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Composer Errollyn Wallen kicks off this year’s concert season at the Royal Albert Hall. Plus, PBS America celebrates the unsung heroines of the second world war. Here’s what to watch this evening

Descendants of Terminal Island’s Japanese community see parallels between the second world war and Ice raids today

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, a conflict that left few corners of the globe untouched. In east Asia, the small Portuguese-administrated territory of Macau in southern China stood out as a rare neutral territory. But, despite its neutrality, Macau could not…

As visitors to the national historic site are urged to inform on anything ‘negative’, advocates warn of the same playbook that led to concentration camps

After the second world war, the US and its western allies created a set of international agreements and institutions to govern attitudes to mutual defence, economics and human rights. For decades this created stable alliances and predictable economic plans.

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden has won the 2025 Women’s prize. It revisits a dark, under-explored chapter of Dutch history. It asks what happened to all the possessions that Jews who were forced to flee or were taken to camps during the second world war had to leave…

Norman Irwin served in North Africa in the Second World War and later set up a number of clubs in his home town of Coleraine.

Norman Irwin said he didn’t expect honour as he’s ‘getting on a bit’

A MUSICIAN has recorded a full album in an old oil tank built during the Second World War in the Highlands, which holds the world record for the…