"Dear Miss Lake," the fourth and final book in the series begun by " Dear Mrs. Bird," suggests that it was time to wrap things up.

On Aug. 25, 1916, Woodrow Wilson — the president at the time and a Staunton native — established the National Park Service ...

While in conversation with author and journalist Mark Whitaker, author Becky Aikman talked about how the American women pilots who volunteered to ferry warplanes for the British military during World ...

Wartime codebreaker and cryptanalyst, Joan Clarke, was the only woman to work with Alan Turing in the supremely secretive Hut 8 at ...

In WW2, conscription began for men aged between 20 to 22 in 1939, up to six months before the war actually broke out. The UK ...

She is affiliated with the Burma Campaign Society. To mark 80 years since the end of the second world war, a group of ten ...

Beatrice Shilling fixed the stall-prone Rolls-Royce Merlin engines with a simple disc to limit fuel flow, fondly known as ...

A new film dramatises the rescue during WW2 of hundreds of British POWs from the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese cargo liner. The ...

An antiques dealer with a passion for finding treasures in dusty libraries and dirty barns has unearthed a remarkable archive ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, historian Geoff Pugh has tracked down the graves of every person called Pugh who ...

On August 15, 1945, and in the days leading up to it, tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of the British capital ...

Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.