Joan Carter’s most memorable war stories centred on her time working in the NAAFI canteens. Her favourite involved her supervisor, who had taken a serious dislike to her, ordering her to shine the flo

Tracing ancestors who served in the Royal Navy is easier than ever after five major sets of records of sailors, ships and submarines were published on family history website Findmypast (findmypast.co.

Antiques Roadshow medal expert Mark Smith has always had a deep fascination with his dad’s wartime stories, which now take centre stage in his new book

HAVING compiled many poetry anthologies for children, Fiona Waters is an experienced editor. However her new collection “A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War” is

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In the early 1940s, the Royal Mint replaced the familiar image of a portcullis on the threepenny coin with a thrift plant. This was part of the government’s campaign reminding the public of the need f