More than his boots

New and established museums get National Lottery funding, and the UK’s first military history festival announced

Digitised records for British soldiers before about the middle of the 19th century are relatively rare; the exceptions are surviving pension records, the musters from the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) a

The Yellow Boy by Joshua Reynolds saw multiple peregrinations, passing even through (Romanian) royal hands for a time, before returning to London in 1981. It now headlines a selling exhibition of magnificent 18th to 20th-century works

The Rothschild name is famous throughout Europe: a family renowned for banking, vast fortunes, sumptuous houses and philanthropic acts. Recently, Britain lost Rothschild legend, Jacob, 4th Baron Roths

A groundbreaking exhibition in the capital, a tribute to an iconic war photographer and 19th century military masterpieces

To mark VJ Day 80, Fiona Bruce focuses on some touching family treasures