They were the worst nights of bombing at the hands of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Between 1939 and 1945, Hull suffered 82 air raids, and by the end of the war it was estimated that 1,200 people had been ...

The Lord Mayor of Hull talks to rescue workers searching rubble in Bean Street after an air raid in March 1941 A decision to embargo a report on the bombing of Hull until 2042 is "unjustifiable", an ...

One angry little girl whose home was destroyed in the bombing blitz on Hull said she wanted to “punch Hitler and his Nazi gang in the jaw”. Her rage was understandable as she had spent endless nights ...

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An MP has called for a report into the impact of the World War Two bombing of Hull to be made public after 83 years. Dame Diana Johnson has written to the National Archives to ask why the paper – ...

The study is said to show that Hull never cracked – but Sir Winston Churchill was given a very different version of the facts, it is claimed. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you ...

A campaign to turn a bombed-out cinema into a memorial to life in the Hull blitz could be in line for a lottery grant of £288,000. The National Picture Theatre, on Beverley Road, has been unused since ...

Hull was forever changed by the Second World War, with 82 German Luftwaffe air raids on the city during the conflict. More than 1,200 people are estimated to have been killed during the raids and ...