Generation. As young adults during the McCarthy Era, many members of this generation felt it was dangerous to …

British intelligence agent Vera Atkins (1908-2000), as principal assistant in Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) secret service, administered some of the most sensitive secret …

Upstairs Downstairs star Eileen Atkins explains the real-life inspiration for her relationship with the monkey in the series.