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The day lives were changed forever
Seventy years on... In September 1939
LIFE in London changed forever when war was declared in September 1939, and Camden, Islington and Westminster rapidly became part of a “total war” effort. > more |
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‘For the police, Halloween is an annual, living nightmare’
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Priestley looked to the prize of a much more just society
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Arsenal home at White Hart Lane
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3,000th show must go on!
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‘It was a war we had to fight. It was the right thing to do’
Some fought fascism in Europe, others fought the Blitz fires that ravaged London
'You knew the danger but you just carried on 'Richards Author and historian. IT has been 70 years since the outbreak of the Second World War... > more |
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Nerves frayed in days of waiting for the worst- The most truthful and harrowing poetry of the First World War came from the long, terrible confrontation across... > more
Facing the flames: the heroes with grimy faces- THE fire brigade was like any other service pre-World War Two: limited and without... > more
A wartime novel drawn from the rank and file - AS Alexander Baron’s landing craft touched the French soil, it struck a mine. It was early in the morning on... > more
Stories from the frontline- AS with all great war books, Richard Hillary’s The Last Enemy, has a distinctive flavour all of its own. In that sense it resembles... > more
Show must go on - FROM unscheduled blackouts to the rationing of interval ice-cream, the Second World War was a testing time for ... > more
Hotel in the Strand – where the war-weary could relax - JOSEPH Nathaniel Lyons made his fortune through a large catering company popularised around ... > more
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