Author: Penny Starns

With First World War casualties mounting, there was an appeal for volunteers to train as front-line medical staff. Many women heeded the call: some...

From May 1940, the Children''s Overseas Reception Board began to move children to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand for their own saf...

Since the discovery and widespread use of penicillin in the Second World War, which was a major turning point in 20th century combat medicine, ther...

When the Blitz hit London, everything changed. Once, the Home Front was relatively safe now it wasnt. Suddenly, London was its own front line. Bli...

Odette Brailly entered the nation's consciousness in the 1950s when her remarkable - and romantic - exploits as an SOE agent first came to light. S...

From May 1940 the Childrens Overseas Reception Board began to move children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. Th...

The mass evacuation of children and new and expectant mothers during the Second World War is well documented. But over fifty per cent of children w...

The dramatic tale of Margot Turner's survival as a prisoner of war during the Pacific conflict of the Second World War inspired the 1980s televisio...