All news on the topic: World War 2

Imber, in Wiltshire, was home to 152 residents before they were called to the school village on a wintry night in November 1943 and told to evacuate within six weeks

Collectables lover Michael Diamond was given a creepy and 'haunted' doll from the Second World War by a prisoner. When he brought it home, 'strange' things started happening

Young royals captured across a near 40 year period provides a fascinating record of the first half of Queen Elizabeth's long reign with her children all featuring in the collection.

Giving her reaction to the statement, Rachel Reeves said working people are "worse off" despite the Government's promises - and said voters would not trust the Tories to "fix" problems faced by the NHS and other services.

Raised in the UK, Felice Hardy had no idea that as an adult on a fact-finding mission she'd learn that her grandmother, Liesl Herbst, a tennis star, had to leave behind her family and escape the Nazis before she could find happiness and success across the ocean

To mark the 85th anniversary of the mission to rescue Jewish children from Nazism, one woman saved by the scheme met for an emotional embrace with another family forced to flee to the UK from Ukraine

The latest official data, up to March 2022, shows London increase its housing stock by 8% since Mr Khan took office in 2016, compared to just 6% for the rest of England

After taking part in the D-Day landings, Mervyn Kersh, who is Jewish and grew up in South London, arrived at Bergen-Belsen six days after it was liberated from the Nazis

Many might have noticed poppies, sold as part of the yearly appeal for veterans charity the British Legion, being pinned on to jackets lapels as a form of respect and support for the armed services

Debby Morris used to call her son, Lance Corporal Dane Else, 'Mammy's little soldier' when he was young and even as he grew older before she tragically lost him in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ reunite to produce another epic war drama

The Duke of Sussex made headlines around the world back in 2005 when he was photographed at a party dressed as a Nazi. He went on to speak about the incident in his Netflix series with wife Meghan Markle

The NHS consultant is lucky that he got out, it’s agonising that many blameless, trapped Palestinians aren’t as fortunate, forced to stay with nowhere to go.

War hero William Darlington, who took part in the Battle of Britain and fought across two continents, began necking rum after joining the navy in 1940

Created out of necessity when World War Two rationing made pastry hard to come by, apple crumble is now a favourite dish of many Brits - especially in the colder months

These eight long-lost treasures have captured historic moments including World Cup victories to human evolution - despite many items being recovered, these still haven't been found

In the eyes of many historians, the campaign against Mau Mau fighters was the bloodiest British suppression of any of their colonial uprisings anywhere in the world

One Life centres on Sir Nicholas Winton’s rescue of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, but movie bosses were forced to film London-based scenes in Prague

More than 60 Stars of Davids were painted on the walls of Jewish homes and businesses across France in a Kristallnacht-style attack as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war continue

Seacox Heath, in East Sussex, is a Russian embassy which many people who live nearby have no idea exists and dates back to an infamous gang of crooks in the 1730s

The 12 foot tall sculpture weighs 600kg and took over six weeks to build - with funding from the National Lottery, to mark the end of Black History Month

A man has been dubbed a 'time traveller' after an image of him on a beach in the 1940s appeared to show him using a smartphone - but not everybody is convinced by the image

Jan Stangryciuk died this week at the age of 101, bringing the curtain down on a project that was once 649-strong and was described as the 'most exclusive club in the world'

In the second extract from his memoir Kammy, former footballer and TV pundit Chris Kamara, 65, reveals the prejudice he faced throughout his life

Navy SEAL exercises include lying down in a pool of water after knots have been tied in their breathing regulator. It forces them to stay calm with very little oxygen while untying knots to be released