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1 hour ago

Holocaust archive in central London gets green light for major expansion

The Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era, dedicated to supporting research, learning, teaching and advocacy about the Holocaust and genocide.
Berlin
Berlin
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 hours ago

Hotel Exile by Jane Rogoyska review the remarkable story of a wartime institution

Hotel Lutetia served as a hub for artists and political dissidents, reflecting the tumultuous history of Paris in the 20th century.
London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

London has fallen to crime and feral youth? Rubbish | Letters

Young people's presence is often misinterpreted as a threat, leading to moral panic and calls for control rather than understanding.
#wwii
London
fromTime Out London
1 week ago

A new museum will open in a north London country house this summer - and it'll be all about World War II spies

The 'House of Secrets' museum will reveal wartime espionage histories in London, showcasing recordings of German officers held during WWII.
London
fromianVisits
3 weeks ago

IWM exhibition shows how Britain disguised its power stations during WWII

The exhibition showcases WWII-era art, highlighting camouflage techniques and human stories from wartime London through paintings, posters, and documents.
London
fromTime Out London
1 week ago

A new museum will open in a north London country house this summer - and it'll be all about World War II spies

The 'House of Secrets' museum will reveal wartime espionage histories in London, showcasing recordings of German officers held during WWII.
London
fromianVisits
3 weeks ago

IWM exhibition shows how Britain disguised its power stations during WWII

The exhibition showcases WWII-era art, highlighting camouflage techniques and human stories from wartime London through paintings, posters, and documents.
#nazi-germany
Berlin music
fromKqed
2 weeks ago

'Stay Alive,' About Life in Nazi Berlin, Shows How Easy it Is to Just Go Along

Ordinary Germans during the Nazi regime often remained silent, adapting to the system while some resisted and documented the truth.
Berlin music
fromKqed
2 weeks ago

'Stay Alive,' About Life in Nazi Berlin, Shows How Easy it Is to Just Go Along

Ordinary Germans during the Nazi regime often remained silent, adapting to the system while some resisted and documented the truth.
London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

It has been traumatic': the Cornwall landmark left battered by Storm Goretti

Storm Goretti caused significant damage to St Michael's Mount, uprooting trees and leaving lasting impacts on the community and environment.
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

Greetings from London, where a big COVID memorial holds vigil over the halls of power

The 1,640-foot-long National Covid Memorial Wall stretched along the bank of the River Thames, directly opposite the Parliament, as if holding vigil over the nation's corridors of power.
US news
London
fromTime Out London
2 weeks ago

London's legendary Billingsgate market is being turned into a new neighbourhood with 10,000 homes

Tower Hamlets Council promotes redevelopment plans for 10,000 new homes near Billingsgate Fish Market to address London's housing shortage.
#flooding
Boston real estate
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Seriously wrong': flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate

Flooding in Boston, Lincolnshire, highlights the severe impact of climate change, with many homes at risk and local leaders denying its connection.
Boston real estate
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Seriously wrong': flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate

Flooding in Boston, Lincolnshire, highlights the severe impact of climate change, with many homes at risk and local leaders denying its connection.
London
fromwww.standard.co.uk
3 weeks ago

Hailstones and lightning hit London as capital plunges into sudden cold snap

Hailstorms and Arctic air caused a sudden temperature drop in London, with forecasts predicting a return to milder weather next week.
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Germany news: WWII bomb forces major evacuation in Dresden

Dresden evacuates 18,000 residents after discovery of a 250-kilogram British bomb from World War II near the Carola Bridge, requiring defusal in the city's largest evacuation since the war.
London politics
fromianVisits
1 month ago

London's Alleys: Church Yard Walk, Paddington, W2

A pedestrian passage at St Mary on Paddington Green represents an early example of pedestrianisation, created when a former road was blocked to unite the church and graveyard into one site.
Books
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

A Radiant New Novel Uses Time Travel in a Wonderfully Fresh Way

Francis Spufford's novel Nonesuch features a time-travel plot centered on a fascist sympathizer attempting to prevent Britain's declaration of war, with conflict between her and a working-class secretary driving the narrative.
fromianVisits
1 month ago

The church with anti-aircraft guns: Kilburn's unusual naval relics removed

The Grade II listed building is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register and is currently recorded as being in poor condition. The national Marine Society and Sea Cadets (MSSC), which held the lease, has confirmed that it can no longer meet the building's repair obligations and will surrender the lease so that restoration can be carried out by new occupants.
London music
Public health
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

How Londoners used data to survive the Great Plague

Weekly Bills of Mortality in 1665 London functioned as an early public health information system guiding residents' behavior and risk decisions during the Great Plague.
#storm-chandra
Marketing
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Politicians acting like marketers, London's creative output criticised: Editor's Overview

Advertising creativity appears to be declining despite abundant awards and data, which may constrain bravery; politicians increasingly use targeted social-media marketing.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Man arrested after Churchill statue in London defaced with graffiti

A man has been arrested after a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in the centre of London was vandalised with pro-Palestine graffiti. Free Palestine, Zionist war criminal, and Globalise the infitada were sprayed in red paint on the bronze sculpture in Parliament Square, Westminster. The words: Never again is now and Stop the genocide were also painted on the monument.
UK news
History
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 month ago

12 Maps of World War II in Europe and Africa

World War II emerged from post-WWI tensions, economic instability, and totalitarian regimes, resulting in unprecedented destruction and reshaping the global balance of power.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Man arrested after Churchill statue outside UK parliament sprayed with graffiti

A 38-year-old man was arrested for spraying graffiti on Winston Churchill's statue in Parliament Square with messages calling him a Zionist war criminal and supporting Palestinian causes.
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

The forgotten Al Bowlly: The singer, killed by Nazi bombs, now celebrated by King Charles III and Dua Lipa

Perhaps it's fitting that Al Bowlly's death is as well-remembered as his life, or rather, as his voice. After all, his most celebrated appearance in popular culture wasn't physical, but spectral. In Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), when Jack Torrance enters the ballroom and the ballad titled Midnight, the Stars and You (1934) plays, the film reaches one of its most memorable moments.
Music
Miscellaneous
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Melanie Finn: How my lunchtime shopping trip to North Earl Street turned into a scene of unimaginable tragedy

A Bus Éireann vehicle struck pedestrians in Dublin 1, prompting a garda cordon and stopping traffic toward O'Connell Street.
History
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 month ago

How Bombs, Rationing, and Labour Shortages Changed Societies at War

The First World War expanded the battlefield to civilians through air attacks, naval blockades, rationing, propaganda, societal shifts, and massive civilian casualties.
fromTime Out London
2 months ago

A radical new plan could create a new public plaza in London's West End

The road between Piccadilly Circus and St James's Park could be transformed into a massive public plaza and vehicles could be banned from Regent Street St James's, Waterloo Place and the south side of Piccadilly Circus. If the proposals are enacted, the pedestrianisation of certain roads would lead to more than 35,000 square metres of new public space, equivalent to more than five football pitches, created in the West End.
UK politics
Berlin
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Stay Alive: Berlin 1939-45 by Ian Buruma how Berliners defied their Nazi masters

Even as Nazi repression and wartime hardship increased, Berlin retained pockets of defiant, everyday resistance and nonconformity among ordinary citizens.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

From scorpions to peacocks: the species thriving in London's hidden microclimates

London is the only place in the UK where you can find scorpions, snakes, turtles, seals, peacocks, falcons all in one city and not London zoo. Step outside and you will encounter a patchwork of writhing, buzzing, bubbling urban microclimates. Sam Davenport, the director of nature recovery at the London Wildlife Trust, emphasises the sheer variation in habitats that you find in UK cities, which creates an amazing mosaic of wildlife.
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