When the Olympic Games came to London in 1948, the event was visiting a city still suffering from the ravages of World War Two. Rationing remained in force and many people had been left homeless ...

In June of 1939, the IOC awarded the 1944 Olympics to London. Again, World War Two forced cancellation. A year after the war ended, London was once again selected, this time to host the 1948 Olympics.

The 1948 RCAF Flyers were a team thrown together to compete in the Olympic games in Switzerland, but they were booed off the ice and had no support from Canadians, who believed the team would ...

Fuel pack in the torch developed by Waeco Ltd of Salisbury, now part of Pains Wessex famous for their fireworks.The torch, which bears the official markings of the 1948 games, was used in the ...

How the 1948 Olympic Games came into being, as the world struggled to cope in the aftermath of the Second World War, and the Games were held for the first time in 12 years. With Britain in the ...

The complexity of multi-event broadcasting, as we can recognise from our own experience of watching recent Olympic Games, presented the BBC of 1948 with unique challenges in terms of the breadth ...