Family’s history

There’s never been so many well-stocked sources of historic photographs online. We’ve tried to pull together some examples of regional image libraries, as well as useful nationwide resources. While ma

You have been thinking about researching your ancestry, your relatives are emptying out the cupboards to find old family documents to help, and the family stories are beginning to flow. But how should

History is a multifaceted discipline drawn from long passed events that can still affect and define us in the present. Wherever we live there will be an established national history and story that has

Capturing the immediacy of fighting and the writhing bodies of soldiers, as well as keeping narrative clarity, proved enormously difficult for painters depicting battles before the advent of photography. Michael Hall reveals how they rose to the challenge

At the end of September, many forum users in the UK noticed blank spaces where images used to be. The missing pictures had been hosted on Imgur, a service that made it easy to share images without cre

The uniforms of the British Armed Forces and those of the Empire, Commonwealth and dominions across the sea all looked alike with subtle differences. This same rule can be applied to the other branche