London welcomes 2025 with dazzling fireworks despite weather cancelling UK events
The London skyline has been lit up with stunning fireworks as the UK welcomes in the New Year. 2025 has kicked off with a ...
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The night London burned for a second time – inside the worst night of the Blitz
Smoke filled the capital after the worst night of the Blitz (Pictures: Getty ... but the building remained standing tall above the London skyline, resulting in a stunning photo named ‘St Paul’s ...
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The Blitz
The Blitz was Nazi Germany's sustained aerial bombing ... (Getty Images) Firemen who fought the Second Great Fire of London recall fighting the fires until New Year 1941, in a film by J.B. Priestley.
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Steve McQueen’s goal with ‘Blitz’: to paint a more truthful portrait of WWII London
It’s why “Blitz,” set in London during Nazi Germany’s cataclysmic bombing of the city, centers on the perspective of a munitions factory worker (Saoirse Ronan) and her mixed-race son ...
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Primary History KS2: WW2 Clips. A reporter describes London on fire
I can see practically the whole of London spread round me…the whole of the skyline to the south lit up with a ruddy glow…the flames are leaping up in the air now…the dome of St Paul's ...
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In ‘Blitz,’ Steve McQueen shows wartime London through a child’s eyes
It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz ... a 9-year-old biracial child in East London whose life with his mother, Rita ...
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London's 1980s Blitz club to be explored in exhibit
An exhibition is set to examine London's iconic Blitz club - the 1980s haunt of the likes of Boy George and David Bowie. The Blitz club in Covent Garden was a key hub for the new romantic movement ...
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‘Blitz’ director Steve McQueen speaks on his tribute to wartime London
At that moment I thought to myself it would be interesting to make a movie about what happened in 1940 during the Blitz in London, and then fast forward, I was doing some research on another ...
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Saoirse Ronan says WW2 film is 'incredibly relevant'
Blitz, directed by Sir Steve McQueen, was mostly filmed in early 2023, about a year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Speaking to journalists ahead of its world premiere in London, Ronan said ...