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Canada's House speaker quits: What the Hunka scandal reveals about Second World War complexities

Anthony Rota, the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, has resigned from his post after inviting “war hero” Yaroslav Hunka to Parliament to take in the recent appearance of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The Conversation

What would you take with you? Why possessions matter in times of war and displacement

In 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in Europe’s largest refugee crisis since the second world war. By March of that year, about a quarter of the country’s total population had fled to safer locations in Europe.

The Conversation

Children’s charity to close after 81 years citing ‘pernicious economic context’

Children England is the collective body for children’s charities and was formed during the Second World War.

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Mission to detect shipwrecks lost during the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk

Operation Dynamo was a key event in the early stages of the Second World War.

The Independent UK

Bill Blacklock obituary

Other lives: Marine engineer and surveyor with Lloyd’s Register who also served in the merchant navy in the second world war

The Guardian - UK

PalmerSport review: The airfield circuit where amateurs can find the limit

Nestled deep in the Bedford countryside is RAF Thurleigh, a former Royal Air Force station used throughout the Second World War by British and American bombers. Following the war it helped in the development of a number of planes, including the Harrier and Bristol Brabazon. While the airfield closed in…

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‘I may be 102, but I want to do my bit’: ex-RAF pilot to abseil down hospital for charity

Descending 17 storeys on a rope holds no fear for Colin Bell, who flew Mosquito bombing raids in the second world war

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Think reparations are impossible? The story of Japanese Americans proves otherwise

Four decades after their incarceration in the second world war, survivors received redress. Now veterans of the movement are fighting for reparations for Black Americans

The Guardian - US

Architects look to Warsaw for lessons on rebuilding Ukraine from rubble

An exhibition highlights the Polish city’s innovative reconstruction effort after the second world war

The Guardian - UK

A weekend in Rotterdam: travel guide, things to do, food and drink

Often overshadowed by its “bigger sibling” Amsterdam, Rotterdam has suffered from the “PR problem” known as “second city syndrome”, said Lilit Marcus in Vogue. Amsterdam lite? Hardly. Each city has “distinctly positive attributes”, not to mention “a totally different vibe”. Heavily bombed during the Second World War, Rotterdam has had…

The Week

Queen unveils portrait at RAF Club of British resistance agent Noor Inayat Khan

Ms Khan was the first agent to be infiltrated into enemy occupied France to aid the French Resistance during the Second World War.

The Independent UK

Will there be a World on Fire season 3? All we know about the Second World War drama’s future after that heartbreaking season 2 finale

Many fans might be hoping for a World on Fire season 3 after watching the emotional season 2 finale and there have been quite a few hints…

Woman & Home

France pays tribute to 'youngest resistant' who has died aged 91

France has paid tribute to one of its youngest members of the Resistance during the Second World War, who, at the age of 11, hid false identity cards under her dolls in her family home during German army raids in Normandy.

Radio France Internationale

World War Two aerial photographs opened to the public for the first time

The 3,600 images offer a birds-eye view of the country as it changed during the Second World War

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Historic England opens WWII collection of aerial photographs to the public

The images offer a birds-eye view of the country as it changed during the Second World War.

The Conversation

Discrimination, internment camps, then deportation: the end of the second world war did not mean peace for Japanese-Australians

For most of the world’s population, the end of the second world war was a glorious day. This was not necessarily the case for Japanese-Australians, who faced repatriation to Japan after being interned by their home country, Australia.

The Guardian - UK

Aliens: The Chequered History of Britain’s Wartime Refugees by Paul Dowswell – review

Fascinating material casts light on some of the less familiar stories of those who settled in Britain during and after the second world war, from ‘Casanova’ Poles to Waffen SS

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Ivy, dandelions and other common wildflowers are often seen as weeds – but they're a crucial resource for pollinating insects

Since the end of the second world war, factors such as more intensive farming and urbanisation have reduced the abundance of wildflowers in Britain. In fact, the past 90 years have seen the loss of over 97% of the UK’s wildflower meadows.

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OPINION - Netflix’s Heartstopper offers queer youth what they’ve always missed: their own fairytale

In the early Nineties, I made my first proper older gay friend: a gentlemanly, funny writer who had been stationed briefly in India during conscription for the Second World War.

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Conscientious objectors in the second world war: little-known stories of pacifists plagued by doubt but willing to risk their lives

Like many conscientious objectors during the second world war, John Corsellis was acutely aware of the complex and conflicted position he was taking. Years later, he told the Imperial War Museum’s oral history project:

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I’ve spent 50 years studying one seabird colony fight its way back from near extinction – now it faces new threats

Over the past few decades, Skomer Island off the south coast of Wales has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in its guillemot population. Before 1930, Skomer was home to over 100,000 common guillemots. But by the end of the second world war, this number had plummeted by about 95% and continued…

The Guardian - UK

Channel Island Nazis inquiry under pressure to find out why perpetrators never faced justice

Thousands of people may have perished on Alderney during the second world war but their murderers never stood trial

The Hindu

Watch | Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?

The atomic bomb can destroy an entire city in seconds. In the early 1940s, scientists were secretly working on a project to build a nuclear bomb that would end the second World War. Leading the team was Robert J. Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist. Oppenheimer was a visionary, and a…

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'A weather-map of popular feeling': how Mass-Observation was born

On August 29 1938, in the build-up to the second world war, a now-defunct London newspaper asserted that Europe was tensely watching the crisis over Czechoslovakia unfold. But how could a newspaper know what a population was feeling? What if some people, even lots of people, were tensely watching “the…

Radio France Internationale

Helsinki 1952: Summer Olympics at the height of the Cold War

From 19 July to 3 August 1952, the Finnish capital Helsinki hosted the 15th Summer Olympics, the first games of the modern era. The world's biggest sporting event after the Second World War took place at the height of the Cold War and marked the beginning of East-West rivalry.

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