In Osnabrück, a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, the discovery of an unexploded bomb from World War II prompted a large-scale evacuation, directly impacting thousands of citizens. The operation ...

To avoid the chaos of a mass migration of people from urban centres in the event of war, the government drew up plans for an official evacuation ... course of the Second World War.

Evacuation Day commemorates the day in 1776 that British General William Howe and his troops evacuated Boston, following the first battles of the Revolutionary War. In the spirit of Massachusetts ...

A WWII-era bomb discovery brought Paris and major rail links to a standstill, impacting high-speed travel to London and Brussels. Commuters faced major disruptions as Eurostar services were cancelled, ...

Teaching resources for Key Stage 2 History - World War Two - with video clips using material from the BBC archive. Topics include evacuation, the Blitz, rationing, songs, news reports, speeches ...

In Countdown to War, presenter Raksha Dave investigates how ordinary Brits reacted to the three days leading up to the Second World War. Raksha meets historian Christy Campbell to discuss the ...