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2008 is the 40th anniversary of the first showing of "Dad's Army", a long-running television comedy series based on the activities of the Home Guard during World War II.

Parliament has its own archives dating back to 1497. Whilst most of the records deal with state business, there are some which may be of use to the family historian.

WWII took place between the invention of television and the availability of television, but it has still been the subject of many ongoing television dramas and comedies.

Strong-willed Georgia Governor Joe Brown squandered thousands of scarce dollars on an order for 10,000 Pikes to defend his state during the US Civil War.

Forty-eight certified varieties of Scottish seed potatoes, with white cream yellow flesh colour, are available to buy for planting in vegetable gardens and allotments.

Annual and seasonal summer events in Haworth, West Yorkshire in England. Take families and kids to see the stream trains and on walking tours.

A selection of the most important and influential British TV programmes beginning with the letter D.

These motion pictures from the golden age of British film production are all on the BFI's list of Top 100 British Movies.

The Great War was a means of escape for one of the most mysterious serial killers of the 20th Century. Hungarian murderer Bela Kiss came to light because of that war.

From a peacetime standing army of 870,000 men the grey coated war machine of the Kaiser eventually put almost fourteen million under arms to fight the whole western world

The Civil War was not just a white man's war...it involved dozens of Native American tribes, which fought for their own independence. This is the story of the Cherokee.