Just after 500,000 young people were evacuated from London, an Atlantic correspondent roamed the streets of the city, reporting on the weirdness of a metropolis suddenly missing a generation. In 1939, ...

Growing up in London, 1939-1945 (extracts from my notes for a talk to my local history society) On Friday September first 1939, I and many hundreds of children were assembled at Napier Rd School in ...

Seventy years ago today, Britain and France (along with New Zealand and Australia) declared war on Germany, two days after Hitler invaded Poland. Molly Panter-Downes, writing from London, captured the ...

This story was written by Angela's mother, Dobbie Dobinson: It was 1939, I was 19 years old and had made all the plans for my wedding in September. But at the end of August my fiancé Frank, who was a ...

From this day onwards the population of London will be at an all-time high. The city has finally caught up with its 1939 peak of 8.6million. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact date this happened, but ...

In the late summer of 1939 London was the second biggest city on the planet after New York. It was in the grip of a frenzied house building programme as it struggled to cope with its expanding ...