This is the true story of 39 women, chosen to work in the secretive, clandestine and...

It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal...

Traditionally this is an under-researched topic as it falls between military history on the one hand...

Join Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers as they talk to Shirli Gilbert about their...

Susan R. Grayzel traces the fascinating history of one object – the civilian gas mask – through the years 1915–1945 and, in so doing, reveals the reach of modern, total war and the limits of the state trying to safeguard civilian life in an extensive empire.

By the 1920s, the idea of a hiking or ski trip in the Tatra Mountains, taking...

At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become...

What happened? Why was this mission requested? Was it valid, was it vital to the war effort in 1945? Join Esther Gilbert as she reads from several of Sir Martin's books on the bombing of Dresden.

This introductory workshop to Ladino, which is part of the UCL Engagement project 'London Ladino: Co-creating...

Join acclaimed historian and popular speaker Lee Pollock as he tells the story of Winston Churchill’s romance with canvas, paint and brush and the important role that painting played in his life.

Maiken explores how lives were re-built in exile, and the complex ways in which 'Germaness' was reconfigured in new cultural contexts, such as the United States and Mandate Palestine.

Since the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by non-Jewish Poles with a passionate new interest in all things Jewish. Geneviève Zubrzycki asks what it means to try to bring Jewish culture back to life in a country where 3 million Jews were murdered and where only about 10,000 Jews now live.

The Union army was as diverse as the nation it sought to preserve—a mix of ethnicities...