Sometimes I feel like it is “deja vu” all over again as Yogi Berra would say, history repeating itself – or at least rhyming.
Discover a few interesting things you might not know about Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945—from royal princesses in conga lines to Stalin's demanding a second Nazi surrender.
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the ...
A focus on certain types of power foods helped the nation survive a blockade. A British shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a homemaker's ration book for the tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon during ...
In 1942, during World War II, Allied fuel was vanishing into the desert before it ever reached the front lines. This is the story of the German jerry can, the engineers who designed it, and the Allied ...
After the war, Sgt Peter Colthup ran a New York restaurant before returning to the UK BRITAIN’S last World War II glider pilot has died, at the age of 103. Staff Sgt Peter Colthup, who only became a ...
Britain met America in 1942 not through speeches, but through muddy docks, ration books, and crowded pubs. This story follows ...
Renewable energy - considered crucial to limiting climate change - produced a record amount of electricity in Great Britain in 2025, BBC analysis shows. Wind was the biggest single renewable source of ...
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Nearly a decade after Britain’s reckless vote to leave the European Union, debate over Brexit is back. The intervening years have not been happy. Tortuous negotiation under one prime minister, Theresa ...
The greatest WW2 show ever made, Band of Brothers, has returned to the domestic streaming charts, which it tends to do every ...