The Latest Breaking News from the Second World War

Fascinating material casts light on some of the less familiar stories of those who settled in Britain during and after the second world war, from ‘Casanova’ Poles to Waffen SS

Since the end of the second world war, factors such as more intensive farming and urbanisation have reduced the abundance of wildflowers in Britain. In fact, the past 90 years have seen the loss of over 97% of the UK’s wildflower meadows.

The atomic bomb can destroy an entire city in seconds. In the early 1940s, scientists were secretly working on a project to build a nuclear bomb that would end the second World War. Leading the team was Robert J. Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist. Oppenheimer was a visionary, and a…

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…

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.

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

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

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

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.