The Blitz was Nazi Germany's sustained aerial bombing ... (Getty Images) Firemen who fought the Second Great Fire of London recall fighting the fires until New Year 1941, in a film by J.B. Priestley.

Capital city: London was the main target of the Blitz. It experienced 57 consecutive days of bombing from 7 September 1940. Docks were targeted, as well as factories, railways and other industrial ...

“Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us to victory,” recited another poster displayed almost everywhere in London during the Blitz. The wartime government ...

Mark "Bill" Bailey, who survived the Blitz, takes a sneak peek at a new and free exhibition at the London Archives in Clerkenwell. It details the lives of ordinary Londoners through the bombings.

The coronavirus death toll in London is now worse than at the height of the Blitz during World War Two. The deadly disease wiped out a recorded 4,697 in the capital in the four weeks up to April ...