On June 23, 1775, Londoners focused on enjoying a regatta, not fretting about a brewing rebellion.

Eighty-five men from the town died on the first day of the battle alone. Across Britain, the scene was repeated as the legacy of the Somme took shape. Some 20,000 British soldiers were killed in ...

John Hemingway in 1940. “He never saw his role in the Battle of Britain as anything other than doing the job he was trained to do,” the Royal Air Force said in a statement.

The Battle of Britain was the first decisive victory in history won by airpower alone. By ensuring Britain's survival, it made possible the huge deployment from 1941 onwards of American military ...

YOUR feature on the Battle of Britain does well to highlight what you term the “part-time volunteers” of the Auxiliary Air Force and their role 80 years ago (“Spotlight on selfless actions ...

Battle of Britain pilot Mahinder Pujji passed away in Gravesend in 2010 aged 92. Picture: Simon Hildrew. The stamps capture Dame Vera, who died in 2020, at different points in her wartime career ...

A sacred tablet seized by British troops at the 1868 battle of Maqdala, in Ethiopia, was finally returned yesterday (24 September) in a moving service at a London church.