18+ hour, 43+ min ago   (604+ words) "It's really humbling just to be there and think of all those huge decisions being made, but then you've got the reality of the people participating on the front lines losing their lives." The fate of the world hinged on…...

2+ day, 17+ 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…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (399+ words) In 1944, a young Irishwoman called Maureen Flavin drew up a weather report that helped change the course of World War Two. Maureen was working at a post office on the far west coast of Ireland. Her duties included recording rainfall,…...

5+ day, 15+ 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…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (295+ words) In 1935, tens of thousands who had followed Mao Zedong on the Long March across China struggled to survive. They were fleeing Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces during the country's civil war. Zhong Ming was one of them. In 2014, a year before…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (290+ words) A man has completed a zipline challenge for charity for his 93rd birthday. Charles Wylie told the BBC he had "great fun" on the zip wire in Brighton, East Sussex. "Now I know what an eagle must feel like when it's…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (548+ words) A researcher says it is "only right" there is now a memorial to the US servicemen who died at a Kent railway station in 1945. An exploding petrol tanker killed four American soldiers at Walmer station's goods shed on 12 September 1945. A…...

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…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (382+ words) A World War Two veteran who is celebrating his 100th birthday on Thursday says he is feeling well and "I'm putting my name down for another 20 years". Albert Malin served on the gruelling Arctic convoys during the conflict as an able…...