The BBC at war saw fundamental changes in programme making practice, live reporting from battle scenes, and was a fundamental source of propaganda news to the free world. Post war a TV news ...
The franchise had its worst teams in the early 1940s. By 1942, the club had lost more than 100 games for the fifth straight season, including a club-record 111 in 1941. More weak teams followed during ...
"Teddy Ballgame" Goes .406. In just his third year, at only 23 years of age, Ted Williams went into the last day of the 1941 season hitting .3996, an average that officially rounds up to .400. Johnny ...
In the 1940s, the IOOF Hall was home to Turner Hardware on the first floor while a community billboard eventually had the names of 985 men and women who had joined the World War II effort.
On 30 May 1940, two RNLI crews joined an armada of little ships for one of the Second World War’s greatest rescues: Operation Dynamo at Dunkirk. The port of Dunkirk shattered, its beaches the only ...
MemoMap details where Jews couldn't go, what they were banned from doing, why they were arrested, and where they lived; an English version is available.