The World War II period drama World on Fire shares stories of ordinary people in extraordinary times. But what timely events from the war actually happened that can inform what you’ll see in Season 2?

The Battle of Britain ended 85 years ago today—closing a months-long air war with clear parallels to the ongoing fight in the ...

In this Then & Now episode, we revisit the quiet hills of Kent where, on July 8, 1940, the RAF scored its first fighter kill ...

Tim Luckhurst has received research funding from News UK and Ireland Ltd. He is a member of the Society of Editors and the Free Speech Union At Christmas 1939, Britons had been able to maintain a ...

Moss (Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb) recounts here the spring and summer of 1940, when Germany conquered France, Belgium and Holland, and Britain stood alone. He describes the three men ...

O n 20 June 1940, with the threat of large-scale enemy bombing looming ever closer and the Battle of Britain imminent, a ...

Few defining moments can change the outcome of war, but when the outnumbered Royal Air Force turned back the mighty Lutwaffe, a legend of aviation history was born! Experience first-hand the greatest ...

Anne Summers of Birkbeck University will discuss how friendship and co-operation between Christian and Jewish women changed lives and even saved them in the 60 years up to 1940. In her book, Christian ...