A special event at the Royal Institution has showcased the BBC’s unrivalled breadth and ... which helped to kickstart radio astronomy after World War II and is still at the global forefront ...

'I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room of 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final note, stating that unless we heard from them ...

Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...

Explore fossils and find out what it was with the song and Horrible Science. Horrible Science: The Shadow Discover 'The Shadow' and if shadows can change shape with Horrible Science. Horrible ...

Mr Rose - a recipient of France's highest award - the French Legion of Honour - was filmed meeting comedian and war history enthusiast Al Murray ahead of the show's VE Day 80 Special on BBC One on ...

Voices live on' Mr Hyde told the BBC the archive has been creating exhibitions ... recordings relating to World War Two. "The legacy of WW2 is probably most visible in the various memorials ...

A German naval artillery shell dating back to World War Two was detonated after being discovered by a metal detectorist. HM Coastguard said the man found it on mud flats about one mile off Canvey ...

Steve Gray found the suitcase in Whitwell, Derbyshire, and contacted the BBC in a bid to find some answers, because he wanted to return it to the family that it belonged to. Since then ...

Ken Arkell, 98, a former Navy serviceman who trained for the boats but never got to board one, told the BBC it was a "wonderful" opportunity. Describing the experience afterwards, in which the ...

A World War Two Spitfire has been forced to make an emergency landing in Kent after losing power. Spitfire MJ627 came down in a field on Lower Wall Road, West Hythe, on Saturday evening, said its ...

In the last months of World War Two, aircrews from an Essex airfield were responsible for dropping secret agents and supplies into enemy occupied territory. The men of 295 and 570 Squadrons, based ...

One of the organisers behind Guernsey's Liberation Day cavalcade has said she plans to keep the tradition alive well into the future. Laura Dyer, 33, said she was "born into" the Guernsey Military ...