Collections: War and Conflict

World War One 1914-1918

Remembrance

Explore how Britain has paid tribute to the fallen across more than a century

The Great War Interviews

A collection of interviews with World War One veterans and civilians filmed in the 1960s.

World War One - The World's War

Historian David Olusoga explores the contribution of black people and colonial troops to World War One.

World War One A to Z

World War One through the alphabet, using a mixture of children's research, artefacts and archive from the time.

World War Two 1939-1945

World War Two - Outbreak, 1939

British life on the brink of war, from evacuation of children to distribution of gas masks

World War Two - Dunkirk Evacuation, 1940

The rescue of troops by "little ships"

World War Two - The Battle of Britain, 1940

The work of "the few" in the defence of Britain

World War Two - The Soviet Union Joins the Allies, 1941

The uneasy wartime alliance between Britain and the USSR

World War Two - Lord Haw-Haw

The traitor who broadcast Nazi propaganda to wartime Britain

World War Two - The Holocaust

Eyewitness accounts from both survivors and liberators

Stalag Luft III - The Great Escape, 1944

Ley Kenyon recalled his experience of 'The Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III on 24 March 1944

Richard Todd on 'D-Day 1944'

The actor and WW2 veteran returns to Normandy 60 years later

Last PoWs leave UK for Germany, 1948

The last German prisoners-of-war left Britain to return home, some three years after the end of World War Two

Unexploded WW2 bomb removed from hospital, 1949

Defusing this bomb off in the heart of the capital presented no problem for these brave chaps

Lights return to London after WW2, 1949

London prepares to party like it's 1939

Heinz Linge - In Town Tonight, 1955

John Ellison interviews former SS officer Heinz Linge, Hitler's personal attendant

Ed Murrow - Panorama, 1955

Malcolm Muggeridge interviews American broadcast journalist Ed Murrow

Unexploded WW2 bomb defused, 1957

“How many ways can it go off?”

After the Battle - Ed Murrow, 1959

American reporter Ed Murrow returns to London where he spent much of World War Two

The Dambusters at 30, 1973

Jack Buckley spoke to Nationwide in 1973 about RAF 617 Squadron's role in Operation Chastise

Loch Ness' crashed bomber, 1984

Bob Wellings reported on a monster in Loch Ness; a submerged Wellington bomber which crashed in 1940, and the plans to raise it

Archive Journeys: World War Two

Explore the day-to-day reality of everyday life during World War Two

Cold War 1947-1991

Cuba and the Cold War

From revolution to Cold War crisis.

The Berlin Wall

How one city came to represent the political stand-off between East and West

The BBC and the Cold War

How the 'soft power' of international broadcasting placed the BBC on the frontline of the information war

Last Army mule pack, 1966

Robert Williams was on the Hong Kong-China border to see the British Army's last mule pack squadron

More archive things

Politics

The prime ministers, movers and shakers, key figures and events that shaped our world

Royalty

Decades in the lives of the Royal Family, as seen on television

Transport and travel

From aeroplanes to zeppelins, this is an A to Z of getting from A to B