This year (2021) marks the 76 years since Europe celebrated the end of the Second World War, so we've put together a variety of resources on this time in history.
To mark the anniversary, we've compiled some of our Second World War resources...
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Take part now ❯Alan Turing: Life and legacy
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Listen now ❯The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
An unassuming building in what is now Milton Keynes played a pivotal role in the Second World War - and the...
Watch now ❯Colossus
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Ian Kershaw, renowned as one of the leading experts on the Third Reich, unpicks the question of how history...
Listen now ❯The Bletchley Park connection
The once-hidden connection between Asa Briggs, Mary Siepmann, Alan Turing and many others—an estate...
Read now ❯History as commemoration
Commemoration – remembering and marking your past – makes an important contribution to our...
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