second world war Articles

Another step towards equality was taken today when Ed Miliband committed a Labour government to introducing ‘Turing’s Law’ to extend the right to a posthumous pardon to other gay men persecuted under the same historic indecency laws as the Bletchley Park codebreaker....

Boris Johnson’s latest book centres on his view that Winston Churchill, and Winston Churchill alone, ‘made the difference’ in the outcome of the second world war. It opens by describing – and returns several times to – a decisive meeting of the war cabinet in 1940. At...

On a Sunday afternoon in a Sheffield park a small group of women, now in their 90s, stepped forward to lead a 370-strong group on a sponsored walk. The people had gathered to raise money for a new very special public work of art – a statue to pay tribute to the ‘Women...

Last month, the oldest surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain passed away. Flt Lt William Walker, who was shot down and wounded in 1940, died at the age of 99. As a veteran, Flt Lt Walker was helped by the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust, just one of a growing...