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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Toc H
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(Wendover, Buckinghamshire) Christian fellowship, dedicated to service in the community, which derives from a club for British soldiers set up in 1915 at Poperinge in Belgium, behind the allied lines. The building was called Talbot House (after Gilbert Talbot, killed in that year) and the soldiers referred to it in the signallers' version of its initials, Toc H. It was run by an army chaplain, Philip Clayton (1885–1972), known to all because of his shape as 'Tubby'; it was he who extended the fellowship to a network of branches throughout Britain after the war.
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