November 2009 saw 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, effectively ending the tense, nuclear-driven animosity of the Cold War period. Culture24 explored some of the best places in the UK to explore the 40-year conflict.

A British Army helicopter, seen by every soldier taking part in the campaigns during the past 35 years and only retired last year, is now awaiting visitors to Duxford.

Exploding rats, treachery, agent provocateurs and firing squads at dawn at the Tower. It's all true and it happened in Britain during the second world war.

1000 years of the nation's history has been played out within the walls of the Tower of London but it has a more recent dark history - spies were executed in the Tower during World Wars I and II.

The new Bond adventure Quantum of Solace packs a real punch - but spy truth is rather different than espionage fiction: as our Cold War and WWII spy trails reveal...