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Minister rejects call for Britain to adopt ‘Churchill Time’ in the summer

Labour MP Alex Mayer used a Commons debate to make the case for double British summer time, which was adopted during the Second World War.

Evening Standard

Up to 250,000 Russian soldiers killed in Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, say UK defence chiefs

The Ministry of Defence stressed this death toll would be Russia’s ‘largest losses since the Second World War’

Evening Standard

Articles about Native American code talkers removed from military websites

Pages about Native Americans who helped US send messages in world wars removed in Pentagon ‘DEI’ purge

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Letter: Eric Rimmington obituary

Celia Clark writes: His murals vividly depict life in the dockyard city of Portsmouth as it recovered from the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Visual retelling of Thiaroye massacre sheds new light on French colonial atrocity

Twenty years ago, French photographer Yves Monteil was driving in Senegal when he passed a military cemetery in Thiaroye, in the suburbs of Dakar. Friends told him it was the burial site of Senegalese soldiers massacred by the French army during the Second World War, shot for demanding unpaid wages.…

Radio France Internationale

Andrew Gwynne under investigation by parliamentary watchdog over WhatsApp group – as it happened

MP, who was suspended from Labour party earlier this month, investigated for ‘actions causing significant damage’ to the reputation of the Commons

The Guardian - UK

The Café With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – lost souls in postwar Vienna

A slice-of-life portrait of a community suffering the after-effects of the second world war

The Guardian - UK

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Brutalism: Oscar-nominated film has revived interest in a controversial architectural legacy

With ten Oscar nominations, The Brutalist has reignited the debate over the legacy of brutalism. The polarising architectural style was shaped by post-war hopes for a better future. But it was also, as historian Adrian Forty argues in his book Concrete and Culture (2012), an “expression of melancholy, the work…

The Conversation

France pushes for Unesco status for D-Day beaches and Carcassonne fortresses

France's Ministry of Culture on Monday filed an application to have the beaches in Normandy that were the site of the D-Day landings during the Second World War and the medieval fortresses of Carcassonne added to Unesco's list of World Heritage Sites.

Radio France Internationale

Education for peace: the effort to teach children how to rebuild societies after WWII

While the first world war and the Spanish civil war had already drawn children in Europe and beyond into the orbit of conflict, the second world war marked a pivotal period in how young people have experienced the horrors of war.

The Conversation

How the brain can miraculously switch off pain

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the battlefield, required no strong painkillers to manage their pain. In some cases, the injury was as severe as losing part of a limb.

The Conversation

How rural English women used scrapbooks to commemorate the death of Winston Churchill

Sixty years ago, on January 24, Britons gathered around their radios to listen to the sombre BBC announcement that Sir Winston Churchill had died at the age of 90. Others learned about the news at church, as they listened to prayers for the life of the former prime minister, admired…

The Conversation

Did Canada Really Just Build a $7.5 Million Monument That Honours Nazis?

Because it sure looks that way

The Walrus

Holocaust Memorial Day: London survivor, 92, calls for tolerance because ‘we all come from same family’

Janine Webber BEM, 92, hid under a wardrobe with her family to avoid Nazi persecution during the Second World War

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Holocaust survivor calls for tolerance because ‘we all come from same family’

Janine Webber BEM, 92, hid under a wardrobe with her family to avoid Nazi persecution during the Second World War.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Germany’s snap election: playing for the highest of stakes

Editorial: February’s election is shaping up to be one of the most consequential since the second world war

The Conversation

Nothing new under the sun: Australia’s long history of missed chances to build sustainable homes

Australians are no strangers to housing crises. Some will even remember the crisis that followed the second world war. As well as producing the popular mid-century modern style of architecture, these post-war decades were a time of struggle.

Evening Standard

Golden Globes 2025: The Brutalist, Emilia Perez, Wicked, Shogun and Baby Reindeer among big winners

Ceremony that kickstarted the awards season was dominated by first-time winners that included Demi Moore and Zoe Saldana

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Vatican Spies by Yvonnick Denoël review – a head-spinning history of saints and sinners

A no-holds-barred account of the Vatican’s covert operations – from escape routes for Nazi war criminals to money laundering for the mafia – is revelatory but sometimes too dense for its own good

The Independent UK

Second World War veterans urged to register for VE Day and VJ Day events

The anniversaries are in May and August this year.

The Independent UK

Soldiers keep wartime tradition alive with festive blanket competition

The contest dates back to the Second World War when troops deployed in harsh conditions sought to bring some Christmas cheer to bleak positions.

Evening Standard

Barry Keoghan and Cillian Murphy jubilant as they wrap Peaky Blinders movie

Written by creator Steven Knight, the new movie is set during the Second World War, and is teased to involve new conflicts for the Shelby family.

Evening Standard

Brownfield sites alone cannot solve London's worsening housing crisis

We have under-built for a very long time - London hasn’t built 80,000 homes in any year since the Second World War.

The Guardian - UK

Yan F Zhang’s ‘fearsome and memorable’ Fleeting Marrow wins 4thWrite prize

The ‘remarkable’ short story is based on real-life deportations of Chinese seafarers in the UK after the second world war

The Conversation

How Lee Miller’s photos remind us of war’s destructive brutality

Almost 80 years since the end of the Second World War, images of its destruction are being brought back to us through the film LEE.

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