A 106-year-old Second World War veteran from Coleraine is the oldest person on the King's Birthday Honours list. Norman Irwin has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for a range of voluntary ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For most Americans, D-Day remains the most famous battle of World War II. It was not the end of the war against Nazism. At most, it was the beginning of the ...

The Reckoning" offers a vital, nuanced perspective on World War II's final year, particularly focusing on India, Burma, and ...

The daughter of a World War Two veteran recognised in the King's Birthday Honours said it took "a while" for her father to ...

When writing the story of Star Wars, Lucas took inspiration from many real-world historical conflicts, including World War II, the Vietnam War, and most relevantly to the topic of Imperial accents ...

Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and author of the recently-released Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire “Queen Elizabeth was a life ...

Daughters of British Empire of El Paso comments after death of Queen Elizabeth II . by Erika Esquivel. Thu, September 8th 2022 at 3:42 PM. Updated Fri, September 9th 2022 at 9:48 PM. 3.

Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday peacefully at home in Scotland after a remarkable 70-year reign. We cannot talk about the British monarchy without confronting the colonial horrors of this period.

The museum lies just outside Dallas and honors a little-known chapter of World War II history. Over 2,200 British cadets earned their wings in the north Texas town.

That was the Britain into which Elizabeth was born into in April 1926, only five years after the British Empire had reached its territorial peak. It was a country defined by imperial capitalism, the ...