London, England was a favorite target of the Nazis in World War II. A long and intense bombing campaign levelled large portions of the city, More than 18,000 civilians were killed with ...

Betty Webb was bored—“terribly bored,” as she later put it. It was the Blitz. Germany was dropping bombs on London, and she ...

It details the lives of ordinary Londoners through the bombings. London in the Second World War uses rarely seen original artworks, photographs, maps and personal diaries to illustrate the ...

Eighty years after her uncle Welby Patterson died on a European battlefield in the final days of the Second World War, Maidy Keir ... of him," Keir said in her London, Ont., home, surrounded ...

Chelsea Pensioners are retired soldiers who live in the Royal Chelsea Hospital in London, and they get to ... STEVE: When the Second World War began in 1939, women were encouraged to join the ...

or a "major glow up", as the local authority in south London has called it, with the installation of new exterior lighting. Completed in 1939, during World War Two, the bridge was painted a dull ...

The Churchill War Rooms are the underground bunker that Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his war cabinet used to shelter from bomb raids and plot their steps during World War II. The maze-like ...

The London Ambulance Service has released the images of women who worked as paramedics, ambulance drivers and mechanics in World War Two to mark International Women's Day. One snapshot shows Ann ...