Neil Libbert's photographs take us to a bygone Britain
What difference does 100 years make? Not a lot according to the newly published 1921 census which reveals a nation grappling with a deadly pandemic and in the middle of a housing crisis.
Ian Collins recounts the life of John Craxton in an evocative new biography. The artist, who failed his Army medical, picked up sailors every night after arriving in post-war Greece.
BORIS Johnson has paid tribute to the members of the Windrush generation, celebrating their contribution to “greatly rebuilding post-war Britain”. The PM’s comments come on the 72nd anniversary of the ship HMT Empire Windrush carrying migrants to help fill jobs docking in Essex – but the author of a damning report into the Windrush scandal …
Rinder is on the border.
The oeuvre of Colin Jones – a ballet dancer turned prolific photojournalist – paints a powerful and honest reflection of post-war Britain, and is well worth revisiting in a new London exhibition
The remarkable collection portrays a forgotten age in the years after the Second World War as the country learned how to enjoy itself once more. Old-fashioned shops line streets dotted with classic cars.
They may be the buildings people love to hate, but London’s Brutalist towers are an important part of British heritage.
How the war between Britain and Argentina in 1982 unfolded.
As essential industries were crippled by staff shortages, immigrants from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania filled a gap in the workforce and restored communities across the country.
Cookery writer Elizabeth David changed the landscape of British cooking. Her recipe books and columns helped bring Britain out from rationing. Her life was as rich and spicy as her recipes were.
It started with a Nazi stomrtrooper helmet he got for his fifth birthday but Kevin Wheatcroft, pictured, from Leicestershire, is now worth £120million and has the world's largest Nazi collection.
The threat posed by Jeremy Corbyn to the powerful and privileged in Britain at the 2019 general election was far more severe than the one from Clement
List of 106 cities, towns and military bases thought to be at risk of attack contained in documents shared by National Archives
The Occult Sciences in Atlantis; $27.00 The Image of the Beast : A Secret Empire; $26.00 Design for War; A Study of Secret Power Politics, 1937-1941; $37.00
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told US President Joe Biden on Friday that British support for Ukraine's war with Russia was "unwavering", in a first call hours after Britain's new leader took charge.
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Fuel rations were in effect during World War Two, meaning that Canadians rarely drove their vehicles in order to save fuel for the war effort.
If you want to discover whether you too could have won yourself a spot in the history books - or outsmarted Alan Turin - try your hand at these puzzles inspired by Bletchley Park recruiters.
The incredible images include teenagers smoking outside a newsagent in Bethnal Green, London, and people celebrating the Queen's coronation in 1953.
A guest post from George Boyland. George is a regular contributor to The Guardian’s Readers’ Recommend music blog. During World War Two, frightened Luftwaffe pilots, seeing the flak ove…
Painting every day of the year, we take a look at the most important works by one of Britain’s most interesting post-war painters, Frank Auerbach.
Carl Chinn looks at the plight of the homeless in post-war Birmingham
In the ’80s, Richard Davis moved to Hulme – a neglected corner of Manchester – where he quickly fell in with a community of artists, punks and travellers.
From the greatest ever vote of confidence in the UK, to a new generation of voters, to … fish. The debate has started