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Queen’s funeral: Plan, route, timings and everything you need to know about the day

State funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday is likely to be one of biggest single events staged in Britain since Second World War

The Independent UK · Sep 15, 2022

Why Italy is on verge of electing its first far-right leader since second world war

Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy draw on a vein of fascism in a country that – unlike Germany – has never had to confront its past

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2022

The unusual facts people have been sharing about the Queen that may surprise you

From driving vehicles in the Second World War to breeding her first Dorgi, here are some things not many people knew about Queen Elizabeth II

Wales Online · Sep 13, 2022

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The certainty of ever-growing living standards we grew up with under Queen Elizabeth is at an end

Much has been written about how, with the passing of the Queen, we have lost one of our last continuing links to the second world war.

The Conversation · Sep 13, 2022

US takes a renewed interest in the Pacific – and China's role in it

If you are trying to find traces of the United States’ long and layered ties with the Pacific Islands in Washington D.C., you need to look hard. Apart from the names of iconic battles chiselled into the Washington Mall’s second world war memorial, evidence of America’s complex Pacific history stretching…

The Conversation · Sep 13, 2022

The Queen learnt to change a car tyre and partied with strangers during World War 2

When World War II began back in 1939, a young Princess Elizabeth was just 13 years old and as she entered her teens during the war effort, she played her part by learning mechanics

Daily Mirror · Sep 9, 2022

Germany's Scholz: Queen Elizabeth embodied the best of Europe's shared inheritance

Germany joins Britain in mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth, whose sense of duty was "legendary" and who helped German-British reconciliation after the Second World War, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday.

Reuters · Sep 9, 2022

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Ukraine: how the UK press reported the Nazi invasion 1941-45

During the second world war there were notable exceptions to the at times slavish patriotic devotion the press showed to the government line. Weekly political titles such as New Statesman and Nation, the Spectator and the Economist challenged government policy more consistently than daily newspapers.

The Conversation · Sep 8, 2022

Man reunited with long-lost brothers 77 years after mum put him up for adoption

Craig Dunderdale had an affair with an American GI during the Second World War and was forced to put him up for adoption, but after 46 years of searching he's found his half-siblings

Daily Mirror · Sep 5, 2022

Long-lost brothers separated as kids in 1945 will be reunited for first time after 77 years

Ted Nobbs, 83, and brother Geoff, 79, have spent more than seven decades 10,000 miles apart after their family was split up at the end of the Second World War

Daily Mirror · Sep 1, 2022

Poland may demand $1trn from Germany over Second World War impact, nationalist leader says

Germany’s government has said it will rebuff any efforts from Warsaw to seek recompense

Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2022

The Standard View: Mikhail Gorbachev’s passing marks the end of an extraordinary time in world history

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev last night marks the end of an extraordinary time in world history, when the apparently inexorable changes that followed the Second World War were undone. He was the man who, more than anyone, drew back the Iron Curtain.

Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2022

What is Nato and why was it formed?

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2022

Ukraine Plans International Court to Put Putin on Trial

Six months into Russia's invasion, Ukrainian officials are drawing up plans to make sure Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top military commanders will be tried for launching the war. The plan for a special international tribunal to investigate Russia's alleged "crime of aggression" is being spearheaded by Andrii Smirnov,…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 25, 2022

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France 24 · Aug 23, 2022

‘They would have preferred hell’: The Battle of Stalingrad, 80 years on

The Second World War’s deadliest battle – and one of the most brutal of all time – started on August 23, 1942, when Adolf Hitler’s forces went all out to seize the city bearing Joseph Stalin’s name. If ever a battle was like an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object,…

Wales Online · Aug 22, 2022

RAF veteran, 99, who served in the Second World War has wartime debt repaid over seven decades later

Peggy Terry, who served under her maiden name of Margaret Potter, was a Leading Aircraftwoman and during an 18-month stint at RAF Coningsby towards the end of the war and helped service the Lancaster bombers

The Guardian - UK · Aug 17, 2022

The second world war airbase turned private nature reserve – with its own low-impact holiday cabins

Once home to Clark Gable’s air squadron, the Wilding Airfield in Northamptonshire now has two cabins immersed in nature, as well as the relics of war

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2022

In brief: Common Decency; A Woman’s World: 1850-1960; The Pathfinders – reviews

Susannah Dickey’s vivid novel about an obsessive friendship; a colourful hymn to the power of social change; and the weighty story of a second world war unit

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The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2022

Werner Herzog: ‘I was never, contrary to rumours, a hazard-seeking, crazy stuntman’

The German director, famed for making films about people at the fringes of society, has written a novel about another one: a Japanese soldier who carried on fighting the second world war for 29 years after it ended

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2022

New musical tells the story of wartime hero Alan Turing

Edinburgh Fringe show sets out to tell the tale of the code-breaker whose crucial work on German cyphers helped win the second world war

Daily Record · Aug 5, 2022

Terrifying doll with bleeding eyes found inside abandoned Scots hospital

Until the Second World War, the hopsital was a tuberculosis sanatorium for patients in the south east region of Scotland

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2022

Condoms to secret documents: Nazi U-boat items to go on display for first time

Exclusive: Liverpool exhibitors hope documents from sunken submarine may hold clues to end of regime

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2022

Series of explosions hamper attempts to tackle Berlin forest fire

Firefighters struggle to contain blaze that began at munitions site used to store second world war bombs

Evening Standard · Aug 4, 2022

Europe witnessing ‘destruction not seen since WWII’, says Nato chief

The Nato chief warned Europe faces it’s biggest threat since the Second World War

Evening Standard · Aug 3, 2022

Rishi Sunak greets Tory members at event in Shropshire

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have been courting votes in the Tory heartlands with party members saying whoever wins will be facing the “most difficult start… since the Second World War”.

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