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Our Freedom: Then and Now explores what freedom means to Brits, 80 years after the second world war

Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, Our Freedom: Then and Now is a nationwide photography project exploring how communities understand freedom.

The Conversation · Apr 21

New Zealand ‘comfort women’ statue could jeopardise diplomatic relations, Japan says

Planned statue symbolising the women forced by Japan into sexual slavery during the second world war has raised the ire of Tokyo’s embassy

The Guardian - AU · Apr 10

Australia has weathered fuel crises before. What can we learn from previous oil price spikes?

After the second world war, cheap oil was a foundation of global economic stability. That changed dramatically in 1973

The Guardian - AU · Mar 31

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Second World War veteran who got thousands of cards for birthday dies aged 100

Dougie Shelley received more than 16,000 cards for his 100th birthday in September last year following an appeal.

Evening Standard · Mar 31

Bird lover calls for pigeons to appear on £20 banknotes as they're 'national treasures'

Tom Charter, 29, believes pigeons' contribution during the Second World War means the birds have earned a place on our banknotes

Evening Standard · Mar 27

How coded wartime forecasts kept intelligence out of enemy hands

During the second world war, farmers received forecasts in code and railway announcers were banned from blaming delays on fog or snow

The Guardian - UK · Mar 26

One Nation surge 2.0: this time there are structural issues at play

One Nation’s performance in the South Australian election has been rightly identified as a significant moment in Australian politics. Since the end of the second world war, the Labor and the coalition between the Liberal and National parties have dominated national and state parliaments.

The Conversation · Mar 25

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The Tasters: a quietly devastating film about the women forced to test Hitler’s food for poison

Director Silvio Soldini’s wartime drama The Tasters is a gripping and deeply affecting film. Inspired by the testimony of Margot Wölk, who claimed in 2012 that she had been forced to taste Adolf Hitler’s food during the second world war, the film examines survival and moral compromise among those caught…

The Conversation · Mar 13

Queen Camilla praises new book helping children understand WWII

Camilla wrote to author Victoria Panton Bacon after receiving a copy of her book ‘Their Second World War’

The Independent UK · Mar 11

Queen praises book for teaching children about war generation’s sacrifices

Camilla wrote to author Victoria Panton Bacon after receiving a copy of her book Their Second World War.

Evening Standard · Mar 11

Australia can no longer be complacent about Trump’s America. It’s time to chart a new course

Australia faces a more complex and dangerous world than at any time since the threat of Japanese invasion during the second world war.

The Conversation · Mar 4

Royal Marines line street to pay tribute to Second World War veteran

A church service saw Royal Marines servicemen pay tribute to a veteran who was one of the first to fight the Japanese in the Second World War.

Evening Standard · Mar 4

Humiliation for Starmer as Greens seize safe Labour seat

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The Independent UK · Feb 27

Dame Vera Lynn’s ‘vast wartime archive’ joins Imperial War Museum collection

The Second World War trove includes more than 600 fan letters as well as the late singer’s personal diary from her 1944 tour of India.

Evening Standard · Feb 13

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The Conversation · Feb 9

Japan’s ruling party secures historic election victory – but challenges lie ahead

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s conservative Liberal Democratic party (LDP) has secured the biggest election victory seen in Japan since the end of the second world war. In elections on February 8, it won 316 seats out of a total of 465 in the lower house of Japan’s parliament. The Japan…

The Conversation · Feb 8

Northern housing must be built as an integrated ecosystem — by the North, for the North

The recently launched Build Canada Homes (BCH) initiative marks the federal government’s most ambitious effort to build affordable homes since the Second World War.

Evening Standard · Feb 8

Operation Heartbreak: An alternate history of Ian Fleming’s body on the beach

Operation Mincemeat is one of the better known operations of the Second World War, thanks to the film of the same name which was turned into an improbable musical. It caught the imagination because it was so very macabre: the body of a British officer would be found washed up…

Evening Standard · Feb 3

RAF joins 103rd birthday celebrations for Second World War radar operator

Molly Gillon used sophisticated 360-degree radar technology and directed RAF Spitfire pilots towards Luftwaffe bombers heading to the UK.

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Digital Camera World · Jan 31

Intimate Lee Miller photo exhibition helps to preserve the legendary photographer’s work and home

Lee Miller: Performance of a Lifetime showcases works from 1929 to the end of the Second World War

The Independent UK · Jan 29

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says Putin agreed to ‘one-week ceasefire over Kyiv’ amid brutal cold

Trump says he 'personally' asked Putin to stop firing on Kyiv which has grappled with power shortages

The Conversation · Jan 27

The cold war maps that can help us rethink today’s Arctic conflict

The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and Fortune commissioned a generation of famous cartographers – who had come of age in the second world war – to explain the new geopolitics to a mass…

The Times of India · Jan 27

Holocaust hero’s viral BBC moment: Decades-old Nicholas Winton clip resurfaces

British humanitarian Nicholas Winton's decades-old television clip continues to resurface online, drawing widespread emotional responses across generations. The footage, originally broadcast on the BBC programme That’s Life! in 1988, captures the moment Winton realises that several members of the studio audience were among the 669 Jewish children he helped rescue…

The Conversation · Jan 27

US foreign policy has taken a radical turn in Trump’s first year back in office

One year into Donald Trump’s second term it is clear that US foreign policy has taken a radical turn from anything seen in the previous 80 years. After the second world war, a system of treaties and alliances saw the US commit to upholding international institutions, rules and laws, as…

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23

The greatest threat facing Britain may soon be the US – but the establishment won’t recognise it

Since the end of the second world war, all eyes have been on Russia. Yet Trump’s increasingly hostile presidency is shattering old assumptions, asks Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Evening Standard · Jan 9

Swinney concerned his son may one day have to fight in war amid global tensions

The Scottish First Minister said the invasion of Ukraine changed his thinking on the state of the world.

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