The most intense period of bombing - from September 1940 onwards - is known as the 'Blitz' (from the German word 'blitzkrieg', meaning 'lightning war'). When enemy planes were spotted air raid ...

Winston Churchill made a political statement by wearing a wartime onesie he called a “siren suit,” which could be quickly ...

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 the Blitz. When people heard the ...

The attraction’s centrepiece, however, is a bar; the ‘deepest licensed bar in the United Kingdom’, with capacity for several hundred visitors, who can expect to be served Vesper Martinis in a nod to ...