Seventy years on from the outbreak of the Second World War on 3 September, 1939, the National Trust has published a list of it's properties that played an important role in the war effort. 

Many historic houses and areas of coast and countryside now in the care of the National Trust offer a unique insight into work that was going on behind the scenes.

A top secret radar testing site, a mansion that housed map-makers for the Dam Buster raids, a former RAF hospital and the home of Sir Winston Churchill are just some of the places where the atmosphere of wartime Britain can still be experienced.

Ernö Goldfinger’s designs for toys and children's furniture to go on display at his former home.

A little known side to one of the greatest architects of the Modernist era will be revealed from Thursday 6 August with a new permanent exhibition at 2 Willow Road (Hampstead in London) the former home of Ernö Goldfinger and his family. 

The exhibition will reveal some of the imaginative 1930s designs for Modernist toys and furniture that Goldfinger created for his three children, Peter, Elizabeth and Michael, and for the shop of pioneering toy retailers Paul and Marjorie Abbatt.

In September 1759, the news of his death sparked a national outpouring of grief similar to that for Princess Diana over two centuries later. Yet today, many know little about the military figure, General James Wolfe. This year marks the 250th anniversary of his death at the Battle of Quebec and over the weekend of 12 and 13 September the National Trust will join with his home town of Westerham in Kent to celebrate his short but remarkable life.