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A trio of events marking the Blitz At London Transport Museum.

Two upcoming talks at London Transport Museum peer into the capital’s past. Learn more about the Brunel Thames Tunnel and how transport kept going in WWII.

A series of events at London Transport Museum brings home the realities – and the propaganda – of the Blitz.

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With clothing rationed and materials scarce, how did Blitz-era Londoners keep up appearances? A talk at the London Transport Museum delves into the make-do-and-mend culture of the Second World War.

Bad taste stunt of the Autumn? Fireworks organisers at Victoria Park planning to recreate the Blitz. Cricket Australia are in a spot of bother after defacing Big Ben with an unscheduled light show. The owners of Centre Point have gone into administration. A South London …

Tuesday was the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Blitz, and 95 years ago on 8th September 1915 the most successful Zeppelin raid on London took place. Londoners were crushed under the fear of wars and the threat of air raids and strange rumours …

The 70th anniversary of the start of the Blitz will be marked today with a memorial service and a flyover of period aircraft. The service at St Paul’s will be attended by those who lived and worked through the onslaught, including nurses, pilots and fire-fighters. …

Rare colour film of London at the height of the Blitz has been uncovered. The amateur footage, shot by the Mayor of Marylebone, A.E. Reneson Coucher OBE, shows the remnants of landmarks such as the John Lewis on Oxford Street and the Baker Street Bazaar. …

It’s now 70 years since our city and other parts of the UK came under nightly attack from the German air force. It’s a story that will never grow old for the telling. Tonight, Tony Robinson begins a new show looking at civilian life during …