Many boys below the age of 18, like the young man pictured here getting into uniform in his childhood bedroom, chose to enlist in the Home Guard, quite literally bringing the army into the British ...

In September 1940, Germany started bombing towns and cities in Britain. London and Belfast were badly bombed as well as other cities such as Coventry, Swansea, Peterhead and Exeter. Many children ...

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...

The black and white images are a reminder of Britain's centuries-long involvement in a trade that came to be abhorred by most nations. Whale meat was available as an alternative to beef ...

Explore the key events of the Battle of Britain with clips from over 50 years of BBC television and radio programmes The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air ...

John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, the last pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain, has died aged 105, severing the last living link ...

John “Paddy” Hemingway, an Irishman who served in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during the 1940 Battle of Britain, died ...

Explore the key events of the Battle of Britain with clips from over 50 years of BBC television and radio programmes The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air ...

The 105-year-old veteran was the last known survivor of the Battle of Britain - which saw pilots take to the air to defend ...