HISTORICAL FACTS: 18 - The Untold Story

King and Queen Consort to close Germany visit with focus on Second World War

Charles will focus on the Second World War as his three-day state visit to Germany with the Queen Consort draws to a close.

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2023

Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace review: historic adventures in Budapest

Housed in one of the world’s most beautiful Art Nouveau buildings, the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace is the ideal destination to experience Hungary’s capital city, Budapest. Surviving pieces from the Belle Époque era and the Second World War are stashed across its five floors, and from the outside the…

The Week · Mar 30, 2023

Plans to transform East Lothian Second World War toilet block into a family home

The out-building is thought to have been a female toilet block used by the auxiliary air force during the Second World War. Plans have been drawn up which would see it make way for a family home

Edinburgh Live · Mar 27, 2023

Plea for mourners to attend funeral for RAF ‘pilot of the Caribbean’

A desperate search is under way to find mourners to attend the funeral of one of the Second World War’s last black “Pilots of the Caribbean”.

Evening Standard · Mar 22, 2023

Al Murray on war games, Putin and how to solve a problem like Suella Braverman

The Pub Landlord turned history buff Al Murray says the war in Ukraine "is a direct product of WW2”

Daily Mirror · Mar 21, 2023

Ernest Simon obituary

Other lives: Austrian who fled to the UK before the second world war and later worked for ICI across Europe

The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2023

The forgotten 62-year record that Erling Haaland is closing in on.

Haaland is seeking to become just the second player to score over 40 league goals in an English top tier season since the Second World War.

Irish Mirror · Mar 10, 2023

Women can do anything if they wish, say female Second World War veterans

Marie Scott and Mildred Schutz served in the British armed forces during the war.

The Independent UK · Mar 6, 2023

‘He’d been through so much for his age’: what one Syrian boy’s story can tell children about life as a young refugee

More people are displaced globally now than at any other time since the second world war, millions of them children. Save the Children’s Wonderbooks series is helping kids here to understand the hardships they face – and offering hope for the future

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2023

Quilts from the Second World War tell the stories of the Canadian women who sewed them

In 1992, in Esher Library southwest of London, England, Josephine Andrews and her mother, Christine, collected blankets to donate to Kurdish refugees of the Gulf War.

The Conversation · Feb 23, 2023