Richard Nelsson

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Writer at The Guardian

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VE Day live: UK and Europe hold ceremonies to mark 80 years since end of second world war in Europe

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose |Amy Sedghi |Kate Connolly |Shaun Walker |Jon Henley |Deborah Cole | +1 more

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWinston Churchill’s great-great-grandson Alexander Churchill, 10, lit the VE Day 80th candle of peace during a service at Westminster Abbey today. The youngster, dressed in a suit and tie, stepped forward and made his way up the steps in front of the altar, where he was handed a flame to light the large cream church candle.
VE Day: ceremonies to take place across UK and Europe to mark 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe - live

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Amy Sedghi |Richard Nelsson

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe Guardian's front page on VE DayVictory in Europe: proclamation to-day8 May 1945VE Day, The Guardian, 8 May 1945 Photograph: Richard Nelsson/The GuardianThe war in Europe has ended with Germany’s unconditional surrender. Victory will be announced officially by the prime minister in a broadcast at three o’clock this afternoon and the King with broadcast at 9 pm.
Italian partisans kill Mussolini – archive, April 1945

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Richard Nelsson

The scene in the squareFrom our special correspondent 30 April 1945Milan, 29 April Mussolini, with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and 12 members of his cabinet, were executed by partisans in a village on Lake Como yesterday afternoon, after being arrested in an attempt to cross the Swiss frontier. The bodies were brought to Milan last night. A partisan knocked at my door early this morning to tell me the news.
The liberation of Bergen-Belsen – archive, April 1945

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Richard Nelsson

Prison camp’s fate: British to take chargeFrom David Woodward, Manchester Guardian war correspondent 14 April 1945On the AllerAs a result of negotiations carried out between British and German officers during a local truce on this sector British troops will take over from the SS and the Wehrmacht the task of guarding a vast concentration camp at Belsen, a few miles north-west of Celle, which contains approximately 60,000 prisoners, both criminals and anti-Nazis.
Italy today: a Guardian survey – archive, March 1960

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Richard Nelsson

Italy todayBy Larry Montague 25 March 1960Two thousand years ago Julius Caesar said that all roads led to Rome, and down those roads the consuls and the Roman legions tramped, bringing law and order and progress in their train. In August this year, the hundredth year since Giuseppe Garibaldi and The Thousand set out, all roads will lead once more to Rome for the celebration of the 17th Olympic Games of the modern age.
Fighting ends in the Russo-Finnish war – archive, March 1940

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Richard Nelsson

Russia invaded Finland in November 1939 after the Finns refused to move its border 20 miles west. The war lasted just over three months and, while the Finnish troops were no match for the Red Army, guerrilla tactics curtailed the Soviet advance. The war ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 12 November 1940, which saw Finland ceding 9% of territory. Shocked by the ferocity of the defence, however, Stalin abandoned plans to annex the country.
The plan for a European army within Nato - archive, 1952

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Richard Nelsson

From our own correspondent 10 May 1952Paris At six o’clock this evening the text of a treaty for the establishment of a European Defence Community, with a common administrative and military authority for national defence, a common budget, a common uniform, an identical period of military service and a common military code, was initialed by the heads of the delegations of the six participant nations: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Greenland votes to leave the European Community – archive, February 1982

Feb 5, 2025 | theguardian.com | Richard Nelsson

‘Quit EEC’ vote today23 February 1982Godthaab: Greenland’s mainly Inuit (Eskimo) people are expected today to vote to leave the EEC, thereby depriving the Community of roughly half its total area. Some 32,500 Greenlanders are eligible to vote in a consultative referendum on whether the world’s largest island should continue membership of the Community.
Transatlantic trepidation: Europe reacts to the new Reagan presidency - archive, 1981

Jan 22, 2025 | theguardian.com | Richard Nelsson

Transatlantic trepidationBy John Palmer in Brussels 22 January 1981No inauguration of any modern American president has been viewed in Europe with such ambiguity as that of Mr Ronald Reagan. Behind the official words of welcome and the delegations of support for the administration the United States’ European allies harbour serious misgivings about the future of US/European relations. The attitudes of western Europe to a “strong” US have always been contradictory – but rarely more so than today.
How a batch of tinned meat fostered fears of the millennium bug

Dec 30, 2024 | theguardian.com | Richard Nelsson

On New Year’s Eve 25 years ago, sane people worried that the modern world was about to melt down. The millennium bug seemed to be threatening to crash the world’s computer systems, as technology struggled to distinguish between the years 1900 and 2000. The public, faced with daily predictions of potentially terrible outcomes, braced themselves nervously. Dark jokes prevailed about avoiding being on “a life-support system at midnight on 31 December 1999”.