“Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us to victory,” recited another poster displayed almost everywhere in London during the Blitz. The wartime government ...

The family of a woman who risked her life as a firefighter during the Blitz have stepped aboard the London fire boat named in ...

The Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the London Blitz, was the German bombing campaign that lasted eight months and targeted 16 British cities.

Blitz, the German word for 'lightning', was ... direct bombing of industrial targets and civilian centres began with heavy raids on London on 7 September 1940 during what became known as the ...

No man risked more to alert Americans, and the world, to the human drama of Britain’s existential struggle during the horrific months, in 1940, of the London Blitz. “You burned the city of ...

Mark "Bill" Bailey, who survived the Blitz, takes a sneak peek at a new and free exhibition at the London Archives in Clerkenwell. It details the lives of ordinary Londoners through the bombings.

The coronavirus death toll in London is now worse than at the height of the Blitz during World War Two. The deadly disease wiped out a recorded 4,697 in the capital in the four weeks up to April ...

The new documentary feature from 72 Films arrives on Netflix globally in May 2025.

In Under a Fire-Red Sky, Geraldine McCaughrean’s thrilling wartime tale, four evacuees run away from their new homes – and ...

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