July 28, 1940. The Battle of Britain nears its climax. This video sets the stage for one of history's most debated aerial encounters. Meet the two leading aces: the Luftwaffe's tactical genius Werner ...

From September 1940, Germany’s Luftwaffe subjected Britain to an intense bombing campaign lasting more than eight months. Around 43,000 civilians were killed, with many more injured or made homeless.

Sam Heughan stars in this acclaimed BBC war drama telling the real-life story of Geoffrey Wellum, the youngest Spitfire pilot ...

Summer 1940, RAF 303 Squadron. You are a Polish flight leader with a critical altitude advantage over an incoming Luftwaffe raid. This interactive dogfight puts you in the cockpit of a Hawker ...

In 2024, Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer who was elected president in the years after the Watergate scandal and served ...

On Dec. 29, 1890, the Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as more than 250 Lakota people were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them. In 1170, Thomas Becket, the archbishop of ...

The face of Coventry is constantly changing. We take a nostalgic look back at some of the city's most iconic buildings and ...

A ‘Diary’ of the Most Critical Ten Days of the Battle of Britain. Written by a prolific author – who started back when there were many veterans available for interviews – ...

Across the country, towns banded together to support the war effort. However, one Surrey town is believed to have ...

A Christmas tree which is one of Britain's oldest has been put up for the 105th year in a row - despite being so fragile a ...

Many of the buildings we see in our day-to-day lives serve a purely practical purpose. They exist for us to live in, work in, shop in, and that’s usually where the story ends. Because of that, most of ...

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...