By the close of 1941, women and 'all childless widows' aged 20 to 30 were conscripted, alongside men up to 51 for military ...
John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105.
A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...
"The National Service (Armed Forces) Act imposed conscription on all males aged between 18 and 41 who had to register for service. Those medically unfit were exempted, as were others in key industries ...
The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old.
The last conscription in the UK was more than eight decades ago during World War 2 and, like back then, certain call-up ...
Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain is a meditation on the Cairngorms. Decades on, its quiet wisdom remains urgent, reminding ...
All of this and more must be done to secure our Union Jack-clad winning machine that British cycling was not long ago. Politics.co.uk is the UK’s leading digital-only political website. Subscribe to ...
Neutrality was the right policy to adopt for the nascent Irish state, which entirely justifiably couldn’t countenance having a British military presence or control re-established, even ...
LONDON, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Suspended British lawmaker Mike Amesbury on Monday told the BBC he will stand down as a Member of Parliament (MP), which will trigger the first by-election of Prime ...
"I haven’t notarised the Heba document. I never knew them by that name. I just knew there was a British MP by that name. But I don't know them. And the thing is that I don't usually do any notar ...