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The Explosives Ordnance Disposal is heading to the scene, police said.

Every year since 1769, the Royal Academy has hosted a Summer Exhibition, a “cave-of-wonders-cum-candy-shop-cum-car-boot-sale of works by known academicians and keen members of the public”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. And, as the saying goes, “it is what it is”. This latest iteration, stewarded by watercolourist David Remfry, features…

In Daphne du Maurier’s short story, The Birds (1952), a change in bird behaviour is linked to the impact of technological developments after the second world war.

One Antiques Roadshow guest was left in disbelief after expert Ben Wright informed him that a Second World War watch he traded at the local pub is worth thousands

Bomb dropped in 1942 was nicknamed 'the Hermann'

Allianz won its case against the University of Exeter at the High Court.

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

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

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.