JOHN HILLIER, Secretary of the Railway Photographic Society, looks at the parallel journeys of the railway and railway photography

The sufferings of Afghanistan, and of those who invade it

Q My great great grandfather, Enoch Coates, was wounded in the Crimean War at Sebastopol. His death notice in the Lichfield Mercury, on Friday 9 December 1910, describes him as a “Crimean Veteran” and

WAR, EMPIRE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR A NEW WORLD

(Photograph taken in 1890) Looking for a DIY challenge and a move into the countryside from Basingstoke we decided to buy the Old School House in Clyffe Pypard. The Victorian house, dating back to 185

These days, we associate autograph books with celebrities. But they originated in 16th-century Germany, where university students used to collect signatures from their classmates, and functioned as an