'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 ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day, didn't signify the end of World War Two ... BBC Bitesize looks at how the world ...

The UK's oldest surviving World War Two veteran will be part of a special ... Al Murray ahead of the show's VE Day 80 Special on BBC One on Monday at 18:30 BST. Veterans charity The Not Forgotten ...

Voices live on' Mr Hyde told the BBC the archive has been creating exhibitions about Leicester's 20th Century history for two decades and holds more than 800 recordings relating to World War Two.

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 ...

A man says he is a step closer to finding out how a mysterious suitcase from World War Two ended up in his village ... and contacted the BBC in a bid to find some answers, because he wanted ...

Four veterans celebrated VE Day with a special trip on a high-speed World War Two vessel. As part of events ... but never got to board one, told the BBC it was a "wonderful" opportunity.

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 ...

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 ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Fossils are the remains of plants and animals that lived a long time ago and have been preserved in rocks.