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David Cockayne writes: Many theatres built soon after the second world war in the UK seemed to use the format of the cinema

All we’ve heard about for the last week is a) the fact the British Army is now so small that it couldn’t quite fill Old Trafford, b) the threat of conscription, and C) Gen Z’s total disinterest in fighting for their country.

The blockbuster film-maker turned the horrors of the second world war into an Oscar-winning drama that is a public service

Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who translated Adolf Hitler’s will and later became a journalist

It is believed a vehicle drove across a park to hit the tree and memorial plaque honouring Jewish refugees from the Second World War.

Alan Turing might be best known for his work helping to crack Germany’s “Enigma” communications code during the second world war. But he also came up with a theory where patterns can form just through chemical compounds spreading out (diffusing) and reacting with one another. This became known as reaction-diffusion…

They used to say the sun never set on the British Empire because God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark. And when darkness fell on the empire after the Second World War, that was proven unsettlingly true. While politicians in the post-war period spoke of a “wind of change”…

In 2024, the youngest of Japan’s baby boomers will turn 75. The boomers are called the “bunched” generation in Japan because they were born in a short spurt in the late 1940s, in the aftermath of the end of the second world war.

Since the Second World War, the US has given more aid to Israel than any other country