Sixty years ago, an unassuming brick building in the affluent London suburb of Chislehurst disguised a government-built Cold War-era nuclear bunker, replete with food and fuel stocks and a backup ...

During the Second World War the government introduced compulsory ID cards as part of their emergency measures. It was not until seven years after the War that ID cards were finally withdrawn. Clarence ...

"Police break up procession: 69 arrested in West End" An article on the events of Mayday in Trafalgar Square, London in 1950. Hundreds of mounted and foot police assembled in the West End of London ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Doodle Streets: London 1950’s Visit the Fifties & Sixties of the 20th-century London to find hidden things in this interactive, hand-drawn and animated game ...

The term “nostalgia” is more common in fashion than ever. In 1986, it was the 1950s that took over London club kids’ state of mind. The city known for its fashion and underground club scene was ...

An Unconsidered People - the Irish in London By Catherine Dunne New Island, ?11 Anne Flaherty In the late 1950s a young man left his family in the Claddagh area of Galway and took the boat to England.

The thought-provoking images are on display at the Museum of London as part of the London Nights exhibition LONDON by night is a spectacular scene and these images paint a glorious picture of how the ...

Sri Lankan (Ceylonese in those days) students aspiring to continue their higher education in England in the 1950s and 1960s usually had to spend some time in England before they were accepted (or not) ...