Lest we forget

I REMEMBER LOOKING IN THE BBC ARCHIVES for stories of the first arrivals of South Asians in the postwar years, and being surprised at how little programming had been made documenting the experiences o

This year marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War. The conflict is rapidly fading from living memory as the last survivors die, and 2025 has seen the final surviving Battle of Britain pil

Invisible anguish is especially wretched. That has been Sudan’s lot during two years of brutal civil war—slaughter that has claimed some 150,000 lives and forced almost a quarter of its population of

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w

The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind

A city of Catholics in the aftermath of nuclear attack