The war meant nearly six long years of enemy bombings, food rationing and the heartache of missing loved ones who were away ...

AS news broke that peace had been declared on May 8, 1945, the people of Britain spontaneously took to the streets for the ...

The municipal elections of April 29 and May 13, 1945 ... integration of those women who, just like their husbands, brothers, and sons, had contributed to the war effort, and even filled the ...

women across the country were central to the war effort. How did this experience change their lives? And once the guns fell silent in 1945, did these women see any lasting change to their place in ...

This was no temporary change. The war forced society to confront its prejudices — and women never looked back. Their fight didn’t end in 1945; it laid the groundwork for the feminist battles to come.

Before the municipal elections of April 1945, there was no national public campaign aimed at women, though the press provided practical advice on how to register on electoral rolls and how to vote ...

On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we take a look back at what life was like in Britain during 1945. The end of World War II brought a mix of relief, celebration, and rebuilding for the British people ...

Today will see military parades, tea parties, and church services, but how did Londoners celebrate VE Day in 1945?

Mabel’s hometown of Fratton was mercilessly targeted by the Germans looking to destroy a nearby dockyard before she moved to ...

The Six Triple Eight cleared a years-long backlog of mail in just three months. Eighty years later, the unit is finally ...

The only all-black female unit to serve overseas in World War II was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal Tuesday – 80 years after they were deployed to Europe to revolutionize the growing mail crisis ...

Eighty years ago French women went to the polls for the first time, during municipal elections on 29 April 1945 – turning a centuries-long battle for equality into an historic reality. Women in France ...