2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (510+ words) Dame Vera Lynn's dedication to being a courier between injured service personnel overseas and their loved ones back in Britain has emerged after her personal archive was donated to a national museum. The so-called forces' sweetheart kept a dossier filled…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (824+ words) The Sigurimi archive, which holds the documents of the former Albanian secret police, is housed in the middle of a giant military complex in Tirana. To enter, you will have to hand over your passport, then walk past soldiers engaged…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (341+ words) Buruma's Berlin, seen from street level, is a city peculiarly adept at looking away. At the outbreak of war, observers noted not the expected patriotic zeal but something closer to a collective shrug. In bomb shelters, smoky cabarets and ration…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (50+ words) The Times Last princess of Punjab who saved families from the Holocaust Catherine Duleep Singh helped people flee Nazi Germany. She and her sisters, including a prominent suffragette, are the subject of a Kensington Palace exhibition Two ways to continue…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (27+ words) The Times We landed at RAF Akrotiri. Then the air-raid sirens went off...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (246+ words) They called it the Wooden Wonder. Made of glued-together spruce, birch and balsa, with no rivets to interrupt the airflow, the de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito was one of the planes that won the Second World War. Few aircraft could soar…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (50+ words) The Times Meet a south London legend who survived being bombed as a baby George Taylor, 83, has spent a lifetime in the Battersea neighbourhood that shaped him. Plus, we discover the history of the area over 150 years...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (10+ words) The Times...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (414+ words) I never thought that a call from my grandma Suzi asking me to help to move some of her paintings would change my life. It was January 2015. I was 20 at the time. She was 93. And when I say my grandma…...

2+ mon, 14+ hour ago  (704+ words) As a microcosm, the hotel works so well (something the journalist Lyse Doucet found in her own similarly structured book The Finest Hotel in Kabul). Lutetia was Paris's name in Roman times, and the hotel shares the city's motto, fluctuat…...