“ From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” It was the soundbite of the century – or at least of the Cold War. Uttered by a former pri

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An illuminating peak behind the Iron Curtain

The beauty of Lancashire’s Lune valley emerges from ...

Dr Paul Brown reveals Britain’s role in patrolling the seas during the height of Cold War tensions with the USSR

In 1939, at the start of the Second World War, the government planned to evacuate 1.5 million civilians, mostly school children, mothers and other vulnerable people, from cities at risk of bombing to