More than 160 civilians lost their lives. The raid, dubbed the Second Great Fire of London, also damaged St. Paul’s Cathedral ...

Rat: How did The Great Fire of London start? (SINGS) Something’s burning, something’s burning. Fetch the ketchup, fetch the ketchup… BBQ! BBQ! It’s burnt and it’s crispy.Before ovens ...

When he was five years old, Malcolm Barlow arrived at a country estate in Pennsylvania to escape World War II. He never left, ...

The Blitz was Nazi Germany's sustained aerial bombing campaign against Britain in World War Two. The raids killed 43,000 civilians and lasted for eight months, petering out when Hitler began to ...

Mark "Bill" Bailey, who survived the Blitz, takes a sneak peek at a new and free exhibition at the London Archives in Clerkenwell. It details the lives of ordinary Londoners through the bombings.

Said Winston Churchill: “It’s quite like old times again!” But the phrase was not wholly felicitous. To many a Londoner it was not quite like old times. The newest raids somehow did not seem ...

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