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When the NHS opened two weeks after the docking of t
Beryl Nevell thought her service during the Second World War had been a case of ‘doing her duty’. Then someone special stepped in and showed her what she was truly owed…
When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u
To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, John Eskdale and other survivors share their harrowing memories of war and stories of hope
Today, the ocean liner is often considered a glamorous yet thoroughly outdated form of transport. While ships such as the RMS Titanic and the RMS Lusitania remain household names, their lesser-known c
In the 1990s, Eurosceptism was the political cause for a number of politically aware students
When Joanne Ormesher set off on her regular commute to her finance job in Preston back in September 2011, she came across something unexpected on the platform at Leyland Railway Station. “There was a