Free India needed a National Emblem that represented its new status amongst the free nations of the world. The emblem also ...
At a time when Indian were not eligible for a US citizenship, Bhicaji Balsara, a textile merchant from Bombay (now Mumbai), ...
The Bengal Famine of 1943–44, a man-made catastrophe that in total caused the deaths of perhaps five million people, was described by the incoming British Viceroy Archibald ... s recent Attlee’s War: ...
Recording Evil,' a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in WWII, is based on declassified British ...
This footage from World War II shows British and other Allied units winning the Battle of Bruma and retaking Rangoon.
Such numbers are more than a criticism of Raj policies. There are plenty of ... made heavy use of the open economy protected by the British Empire, with goods, capital, labour and knowledge ...
The Prince of Wales noted that his great-grandmother "gave refuge to a Jewish widow, Rachel Cohen, and two of her five ...
A former child refugee recalls the moment she was told who saved her from deportation by the Nazis during World War II. Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines was one of the 669 children who escaped to ...
The exhibition, ‘Looking East’, highlights the lives of soldiers, colonial administrators, and civil bureaucrats from Ireland ...
Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...
said the unit was brought together in a matter of weeks and involved 360 British, American and European parachute-trained volunteers. "The SAARF plan was to parachute in three-man reconnaissance ...