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TV tonight TV tonight: Lucy Worsley is back and investigating the blitz

The BBC’s favourite fancy dresser focuses on six people who lived through the bombing campaign. Plus: Marcella nears its end. Here’s what to watch this evening

Published: 23 Feb 2021

Lissa Evans: how my novel about film-making was turned into a film

My wartime story, Their Finest Hour and a Half, has been adapted for the big screen – watching actors playing actors and a fake film crew being directed by a real one was surreal

Published: 22 Apr 2017

Observer comment cartoon London, always defiant and determined – cartoon

Chris Riddell on the Westminster attack and the capital’s long history of resistance to terror

Published: 25 Mar 2017

From the Guardian archive London's night of fires: the beginning of the blitz

Published: 7 Sep 2015

The blitz: rare colour photographs – in pictures

As the 75th anniversary of the blitz – Germany’s sustained bombing campaign of the UK in the second world war – approaches, these beautiful and striking pictures show the famous bombsites, the tin helmets, the victory rolls and the carry-on spirit

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Published: 10 Jul 2015

London’s Guildhall reveals hidden gems among collection of 4,000 paintings

Collection forgotten for 50 years after building bombed in Blitz reopens to the public in January after refurbishment

Published: 23 Dec 2014

The Love-charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel – review

Robert McCrum applauds a fine account of how five writers responded to the blitz

Published: 20 Jan 2013

Children of the wartime evacuation

Millions of British city children were evacuated to safer places during the second world war. Some hated living away from their families – others didn't want to go home again

Published: 11 Mar 2011

From the Guardian archive From the archive, 30 December 1940: Night fighters in action over London

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 30 December 1940: British fighter aircraft were up over London during last night's raid on the capital

Published: 30 Dec 2010

Sportblog Memories of the Blitz bombers and a damaging time for sport

Frank Keating

Frank Keating: Serious bomb damage was suffered by League grounds all across England – and some of them were put to different uses at various stages of the conflict

Published: 9 Nov 2010

Published: 9 Nov 2010

Teacups raised to Battle of Britain heroes

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Rare Tea Co founder Henrietta Lovell throws a tea party in central London's disused Aldwych tube station to honour the service of RAF veterans and evoke the spirit of the blitz

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Published: 28 Sep 2010
London tube station opens for blitz tours

Aldwych station, now closed, provided refuge to thousands of Britons who slept on the platforms and huddled on train tracks during the blitz. It is reopening for guided tours that offer a glimpse of the blitz experience

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Published: 24 Sep 2010
Eyewitness Eyewitness: Blitz tours

Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

Published: 24 Sep 2010
Blitz tour offers glimpse of Aldwych tube station as bomb shelter

Guided trip will allow people to see station, closed for last 16 years, where thousands took shelter from German bombs

Published: 24 Sep 2010

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