A World War Two codebreaking machine and its Royal Navy operators have been commemorated in wool.

EXCLUSIVE: Astonishing stories of female heroism and bravery during World War II will be the subject of an upcoming Woodcut Media history series. Channel 4 in the UK and SBS in Australia have ...

Marigold “Margot” McNeely, who warned British cities of German air attacks during World War II, died Sept. 12 in her Covington home. She was 98. For 30 years after the war, the Britain-born McNeely ...

Unrecorded in the history books and sworn to silence by the Official Secrets Act, dozens of UK women whose code-breaking work helped crack Nazi messages and shorten World War Two are now the focus of ...

In 1928, British author Virginia Woolf asked what women who knew what they wanted—to become creative artists—would need to pursue that goal. Her answer became the title of her celebrated 1929 book “A ...

On this day in aviation history, 86 years ago (June 28, 1939), the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was officially established in Britain. Formed by royal warrant of King George VI, the WAAF was ...

Should World War Three erupt, the possibility of women being called up to serve the nation can't be ruled out, and with global tensions simmering the prospect of war is preying on the minds of many in ...