Dame Diana Johnson said Hull's wartime story had been "overlooked" and "ignored" in national public life An MP has called for a report into the impact of the World War Two bombing of Hull to be made ...

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 ...

MP Dame Diana Johnson is demanding a final version of a report into the Hull Blitz is published – 83 years after it was written. Hull has been described as the most devastated city in the UK per ...

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 ...

Hull’s Grade II listed National Picture Theatre is opening its doors this week, following a huge project to restore an internationally significant piece of wartime heritage. It is the first time the ...

Moving letters written by children who lived through Hull's blitz feature in a new film, read out by modern schoolchildren from the city. The short film has been made to mark the 80th anniversary of ...

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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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...