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‘A superb historical series’: This gripping British period drama takes us back to 1940, to a five-star London hotel in the midst of WW2

A series that combines glamour, intrigue and the Blitz bombings, in a luxury London hotel during the Second World War. That ...
Londonist

An AI Sharpened Up These Videos Of 1930s and 1940s London

For more of all things London history, sign up for our new (free) newsletter and community: Londonist: Time Machine. Cine footage of 20th century London is endlessly fascinating. We catch glimpses of ...
The New York Times

How ‘Blitz’ Recreates War-Torn London

Steve McQueen’s latest film, set in 1940 during Germany’s bombardment of the British capital, draws extensively from wartime photos, and much of it was shot outside London. By Simran Hans and Sarah ...
BBC

London, October 3rd, 1940

"I wrote the poem “London October 3rd 1940” published in a book of poems in 1941 and later the subject of a broadcast alongside poems by Eric Gill and Edith Sitwell." LONDON, OCTOBER 3RD, 1940. A ...
BBC

London's archive of destruction

In the 1940s, the British government employed photographers and artists to chronicle the aftermath of German attacks. As well as recording the destruction for official purposes, such as reconstruction ...
The Conversation

Henry V meets the London Blitz and brings the house down

The limitations of the theatre become the production’s emotional heart. Michele Mossop Bell Shakespeare’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V – which opened in Canberra on June 14 – ...