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Stamps featuring colourised scenes from 1945 go on sale to mark 75 years since VE Day

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A new set of stamps is being issued to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Eight of the 12 stamps depict scenes of celebration by service personnel and civilians when news of the conflict’s end was announced. They show how the news was received in areas across Britain, from … Read more

An explosion of colour: Newly colourised images of WWII allied airmen 

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Photographs of the day-to-day lives of allied airmen during the Second World War have been remastered and brought to life in stunning colour.    Striking 80-year-old images show an American mechanic balancing himself on shells while loading a 500lb bomb mid air; tense RAF paratroopers bracing themselves in the body of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft; and … Read more