World War Two
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Ori Gersht: This Storm is What we Call Progress at the Imperial War Museum London
In his first major solo show in the UK, Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht presents films and photography exploring the personal and visual scars of war.
An Anne Frank rose to be planted at Manchester Jewish Museum for Holocaust Memorial Day
A look at some of the events and exhibitions being held across the country from today for Holocaust Memorial Day 2012, including a new display in Manchester.
Photographer Nigel Green surveys post-war Picardy in Reconstruction at UCA Canterbury
Combining his grounding in fine art and skill as an architectural photographer, Nigel Green contemplates the styles used to rebuild a French region.
Search engine giant Google helps Bletchley Park find funding in codebreaking huts quest
Former codebreaking centre Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire has moved closer to a multi-million pound revamp thanks to a £550,000 charitable gift from Google.
Andrew Choong Han Lin on Arctic Convoys at the National Maritime Museum
We find out more about the National Maritime Museum show on the sailors who spent four years getting supplies to Russia during World War II.
Team of archaeologists re-enact Steve McQueen's Great Escape heroics on Channel 4
The Great Escape remains one of the most famous stories of World War II, but how was it really done? A team of archaeologists, RAF personnel and experts have found out.
Imperial War Museum's WWI Centenary Galleries Win Heritage Lottery Fund Support
The Imperial War Museum’s ambitious plans to mark the centenary of the First World War received a welcome boost this week with news of a funding green flag from the HLF.
A cinematic story as the Abergavenny Museum reveals The British Resistance in Wales
Ahead of a new film about the units who would have tried to sabotage the Nazis if the D-Day Landings had failed, the Abergavenny Museum tells the Welsh tale of the troops.
Museums and Heritage Sites mark Armistice Day and Remembrance Day 2011
All over Britain wreaths will be laid at War memorials as museums and heritage sites across the country mark the occasion with special events.
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: Winston Churchill's War Rooms despatch box
Take a look at the despatch box Winston Churchill carried his papers in and find out why it is adorned with a sticker from Barbados in the second part of Culture24's Parliament Week special from the......
Could National Museum of the Royal Navy have found the world's oldest Christmas pudding?
A remarkably intact, ready-to-eat Christmas pudding sent to sailors by a heroic Dame in 1900 looks like being the oldest surviving festive dessert at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Scientists in race against time to help RAF Museum save WWII German Dornier bomber
Scientists from Imperial College are helping the RAF Museum develop new conservation techniques to help preserve the WWII German bomber discovered in 2010 off the Kent coast.
RAF Museum Cosford unveils rare restored photo reconnaissance Spitfire
A rare Supermarine Spitfire Photo Reconnaissance PR. XIX PM651 is the latest addition to the aircraft collection at RAF Museum Cosford.
BBC Two Cockleshell Heroes research reveals "tangled web of rivalry and competition"
A documentary fronted by former Royal Marine Paddy Ashdown on BBC Two will tell an untold story of the soldiers who took part in one of World War II's most daring raids.
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: The chair scratched by Winston Churchill's fingernails
See the former Prime Minister's scratch marks on the chair he once sat in to chair cabinet committee meetings during World War II, held at the Churchill War Rooms in London.
