This month: wartime disney

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

WHEN ROBERT ALTMAN TOOK ON A SPINACH-SWIGGING SAILOR, HOPING TO MAKE A MOVIE STAR OF ROBIN WILLIAMS, MANY CONSIDERED IT A BIG SWING. THEY WERE RIGHT. SURVIVORS TELL US HOW POPEYE GOT LOST AT SEA

To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, John Eskdale and other survivors share their harrowing memories of war and stories of hope

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

Wyndham Lewis’s pro-fascist polemical novel was enabled by a left-wing writer

MILK?” Mrs Evans loomed over Alice Campbell’s teacup with a milk jug. The humidity in the tea shop was beginning to wilt the fabric violets in Alice’s little hat. She could see a few of the tiny flowe