1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (301+ words) A fading fire Telegraph India Calcutta is unusual among world cities for having so little war in its past. It is more unusual still for having let the one real brush it did have slip almost entirely out of its…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (528+ words) Winston Churchill gave several speeches on VE Day on 8 May 1945 A microphone used by Winston Churchill to deliver a speech on VE Day in 1945 is to be sold at auction. It is believed the Grampian radio microphone was used in…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (394+ words) “We must recognize that many of the fundamental ideas that dominate our present-day world were founded upon a particular understanding of that wartime history, and if there seems good reason to believe that narrative is substantially false, perhaps we should…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (263+ words) One shouldn't stereotype people, but the British are often perceived – not least by themselves – as stubborn, steady, capable of endurance, resistant to sudden shifts. Scepticism, which sometimes curdles into cynicism, albeit not without humour, seems part of the national psyche....