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Watch live: Remembrance Sunday service led by King Charles at Cenotaph

Watch live from the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph on Sunday (9 November), marking 80 years since the Second World War ended.

The Independent UK · Nov 9, 2025

King set to lead Remembrance Sunday service at Cenotaph

Around 20 Second World War veterans are expected to attend.

Evening Standard · Nov 9, 2025

Harry meets 101-year-old Second World War veteran in Canada

The Duke of Sussex visited the Sunnybrook Veterans Centre in Toronto.

Evening Standard · Nov 6, 2025

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Europe's giants still rule as startups struggle to crack the Fortune 500 Europe

Every company in the Fortune 500 Europe top 10 has roots from before the Second World War. The oldest, Banco Santander, was founded in 1857.

Fortune · Oct 29, 2025

Tomiichi Murayama obituary

Prime minister of Japan who offered a historic public apology for his country’s actions during the second world war

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2025

100-year-old veteran of Normandy landings receives honorary degree

Jim Glennie also became the last living Gordon Highlander veteran of the Second World War to lay a wreath at the University of Aberdeen.

The Independent UK · Oct 14, 2025

The Headland, Cornwall, hotel review

Once a hospital used in the Second World War, then the set for the 1990 film The Witches, Ellie Ross finds out if The Headland could be the spookiest hotel in the UK

The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2025

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Is Downton Abbey Over? Julian Fellowes On Skipping The Second World War And One Way It Could Come Back

Fans are still wondering.

Cinemablend · Sep 25, 2025

Why Ukraine should avoid copying Finland’s 1944 path to peace with Moscow

The Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, recently drew parallels between his country’s experience from its conflicts with the Soviet Union during the second world war and Ukraine’s current struggle against Russian aggression. The analogy has gained considerable traction.

The Conversation · Sep 23, 2025

Second World War veteran celebrates 100th birthday with 16,000 cards

Dougie Shelley, who was on HMS Milne on D-Day, celebrated his birthday at the Royal Naval Association branch in Southend, Essex.

Evening Standard · Sep 23, 2025

PM: Battle of Britain anniversary ‘reminds us of values that bind us together’

Sir Keir Starmer will attend a Westminster Abbey service marking 85 years since the Second World War victory.

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2025

Thousands evacuated in Hong Kong after bomb unearthed at construction site

Bombs left over from the Second World War are often discovered in Hong Kong

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2025

Europe must stand with Poland

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones is rightly described as having brought the Eastern European country closer to conflict than at any time since the Second World War. There can be no substitute for collective security – with or without Donald Trump

The Independent UK · Sep 10, 2025

Polish PM: Europe closer to war than any time since WW2 after airspace 'violations'

POLAND’S prime minister has warned that the prospect of military conflict in Europe is “closer than at any time since the Second World War”…

The National (Scotland) · Sep 10, 2025

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The Conversation · Sep 4, 2025

How China uses second world war history in its bid to reshape the global order – podcast

With Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un among 26 world leaders watching, China’s president Xi Jinping made a muscular address to 50,000 people in Tiananmen Square marking 80 years since the end of the second world war. China is “never intimidated by bullies” and would “stand by the…

Evening Standard · Sep 3, 2025

Big Ben’s Elizabeth Tower restoration shortlisted for RIBA architecture award

The project rectified previous restoration mistakes and repaired newly uncovered damage from the Second World War

Radio France Internationale · Sep 3, 2025

Tanks and missiles roll through Beijing as China commemorates 1945 victory

China staged its largest-ever military parade in Beijing on Wednesday to mark 80 years since Japan’s surrender in the Second World War. President Xi Jinping stood in Tiananmen Square flanked by Russian leader Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un – a spectacle designed to show military power and political…

Evening Standard · Sep 3, 2025

Europe’s Gaza response has been a ‘failure’, says Spanish PM

Ahead of a meeting with Sir Keir Starmer, Pedro Sanchez said the US was ending the international order established after the Second World War.

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The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2025

Spanish PM hits out at Europe’s Gaza ‘failure’ ahead of Starmer meeting

Pedro Sanchez is the first European leader to accuse Israel of committing genocide in Gaza

Evening Standard · Aug 27, 2025

Second World War munitions hamper moorland blaze firefighters

Firefighters, farmers and gamekeepers have been working together to tackle the blaze on the North York Moors.

The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2025

Thousands of Poles forcibly conscripted by Nazis ended up fighting for the allies

Letters: Krzysztof Nowakowski and Dr Allan Dodds on the Poles who were forced to fight for Hitler in the second world war

The Conversation · Aug 22, 2025

Remembering the second world war’s Burma campaign with the descendants of Japanese fighters on the 80th anniversary of VJ day

To mark 80 years since the end of the second world war, a group of ten Japanese people whose fathers and grandfathers once fought against the British travelled to the UK to mark victory over Japan day (VJ day). The story of their ancestors is one that is often forgotten.…

The Conversation · Aug 22, 2025

Why Japanese American memories of US internment during the second world war are stirring up protests in 2025

The recent opening of an immigration centre in El Paso, Texas, has reignited protests of the Trump administration’s tough immigration plans from Japanese Americans. The internment camp, which opened in August 2025, is on the site of a military base that was used to intern Japanese Americans during the war.

The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2025

‘Our boys were forced into the enemy army to save loved ones’: the second world war exhibition dividing Poland

The Museum of Gdańsk’s project about the 450,000 Polish soldiers made to fight for the Third Reich has attracted rightwing protests, but others insist the country needs to reckon with its painful past

Evening Standard · Aug 17, 2025

Trump's special envoy reveals Putin 'agreed to NATO-style security guarantees for Ukraine' in quest for peace

The US president urged his Ukrainian counterpart to strike a deal with Russia to end the deadliest conflict since the Second World War

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