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Opening in 1929 and surviving through the Second World War, the Ritz Cinema in Cannonmills finally closed in 1981 as the home video boom resulted in a decline in ticket sales.

Seventy years ago on February 6, the Queen - aged just 25 - became monarch of a nation still recovering from the upheavals of the Second World War

The pair's bodies were discovered on remote farmland almost 80 years after they died

A collection of images from the 60s show a city in transformation, as people up and down the country came out the other end of a struggle to recover from the Second World War.

A 72-year-old man was arrested in connection with the discovery, but the investigation has now ended without any charges being brought.

The Second World War veteran who raised £38.9m for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday, died on February 2 last year

"I wanted to save it, particularly as it is such a rare and highly visual landmark of the war-time Home Front.”

Journalist, photographer, author and professor Howard W. French’s Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, is the most recent in a long career of thoughtful and significant literary and journalistic interventions. It demands an account of modernity that reckons…

National Holocaust Day, or Holocaust Memorial Day, remembers the victims of the Holocaust during the Second World War. Here's what you need to know about the memorial day and how it's marked

French parliamentarians have voted unanimously in favour of a bill to restore stolen artworks, looted by Nazis during the second world war, to their Jewish owners. Culture minister Roselyne Bachelot said it was a "historic" moment that would set wheels in motion for further restitutions.

Wednesday night's episode of The Repair Shop sees the BBC series delight one client - carefully restoring a sailor hat from the Second World War once thought to be unrepairable