World War Two

Amy Johnson plane fragment sold to museum
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Kent
Posted
28 February 2024
KS4 / GCSE History: Adolf Eichmann - How far can one person be held responsible for the Holocaust?
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BBC Teach
Posted
28 February 2024
KS4 / GCSE History: Adolf Eichmann - The Holocaust
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BBC Teach
Posted
28 February 2024
Veteran sees Spitfire for first time in decades. Video, 00:01:02
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Cumbria
Posted
28 February 2024
Handcrafted servicemen silhouettes set for Normandy
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Oxford
Posted
28 February 2024
Witness History. The lost Czech scrolls. Audio, 9 minutes
The Torah scrolls stolen by the Nazis, rescued by an London Jewish community.
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BBC World Service
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Plans to convert WW2 gas site into café rejected
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Leeds & West Yorkshire
Posted
27 February 2024
D-Day veteran celebrates 100th birthday
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Kent
Posted
27 February 2024
Bomb damage compensation deal from WW2 revealed
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Devon
Posted
27 February 2024
MP says Devon WW2 bombs 'handled differently'
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Devon
Posted
27 February 2024
Controlled explosion carried out after WW2 shell discovered
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Northern Ireland
Posted
27 February 2024
Naval city to host UK's 80th anniversary D-Day events
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight
Posted
27 February 2024
Plaque for WW2 pilot who survived mid-air crash
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Derby
Posted
26 February 2024
Anniversary fly-past to mark WW2 glider pilots
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Wiltshire
Posted
24 February 2024
Watch: Emergency text alerts interrupt bomb press briefing. Video, 00:00:50
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UK
Posted
23 February 2024
Watch: WW2 bomb transported from garden to sea. Video, 00:00:54
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UK
Posted
23 February 2024
Date bomb found in garden was dropped worked out
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Devon
Posted
23 February 2024
Exhibition opens to mark military aircraft crash
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Northampton
Posted
23 February 2024
The Global Story. Bengal famine: The WWII tragedy the world forgot. Audio, 24 minutes
Three million people died in this disaster but it is rarely remembered
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BBC World Service
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The Documentary Podcast. Three Million: 5. Ghosts. Audio, 29 minutes
Three million people died in the Bengal Famine. Why are they not better remembered?
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BBC World Service
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The Documentary Podcast. Three Million: 4. The tapes. Audio, 31 minutes
The discovery of cassette tapes that throw new light on colonial responsibility
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BBC World Service
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The Documentary Podcast. Three Million: 3. The f-word. Audio, 30 minutes
Famine grips Bengal, but publicly, no-one is calling it a famine
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BBC World Service
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The Documentary Podcast. Three Million: 2. The cigarette tin. Audio, 27 minutes
The escalating food crisis forces people to make life and death decisions
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BBC World Service
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The Documentary Podcast. Three Million: 1. War. Audio, 29 minutes
The story of the Bengal Famine of 1943, where at least three million people died
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BBC World Service
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