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'A weather-map of popular feeling': how Mass-Observation was born

On August 29 1938, in the build-up to the second world war, a now-defunct London newspaper asserted that Europe was tensely watching the crisis over Czechoslovakia unfold. But how could a newspaper know what a population was feeling? What if some people, even lots of people, were tensely watching “the…

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Helsinki 1952: Summer Olympics at the height of the Cold War

From 19 July to 3 August 1952, the Finnish capital Helsinki hosted the 15th Summer Olympics, the first games of the modern era. The world's biggest sporting event after the Second World War took place at the height of the Cold War and marked the beginning of East-West rivalry.

Radio France Internationale

Answering the Call: The untold history of Caribbean nurses at Bristol’s Glenside Hospital

Many of the nurses training and working at the hospital were from the Caribbean who had ‘Answered the Call’ of the British Government after the Second World War

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Doreen Gibbons obituary

Other lives: Childhood internee in Shanghai during the second world war

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Nottingham celebrates the Windrush Generation with events across city to mark 75th anniversary

Events are taking to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the first ship carrying Caribbean families to the UK to help fill the need for more workers after the Second World War

Nottingham Post

Download our latest e-book: 75 years of Windrush

June 22 marks 75 years since the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush at London’s Tilbury Docks. Many were veterans of the second world war, invited to Britain to help rebuild. They brought with them a rich culture, shaping the future of British music, sport, literature and much more.

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Zelensky seeks to recruit army of CEOs to rebuild Ukraine after Putin’s destruction

Volodymyr Zelensky sought on Wednesday to mobilise an army of top bosses to rebuild Ukraine in the biggest reconstruction effort since the Second World War.

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83p razor 'used in the Second World War' said to give the smoothest Summer shave without cuts

"Best shave I have had and I have tried many a razors which not only cost a small fortune but always left me with razor burns. It just glides across the skin."

Manchester Evening News

Why did it take a murderous war on Ukraine for Germany to wake up to the threat from Russia?

The invasion has plunged Germany into an agonised debate about its history – this process is only just beginning, writes historian Helene von Bismarck

The Guardian - UK

Holocaust survivor and Olympic weightlifter Sir Ben Helfgott dies aged 93

Helfgott was one of 732 child survivors who came to the UK to rebuild their lives after the Second World War.

The Independent UK

Hotel Taj Mahal Delhi’s Rick’s bar gets a makeover inspired by the iconic film, ‘Casablanca’

The newly relaunched Rick’s, at the iconic Taj Mahal, New Delhi, draws its inspiration from the academy Academy Award-winning classic. Like in the film, where the protagonist Rick Blaine creates a sanctuary offering respite from the chaos of the Second World War, Rick’s aims to be a refuge for its…

The Hindu

Belfast writer announced as winner of Walter Scott Prize 2023

Lucy Caldwell scooped the £25,000 prize for her novel These Days set during air strikes on Belfast during the Second World War.

The Independent UK

Silvio Berlusconi: the property developer who became a media tycoon – and Italy's most flamboyant prime minister

Silvio Berlusconi, who has died at the age of 86, was born into a middle-class family in Milan, a city heavily affected by the second world war. He attended a private school belonging to a religious order, and eventually graduated with distinction in law in 1961, specialising in advertising contracts,…

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Enjoying the fruits of wartime foraging

Letter: Mary Scobie’s mother learnt from the nuns at her convent school how to make the most of limited rations during the second world war

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Eight warning signs to watch out for as cases of medieval disease surge in UK

Cases haven't been this high since the Second World War

Daily Mirror

See how many STI cases are in your area as seaside town sees cases skyrocket

With gonorrhoea diagnoses the highest on record, and syphilis the highest since just after the second world war, sexually transmitted infections are seemingly on the up across England with some surprising areas recording the sharpest increases in infections

Liverpool Echo

Grim warning signs as cases of medieval disease surge across England

The number of diagnosed cases is at the highest level since just after the Second World War

The Guardian - UK

Protecting Bosnia and Herzegovina’s anti-fascist legacy: Mostar’s Partisan Memorial Cemetery

The Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina was opened in 1965 to commemorate the Yugoslav partisans of Mostar who were killed during the second world war

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Abandoned bunker used for evil human experiments during WW2 discovered after 78 years

The facility, discovered Anda in Heilongjiang province, was manned by the notorious Unit 731 in the Second World War who conducted vile experiments on Chinese prisoners

The Independent UK

Cigar smoked by Churchill during the Second World War to be auctioned

The wartime leader gave the half-smoked cigar to Hugh Stonehewer-Bird in 1944 and it has been preserved in a glass jar ever since.

The Independent UK

Battle of the Atlantic 80th anniversary marked with heritage plane flypast

Liverpool hosted a celebration of the Allies’ victory in the the longest continued military operation of the Second World War.

The Guardian - UK

Rod Kedward obituary

Historian who brought to light the important role of rural communities in the French resistance during the second world war

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Michelle Keegan stars in wonderful period drama Ten Pound Poms

It follows the Brits who migrated to Australia after the second world war. Plus: Dannii Minogue hosts the UK’s first ever gay dating show. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Ukraine recap: not a great deal to celebrate for Putin this Victory Day as Ukraine digs in for the long haul

One tank. According to press reports and news broadcasts from Moscow, a solitary T-34 dating back to the second world war was the only tank that trundled past the Russian president as he marked a scaled-down Victory Day on May 9 this year.

Bangkok Post

60 years of EU-Thai engagement

On May 9, 1950, French Foreign Minister Schuman presented a proposal for the creation of the European Community of Coal and Steel, pooling together French and German coal and steel production -- resources needed to wage war -- under a common high authority, within an organisation open to other European…

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