A Briton who fought in Ukraine has been sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security prison, the Russian Prosecutor-General’s office has said. Hayden Davies, a former British soldier who Russia has called a mercenary, was reportedly captured in Ukraine’s Donbas region in late 2024 or early 2025 while serving with the country’s foreign legion. He […]
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When football fought colonial rule | Digital Series
Football, under French colonial rule, was built to exclude them. So Algerians built their own club. The Sports Association in Constantine may have laid the foundations in 1898, but it was MC Alger, founded in 1921 who was the first football club that sparked a statement of identity, resistance and belonging. Samantha Johnson looks at […]
British Asian families urged to share stories of ‘greatest generation’ who fought for Britain | Remembrance Day
British Asian families are being urged to record the experiences of relatives who fought for Britain for “future generations” as data reveals half the British public don’t know that Indian members of the armed forces served in the second world war. The My Family Legacy project, backed by the Royal British Legion, is building an […]