Nonesuch by Francis Spufford review: Time and reality bend in magical wartime London
Set in 1939 as London finds itself on the brink of war, our narrator is the bright, ambitious,…
‘Epic’ WWII movie already declared ‘greatest war film’ even before release
Movie fans have been left in a frenzy over a trailer for a brand new historical drama with…
One of the ‘most underrated war movies of all time’ starring Cillian Murphy now streaming
A WWII film more people should have seen is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video (Picture: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock) A…
Devastation as World War II Manchester steel firm collapses with loss of around 100 jobs
‘It was like one big family’ 17:41, 19 Jan 2026Updated 17:58, 19 Jan 2026 STOCK PICTURE: A worker…
Two nights of terror at Christmas when hundreds died and Manchester burned
It’s been 85 years since the Christmas Blitz rained terror down on Greater ManchesterFiremen spray water on to…
Lee Miller retrospective: “I didn’t waste a minute of all my life”
Lee Miller, Tate Britain, London until February 15, 2026 and then at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris and…
What can we learn from Germany before World War Two?
What can we learn from Germany in the early 1930s before World War Two? Most of all, the…
Manchester to fall silent at 12pm today to mark VJ Day 80 years on
‘Their legacy must never be forgotten’ 05:54, 15 Aug 2025Updated 06:12, 15 Aug 2025 Troops in Okinawa(Image: Getty…
A Manchester PoW’s hell on the Thailand-Burma ‘death railway’
VJ Day 80 years on: ‘Despair, illness, no hope, no idea of when this war was going to…
German WW2 North East attack plans outlined in discovered documents
Wartime documents owned by a collector are going up for auction in the North EastWartime map of German…