Even after the Blitz ended, however, civilians in London continued to die. One such event is known as The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster, which killed 173 people. It was reported that an air raid ...

Blitz Spirit – the idea that people were brought ... working in factories together and volunteering together for the ARP (Air Raid Precautions), the WVS (Women’s Voluntary Services for Civil ...

Steve McQueen's Blitz has finally been released, and here's what you need to know about the real-life World War II event that it is based on. Ife dies in an air raid in the film, but the real Ite ...

When the Blitz ended, we said we could finally breathe ... I had another near miss. As an Air Raid Precautions messenger, I was stationed at a fish market. One of the nights that I was there ...

The underground "citadel" spanned more than 100 rooms, reinforced by a 2.1m thick concrete roof, and doubled as an air raid shelter for staff when the Blitz hit. It now operates as a museum.

and babies begin to form quite early outside the air-raid shelters. The Blitzkrieg continues to be directed against such military objectives as the tired shopgirl, the red-eyed clerk, and the ...

McQueen wrote the character of Ife (played by Benjamin Clementine) to help correct the whitewashing of the Blitz. He is based on the Nigerian-born Ita Ekpenyon, who volunteered as an Air Raid ...

The Bristol Blitz would last for around six months and would change the city forever. The effect it had on Bristolians was traumatic but thanks to air raid shelters and several false alarms ...

McQueen wasn’t having any of what he calls “cardboard cutout” Brits in Blitz, which he researched thoroughly. Many of the film’s characters — air-raid wardens, musicians and folk who ...

like when George meets a gang of robbers who are exploiting the Blitz to their crooked advantage. Sponsor Message In one moving chapter, George is aided by a friendly air-raid warden named Ife ...

So “Blitz” was also shot on location in other ... via Apple Ife (Benjamin Clementine), a kindly air raid warden, takes George to a government bomb shelter, in the basement under the Royal ...