The samurai’s history and legacy, Angela Merkel’s 21st-century military and a new aviation festival

When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, the Army numbered just over one million men, comprising both the regular forces and the part-time Territorial Army. The National Service (Armed

Tinker tailor Oliver Spencer, founder of Favourbrook, shares ...

England in the 18th century had no love for its landscape, preferring instead Italianate views, until George Stubbs came and decided to paint his horses true to the setting in which they lived, as Bendor Grosvenor reveals

“ Londoners drive abreast, packed nose to tail and side to side, and they have gradually evolved a complicated code of their own, as different from the Highway Code as contract bridge conventions are

A new exhibition at the British Museum explores the mythmaking of Japan’s feudal warriors