A toffee tin filled with 1940s French beauty products reveals the care of a soldier son and the heartbreak of his ...

Using pictures left by her grandmother, photographer Jennifer Sakai retraces the story of her ancestors, who were sent to the ...

Before defining the shape the new cold war is likely to take, I will, albeit briefly, describe the global order that had emerged after the end of the Second World War in 1945 and lasted until the ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a new exhibition at Somerset Rural Life Museum will shine a ...

The institute played an important part in feeding the post-war world. Several high-yielding and disease-resistant strains of wheat and blight-resistant strains of potato originated there.

Russia was not invited to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, although it ...

Remarkable pictures capture the Second World War through the lens of a German soldier's camera - which was pinched by a cheeky British commando. A 98-year-old Kent woman told how she was ...

President Trump is calling for the US to take “ownership” of the Palestinian enclave so that it can be rebuilt more quickly ...

Bank archives may still hold secrets about Swiss actions during the Second World War and should be re-examined, especially those of UBS, says Marc Perrenoud, a historian who worked on the Bergier ...

During the Second World War, he was involved in the Marseille landings – an operation in the south of France that acted as a diversion to draw attention away from the Normandy operation.