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WW1: How did an artist help Britain fight the war at sea? documentWW1: How did an artist help Britain fight the war at sea? Dr Sam Willis discovers how the British artist Norman Wilkinson ...
In 1917, on a patrol ship in the dangerous waters around Britain, the artist and illustrator Norman Wilkinson had a brainwave. As a Royal Navy volunteer in World War One, he had become all too ...
A 110-year-old lemon used by a German WW1 spy to send secret messages from Britain with invisible ink is going on display in MI5’s first ever public exhibition. The blackened and flattened fruit ...
Victory in Europe Day is remembered in the public imagination as a singular event marking the end of World War II in Europe — ...
Tim Buescher, centre, at the grave of his great great uncle, L/Cpl Samuel Chapman, with the military party British soldiers who died in World War One and were buried in unnamed graves have finally ...
Britain began four days of V-E Day celebrations Monday with a military parade through central London, a flypast over Buckingham Palace and street parties throughout the country. The commemorations ...
By Eshe Nelson Reporting from London Britain became a byword for self-inflicted economic harm and instability after Brexit and former Prime Minister Liz Truss’s calamitous tax cuts. But now ...
LONDON — They always come crawling back. Following a messy divorce with the EU, the U.K. had banked on its “special relationship” with the U.S. forming the cornerstone of its post-Brexit “Global ...
Bagpipes were carried into other battles during WW1, and again during World War Two. Piper Daniel Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross for his actions at The Battle of Loos, the largest British battle ...
LONDON, April 14 (Reuters) - Britain sent Ukraine 752 million pounds ($990 million) to buy air defences and artillery on Monday, part of a broader $50 billion international loan programme backed ...