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OPINION - Netflix’s Heartstopper offers queer youth what they’ve always missed: their own fairytale

In the early Nineties, I made my first proper older gay friend: a gentlemanly, funny writer who had been stationed briefly in India during conscription for the Second World War.

Evening Standard

Conscientious objectors in the second world war: little-known stories of pacifists plagued by doubt but willing to risk their lives

Like many conscientious objectors during the second world war, John Corsellis was acutely aware of the complex and conflicted position he was taking. Years later, he told the Imperial War Museum’s oral history project:

The Conversation

I’ve spent 50 years studying one seabird colony fight its way back from near extinction – now it faces new threats

Over the past few decades, Skomer Island off the south coast of Wales has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in its guillemot population. Before 1930, Skomer was home to over 100,000 common guillemots. But by the end of the second world war, this number had plummeted by about 95% and continued…

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Channel Island Nazis inquiry under pressure to find out why perpetrators never faced justice

Thousands of people may have perished on Alderney during the second world war but their murderers never stood trial

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Watch | Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?

The atomic bomb can destroy an entire city in seconds. In the early 1940s, scientists were secretly working on a project to build a nuclear bomb that would end the second World War. Leading the team was Robert J. Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist. Oppenheimer was a visionary, and a…

The Hindu

'A weather-map of popular feeling': how Mass-Observation was born

On August 29 1938, in the build-up to the second world war, a now-defunct London newspaper asserted that Europe was tensely watching the crisis over Czechoslovakia unfold. But how could a newspaper know what a population was feeling? What if some people, even lots of people, were tensely watching “the…

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Helsinki 1952: Summer Olympics at the height of the Cold War

From 19 July to 3 August 1952, the Finnish capital Helsinki hosted the 15th Summer Olympics, the first games of the modern era. The world's biggest sporting event after the Second World War took place at the height of the Cold War and marked the beginning of East-West rivalry.

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Answering the Call: The untold history of Caribbean nurses at Bristol’s Glenside Hospital

Many of the nurses training and working at the hospital were from the Caribbean who had ‘Answered the Call’ of the British Government after the Second World War

Bristol Post

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Other lives: Childhood internee in Shanghai during the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Nottingham celebrates the Windrush Generation with events across city to mark 75th anniversary

Events are taking to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the first ship carrying Caribbean families to the UK to help fill the need for more workers after the Second World War

Nottingham Post

Download our latest e-book: 75 years of Windrush

June 22 marks 75 years since the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush at London’s Tilbury Docks. Many were veterans of the second world war, invited to Britain to help rebuild. They brought with them a rich culture, shaping the future of British music, sport, literature and much more.

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Zelensky seeks to recruit army of CEOs to rebuild Ukraine after Putin’s destruction

Volodymyr Zelensky sought on Wednesday to mobilise an army of top bosses to rebuild Ukraine in the biggest reconstruction effort since the Second World War.

Evening Standard

83p razor 'used in the Second World War' said to give the smoothest Summer shave without cuts

"Best shave I have had and I have tried many a razors which not only cost a small fortune but always left me with razor burns. It just glides across the skin."

Manchester Evening News

Why did it take a murderous war on Ukraine for Germany to wake up to the threat from Russia?

The invasion has plunged Germany into an agonised debate about its history – this process is only just beginning, writes historian Helene von Bismarck

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Holocaust survivor and Olympic weightlifter Sir Ben Helfgott dies aged 93

Helfgott was one of 732 child survivors who came to the UK to rebuild their lives after the Second World War.

The Hindu

Hotel Taj Mahal Delhi’s Rick’s bar gets a makeover inspired by the iconic film, ‘Casablanca’

The newly relaunched Rick’s, at the iconic Taj Mahal, New Delhi, draws its inspiration from the academy Academy Award-winning classic. Like in the film, where the protagonist Rick Blaine creates a sanctuary offering respite from the chaos of the Second World War, Rick’s aims to be a refuge for its…

The Independent UK

Belfast writer announced as winner of Walter Scott Prize 2023

Lucy Caldwell scooped the £25,000 prize for her novel These Days set during air strikes on Belfast during the Second World War.

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Silvio Berlusconi: the property developer who became a media tycoon – and Italy's most flamboyant prime minister

Silvio Berlusconi, who has died at the age of 86, was born into a middle-class family in Milan, a city heavily affected by the second world war. He attended a private school belonging to a religious order, and eventually graduated with distinction in law in 1961, specialising in advertising contracts,…

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Enjoying the fruits of wartime foraging

Letter: Mary Scobie’s mother learnt from the nuns at her convent school how to make the most of limited rations during the second world war

Bristol Post

Eight warning signs to watch out for as cases of medieval disease surge in UK

Cases haven't been this high since the Second World War

Daily Mirror

See how many STI cases are in your area as seaside town sees cases skyrocket

With gonorrhoea diagnoses the highest on record, and syphilis the highest since just after the second world war, sexually transmitted infections are seemingly on the up across England with some surprising areas recording the sharpest increases in infections

Liverpool Echo

Grim warning signs as cases of medieval disease surge across England

The number of diagnosed cases is at the highest level since just after the Second World War

The Guardian - UK

Protecting Bosnia and Herzegovina’s anti-fascist legacy: Mostar’s Partisan Memorial Cemetery

The Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina was opened in 1965 to commemorate the Yugoslav partisans of Mostar who were killed during the second world war

Daily Mirror

Abandoned bunker used for evil human experiments during WW2 discovered after 78 years

The facility, discovered Anda in Heilongjiang province, was manned by the notorious Unit 731 in the Second World War who conducted vile experiments on Chinese prisoners

The Independent UK

Cigar smoked by Churchill during the Second World War to be auctioned

The wartime leader gave the half-smoked cigar to Hugh Stonehewer-Bird in 1944 and it has been preserved in a glass jar ever since.

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