• Thumbnail for The Blitz
    The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British...
    126 KB (16,962 words) - 06:23, 21 May 2024
  • Look up blitz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to: Blitzkrieg, blitz campaign, or blitz, a type of military...
    4 KB (634 words) - 16:16, 10 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for London Blitz (American football)
    The London Blitz are an American football team based in Finsbury Park, North London, England, who compete BAFA National Leagues Premier Division South...
    12 KB (1,001 words) - 19:58, 16 May 2023
  • Blitz is an upcoming historical drama written and directed by Steve McQueen and starring Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Erin Kellyman and Stephen Graham...
    7 KB (528 words) - 00:52, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blitz Kids
    The Blitz Kids were a group of people who frequented the Tuesday club-night at Blitz in Covent Garden, London in 1979–1980, and are credited with launching...
    14 KB (1,395 words) - 08:12, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for London Wall
    revealed numerous parts of the London Wall. At 00:15 on 28 August 1940, during the pre-wave of bombing before the Blitz, buildings and parts of the wall...
    61 KB (4,553 words) - 11:37, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for London Pride (beer)
    the bombed sites left by the London Blitz of the early 1940s, and as such held symbolism for Londoners, celebrated in "London Pride", a patriotic song written...
    6 KB (519 words) - 10:46, 18 April 2024
  • Blitz is a 2011 British action thriller film directed by Elliott Lester, written by Nathan Parker, and starring Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan...
    10 KB (1,041 words) - 03:38, 20 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for NFL International Series
    the United States. Since 2024, the series has three sub-series: the NFL London Games in the United Kingdom, which have been in place since 2007; the NFL...
    68 KB (5,681 words) - 16:28, 23 May 2024
  • The London Monarchs were a professional American football team in NFL Europe and its predecessor league, the World League of American Football (WLAF)....
    10 KB (894 words) - 03:32, 31 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Second Great Fire of London
    The Second Great Fire of London in December 1940 was caused by one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II. The Luftwaffe raid...
    13 KB (1,324 words) - 01:11, 14 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for London Pride (song)
    "London Pride" is a patriotic song written and composed by Noël Coward during the Blitz in World War II. Coward wrote "London Pride" in the spring of 1941...
    5 KB (605 words) - 10:23, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coventry Blitz
    The Coventry Blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war" listen) was a series of bombing raids that took place on the British...
    33 KB (3,756 words) - 12:16, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lee Miller
    she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and...
    45 KB (4,566 words) - 18:51, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for London
    Blitz in Covent Garden, helping launch the New Romantic subcultural movement in the late 1970s. Today, the annual London Pride Parade and the London Lesbian...
    262 KB (23,720 words) - 12:56, 21 May 2024
  • Battle of Britain in 1940, and, later, during the early days of the London Blitz. It was released in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2020 by Lionsgate....
    15 KB (1,558 words) - 06:16, 18 May 2024
  • The Empty Child (category Television episodes set in London)
    travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) arrive in 1941 during the London Blitz, where they find that the city has been terrorised by a strange child...
    18 KB (1,972 words) - 00:58, 29 January 2024
  • The Blitz. Marks and Spencer, 2002 Air Raid Precautions homefront website Amy Helen Bell, London was ours: Diaries and memoirs of the London Blitz (IB...
    85 KB (10,451 words) - 18:12, 4 May 2024
  • Blitz! is a musical by Lionel Bart. The musical, described by Steven Suskin as "massive", was set in the East End of London during the Blitz (the aerial...
    23 KB (3,345 words) - 17:28, 30 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Piccadilly Circus
    Reginald Blomfield, but retaining the statue of Britannia. During the London Blitz it was the only building in the Circus to be damaged, with a few window...
    37 KB (4,026 words) - 14:57, 28 March 2024
  • original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2010. "1984 Table of Merit". London Blitz. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2013...
    68 KB (3,868 words) - 18:52, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blackout (wartime)
    from being able to identify their targets by sight, such as during the London Blitz of 1940. In coastal regions, a shoreside blackout of city lights also...
    12 KB (1,463 words) - 02:39, 25 March 2024
  • The London Warriors are an American football club based in Thornton Heath, London, England. They compete in the BAFA National League Premier Division...
    11 KB (706 words) - 21:51, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for London Underground
    always a guarantee of safety however; on 11 January 1941 during the London Blitz, a bomb penetrated the booking hall of Bank Station, the blast from which...
    202 KB (19,085 words) - 07:42, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Birmingham Blitz
    The Birmingham Blitz was the heavy bombing by the Nazi German Luftwaffe of the city of Birmingham and surrounding towns in central England, beginning...
    20 KB (2,246 words) - 05:28, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hematidrosis
    observed in individuals in fear for their lives; a case occurred during the London blitz, and a case of fear of a storm while sailing, etc. Haemolacria – blood...
    9 KB (928 words) - 02:22, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for German Shepherd
    people trapped under destroyed buildings in civil defence service in the London Blitz Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949), 12 January 1945 for rescuing people...
    77 KB (8,479 words) - 08:41, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Madeleine Carroll
    abandoning her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the London Blitz to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced...
    31 KB (2,788 words) - 21:18, 11 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for London Bridge station
    continued to run until the mid-1970s. Both the London Bridge stations were badly damaged by bombing in the London Blitz in December 1940 and early 1941. The shell...
    62 KB (6,402 words) - 00:48, 13 May 2024
  • "The Ballroom Blitz" (often called "Ballroom Blitz") is a song by British glam rock band The Sweet, written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. The song reached...
    17 KB (1,277 words) - 02:06, 14 May 2024