Tag: Second World War Records and researchOne positive outcome from a terrible disasterThursday 7 April 2022This is the latest in a series of blogs to promote the work of...Records and researchWomen in the Second World War: The sinking of SS Khedive IsmailTuesday 15 March 2022On the afternoon of 12 February 1944, travelling in a convoy from Mombasa to...Records and researchWomen in the Second World War: Military service in East AfricaTuesday 8 March 2022The four distinct women’s services auxiliary to the British Army in East Africa were...Records and researchThe Battles of Tobruk, 1941-42 (Part two)Monday 31 January 2022As the siege came to an end the hospital ship Gloucestershire began making trips...Records and researchNeuengamme: ‘Among the worst of the concentration camps in Germany’Thursday 27 January 2022Warning: This blog post contains potentially distressing text and images. You may not have...Records and researchThe Battles of Tobruk, 1941-42 (Part one)Friday 21 January 2022Tobruk, a small town and military base in Libya, was the scene of some...Records and researchForgotten victims of war: Black merchant seamen interned in the Second World WarFriday 29 October 2021To mark the end of Black History Month I would like to share with...Records and researchThe Hoefle Telegram in the new Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War MuseumMonday 25 October 2021After almost six years in the making, Imperial War Museums (IWM) London opened new...Records and researchThe Free Thai Movement and the SOEMonday 16 August 2021Siam (present day Thailand) was one of the first countries in South East Asia...Records and researchThe food here is terrible: Accounts of Merchant Seamen interned in the Second World WarSunday 6 June 2021The series BT 373 Merchant Seamen Prisoner of War Records, Second World War, comprises...Records and researchThe extraordinary life of Douglas BaderSunday 21 February 2021Born 111 years ago today, Douglas Bader would grow up to be a Royal...Records and research‘Brown Babies’: The children born to black GI and white British women during the Second World WarMonday 4 January 2021In January 1942, after the US had entered the war, a large number of... « 1 2 3 4 5 … 12 »