Their finest hour

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

The Repair Shop star on discovering wartime secrets and commemorating Remembrance Day this month, 80 years on from VE Day

The sound of We’ll Meet Again will drift over Pickering this month – marking the return of one of the UK’s best-loved weekends dedicated to the 1940s

On 21 October 1805, smoke filled the skies over the seas west of Cape Trafalgar, a headland in the Province of Cádiz in the southwest of Spain, as a fierce battle raged. After nearly five hours of int

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

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