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How coded wartime forecasts kept intelligence out of enemy hands

During the second world war, farmers received forecasts in code and railway announcers were banned from blaming delays on fog or snow

The Guardian - UK · Mar 26

One Nation surge 2.0: this time there are structural issues at play

One Nation’s performance in the South Australian election has been rightly identified as a significant moment in Australian politics. Since the end of the second world war, the Labor and the coalition between the Liberal and National parties have dominated national and state parliaments.

The Conversation · Mar 25

Queen praises book for teaching children about war generation’s sacrifices

Camilla wrote to author Victoria Panton Bacon after receiving a copy of her book Their Second World War.

Evening Standard · Mar 11

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Queen Camilla praises new book helping children understand WWII

Camilla wrote to author Victoria Panton Bacon after receiving a copy of her book ‘Their Second World War’

The Independent UK · Mar 11

Australia can no longer be complacent about Trump’s America. It’s time to chart a new course

Australia faces a more complex and dangerous world than at any time since the threat of Japanese invasion during the second world war.

The Conversation · Mar 4

Royal Marines line street to pay tribute to Second World War veteran

A church service saw Royal Marines servicemen pay tribute to a veteran who was one of the first to fight the Japanese in the Second World War.

Evening Standard · Mar 4

Humiliation for Starmer as Greens seize safe Labour seat

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The Independent UK · Feb 27

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Dame Vera Lynn’s ‘vast wartime archive’ joins Imperial War Museum collection

The Second World War trove includes more than 600 fan letters as well as the late singer’s personal diary from her 1944 tour of India.

Evening Standard · Feb 13

Japan’s ruling party secures historic election victory – but challenges lie ahead

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s conservative Liberal Democratic party (LDP) has secured the biggest election victory seen in Japan since the end of the second world war. In elections on February 8, it won 316 seats out of a total of 465 in the lower house of Japan’s parliament. The Japan…

The Conversation · Feb 9

Northern housing must be built as an integrated ecosystem — by the North, for the North

The recently launched Build Canada Homes (BCH) initiative marks the federal government’s most ambitious effort to build affordable homes since the Second World War.

The Conversation · Feb 8

Operation Heartbreak: An alternate history of Ian Fleming’s body on the beach

Operation Mincemeat is one of the better known operations of the Second World War, thanks to the film of the same name which was turned into an improbable musical. It caught the imagination because it was so very macabre: the body of a British officer would be found washed up…

Evening Standard · Feb 8

Intimate Lee Miller photo exhibition helps to preserve the legendary photographer’s work and home

Lee Miller: Performance of a Lifetime showcases works from 1929 to the end of the Second World War

Digital Camera World · Jan 31

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says Putin agreed to ‘one-week ceasefire over Kyiv’ amid brutal cold

Trump says he 'personally' asked Putin to stop firing on Kyiv which has grappled with power shortages

The Independent UK · Jan 29

The cold war maps that can help us rethink today’s Arctic conflict

The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and Fortune commissioned a generation of famous cartographers – who had come of age in the second world war – to explain the new geopolitics to a mass…

The Conversation · Jan 27

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The Times of India · Jan 27

Holocaust hero’s viral BBC moment: Decades-old Nicholas Winton clip resurfaces

British humanitarian Nicholas Winton's decades-old television clip continues to resurface online, drawing widespread emotional responses across generations. The footage, originally broadcast on the BBC programme That’s Life! in 1988, captures the moment Winton realises that several members of the studio audience were among the 669 Jewish children he helped rescue…

The Conversation · Jan 27

US foreign policy has taken a radical turn in Trump’s first year back in office

One year into Donald Trump’s second term it is clear that US foreign policy has taken a radical turn from anything seen in the previous 80 years. After the second world war, a system of treaties and alliances saw the US commit to upholding international institutions, rules and laws, as…

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23

The greatest threat facing Britain may soon be the US – but the establishment won’t recognise it

Since the end of the second world war, all eyes have been on Russia. Yet Trump’s increasingly hostile presidency is shattering old assumptions, asks Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Evening Standard · Jan 9

Swinney concerned his son may one day have to fight in war amid global tensions

The Scottish First Minister said the invasion of Ukraine changed his thinking on the state of the world.

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The Independent UK · Dec 30, 2025

D-Day veteran, 101, warns ‘disappointing’ UK is repeating history

A D-Day veteran who has been awarded a British Empire Medal has said that the UK today is “disappointing”, as he warned against repeating mistakes made before the Second World War.

Evening Standard · Dec 29, 2025

D-Day veteran awarded British Empire Medal says Britain today is ‘disappointing’

Mervyn Kersh, 101, from Cockfosters, north London, is being honoured for his school talks on Holocaust remembrance and his wartime service.

The Guardian - US · Dec 22, 2025

Betty Reid Soskin, who became a park ranger at 85, dies aged 104

During her time as a ranger Soskin sought to shed light on experiences of women of color during the second world war

The Conversation · Dec 17, 2025

Canada’s exile of Japanese Canadian citizens: A shameful 80-year anniversary few remember

In the closing weeks of 1945, months after the Second World War had ended, the Canadian cabinet enacted executive orders to banish more than 10,000 Canadians of Japanese descent to Japan, stripping many of them of Canadian citizenship in the process.

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2025

‘The antithesis to Nazi ideology’: how Pippi Longstocking was born to stand up to Hitler

A new documentary explores how Astrid Lindgren’s beloved children’s books about the pigtailed free spirit were written in response to the darkest days of the second world war

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2025

Dushan Chimbur obituary

Other lives: Supporter of the Lifeline Humanitarian Organisation who arrived in the UK soon after the second world war as a displaced person

The Conversation · Dec 9, 2025

Thiaroye massacre: report on the French killing of Senegalese troops in 1944 exposes a painful history

The Thiaroye camp near Dakar was a Senegalese army barracks housing African soldiers called “tirailleurs sénégalais” (Senegalese riflemen). It welcomed men returning from the European front of the second world war, where the riflemen had been held as German prisoners of war while serving on the side of France. They…

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