Festoon, to decorate something, comes from the Italian word festone for feast. Imagine an Italian courtyard strung with flowers and lanterns, and see a place festooned. It can mean the ...

This video documents a walking tour through the French Alps in Parc National du Mercantour, where abandoned World War I bunkers still stand. The walk highlights the stone structures, mountain terrain, ...

Media in Moscow are selling a narrative of mass Western migration to Russia, especially from Germany. Numbers contradict the ...

PUTIN’S forces are advancing in Ukraine slower than any army in more than 100 years – including allied efforts at the notoriously drudging Battle of The Somme. Mad Vlad’s desperate ...

In the days before broadcasting, entertainment came from local and visiting performers, including a married couple from ...

Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. Commemorations are taking place ...

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem was born in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, and is one of the youngest Holocaust ...

A history centre has been awarded £234,123 to help uncover hidden stories from the First World War. The funding, from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, will support the Wiltshire and Swindon History ...

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem was born in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, and is one of the youngest Holocaust ...

Arctic Monkeys and Damon Albarn tell us about working on Help 2, an all-star charity album for War Child UK, which helps ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," which chronicles Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat.