2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (183+ words) Captain James Martin Stagg, the chief meteorological adviser who persuaded US General Eisenhower to change the date of D-Day, spoke to Richard Dimbleby in 1964. The Allied invasion was moved from the 5th to the 6th of June, due to Stagg's advice. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (197+ words) Mallo Tardiveau spent many hours travelling on the system between 2024 and 2026 - as the new Metro trains replaced the old ones - meeting people and taking their pictures. The last original Metro train completed its final journey in June after 46 years in…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (364+ words) A memorial has been unveiled to a much-loved RAF fighter pilot who died when his aircraft crashed during a snowstorm in Scotland. Flying Officer Andrew Crowther, 25, was taking part in an exercise over Lossiemouth on 18 November 1981 when tragedy struck. On…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (441+ words) Podcaster, author and comedian Andrew Hunter Murray revisits one of the most extraordinary media deceptions of the 20th century in a new ten-part series from The History Podcast, The Hitler Diaries Scandal, available on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 4 from Monday…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (738+ words) Sixteen-year-old James Conway was working as a milkman when World War Two broke out in the September of 1939. Conway, from Edgeley in Stockport, signed up to join the Royal Marines where he trained for a secret mission, later named Operation…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (734+ words) "On arrival at the crash site, it was breathtaking, because there are bits of aircraft wreckage in 1,000 pieces just lying there," says historian Chris Bullock. He had trekked to a remote part of Norway where Group Captain Wilfred Surplice, 30, station…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (359+ words) A service to mark the 81st anniversary of VJ Day has taken place at Hull's newly cleaned cenotaph. Veterans, families and the community gathered at the monument in Paragon Square to mark the surrender of Japan on 15 August 1945. Hull City Council…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (330+ words) Before the humble selfie became popular, in 1979, Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon invited members of the community to take pictures of themselves as part of a project to archive inner-city life in Birmingham. More than 500 people took part…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (469+ words) Tributes have been paid to World War Two veteran Norman Irwin, from Coleraine, who has died at the age of 107. The death of Norman Irwin was announced by his family on Thursday. Norman Irwin, who was born in 1918 and was…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (548+ words) On 25 April 1641, Ambrose Barlow celebrated a secret Easter Sunday mass at Morleys Hall near Astley in Greater Manchester. King Charles I wanted to prove that he supported the Protestant faith while keeping his political enemies at bay as parliament were…...